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Alter the Stockholm peesentations before 1,700 people in the concert hall, the lauriates and Swedish royalty led 1,200 guests through the cold, dark streets to the glittering Town Hall for the traditional and ball The prises this year are worth $165,000 each. . Isaac Bashevis Singer, 74, of New York, winner of the award for literature who . Writes in Yiddish, said in his brief banquet speech: “People ask me often— Why do you vrite in a dying ge?” “Firstly, I like to write ghost stories and nothing fits a ghost better wan a ying ge... . Ghosts love vena and, as far as I iknow, they all speak it.” The laureate in economics, ' Milwaukee-born Herbert Simon, 62, a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, spoke in halting Swedish. He had studied the language at the Swedish university in Lund 10 years ago. Simon was honored for his research into decision- making processes. Arno Penzias, one of the two U.S. phyalcs winners from Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, told the audience: “The Greeks were able to write immortal poetry, in- vent geometry, lay the foundation of philosophy ... without autos, TV or huge power plants.” Penziaa, 45, a German who also fled from the Nazis with his family and came to the US. as a child, shared the prize with his co-worker at Bell Laboratories, Robert Wilson, 42. Aco-wlnner of the physics prize was Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitea, 64, one of the oldest recipients of a Nobel award, Dr. Dane) Nathans, 50, of Johns He _ University Medical School in Baltimore, Md, spoke on behalf of the the three medicine prize winners. His colaureates ‘Hamilton Smith, 47, a colleague at Johns Hopkins, and Swiss professor Werner Arber, 49, listened as Nathans called . Alfred 8 legacy ‘a unique tribute to human achievement,” Begin, | stand-in accept OSLO (AP) — Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat’s stand-in accepted the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize at a gala royal ceremony Sunday while 5,000 Norwegians marched in protest nearby and diplomats struggled elsewhere to keep alive the promise of Egyptian-Israeli peace. Four pollce helicopters flew over the heavily- guarded Akershus Castle, alte of the ceremony, a8 laraeli Prime Minister and tian President Sadat, ® through his repre- ‘ntative, renewed their ledge to settle the Middle Bast conflict. . Drugs burned Ingrid Wipfli, continuing education coordinator for the College of Pharmacists . of B.C., destroys the un- wanted medications. that were collected In drug stores in Terrace recently. Archaelogical protesters vow to dig up Sir John UrrAWA (CP) — An Indian leader has threatened to dig up the remains of Sir John A. Macdonald, one of the founders of Con- federation’ to protest the de- © secration of Indian burial grounds by archaeologists. “Let’s see how white people feel about that,” Alex Akiwenzie of the Natlons of Warriors said ina weekend interview, ‘We are trying to raise the level] of con- sciousness among Indian and non-Indian alike.” | Macdonald, the country's first prime minister, died in 1691 and is buried in Kingston, Ont, Akiwenzie and fellow Rights report OTTAWA (CP)—Urging the federal Human Rights Commission to be the con- science of the people, about 200 rights experis agreed Sunday to send an urgent report to Parliament on is- sues ranging from unem- ployment and ratism to the RCMP and the courts. The report will contain, among other issues, their concern about unem- ployment causing racial and other discrimination, about human rights codes they consider weak and about a judicial system they con- sider insenstlve. Gordon Fairweather, federal] human rights commissioner, sald the report will be submitted to Justice Minister Mare Lalonde who is compelled under the Human Rights Act to present it to Parliament within 15 days of receiving it, It will contain recom- mendations by human rights experts from across the country who met during the weekend to mark the 30th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The declaration commits Canada and 39 other countries. to uphold freedom and equality of all ons. othe conference delegates called for legal amendments that would make the federal and provincial human rights laws uniform and that would permit groups, not just in- dividuals, to lodge com- plainta about discrimination by employers, governments and their agencies. , The lawa differ in every’ province. For example, only Quebec bars. discrimination on the basis of language or homosexuality. Only member Douglas ..Pine- recently completed a walk from Windsor, Qnt., to Toronto to protest highway construction that would cut”, i part of a f,000 year-* old burial site in Windsor. “They're dealing with cur spirita,”’ he said, “Nothing ls really sacred anymore when they desecrate our burial grounds. Akiwenzie left the militant United States-based American Indian Movement (ATM) last year over its involvement in international politics to form the Nations of Warriors. t The loosely-knit group re- celves no federal or issue sent Manitoba, New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotla and the federal code bar discrimination against handicapped persons. Civil liberties and related voluntary groups were urged to k tabs on the royal commission inté RCMP loing and to see that citizens get thelr views across. The commission, citlog lack of interest, recently. cancelled sessions scheduled to hear public briefs, Nelegates said racism in- creases when unemployment ia high and newcomers to the labor market, such as immi- grants, are seen as a threat to jobs. And they called for Indian and nor-Indian people “to be mutually supportive in their struggle agalnst the common economic basis of racial discrimination.” provincial government support and works on reserves helping Indians who have lost faith in their band ..copneils, . the: Jarge .. “eohventional “Indian organizations and the Indian affairs department. Dealing with native culture and spiritualism, the group has now tackled the burial grounds issue, . Non-Indian cemeteries are rotected by provincial egislation making it an offence to dig up remains .without permission and supervision by a local coro- ner. Indian burial grounds are not protected by legislation, The = problem facing authorities is that no one knows where they are located, _. A. spokesman for. the. National’ Museum of ‘Man said they are usually discovered by construction crews or archaeologists who in turn notify the local coroner, Tests are conducted to verify the remains are Indian ant archaeologists then remove them. Akiwenzie said Indian bands in the area of digeovery are seldom notified, He wants legislation to protect Indian burial grounds VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) has joined the storm of protest against the provincial govern- ment’s controversial: Bill 46, The. legislation, which | was passed early Saturday to end the West Kootenay schools dispute, also provides for in- clusion of educational and municipal employees. under the Essential Services. Disputes Act. BCT: president Pat Brady said the federation recognizes that action had to he taken to end the six-week strike-lockout involving non-teaching ‘employees, to allow: teachers and about 15,000 students to return normal classroom conditions. Jim Kinnaird, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor, has TEACHERS VOW TO FIGHT ‘Involve said the reaction of his organization to Bill 46 will the _— entire provinclal labor move- ment. He said the details of the plan will be revealed Friday and would not comment further. “The government, particularly the premier (Bill Bennett) and the labor minister (Allan Williams}, double- crossed every working person in the province yesterday (Saturday), and used a bunch of school kids in the West Kootenays to do it.” Following a BCTF executive imeeting here, Brady said the legislation goes far beyond what was needed, He said the essential services amendment is a threat to free collective bargaining for all public sector un- ong, y IN IRAN ~ Demonstrators hit streets TEHRAN (AP) — Hun- dreds of thousands of per- sons surged through the heart of the Iranian capital Sunday in 4 mammoth anti- shah protest, a “referendum in the streets,” that ended without the violence many had feared. Karim Sanjaby, a key opposiion leader, declared the march demonstrated that the people want to put an end to the dictatorial, authoritarian and corrupt regime, He said it was “the best evidence that force cannot stop this national movement." - Estimates of the number of marchers varied. The army said 300,00 paraded along the nine-kilometre -route. March organizers claimed up to two million people took part in the six- hour procession. The official Iranian news agency estimated the crowd at 400,00, but said the march was in honor of World Human Rights Day, which was Sunday. The protesters carried . thousands of banners and placards, many written in English for the benefit of foreign journalists and television cameras. One placard crudely written in chalk demanded ‘Yankees Go Home!" University students stopped U.S. reporters, demanding they “tell Jimmy Carter we want democracy and not a roya tyrant,” . . Lo Westerners, ~ especially Americans, have become'the symbol of foreign support for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and anti-West hostility has.touched off a mass exodus of about 9,000 foreigners, including 5,000 Americans. The Canadian government has drawn up contingency plans for the. possible ‘ evacuation of the estimated 1,200 Canadians in Lran. The government has ordered seven Canadian Forces transport alrcraft to stand by at Lahr, West Germany. U.S, President Carter has repeatedly stressed support for the shah, but the state department has said the United States will] not in- tervene. Department official Mary Ann Bader said Sunday it is inaccurate to de- scribe the U.S. exodus as an evacuation ari that between 35,000 and 40,000 Americana are still in Iran. “‘No blood was spilled,” an official of Sanjaby’s National Front said of the march. ‘Today we proved that the opposition is more than just a bunch of hotheads and dissidents, as the shah’s people claim. The message we sent to the palace today cannot be ignored. He has to listen or risk a bloadbath.” The march was publicized by its organizers as 4 referendum in the streets to show that Iranians don’t want the monarchy. In Paris, the exiled Ayatullah Khomaini, spiritual head of Iran's dominant Shiite Moslem sect and symbol of the antishah movement, said the march was “an absolute success,’ that it showed the shah has little support left. . ELECTION NEARS TEHRAN (Reuter) — A blanket of fog covered hilly parts of north Tehran early Sunday—a fitting shroud to a city under siege as months of political turmoil ap- proached a climax. It hid the northern foothills from the view of city of 4.5 million. Recent weeks of political unrest, which forced imposition of martial law three months ago and a military-led government in ' early November, have trans- formed the Iranian capital. In a normal year, the Shiite Moslem holy days of Tasta and Ashura, Sunday and today would be days of intense grief as more than 30 million Ira- nians mourned the death of Imam Hussein in a ~ battle in 690 AD. He was the grandson of the prophet Mohammed and founder of the Shiite sect. This year, the mour- ning period hag been colored by mounting tension and fears of vio- lence in what the shah himself has . acknowledged as a revolution against ~ him and the system he has built over 37 yeara on Iran’s throne. Between the shah’s two palaces in the Alborz Mountains and densely- populated south Tehran, where some houses have no running water, lies a | vast social and economic gap. For the next 43 hours, staffs of several Western TEHRAN SITS UNDER SIEGE the rest of this sprawling - embassies are congregating in the large residences of am- bassadors or embassy compounds, ‘as much to stave olf boredom as out of security fears," one diplomat said. Over the last few weeks, tens of thousands of foreign residents and Iranians—at least 20,-000 in the past week alone, airport sources say—~ have left the country aut of a mixture of fear and disruption to their normal lives. On Sunday the airport closed at 10 a.m. on government orders for 48 hours, cutting off Iran to air travellers until Tues- y. Black flags, some bearing Koranic texts, signify the mourning period and fly from many stores and homes. Banks have been main targets of demonstrators who see them as symbols of modern economic management and of an economic and political system to which the shah’s more conservative opponents object. Their plight indicates the extent to which normal life and business has been upset by the violence. Hundreds of branches have had windows smashed in six months of sporadic rioting. Dazens have been gutted in arson attacks, files burned in the streets. Several entire net- works, including the state run Bank Melli, Iran's biggest banking chain, have been hit by political strikes. Canadians ready for evacuation OTTAWA (CP) — Seven Canadian Forces transport aircraft have been ordered to stand by at Lahr, West Germany, and be ready to evacuate Canadians living in not-torn Iran, government officials reported Saturday. The order came from the department of external affairs Saturday afternoon, a department spokesman said—shortly after anti-shah demonstrators clashed with government tanks in the streets of Tehran, the Iranian capital, External affairs officials estimate about 1,200 Canadians are living in Iran and registered with the embassy there. About 450 of those were believed to be in the capital area. Most of the people work for private Canadian, U.S. and British companies, the of- ficial sald. The spokesman said the Canadian Embassy has about twelve staff members and their families. “But we want to stress that this is not an evacuation,” she said, “It is only a plan to make sure we can react quickiy if the situation deteriorates." Chamber meeting Raiph Matson, vice- president and general manager of Newmont Mines Ltd., will be the guest speaker al a Terrace Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting on Tuesday, Dec, 12 in the Lekalse Hotel at 7 p.m. Matson is a well known authority on mining which represents a very timely subject for this area, a chamber spokesman said. The annual installation banquet and dance will be held on Jan. 20 and persons planning to altend are en- couraged to get their tickels early. Zambian leader seeks support. LUSAKA (AP) —_ Era ay e y an economic crisis at home and the spillover of a guerrilla war in Rhodesia, seeks endorsement from Zambia's two million eligible voters this week for another five- * year term in. office. _ Those casting ballots in the one-party state Tuesday will have a cholce of elther Yes" or “No"=—for or against the 64-year-old ‘president, who has led - landlocked Zambia since independence from Britain in 1964. If Kaunda fails to get 51 per cent of the voles cast—a prospect considered unlikely—his United National Independence party would have to nominate another candidate for the presidency, Even if he wins, but by a narrow majority, he will govern with only a shaky mandate from the people of his Central African country. The cost of sanctions against Rhodesia, once Zambia’s prime trade partner, and the steady decline of the Zambian econ- omy have stirred loud grum- bling among Zambians about Kaunda'’s socialist leader- ship. The government itself esti. mates that the international economie embargo aytainst Rhodesia, Zambia's neigh- bor to the south, has coat the country more than §750 million. The sanctions were imposed by the United Nations in 1964, a year alter the white-minority Smith regime in Salisbury declared Rhodesia independent of Britain. ‘vne cost to Zambia of the guerrilla conflict — in Rhodesia is more than economic. Besides providing material aid to black Rhodesian guerrillas, Kaunda has allowed 9,000 to 10,000 of them to establish bases in Zambian territory from which they launch operations in Rhodesia. As a result, Rhodesian military forces periodically strike across the Zambian border, inflicting Zambian sometimes casualties on troops. But the biggest economic blow to Zambia has been a prolonged slump in the world price of copper, which ac- counts (or more than # per cent of Zambia's export earnings, The resulting lack of foreign exchange has caused Zambian industry to rundown and unemployment to rise, and has led to shortages of such essential items as salt, cooking ail, bread and flour, washing powder and tollel soup. —-- eee