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EMMETSBURG, ;
i AP)
co-crestor of television's.
- Hill Street Blues, has
: written a letter on behalf of
‘= three real-life police of-
rT fieers who were fired or
suspended after they were
a ‘caught watching the police
: how during working hours.
Rick Knudson, 30, was
fired by. Mayor: James
Thompson after the incident
last month, and Tom
_ Kozsiek, 23, and Joe Munoz,.
30, were suspended without
pay for seven days. .
They were caught after a

lowa

., — An oil tanker that spilled

“160,000 litres of oll inta the —

“Columbia” River remained
“hard aground late- Monday
“and a spokesman for the
‘owners said he wasn’t sure
- ‘when it would be refloated.
*- The 188-metre Mobiloll
“was loaded with ap-
‘proximately 3.2- million
litres of low sulfur No. 6
industrial! fuel when it ran
aground early ' Monday
sInorning near St, Helens,
50 kilometres
lownriver from’ Portland,
2Ore. ‘
= Mobil spokesman Mike
=Gross said he doesn't know
“when the ship will be
:inoved, but the Coast Guard
Shad scheduled a meeting for
Soday to pursue that matter. .
>! An investigation inte why

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Hill Street: create
pleas for real c cops

— Steven Bochco, the °

Oil spill

ST. HELENS, Ore. (AP)

‘local resident tipped
Thompson: that ‘the. three

officers, the: only” ones on -

duty al the’ time, ..were
watching Hill Street Blues.

Bochco learned ‘of the
incident through published
reports, arid his letter to the
city was released Monday:

“Tm writing to cop a

personal plea for three

‘police officers suspended
‘and-or fired. in Emmet-

sburg," Bochco wrote. “I

don't mow -

show, but I hereby openly
offer him a bribe of one Hill

the Mobiloil went aground is
continuing, Gross said,

Oil: spilled from four -

ruptured cargo tanks in the
grounded tanker, combined
with oil dumped in 9 land
accident at Vancouver,
Wash., formed a alick
stretching. 80 kilometres
downstream.

Vandals .
opened a valve early
Monday on a tank truck at
Vancouver, across the
Columbia from Portland

and upriver. from the Mobil - .
spilt, About -1,000 ‘litres. of.
diesel oll poured into a drain .

that empties into the river.
Environmental Emer-
gency Services of Portland,

a private company, was”

hired to contain the tanker

spill, but large amounts of’.

oil floated downstream past

if Mayor ~
Thompson is a fan of the -

_Aapparently _

Streethatand T-shirt fhe’
find it in his municipal heart. .

to reduce these three; : Cops”

punishments to a- more
appropriate level.” oy

Told of the . letter,
‘Thompson sald: “You've
‘got to be kidalg.”

‘Tha mayor called the TV
series “one of the few shows
‘J watch," but said he would
not feduce the punishment.
“My: decision | still ‘stands,’
: The letter pleased. Munoz.
“That's, ‘very nice," he
said. | a  Oppretlate his
concern. ” .

on Columbia river

the barriers erected early.

* Monday,

-was ‘bound for Portland
‘from Ferndale, “Wash.,
when 1} went aground,

Mike Weland, chief of the

Gregon Fish and Wildlife
Department's. environm-
ental management section
said no major damage to
fish and wildlife is expected.
_ However, he said it may
‘delay the'- upstream
migration of spring chinook

‘ sivielt: anid -' sturgeon ‘is
_ possible as. the oil sinks to
“the bottom, he added.

- Fish and Wildlife offietals
. ticularly disastrous” and

. were, also “worried about

“posable: ‘contamination of -

marshes > and estuaries
‘favored as nesting sites by
ducks and geese.

The vessel, built Jn 1959,

-lernational action to reduce
salmon and ‘gill damage'to

Its effects from the con-

The Rate is LOW & the Results a are HIGH i in the .
terrace- kitimat daily herald —

Festival this year, attaining highest marks for a senior chali. Under the:
direction of conductor Andrew Brodie, the-group performed ‘The Lass
from the Low Country” on Saturday night at.the REM Lee Theatre during
the Festival’s ‘'Gala Performance”. The group will afso be sending a
tape recording tothe B.C. Provincial Music Festival to be held In Pen-
tictoninMay. =.

The Northwest Singers did very well at the Pacific Northwest “Music

: starving after a nuclear. wars Weinberg sald.

researcher |
‘honored

NEW YORK (AP) ~ A biologist being hénared for his”

. sludies of the genetics of cancer says the gains he ‘has made oO |

would mean little-in the face of a nuclear war. 7.' 01: °
“You ask me Where this research will ba 10 years ‘from oo
now, and my first thought is— will wabehere 10yeara from. |
, now?” Robert Weinberg of.the Magsachusetts Institute of: 4
’ Technology asked in an interview..." . ;
“The extinction of mammalian Iife in the next 20 years is * By
a posgibllity,” he sald. ‘Now’ that’s: ‘a pretty ‘Amportant ok
scientific problem. moe oo |
Weinberg was in New. York’ ‘in connection witht fis ,
selection as recipient of this year’s $50,000 Bristal‘Myers: ip
award for achievement In cancer research. “The award ill on
be presented April 16. - me Peo
Weinberg'a work has. shown how. the slightest genetic a
tremor — a-switch of one of the thousdnds of chemical ot
-Subunits that make up genes — can turn normal growth into ae
cancer; : i
“Such knowledge, ‘achieved atiee “Yeara- “of meéteulous
research, would not feed: people who might’ be sick and :

International: acid rain conference _

OTTAWA (cP) — Cariada
and eight European nations
opened ‘‘an international
environment conference
laday with a call for in-

“The “actions of. one’
country aré not enough. to _
solve the problems of acid
rain, and this is what brings
Us together,” he said.

The. European. nations, .

dorsed the reduction.
Swedish Agriculture
Minister Svante Lundkviat
said that while internatlonal .
‘cooperation |s necessary,
. countries “have to, develop. .
control programs. to reduce:
théir own emissions
Tt is: also necessary, he .
* said, to show ‘countries. that
“have © not . yet “approved
control. programs. af. ‘their, -
“ own that there are’practical ‘
The ‘United . States, at’ and economical ways to
tending the conference'as reduce pollution. “
“an observer; has not ‘en- Acid rain is caused by

acid ral emissions. :
‘Environment : - ‘Minis
Charles Caccia “Baid” “the
Impact of acid: ‘rain’ in
Europe has “béen par-

Europe, a: United ; Naticis’
organization ‘that ‘has.
proposed reductions in acid
the federal! government. rain pollution of 30 per cent. -
hopes to fearn more about

ference.

.BUphur and nitrogen which-

form’ weak splutions . of -
‘sulphuric and nitric -acid, ”

often
: thousands af Kllometied

‘from acid rain.

emissions of oxides of

- Kurt a Steyrer, “tbe
“Austrian minister ‘of health
‘and: environment, said he
“hopes the conferencé. will .
‘help’ change International =
attitudes’ that pollution
earth.” problenia'can be, ated to
-nelghborink states |

. Steyrer proposed stronger an
‘informational - ‘environme- © 5.
“ ntal: laws,to. help cope with
*“aeld rain: and ‘auggested the *
establighment of ‘aa. In-- .
temational environment ‘
protection | ‘fund. an:

mix in the.atmosphere to |

“The corrosive precipitation
fallg 2 tor.

from its sources, most often
” elther smelters or power
plants, :'

Lundkvist said astudy of
forests: in the’ south of >
Sweden ‘showed. trees had
suffered serious damage

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