- Hit vowed

DAR ES SALAAM (AP). —
President Julius Nyerere
vowed Thursday his army
will hit back hard at the
“barbarian’’ Idi Amin,
whose Ugandan invasion
force was reported to have
taken a strategic bridge and
tightened its grip on a chunk
of territory in northern
Tanzania.

Nyerere called on his
forces to drive “this snake
from our howe.”

Government sources said
Tanzania was planning a
counter-attack aimed not

Referendum
called for

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An
opposition leader called
Thursday for a referendum
in troubled Iran to determine
whether to change the
country’s political structure,
now headed by Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. A
crippling oll strike continued
and the national airline was
also strikebound.

Dariush Forohar, 4
leading member of a broad
coalition of opposition

groups called the National

LEGISLATION

UIC costs cut

OTTAWA (Cp) -
Government legislation to
cut unemployment In-
surance coste by §1.4 billion
in two years was introduced
in the Commons Thursday.

And Employment Minister
Bud Cullen released details
af promises he made In

Auguit d the govern: -
metit’s #3.5-billion spending
restraint announcements.
The bill proposes ‘tougher
ity requirements for

many claimants. About
249,000 individuals would no
longer receive benefits.
Weekly benefits would be
reduced for all claimants.
More costs of the program
would be shifted from

only at driving the invaders
back across the border but
also at destroying the core of
the Ugandan president's
military strength.

There were no new battle
reports here, but Western
diplomatic sources in
Nairobi quoted Tanzanian
officials as saying the
Ugandans were in control of
the important Taka bridge
over the Kagera River and
were at the outskirts of the
crossroads town of Kyaka, at
the southern end of the
bridge.

Front, did not specifically
mention abolishing the mon-
archy, but his message was
clear.

“The country is facing a
crisis because justification
for the present ruling system
has diminished,” Forohar
said, “Therefore, I believe
since the legality of the
government comes fram the
people, there must be a
referendum for the people to
decide.”

government to the private
sector.

Thousands would no longer
be insured by the program.
An example: he
longshoreman who works 4
few hours on the weekend for
extremely high wages. But
thousands of others who now

.are -not.ingured would get... -..
‘coverage. An example:

Domestics who put in long
hours for low wages.

High-income earners+
would repay 30 per cent of
their benefits. The recovery
formula would require
repayment from persons
with a net 1978 income higher
than $20,500, excluding
benefits.

Order hid RCMP

OTTAWA (CP) — =

Retired RCMP com-
missioner W.L. Higgitt
testified Thursday that an
urgent order from the
government cloaked
whatever the RCMP had to
doto achieve the task witha
quality of lawfulness.
Higgitt was replying to
questions by Mr. Justice
David C. McDonald of
Alberta, chairman of a royal
commission into RCMP
ong,

Mr. Justice McDonald
asked whether the fact that
the government had asked
the RCMP to do something
resulted in it becoming
lawful where it would
otherwise have been
unlawful.

Yes,” replied Higgitt.

He related such a situation
to “a war interms of law and
order” between the RCMP
security service and people
out to destroy the country.

U.S. dollar is up,

exchanges

LONDON (AP) — Ner-
vousness hit world foreign
currency exchanges
Thursday despite solid new
gains for the U.S. dollar as
international money experts
studied the impact of
President Carter's plan to
lift the sagging currency and
his country’s economic

preslige,
Gold prices again fell

sharply.

The dollar started the day
by adding to Wednesday's
gains which came after the
United States announced its
$30-billion plan. But
following a chaotic opening,
markets grew nervous and
some dealers had second
thoughts about the dollar
rescue plan.

nervous

An operator at = an
American bank in Paris
summed up the mood: “The
measures were definitely a
step in the right direction,
but I would still like to see
some action on slowing In-
flation and reducing the U.S.
trade deficit.”

One good piece of news
eame from the Middle East
where diplomats from Arab
oll states greeted Carter's
measures as a sign the
United States wants to co-
operate with, rather than
confront, the oil exporters.
Some analysts said it might
minimize or forestall the ex-
pected oil price Increase by
the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting
Countries.

Arab summit called.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Arab
leaders opened a 20-country
summit In Baghdad on
Thursday with the host
country Iraq urging a united
front against Egyptian-,
Israeli peace moves,

Presidents, kings, sheiks;
and ministers gathered in a.
huge chandeliered hall of the
presidential palace for the
evening start of the ninth
Arab League summit. But
there were two notable
absentees, Libyan leader

Col. Moammar Khadafy and
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization leader Yasser Arafat.
, Arafat left Moscow on

; Thureday after winding up

five days of talks with Soviet
leaders, but the reason for
Khadafy's absence was not

known.

One surprise appearance
was that of the Egyptian
president of the Arak
League, Mahmoud Riad
who initially balked a

coming

Canadian National Railways engine sits in Skeena River alter search
called off for bodies of two men missing and presumed dead. Readhed

By Brian Gregg

Two men are missing and presumed dead after
a CNR work train derailed three miles west of
Usk at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday. Terry Chupa and
Fred Theriault, both of Smithers, were treated
and later released from Mills Memorial Hospital
in Terrace.

The train was travelling east to pick up some
men and spread ballast and fill in several sec-
tions of the CNR line when the first engine ap-
parently went off the tracks after the train had.
stopped at a washout, a CNR employee fold the

erald..

The two engineers had apparently got out of
the engine to assess the damage. One of the two
crewmen In the caboose also got aut of the train.
One of the engineers decided to get back into the

train to ivy to back it up and get it back on the

tracks.
The embankment along the Skeena River

H i h

“Tt is a lot worse than we thought and we
estimate it will cost $15 million to bring this area
back to previous standards,” said Cyril Shelford,
Skeena MLA, Thursday.

Shelford said that Highway 16 East will
probably not be open for traffic until Wednesday,
Nov. 8. There are about 44 washouts between
Terrace and Hazelton. Legate Creek Bridge,
Chindemash Creek Bridge and Little Oliver C
Creek Bridge are all washed out and another
eight culvert bridges are washed out, he said.

“We haven't seen anything like this in a long
time,” he said.

Shelford said he flew over Lakelse Lake and
the sight he saw was a “‘real shocker.” He said
dozens of houses are standing out in the lake in
about six feet of water, First Ave. is flooded in
several places.

He estimated it would take about 10 days to
bring Highway 25 between Terrace and Kitimat
to previous standards. Traffic is moving on the
highway and an old logging road is being used to
bypass the WWilliams Creek flooding. That
logging road is also under water but Shelford
said he saw vehicles making it through the
flooded area.

Alex Fraser, minister of Highways, left
Terrace at 4:30 p.m. Thursday after visiting
Kitimat Village. The biggest problem in the
village is lack of power, said Shelford, and the
department of highways ordered 50 gallons of

suddenly gave way, taking the train and the two
men inside with It. Chupa and Theriault escaped
with only minor injuries.

The two men were picked up by CNR crews
from Usk shortly after the derailment. They
were brought across the river on the department
of highways cable car system and then driven to
Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace.

The rail disaster occured two years to the day
after another train travelling east with four
crewmen derailed one mile east of Usk. That
derallment occured on Nov. 2, 1976. There were
no fatalities in that Incident.

Divers made two futile efforts to search for
bodies but were unable to find any sign of the
missing men because the river was {00 high and
was moving too fast. ,

All avallable crews in the area are working at
the derailment site. There are 10 other washouts
along the CNR line between Terrace and Kit-
wanga, the junction to the Stewart highway, 4
CNR employee said.

damage in

naptha gasoline flown into the village. The 500
residents of the village are using camp stoves to
cook their food.
“Pm asking that Kitimat Village be declared a
disaster area,” said Shelford.
He said the department of Highwaysis doing

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gave way after one man went back inta train to move it. Work train was
on way fo repair washouts caused by heavy rain when incident occurred.

A group of CNR officials were flown into
Terrace by helicopter from Prince George and
Edmonton. No official statement has been made
by the railway.

A CNR employee estimated it would take a
week to get the line open at the wreckage site.
Work crews are expected to move west from
Prince George, repairing each washout before
they move on the the next one.

Crews are also expected tao be working on
washouts on the Prince Rupert line and the
Kitimat line today and those lines should be
repaired in two to three days, a CNR employee
said.

Meanwhile, CNR officials are concentrating
their efforts on searching for the bodies of the
fwa missing men. Helicopters are patroling the
area as the Skeena River appears to be rising
again.

One employee said there doesn't appear to be
any men in the units. ;

millions

everything it can to assess the damage done by
heavy. rains in the last few days.
He said he will be watching the Prince Rupert
Highway very carefully in the next few days.
“As far as we know there is no major damage on
the highway to Prince Rupert,” he said.

It is a disaster

As Terrace and the surrounding areas mop up
after the rains, the only suitable description is
“it’s a disaster” as Hydro and B.C, Tel crews try
to restore service while highways department
workers attempt to bridge gaps in the roads and
restore contact with the outside world.

Two men are missing and presumed drowned
after a CNR work train went into the Skeena
River. It will apparently take days before the
mess is cleaned up and the line opened.
~ While the storm that dumped record amounts
of rainfall on the Northern Coast of the pravince
seems to have past and the worst is over, Fred
Davis of B.C. Hydro says it will be some time
before some of the rural areas get power again.
There is , according to John Mitchell of Ilysro,
no danger to the feeder ‘tower’ which was

surrounded by the Kitimat River where it
crosses the highway. There was some fear and
speculation that the tower might fall, which
would leave Terrace and Prince Rupert without
electricity for several days.

Kitimat was without lights for most of Wed-
nesday night while crews worked to repair the
numerous spans of lines and several poles felled
by trees during the deluge and 60 to 70 kilometre
an hour winds. The power has been going on and
off in some areas of Terrace.

Local RCMP worked throughout the night
Wednesday helping residents at Lekelse Lake
evacuate. Residents in a number of other areas

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