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| Malaya

forcing _
refugees |

76,000 Vietnemese refugees

in Malaysia back out to sea, °
loaded about 500 onto,a boat -
Sunday and towed it into the |
South China Sea, witnesses , -

reported.

. There wai no afficial con- «

_firmaton of the report and

no word ifom.the govern; 2

ment on-whether it signalled

the start- of the mass-. |

expulsion’ program,

Other unconfirmed reports .

said s5. many. a8 2,500
Vietnamese refugees may

have been towed out to sea,
Sunday. , .

Thailayd, meanwhile,
continued its awit program of
forced repatriations, sending
2,500 more Cambodian
refugees back to their war-.

‘torn homeland. The Thais
have expallerl close to 50,-000
Cambodians in the last two
Weeks. .

Since -. February,
authorities in Malaysia have
been tuning away many
Vietnamese “boat people"
and ailowing others te come
ashore ooly briefly te repair
their boats befure setting out
again. * ; ‘

Ht was uncisar whether!
those repocted expelled
Sunday were such “tems
porary” arvivaia, but it wos
the first such’ -expulsion
reparled since Deputy Prime
Minister Mahathir
Mohavaad announced Friday:
that Malaysia would put the
7,00 Vietaumese refugees
cusrently sheltered in the
Sauthdast Asian country into.

hoate end take thera back out.

to 5e4,

Mahathir sald at the same
time thet orders would be
given to “shoot on sight’ any
refugees ‘trying ta land on
Malaysian shores,

LIGHT DELIVERY SERVICE

wth a egies

Mayor Dave Maroney and Anne Luedy at signing of

pr

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Hire-a-student week proclamation which begins today

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;Woodworkers in British
‘Columbia's coastal and
‘southern interior regions
Ihave voted B8 per cent in
; favor of strike action should -

‘ contract talks fall,

' But the vote, results of

- Native jobs said

the ones that go

OUTAWA (CPL - More
than 505 Indian, Metis and
Touit wil love thelr joks
during the next three years
because of federal goverh-
ment civ service cuts Hat
more neliver will get senior
jobs. setva Theresa Nahanee,
charm: of the Native Eym-
ployess Action Team. -[.

Ms. Nahaned said ig a
statement that Indian Af
fairs Minister Jake Epp told
ber he bas ine backing of

Ee ee EE

Prime Minister Clark to hire
natives for senior depart-
ment positions.
. “He said he discussed it
with the prime misister and
that it is a policy the
government supports.”
Dissatisfaction and unrest
among native employees In
the Indian affairs depart-

ment has intensified in the

Jast year because 150 natives
on term contracts have loat
their jobs, she said.

which were released
Saturday, is a routine event
and talks hdve been ¢on-
tinuing in what spokesmen
for the companies and tha
union gay is'a positive at-
mosphere, .

Jack Munro, Western
region president of the In-
ternational Woodworkers of
America, sald Saturday he is
hopeful a settlement can be
reached without a strike.

Watching the talks closely
are representatives of two
pulp and paper unions and
their 12,600 members and 15
B.C. paper companies,
Generally, the pulp and
paper negotiations paralle]
those in the logging industry
and the base pay rate of $3.16
ja the same in both in-
dustriea.

The pulp and paper unions,

the Cana a Paperworkers! .
Union and the Pulp, Paper

ani Woodworkers of
Canada, have not yet taken
strike votes:

Should the woodworkers'

WA votes | for strike |

| VANCOUVER (CP) —

talks fail and there @ 9
strike, pulp and paper
producers would also be
severely effected by the
walkout. .

The woodworkers’ talks

* are continuing, however, and

Munro said the two sides are

wrestling with the pension

Forest Industrial
Relations, the group which
Hegotiates for the com-
panies, wants a pension plan
that would cover all
forest industry unions,

Munro said the wood-
workers are not opposed to
one plan but want first to
ensure that problems with
the woodworkers’ present
plan are corrected.

In negotiations, the com-
panies have offered the
woodworkers pay raises of 60
centa in the first year of a
two-year contract dating
back to last Friday, with a
six-per-cent raise in the
second year.

| SUMMIT TALKS
| Soviets sa

"VIENNA (AP) — Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev
told U.S, President Carter —
Senate — Suiday night that

strategic . arms,

treaty might have “grave a

and even dangerous ‘con-

sequences” for East-West"

Falations and the world.
Carter matched the Soviet

thatin areas of cottirontation
around the world ‘the
United States can and will
Protect its vital interests,”

The stiff exchange, on the
eve of their meeting-ending
signing of SALT I, appeared
to indicate a lack of progress
in discussion of a number of
world trouble spots, -

A U.S. official, who
declined to be ldentifled, said
there were “very frank
expressions of diff a
between the two sides.

forward toward further
arms control measures in
the 1980s, And the military
chiefs of the two countries
‘opened separate, direct con:
sultations for thé firat time
Bince the Second World War.

expected a detailed Soviet
only later but one

said Brezhnev appeared

receptive,

With the start of
negotiations on SALT I

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held in abeyance pending a
vote by the-U.8. Senate on
ratifying SALT Ti, Brezhnev
clearly was addressing sen-
ators more than. Carter
when, in toast, he sald:
a consprecniie for it coud
, for
not be otherwise, Each side
would like some parts of the
text of the treaty to be
somewhat different, more
suitable to it, but each side

. has had to yield something

atee

“Any attempt to rock this
elaborate structure ... to
substitute any of its
elements, to
one's own
unprofitable exercise.”

such an event, Brezhnev
said, “the entire structure
might then collapse, en-
failing grave and oven
ngerces consequences for
our relations and for the
situation in the world as a
whole.” uo
Carter’s toast was aimed

OUTage
of foreign troopa in troubled
regions of the world and
encourage the peaceful
settlement of disputes
among the people who are
directly invol

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‘Secondary Thursday.

they are warranted,

‘causing bodily harm.
juveniles,

TEACHER
ASSAULTED

Special education teacher James Ashton
suffered a broken nose in an assault allegedly by.
two students at Mount Elizabeth Senior

- School board officials and teachers at Mount
Elizabeth have refused to comment on the
matter but the board of trustees released a
statement Friday saying ‘violence is not and
will not be condoned in Kitimat scticols.” ~
Chairman Bev Rodrigo said the board has
requested that the police conduct a complete
investigation of the incident-which occurred at
the school June 14 and press criminal charges if

Staff-Sergeant Hank Dedish of Kitimat RCMP
said today that no formal charges have been laid
but police are locking into charges of assault

The two students involved in the incident are

CNCP, Bell do battle

8T. ANDREWS-BY-THE-
SEA, N.B. (CP) — Bell
Canada Ltd. and CNCP
Telecommunications moved

ved," Carter their battle over monopolies
said. and competition to the
Carer said he and federal cabinet level during
Breshnev agreed on theneet the weekend, even aa the
for further efforts to control chairman of Bel! Canada’s
and .regulate nuclear American parent company
weapons and urged that the was  — tellingtele-
Soviet-U.3. detente reached communicators here that the
in Europe ercompass other age of telephone-company
trouble apots. Mion es isending, —
Carter's remarks came CNCP and Bell Canada are
after two meetings with fighting over whether CNCP
Breshney at the Soviet should have the right to ime
Embassy during which telephonecompany lines to
Carter outlined his proposals = carry three types of long-dis-
for further cuts in U.S. and = tance: voica . transmissions.
Soviet nuclear arsenals, CNCP, owned jointly by
WHO IS BACON HEAD?
nen erred

Canadian National Rallwa
and Canadian Pacific LG,
operates the Canadian Telex
network and other
telecommunications ser-
vices,

Two escape

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.
(CP) — RCMP are seeking
two prisoners who escaped
Saturday afternoon from the
Prince George Regional
Correctional Centre,

The pair, who fled into .
nearby bush from the
prison’s exercise yard, are
Wayne Baker, 20, and
Ronald George Cromble, 10.

Vandals hit Kitimat school

Vandals spray-painted the back of Mount Elizabeth
Senior

Thursday evening,

Marilyn Cook, vice-principal in charge of facilities
at the school, said Friday that cost of repainting the
exterior wall opposite the tennis courts can’t be
estimated until work Ls completed.

Graffiti in red, black and silver spray paint-referred
to someone named Smith as a “bacon head,"

There are, however, four tenchers named Smith on

the staff ao there is no wa

spired the messages.

y of knowing which one in-

The shelter at Hirsch Creek Park was also spray
painted over night Thursday.

Municipal engineer Kip

Gaudry said Friday public

works has estimated the coat of the damage at $600,

Kitimat RCMP, who discovered the vandalism at
both park and school, do not bdelleve the 1979

graduating students

are

Corporal Rick Levris said.that at graduation tine
vandalism tends to increase becuase the culprits
believe students will be blamed for the damage,

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