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LISBON (AP) — After five

- years of leftist and minority ©

governments, Portugal
swung back to the right and
gave a centre-right alliance
a narrow majority in the new
Natlonal Assembly.

Announcing nearly
complete returns from
Sunday's partiamentary
election, the National
Election Centre said the
Democratic Alliance headed
by lawyer Francisco 5a
Carneiro won 125 of the 250
assembly seats. It said the
alliance is certain to win a
majority when four seats are
decided by absentee ballots
to counted Dec. 12.

"The parties In the coalition
won three of the four seats in
the last election, in 1976,

The election centre said

complete returns from the
rest of the vote gave the
coalition of Social
Democrats, conservative
Centre Democrats and mon-
archists 44.6 per cent of the
vote, Former premier Mario
Soarea’s Socialists had 97.4
per cent and 73 seats, and
Alvaro Cunhal'’s Com-
Munists got 19 per cent and
47 seats. A candidate from
the ultra-left Popular
Democratic Union, one of six
minor parties on the ballot,
also won a seat.

In the 1974 election the
centre-right parties running
separately got a total of 39
per cent of the vote, the
Socialists got 86 per cent and
the Communists got 14 per
cent.

Trial in fire deaths

COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) —
months after a fire
Killed 165 persons at the
Beverly Hills Supper Club,
the aluminum wire and
electric device industry is
golng on trial to determine
liability for the blaze.

Jury selection was
scheduled to begin today in
the U.S. District Court trial,
which may last tyo months,

The trial will determine
whether the 24 defendants
and a non-profit testing

company, Underwriters
Laboratories Inc., bear any
lisbllity for the fire, one of

the worst ever in the United 98

States.

If they are found Hable
under a legal theory that all
manufacturers share
lability for alleged defects
common to the industry and
not directly attributable to a
single producer, a damage
trial to determine a
monetary award will be held

ter.

Just like in the movie

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —
Aman who was mauled by a
great white shark off the
Oregon coast describes his
experience as reminiscent of
the movie Jaws.

Kenny Doudt, 26, of Reeda-
port, Ore. was in good
condition five days after
undergoing two houra of
surgery for a gash between

his left hip and armpit. He |

sald Saturday he expected to

leave hospitat ‘in’, about -a‘
eek.

week,

Doudt said he was surfing
with four friends when he
was attacked last Tuesday,

“All of a sudden this shark
was right there out of
nowhere, 1 didn’t see it, I just
felt it. I could hear my ribs
go-crunch, It felt like a big
clamp with teeth, .

“At first I thought it could
have been a sea lion. It just
grabbed me and pulled me
under, It twisted me around
a bit and held on and chewed
on me a bit and them let me
By ‘think 1 was pushing on
its nose. I think I was beating
on him. I know for sure that J
was screaming and
hollering.”

Grit move NDP gain

MONTREAL (CP) — Ed
Broadbent thinks his New
Democratic Party stands to
galn by what he calls a
movement to the right by the
fédera] Liberals. —

“There'd no mére reont for!

sbelal’ democrats’ ‘In the
Liberal party,” the NDP
leader said in an interview
from Ottawa today.

Broadbent said he could
only think of three Liberal
MPswhowere
‘progressive’: Piere De
Bane, Monique Begin, and
Rameo Leblanc.

As for potentia]l Liberal
leaders, Broadbent referred
to former finance ministers
Donald MacDonald and John
Turner as Cadillacs —- two
representatives of high

* finance. ““Where ia the left?""
‘he asked. |

Broadbent acknowledged
his party's moderate stance
at its recent convention in
Toronto, despite the activity
of the party's left wing,
especially in pushing for
nationalization as a means of
improving the economy.

Bodies pried from wreckage

SCOTT BASE, Antarctica
(Reuter) — Rescue workers
who found the two flight
recorders from a crashed
Alr New Zealand DC-10
Sunday now hope to pull out
more bodiea than had been
expected from the frozen
wreckage. .

Inap. Bob Mitchell, one of
the first pollcemen at the
Antarctle crash site today,
sald reconnaissance of the
wreckage indicates more
bodies will be recovered than
the original estimate of 50 to
70,

The plane crashed last
Wednesday on the slopes of
the valeanic Mount Erebus,
killlng all the 257 persons —

including three Canadians —
on an Antarctle sightseeing
excursion.

If weather conditions
remain good for the next 24
hours, the first group of
bodies should be removed
from the wreckage Tuesday,

Recovery teams found the
two orange-painted boxes in
the charred and frozen
wreckage of the plane
Sunday. The recorders,
which may give detaila of
control movements and crew
communications during the
last few minutes of the ill-
fated filght, are expected to
be sent to the United States
for decoding.

New lead for S. Korea

SEOUL (AP) — Acting
President Chol Kyu-hah
today accepted a draft to be
& candidate in the election to
choose a caretaker suc-
cessor to assassinated
President Park Chung-hee.
The martial law command
announced the court martial
of Park's assassin will begin
Tuesday.

Chol, whose election was
nearly assured, said it was
his “historic mission” to
preserve constitutional
government in South Korea.

Almost one-third af the
members of the electoral
college, which will choose

Park's successor, without
debate, signed ‘a letter
recommending Choi as the
best candidate “to lead the
nation in settling the current
political situation in ac-
cordance with the
aspirations of the majority of
the people.”

Chol, 60, premier under
Park, is expected to be the
only candidate for president
when the 2,-560-member
electoral college meets
Thursday. The draft letter
was signed by 627 members
and Choi needs only 1,281, a
majority, to win.

A goodbye for Zeppo

PALM SPRINGS, Calf.
(AP) — About 150 mourners
have said goodbye to the
Marx Brothera comedy team
and Its last survivor, Zeppo,
who died of lung cancer at
the age of 78.

After appearing in the first
five films made by the zany
brothers in the early 1030,

po broke from his four
er brothers to become a
theatrical agent.

"We aré really marking
twofunerala today, not one,”’
Rabbi Joseph Hurwitz told
the mourners at the
memorial service Sunday.
“We're marking the final

passing of one of America’s
greatest Institutions, the
Marx Brothers, and the
passing of Zeppo Marx
meelf,””

Among those attending the
services at a funeral home
were Frank Slnatra and his
wife, Barbara, who was
Zeppo's second wife, farmer
baseball manager Leo
Durocher, actor William
Demarest, and Groucho
Marx's longtime companion,
Erin Fleming.

Zeppo “was almost as
funny as his brother
Groucho, and much more
polite," Ms. Fleming said

Prisoners picketed —

* TORONTO (CP) — Picket

“Lines sprang up at jails and

correctional Institutes

acrogs Ontario this morning.

48 Ontario's 3,000 jail guards
began an illegal strike and
left management with the
Job of security.

Negotlations between the
provincial government and
the guards’ unlon broke
down about three hours
before -the 5 am. strike
deadline. However, union
spokesmen sald night-shift

guards stayed on until their
shifta ended,
Don Kerr, chief in-

formation officer for the
correctional services
ministry, sald provincial
police officers were being
used as security for possible
disturbances on picket lines
but were not being used
inside the province's 61 jaile
and correctional centres.
Guards in the institutes
have not carried wea! for
more than a decade because
most prisoners are serving
time for non-violent crimes
which carry a maximum
sentence of two years less a

Ys
Kerr said the only
prisoners requiring
maximum security are thoge
who pass through the
provincial jail system while
on remand to face more
severe charges which carry
a penitentiary term.

In the event of an
emergency, the jails turn to
local and provincial police

for assistance, which they
aleo will do during the strike,
he said.

Kerr said about 85 per cent.
of prisoners in Ontario jails
serve less than a three-
month sentence, .

He said correctional
services management hoped
operations could proceed
normally. Efforts were being
made to continue exerelse

periods for prisonera as well
as to allow normal visiting
hours, Kerr said.

Picket Ines were tip at
most centres by early
morning and, at Sarnia Jall,
management waa left with
the problem of feeding
hungry prisoners after jail
cooks walked out in sympa-
thy with the guards,

Citizens group
gains an access

OTTAWA (CP) — Citizen
advisory: committees
working in federal
penitentiaries appear to
have gained at least one
major step In their attempts
to have greater access to
prisoners.

A weekend conference of
representatives from such
committees across the
country was presented by
the commissioner of
penitentiaries with a copy of
a directive to prison officials
containing guides for
committee activities Inalde
prizons.

The directive, which
contains about 60 per cent of
a set of recommendations
made to the commissioner
last year, was seen as a
major breakthrough by
Barry Thorne, member of a

.. committee working with the

federal prison for women at
Kingston, Ont,

“Now we have a document
that gives us legitimacy," he
said, adding that the guides
were needed because some
prison administrators make
it difficult for the com-
mittees to work inside the

‘prisons.

Sul, the conference urged
the penitentiary service to
allow greater pubile par-
teipation in decision-making
in federal prisons.

And, recognizing some of
thelr own shortcomings,
delegates said there needed
to be greater com-
munications between
committees across the

‘country to co-ordinate ef-

forts inside and oulside the
facilities,

The Herald, Monday, December 3, 1979 Page 5

JUST.
CAN’T

They said winds gusting tourist from Hawall was
LOS E up to 3 kilometres an blown back to the same
| . hour pushed Elvita ledge, police said.

NEW YORK (AP) —A

Bronx woman who ap-

parently tried to kill

herself by jumping [rom

SOME th Empire State

Building’s 86th floor

observation deck was

pushed back to the 85th

floor by a gust of wind and

suffered only minor in-
juries, police said,

Adams’s tumbling
gulo an 65th-floor ledge

inday.

Police said Ms. Adama,
29, was taken to Bellevue
Hospital for treatment of
hip and leg injuries and
psychiatric tests.

Winds have interrupted
past falls from the
platform. Last year, a

Death is just a shot away

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
At the Oklahoma state
penitentiary in McAlester,
some convicts refer to it
sardonically as ‘The
ultimate high.”

Medical experis say a
prisoner will fee] no sgn-
sation, other than a little
drowsiness, when he is put to
death by lethal drug in-
jection-the newest form of
capital punishment in the
United States.

Eighty-two murderers,
rapists and kidnappers have
died in the penitentiary’s
electric chair since 1915. One
man was hanged,

In contrast to elec-
trocution, death by injection
willbe almost instantaneous.
The convict will slmply fall
asleep,

The law prescribes that
death will occur through a
continuous intravenous
injection of “‘an ultrashort-
acting barbiturate in
combination with a chemical

paralytic agent.” enacted death-by-drug
The official cause of death legislation in 1977. Similar
will be coronary arrest, laws have been passed since

Oklahoma and Texas in Idaho and New Mexico:

(— Dec. 5 and Dec. 12

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 ‘JHISIS HIS FOURTH
ACCIDENT IN TWO YEARS.

THY ISN’T HE PAYING MORE
FOR INSURANCE?

U. until now there simply hasn't been a satisfactory system for placing additional financial responsibility on
people who consistently cause accidents. As things stand, this man only loses his Safe Driving Vehicle Discount...once.
But that’s all going tochange.
The Provincial Government has challenged the entire auto insurance industry to develop a new rating
system based on individual abilities and responsibilities rather than probabilities—one that doesn’t discriminate against
anyone because of age, sex, marital status or where they live.
LC.B.C’s response is arevolutionary new program called Fundamental Auto Insurance Rating. We call it EA.LR.
Because it is fair. The program will start to be phased in on March 1, 1980 with first priority being given to
removing age, scx and marital status as factors in determining how much you pay for your auto insurance.
Those changes will be made in the first two years. Geographic inequalities will start
levelling out in 1980 and will be eliminated by 1985.
By March 1, 1982 the basic idea will be in place: everyone will be innocent
until proven guilty, everyone will be a safe driver until proven unsafe; everyone will be
entitled to a base premium until they lose that right.
But if everyone cnjoys these rights, they must also share the responsibilities.
That's why the new FA.1LR. program includes a Driver Accident Premium.
The implementation of the Accident Premium will place the principal responsi-
bility on the driver who causes accidents.
Andthat brings us back to our multiple-accident driver. Obviously,
any program that scts a fair base premiuin is going to cost moncy.
So who'll make up the difference? The bulk of the money will eventually
come from those who are responsible for accidents. They'll pay
higher premiums. And the more accidents they have, the more frequently
they have them, the higher their premiums can go.
Isn't that the way it should be? That's EA.LR.

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