- following. an ambush which killed‘ an American. corporal,
“and: péllce said. six people died in ‘new. fighting belween
' ~ Dituse and Christian militiamen south ‘oF Beirut: ;

't)\Pollce sald rival militias were ‘engaged in battles" sulthe

“mortars; rocket-propelled’ ‘grenades and’ “machine-guns .

 leiarly today in the Kharroub region, 32 ‘kilometres ‘south of
' Beirut and five kilometres from Israel's front line ‘along: thie.

Awl river: Police aid all six casualties were elvilians.” *

PANAMA cITy (AP) — Five Central American coun-
viries have approved a peace plan. which, although stripped

“of some key proposals, utges free elections and removai of .

_ ‘foreign military’ advisers’ from the war-torn region, :

“The document: adopted ‘Sunday contains many points

iulggested last: month by the four countries of the year-old
“Contadora groupi, But a proposal for a- moratorium on new:

arms acquisitions in the area after Feb, 29 was absent in the ..
final statement, whieh ‘contained no timetable tor’ with ;
~‘Piilitary. advisers in Nicarauga’ and U:S.. troops -par-..

drawal of forelgn advisers,

“The group’ — composed of .the, foreign ministers ‘af
Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama — — met 12 tires i
‘during its year-long effort to create a peace document :
-acteptable to El Salvador, Guatemala, ‘Nicaragua, Costa -

Rica and Honduras.
‘At the end of the weekend mieéting, ‘after’ ‘the ‘final
, doctiment was read’ by ~ Panamanian " presidential

spokesman Jose Hernandez, the-foréign ministers Lucene

hands and embraced each other. ’

"The agreement calls tor an ivenory of. arms, niary .

[RUT (AP) _ “TKS, ‘marines tightened eecurity. today | a

Negotiators met again today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in

- an effort fo resolve final details of a proposed security plan:

“that “would” disengage Lebanon's warring | factions “and.”
stabilize an ‘often-broken ceasefire. Bae

‘main seafront ‘after an attack Sunday ‘that killed a marine

He was, the 256th member of the U:S.. contingent of thé.
© killed since ‘the. ‘marines arrived in: ah

~ Central. ‘American countries.

multination

installations - and’ ‘goldiers . ‘by: “each “Central “American:
country with the Boal of reducing each country’ : military
presence and establishing "g reasonable balance of power
_ in the area.” 22075
It calls fora census of foreign ‘ali a
country, aimed at eliminating ‘the advisers: ‘and. other ~
‘foreign soldiers ‘taking part. in, smititary’ ‘and seowlty” ace.
tivities‘in‘the region. "
There ; are U:S.' military advisers i in EI: ‘Salvador, Cuban *

: telpating in joint 1 tailitary. manoeuvres in Honduras.

"Minister Rodrigo Lioreda Caicedo: of Colombia: ‘shid: Yo
must first, have ‘an: inventory: pe

He sald it ig. a question of stages and that ‘the ‘elimination’
‘of that part of the Contadora plan was more jechnical than a.
* matter‘of policy... /-- 4
‘The plain also calls for the ellminsticn of erdups, trying a to”
“destabil ize Central-American. .governments, ‘an apparent
reference, ‘to o internal, 3 guerilla movements roperating: ‘in -

Search underway near: Kenora

_ WINNIPEG (CP) — The. reported missing while: ofia
search for . Winnipeg solo flight to Winnipeg from
businessman “Neil - East, Fort: Frances; _ Ont,, "was
missing for six days’ in . well-equipped for: an:
bushland: near the emergency and could
Manitoba-Ontario border, survive in the bush for at
got under way-this morning - least two weeks, <-.
with 13 aireraft'‘taking part. . Maj, Don “Marsh of-

- Canadian». Forces ‘Canadian Forces | base '
spokesman Maj. Don-Marsh Winnipeg said several leads
said the search was being have been uncovered so far,
expanded to include more bil none have . gone’
civillan aireraft from anywhere. |.
Kenora, with about 25 — Atone point Sunday there

civilians acting as volunteer
spotters +- many of them

was-a brief flurry of ex-
cilement when “a, spotter

friends. and business noticed two “X's and “an
assoclates of the missing arrow in the snow ‘on Lake
man... 7 of the. Woods. But it. was

Search parties combing
dense bush in the Kenora,

’ Ont., area stumbled on a
number of false clues on
Sunday ‘t but found t no Solid,
- A PASEG ky ED, HOLL aby on bpaea from, ;Onjar rio
as CreHa, in, fh lig aA aed oni ip Beano hada

the ground me dense citizen's band radio and one..
bush. dotted with snow- truck driver picked up what
covered lakes and islands in searchers thought.’ might.
an attempt to spot .the have been a transmission .

only. a fishing ‘hole.

+. Marsh, 'shid East;” who-
operated Sound Broad-
casting of Winnipeg. and

broadcast.."_ consultant's. from him. .
white single-engine © Piper PICK UP CB CALL
Saratoga: a “On Friday a ‘trucker. on

Officials bay age, one the Trans-Canada (High-

Northeast coal shipped

PRINCE RUPERT, B. Cc: (CP) — The
first shipment of coal fram northeast B.C.
was loaded aboard a Japanese ship Sunday.
at the Ridley Island coal terminal near this
‘north coast city.

Loading .of the coal ship Shoryu Maru
began late Saturday ag terminal equipment
waa tested and run through its paces.

A governtient and industry. welcoming
committee inéluded B.C. Industry Minister
Don Phillips, Agriculture Minister Eugene
Whelan, representing the federal govern- ~

_ mént, and: Ron - Basford’ Northeast Coal
Development co-ordinator.
They presented the ‘ship's captain with
- gifts commemorating bis inaugural visit to
the new Y port, ;

to arrive ‘at

November..

: minal.

“Mitchell is ‘released —

TORONTO (CP) — A ‘In sentencing “Mitchel:
pregnant Orillia, Ont., last week, provincial court:
woman sentenced to three Judge Leonard Mon-
months in jail last week for  tgomery said her refusal to
contempt of court after she testify was ‘a grave attack .

. refused to teslify against
her boyfriend will: be
released from custody, later

A a consultant. for, ‘Npadg sand, listening, out for,

_ The Shorju Mat ‘is loading 85,000 tonnes
rom. northeast mines, A second ship is due

Tuesday, ‘with. a. third Scheduled for the ,
following. week. : :
Trains from the northeast: mines- of.

_ Quintette and Bullmoose will arrive at the

terminal dally; However, poor weatherand |

near flooding coriditions dlong the route

‘have affected train schedules, said Ridley
Island terminal manager Bruce Garvie. *'
“The first coal from, the $2.5-billion project ,

. began moving to Ridley Teland in early".

Garvie said about 250,000 * to 300,000 ;
" tonnes. of coal are stockplied at the ters fue

on‘ law and order on ‘this we

planes was ordered té Teave
‘the =search “area.” mid-
afternopn, Sumlay, and in-
‘vestigate .-“the. :
beeping of an ELT about 200
kilometres to ‘the northwest
~ hear Riverton, Man... -

way) heard a call on his cB
radio,” he said..."Tt. said ,
feasthounder, eastbounder; ‘
westbounder, westbounder.’
“Thal was 12 kilometres
inside - the Ontario border
and we concentrated. our
search in that area for
awhile” - >: .
Two vans operated.by the ©
federal]. Department of
Communications as well as
a number. of civilian CB °
radio enthusiasts monitered
CB - transmissions “ in - the
area -during the weekend:
* “We have a pattern ‘of
signals being received in
‘that area,” ‘said’ Marsh,
“We also have the Lake of .
.the Woods CB Club: and
they’re out en masse in their
vehicles’ travelling .. the

ELT left on’ ‘by, mistakes.

‘asked, ‘to: broadcast a
message to East asking him.
to-turn’on: bis: ELT during’
daylight’ hours “in. good '
* flying ‘weather. However,"
there was.no response from. |
East, after the message was’
“broadeast for 24 hours.’

‘feared that East would try
to conserve the batteries on
. his. transmitter “by broad-

* casting si nal at ee t ;
us,” wie oad sets an ‘are. an ‘¥ Ole wire pe fa ie ri ia! . rhe alll: S “ay ab ginjsed wilt tesla cutive is Vita! te jis
MMB. Ccreeniaie od | setsign Thi rm . ke atin c Atwas do neil te itp tied by'the Daily Herald opp e recommen a iba ilobe exec 4 ag
aarsh oseid, yepewa-shad Ss wha ma ¢ € - that Hydro kne that those lights. on Spaiks and Kalum a “acceptance. We “cannot overstress i 3
received. intermittent signal -impossible | for semained out: The company promised to check out that | importance .of your exercising ‘your.
emergency locater tran- _ Searchers to pick up since it situation immediately. ,
smitter signals during their ‘ needs-to be sustained over a , democratic rights by voting. ;

search in a 300-by 130 prolonged period of Aime.

kilometre . radius . over

,Asked why the arms.mioratorium was excluded, Forelgn

constant :

But it turned out. to be ‘an.

‘Hydro makes switch

_ Radio. ‘stations “in” the
immediate area had been ©

"U.S, Navy helicopters, today landed troops on the broad.

. Sidewalk of a boulevard siretching between the British and
US, Embassy buildings instead of the previous landing

: “zone al-a beach below the road. where Sunday’ s attack
‘Tending: zone, several. ‘hutidred. metres’: aeithward. on the ae —

occuried.

‘The stretch of boulevard between: the two embassies i is
sealed olf by walst-high concrete barriers and: manned by

approve: plan

most of the countries, 1 '
“ It called for similar treatment for irregular forces who

; : ~“use one Central American country to attack another — a
ry: advisers i in each .

reference to U.S,-backed anti-Sandinista ‘rébels. based
" Inostly in Honduras. |

The Central American countries also agreed to write or
revise electoral laws to guarantee popular participation in
free elections, to start programs of national conciliation
and to strengthen refugee programms.

‘The plan also provides foy establishing | three com-
missions to. verify compliance - wilh’ the ‘terms: of . the
_ document, The. commissions, - to which each Central
‘American country will appoint two riembers, are lo be sel.

° a by Jan. 32,

(Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica of Honduras said

: | the final version took into account both the 21-point plan
. presented by the Contadora group and one proposed Friday

“night by El Salvador, Hondyras: and-Cosla Rica, which put
_tiore emphasia on electoral and. human rights. reforms.

-, ‘Elsewhere in Central America, the Nicaraguan Foreign |
_: Ministry said Sunday it sent a note to U.S. Slate Secretary’

“George Shultz blaming the United States for two attacks
this weekend on‘a sugar plantation near the Nicaragua's
_Montelimar military base, 59 kilometres south of Managua.

‘In El Salvador, Msgr, Gregorio Rosa Chavez said a Dec.

30 leftist rebel altack on an army base was a massacre. -
Rosa Chavez also said official records show at’ least 142
‘ soldiers and 250 rebels died in the assault on the army's 4th

Infantry Brigade at El Paraiso, 59 kilometres north of El
Salvador, , Loa

- Herald Staff Writer i
. TERRACE— This winter every time ‘it snows, ite seems
‘Spmething goes wrong with a local. utility," = -

-Last Boxing Day there -was the. gas-line explosion on:

Queensway , in Thornhill that resulted in. ‘several Utilities
: _ being affected over the entire town.

Tt was’ snowing ‘again this morning and early: risers
“poticed ‘that street lights on both Kalum Sparks Street were

“Marsh ‘sai id it had beer . cut. Those who were up éven earller may have noticed that

every street light in town was aut for about 1.5 minutes.

B.C, Hydro says they were switching their circuits as now |

all the damage from the Boxing Day gas.fire has been

repaired and the system was. being ut: ‘back on its normal .

The cause of the Boxing Day explosion has still not been
determined, .

.
be ‘
wal ,

marine guards on n both sides, while the former landing gone:

about 500 metres southward is guarded by Lebariese troop. i
The chief marine’ spokesman,’ Maj. Dennis « Bréoks,

- identified the dead marine as’ Cpl. Edward Gargano of:

Quincy, Mass. :

_ GRENADES FIRED *

Gargano was killed: when gunmen fired: two rocket-
propelled grenades at a i2-man detail of U.S. marines.
unloaded on the beach by a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. No.
group claimed responsibility for the attack. . .

-In Riyadh, foreign ministers Elie Salem of Lebanon,
Prince Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Abdul-Halim

' Khaddam of Syria met for the second straight day today. '
The official Saudi news agency said they were discussing ©

“a number of topics related to the efforts to be exerted in
the- coming. stage concerning national reconciliation in
Lebanon.” aa

Thére * were hopes that an agreement on the
disengagement plan would lead to resumption of the
national reconciliation conference of Lebanese factional
leaders, The first round adjourned i in Geneva, Switzerland,.
in November.

é

a Police News

Herald Staff Welter

" TERRACE— Terrace RCMP state there is again no press
release for the weekend indicating all was quiet. '

‘However, alert Daily Herald personnel report there was
some type of disturbance at the Elks Hall Saturday night
about midnight that required two police cars and a paddy,
wagon -to be called to the scene.

In addition, it is reported by Daily Herald sources that
there was some type of accident on the Kalum Hill about.6

' pam, Saturday night that resulted in the route being closed

temporarily until the situation could be cleaned up.
Details on both incidents ¢ are lacking from local police,

———

To All 1.W. A. Members.

“Special meetings for. ihe Pohle Lumber.
Mill, Skeena Sawmills, Kitwanga B.C. .
Timber Mill, and Kitwanga Lumber -

‘Committees. |:

Ait other |.W.A, Members are urged to

- vote at the LW.A. ‘office at .-Room 206 at

_ the back of the Tillicum Twin. Theatre.

~. Building 2nd floor on Lazelle Avenue
between the hours of 1:00 pm and 4:30 pm
Monday thru’ Friday, starting on
JANUARY sth, 1984 te JANUARY. 20th,
1984, “oe

eastern. Manitoba . and
northwestern Ontarigns. 60 0 0
i Inone incident, one of the. we _

the Ridley Island terminal.’

community’*- and was ins.
tended to obstruct justice.: -

Reed was charged Oct."4°
with assaulting Mitchell:
twice —on Sept. 24 and oele
a

“. Monty Hall, Honorary Chairman
::, 1985 Humanitarian Award Winner

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Lavelle: sentenced —

. WASHINGTON : (AP) — Rita, Lavelle, a former US.
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