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: “aRitty. Hawk," piloted by’ a’ ‘U.S. father-son’ -
. téam, lainded safely i ina field in-eastern Quebec >
today: .completing the first balloon crogsing ¢ oF
“te -North Ameérican continent. 20 bo
‘. The helium-filled balldon- with Maxie’ An: :
_ av “ deri 48, ‘of. ‘Albuquerque, N. N.M.,‘arid his son,
‘ “Kris, is a: touched down at 7:27 a. m. EDT, Ina
field: 10 miles from, Matane on the St. ‘Lawrence .
‘River; some 250: hile east ‘of.Quebec city...
." -"-tieballéan fet San Francisca last Thursday.
e ‘The “Kitty Hawk” had drifted briefly over -
*, _ northen Maine earlier today, than over Canada,
t a oe coming down far from its orignat destination of .
“3 Kitty Ho vk, NC, ‘but. still making aviation ©
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' The flight of the. “Kitty Hawk" was Maxie’
Anderson’s second attempt at setting a balloon .
- record.’ :

In August. 1978, ‘he successfully crossed the

: a “Atlantic in 137 hours, in‘the Double Eagle Two:
“with two corapanions, landing on the outakirts

of Paris from Presqhe. Isle, | Maine. _

ve learned because. of the trang-Alane
Aight: that‘it. inspires: ‘youngsters, dnd that’s a

* great thing..to-do-if you-don’t realize you're.

. doing It at the time,” Maxie Anderson salt ina.

radio interview: ‘from: ‘Matane. -

‘Maxie Aiiderson said he thought the. ‘pallooa’

was. going to. land in the ‘ocean,-“But we just:

| ead a mbtle le clearing and a falm wind ¢ and put

her.i in...a littie bit of woods, just right on the
v edge. ”

. He said there was “Wgome beautiful flying” by
the: crew: of the ‘Canadian Armed Forces -
“helicopter which arrived at the scene.

“Phe. went-over to the side ... and they had ,
“engugh wind on‘us {0 blow ws 0 feet dver and '
we, ot to. the clearing and landed.”

Doc Willié,2 pilot: who watched the landing
from a circling plane, said, “they landed up in
” the timber aiid dragged the balloon around for -
: awhile with a tow ‘rope (because) the tail got :
caught inthe timber, :

“Finally the ‘rescue helicopter. moved In so
his rotor wash pushed him (the balloon) along.
at took about a half an hour to push! him n along 80°

they could set him down int a clearing.”

_ miles north of New Brunswick early. today,

, _ Initially ¢ the father-son team sought a lighted

) cross the continent

Jim Sirna at the ballon control said the flight
“established a new record for an overland
_ balloon flight. -

“We haven't calculated that out exactly yet
' put it appears it's going to be something in the
neighborhood bf 2,800 miles." Ted Rider of the
Bedford, Mass.; tracking station said the pilots
“decided to stay airborne until-daylight” so «
they would not “have to worry about the danger"
of a hight fanding in unfamiliar territory.” —

The 75-foot-high helium-filled: ‘balloon was 23

sliding at an altitude’ of about 2,900 feat over
heavily wooded areas.’

highway on which to land but | then decilided to. -_
walt until daylight to attempta descent to avold ‘
power lines,

_ "The pair began their aerial adventure: five”:
days ago in California, leaving San Franscigco
Thursday May 8 — and encountering tough :
weather almost from the start. . -

The balloon glided over Nevada, “before jit -
was' buffeted .by strong. winds, rain and~ :
snowstarms..over Wyoming. -After. entering’ -

- Canadian ‘airspace aver Ontario Sun

- craft endured northeast winds that threatened

-. cancellation of the venture. Lon

At 4 a.m, EDT, the balloon was over ‘Camp. m

’ bellion, New Brunswick, and was drifting for ao

Jansing near Matane. :

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KAMPALA, ' Uganda
(UPI) ~ The military: took
contrel of the east African
nation of Uganda today in an
apparent coup that could
portend the return of the
tuler whowas overthrown by

~ Idi Amin.
A spokesman for: the.
‘Military Commission of the '~

ruling Uganda National
Labor Front told the BBC the

commission had taken over |

from President . Godfrey
Binaisa.

‘There was no word ‘on

Binaisa’s whereabouts and

‘no indication whether the

takeover was non-violent,
A broadcast by the com-

TEHRAN, Iran (UPD —

‘Islamic fundamentalists who’

favor spy trials’ for the
American Hostages won

control of the. Islamic:

Parliament that. has been
entrusted by Ayotoillah
Ruhollah Khomelni with

deciding the fate of the.

captives, election returns
Showed today.

In Belrut, Lebanon,
Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh was reported by
the authoritative An Nahar
Report and Memo to have

’ warned privately that in the

event of a quarantine of Iran,
“The American hostages

will be killed and shipping to

and from the Gulf countries
will be sabotaged.”

The Islamic Republican:
Party, leading a "grand
alliance’ of Moslem clerics
drawn from across the
country, won the majority of
the seats in the 960-member
Mejlis (partiament) based ©
on returns from the second

‘issued a new: decree”

‘mission over Radio Uganda

‘suspending the foreign ex-

-yiolating the ban on taking

change and said anyone

money out of ‘the: nation
woul | be “severely ‘dealt
wi ae

The - spokesman,
alnounced. the. takeover,
described the commission as

a:“collective of Uganda's
military commanders” who

‘would rembin in charge of

Uganda © further

notice. "
Although not identifying

“until

himself, the spokesman told

BBC: af the takeover In a

Militants. win in

stage of the talloting, patty
officials said. . -
President - Abolhassan
Bani-Sadr's moré moderate
group’ ‘for coordination

Schmidt's back.

BONN, West Germany.

(UPI) — Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt's Soclal Democratic
Party swept to victory in a
crucial election in West
Germany's: most- populous
state in a. major en-
dorsement of Schmidt only

four months before natlonal

{

elections,
‘Official results from the

‘state poll in’ North Rhine’

Westphalia, which ineludes
‘the country’s most in-
dustrlalized area — the Ruhr

gave. the Social
Démoerats (SPD) an ab-
solute majority of 106 seats
lin the 20i-seat state
‘Parliament for the first time
since 1966. -

‘room - of...

' Uganda;
", Saturday night with reports

telephone conversation from ;

the Nile Mansion’s | hotel
Commission.
Chairman Paulo _Muwanga.

Soldiers or Sunday night ©

guarded key installations in

. Kampala, including the post _
h '-- office,’ Radio Uganda’ and
who...

Uganda television and the
Nile Mansions: Hotel where
many Cabinet ministers and
senior officials live.

‘The annowncement of the
takeover followed. a con-
fusing two days and nights in
which began

of gunfire in the capital, once

the seat-of Amin's power,

| Iran

; among the people and the
- president” emerged. as the

second most distinct force in
the balloting Friday. --
-A third “independent”

: group with rio immediately

clear . political leanings
eroded some of provincial
strength of the front-running
coalition of the Republican
Party and clergymen:

The ° fundamentalists

-reported, however, they can

lure the Independents | to
their side In the legislature.

' ‘The fundamentallats also

“said they are confident they
can appoint thelr own

premier on the strength of
thelr own parliamentary
majority, which would be a
blow to Bani-Sadr. -

Bani-Sadr reportedly has
been authorized by
Khomeini to nominate a
premier with the promise the
nominee will be endorsed by
Khomeini himself.

cand i turmoil —

Binaisa announced

“Saturday ‘he had dismissed

thearmy'schief of stafé, Col.

David = Oyite - Ojok, ° te

promote. better relations

. between the publie’ and the

armed forces,

‘But the commission, in a.
Radio Uganda, broadcast,
no

announced: it did
recognize: the dismissal,

leading to reports thata coup. ‘to

was imminent and ‘that Dr.

Milton Obote, who was.

ousted by “Amin ‘in 1971,

would be brought back to

power,

Both Ojok and Muwanga -

are close friends of Obote,

ALYCIA AMBROZIAK

"SHAWINIGAN, Que, «UPC) —
Federal Conservative Leader Joe

and last week Obote: an-
nounced. he would return
May 27 from nine years of

- exile in Tanzania. :

But in an interview in Dar
Es Salaam, Tanzania, Obote
denied he had anything to.do
with. the new conflict in
Uganda and said he would. .

‘ refuse to return from exile if

the milltary were to ask him
D 80.

By late.Sunday afternoon,
there '- was
statement on the situation
from Binaisa and sources
said the dismissed chief of
staff, Ojok, visited with the

president

~ Clark joins the ‘“‘no”’ parade

In the event of a yes" vote, is to ask

‘ dock,

- ‘a proclamation by Khadaf

Theil may go to
Supreme Court...

‘That decision Was recently
supported by the Federal .

“no official -

referendum campaign began.

‘facility severed fuel
‘rendered the sprinkler
the dock.
“spokesman: said.

“The dock has been lost: entirely,
_ according to. the ‘spokesman’s.

report, and firemén-

; _ tempting to keep the fire away from .
a warehouse nearby,. where: 17,000.
“fons ‘of! ‘Raper, Products are being

stored.

wert Ute eg

"OS reno ctr an the scene, ‘tald ‘that
firemen: working ‘on the ‘blaze had’
‘: blasted Lpatts ofthe dock away in an

inoperative,.

‘lines and
system. at
the

were at-

- Oiate ts. the tank:

aT i Aditi: “at the: ‘ship “neelved ee
Was not being. released by Larry
_~Beltz, the Eurocan: spokesman.

is in 7 flames.

A fire that started at the Eurocan
dock ‘in Kitimat harbour when an
: unnamed | vessel backed into the.
, severing fuel lines, was. still
out. of control at 10:30 a.m, ace
“cording fo'a Eurocan spokesman.

-. The fire started at approximately.”
“a5 a: m., when 2 ship which was’
- attempting to dock at the Eurocan

“attempt to get closer to the's source
of the blaze..

Three Kitimat fire trucks | were at
‘the ‘dock, as was an Okdnagan .
‘Helicopters chopper, which was —
dropping water or. fire-retardant 7
chemicals on the fire, = >

“The: reporter. said. that earlier
there had been a barge with fire. -
fighting equipment working at the
scene, but that it had moved away,
. from the blaze.

The Eurocan mill facility was
never threatened by: the fire, a
Kitimat spokesman said.

‘Smoke from the fire reportedly
filled the. valley, and a large
was “moved from

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dock: . inten!

Students overrun ee
three: more. embassies.

Libyan ‘students seized

__ Libyan embassiés in Swit-
_ tetland, ‘Turkey and‘

East
. Berlin today: ‘in support of |
Libyan leader. Col, Moam-
nar Khadaty. «©

: The students said the
- fakeavera were in support of

in .September allowing

Libyans to participate in the. -

administration of govern--
mental institutlons as well as.
“Libya's embassies ‘abroad.

In ‘Bern, Switzerland,
students ‘took over the
Libyan Embassy ° and
proclaimed it. a “Peoples
- Bureau.” A student
spokesman | Inside - the.
compound said the embassy
> would in the future be run by
a flyemember committee. .

“The ambassador and four
other embassy staff per-.
sonnel will continue to do
their work, however,"” the
spokesman "sald.

About 60 Libyans studying

in Switzerland marched to
the embassy. and the five
designated ~ committee
members went ‘inside to
formally turn it into “A

McBRIDE, B.C.’ (UPG) —
Al Thiel says ‘he is tempted to
go all the way to. the
Supreme Court of Canada,
and the. ex-Mountie may
make. that decision today.

Thiel, who used to be know

to the citizens of McBride as -

Cpl. Al Thiel of the RCMP,

was fired last fall. when he -

refused a transfer from
McBride, located about 800

kilometers nerthegst of
"Vancouver. , ‘

- Peoples Bureau of Libya. ” 7

’ “The embassy staff are all

good Libyans and, totally
upport our action,” the

stuaent spokesman said,

Court of Appeal and unless
Thiel takes it the Supreme
Court, he'll never know why

the RCMP" wanted to tran-

sfer him.:

‘His wife Gail sald Thiel

was ordered. transferred
because the RCMP always
wants to retain a kind of
leverage over its junior
officers,

Sunday in the. ree ingug
weekly Dimanche Matin
Yes forces trall the No aide by three

~

Seam Sete oe

’ Clark, jolning in the drive for a “‘no”

referendum yote, has stressed to
supporters of the. pro-federalist

’ drive headed by Liberal Jeader

Claude Ryan that they are not alone
in seeking constitutional change.
The former prime minister joined

‘in a swing through Mauricie and-

Abitibl regions with several other
prominent politicians Sunday in a
turnout to boost the “no” camp, now
reported with a 3-percentage point
lead by the latest poll.

“Quebec is far from being the only
province denouncing the status
quo,” Clark told about 1,200 ‘no’
supporters at a rally here which
gave him two standing ovations.

“All the provinces are now in- —

sisting for a renewed federalism,"
Clark said at his second: public
appearance in Quebec since’ the

Clark told the audience that “all voters they agree with the
Canadians love and respect Quebec negotiated points.
— though they don’t understand ithe Parti Quebecois government
every that happens here.’’, reminds me of the guy who wanted The

thing,

Beside Clark and Ryan, Op-
position House Leader. Gerard P.
Levesque, interlm Union Nationale
Leader Michel LeMoignan, and
Social Democrat Leader Camille
Samson joined federal Justice
Minister Jean Chretien for the rally
in his home riding,

Although all the speakers were
warmly received by the audience, it
was Sameon who stole the show.

In a speech in which Samson
called Premier Rene Levesque ‘Roi
{king) Rene,” the Social Democrat
leader ridiculed the PQ = govern-
ment’s plan for two referendums.
The first one May 20 seeks a
manadate to negotiate sovereignty-
association for Quebec with the rest

of Canada and the second one, later,

’ didn’t agree,”’said Samson

to cut his dog's tail but hia wife
na
thunderous voice,

"So he cut off only one inch at a
time, But once he was done, the
whole tail was gone,"’ said Samson,
adding the sovereignty-assoclation
Pr enuise, was really only separation

The meeting in Shawinigan was.

disrupted for about 10 minutes when
a scuffle broke sbout between a
woman and security personnel. At a
later rally in Rouyn, two people who
were part of a group ridiculing ‘‘no”
supporters while they entered: a
building for the rally were whisked
away by police,

The most recent poll, published

percentage points.

poll was carried out by the
Institut Quebecois pour I'Opinion
Publique from May 4 through 6. It is
the most recent yet conducted and
follows Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau's firat intervention at the

midway polnt of the five-week
‘campa

gn.
The IQOP poll gave 4percent
support to Claude Ryan's ‘no’

. forces, 37 percent to the “yes'* side,

and showed a further increase in the
ranks of those still undecided of
refusing to answer — a rise of 5,1
percent to 23 percent over the finst
ar bison in b ide mafyin
“We have to win by a w
if it is to be significant," anid Ryan,
adding that if the Yes camp won
with a slight magrin, “we would
admit it’?

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