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Carter Preparing For Blood-Curdling, Bone-Chilling

WASHINGTON (CP) — While transitory diplomatic
tempests and White House political blunders dominate
the daily headlines, President Carter is preparing in
relative obscurity to make one of the most crucial
strategic decisions ever made by a peacetime
president.

The choice facing him is whether to abolish or
radically improve the U.S. land-based missile force,
one of the three founddations of Western defence. The
other members of the triad are strategic-missile
submarines and strategic bombers. _

Apprehensive congressional groups have called for
a Carter statement on the issue by Sept. 30, warning
that they will apply heavy pressure to force action.

The basic problem is that the land missile force of 54
Titans and 1,000 minuteman missiles is becoming
increasingly vulnerable to Soviet missiles. The pre-
cise accuracy of the Soviet missiles is unknown and
U.S. estimates of their accuracy are classified, but
Pentagon analysts say the Soviet missiles can cer-
tainly hit within 240 metres of their target.

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Anti-Theft Paint

VICTORIA (CP) — British Columbla Forest Products Ltd.
Is testing a palnt that has Its own fingerprint In efforts to cut
down on theft. .

A company spokesman says everything from chain saws to
heavy jackhammers and portable drilling rigs are being
marked with the crime-fighting paint developed by Inter-
national Paints (Canada) Ltd.

BCFP representative George Lambert said his company
and International have been working on ihe paint for more
than a year, A pilot project to test the palnt In the fletd was
launched a few months ago. :

Lambert sald the new paint contains trace elements of rare
metals which can be read through spectro-analys!s, pro-
viding foalproof Identification of recovered stolen property.

Lambert sald the paint offers the same conclusive
evidence as a fingerprint left at the scene of a crime.

“Ifa plece of equipment is recovered, police chip off some
paint and send it tothe International Palni lab for analysis,“
he said. They have some people jhere who can prove that
It's definitely BCFP paint, and who are prepared to make
court appearances.”

The company has not yet had a test case.
THEFTS INCREASE .

Lambert sald the project was launched because of in-
creasing theft of company property by employees and out-

siders. He did not have figures but sald large amounts were .

Involved.

Lambert sald that equipment teft In the bush by loggers Is
often stolen.

“'Peaple come in and pick things up like chain saws and

walk off with them. No matter how carefully you try to hide -

equipment, they find It.

Lambert sald the fast-drying fingerprint paint can be
applied to just about any surface, and slated for the marking
brush are fires, batteries, power tools, hand tools, logging
equipment and even logs.

He sald the palnt can always be removed by the thief but
Ittakes a bit of work toget It off.” ;

“What we're really hoping Is that people both In and aut-
side the company will see It and think twice.”

Stock Market Jumps

TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto stock market recorded Its
sharpest advance In eight months at the close of active
trading Wadnesday. - ee

The TSE 300 index gained 10.13 to 1,234.63, highest since
March of 1974. ;

Rising energy [ssues and & seven-point jump at New York
spurred the advance. .

The total volume was 4.74 million compared with 3.76 mil-
lien shares Tuesday.

Net change +10.13
Close 1234.63

GM Recalls Trucks

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. Wednesday an-
nounced a recall Involving 238,-000 Chevrolet and GAAC 1978
model pickup trucks.

The trucks are equipped with a frame-mounted, spare tire
carrier which could become loose and fall off If the truck Is
backed into something.

The company 3ald in a statement that a nut on a support
bolt could crack an impact. There have been two non-injury
aceldenis reported because of the defect, GAA sald.

Owners will be notified and a new support bolt and nut in-
stalled atno charge to owners, ihe company said.

“Hot Off The Press” |
At News of the North

YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. (CP) — News of the North
Wednesday published a frontpage story and pictures about a
tire that severely damaged the newspaper's building.

Craig Meclnnes, editor of the newspaper published here
three times a week, sald the fire Tuesday afternoon started
behind the wooden bultiding, spread quickly up the back of the
bullding and gutted the top floor containing the paper’s edi-
forlal offices. The ground floor, containing type-setting
eaulpment, was flooded by water used to extingulsh the

jaze.

The cause of the fire Is not known and no dollar figure is
avallable for the loss, Mcinnes said.

McInnes said the staff, which was In the final stages of put-
fing Wednesday's edition together, laft the building quickly
and no one was injured.

Last Quarrel

LAGRANGE HIGHLANDS, III, (AP) — Police said a
newlydivorced couple apparently engaged In a final fight
that lett blood spattered from room toroam in their home and
ended In murder and sulelde,

A policeman, called to Investigate late Tuesday, sald he
looked Into the front window of the home belonging to
William and Suzonne Donnelly and saw thelr. four-year-old
daughter, Brandie, “sianding in the blood In tha Hving roam
trylng to wake her mother.”

Mrs. Donnelly, 28, had been stabbed 1) times In the abdo-
men, five times in the throat and once In the chest, A kitchen
knife and three table forks were found next to the bod, police
said.

Donnelly, 33, was found In an adjacent garage, his head
placed under the exhaust pipe of a car with the engine still
running. Pollee sald he had cuts on his wrists and had appar-
ently tried to slash them.

Authorities sald every room in the suburban home west of
Chicago was covered with blood and thal a partial barricade
of furniture had been put up In the hallway. They speculated
that the couple fought each other throughout the dwelling.
The daughter was unharmed.

Neighbors sald the Donnellys quarreited frequently and
police recently had been called to the home to halt a
disturbance. They said ater the divorce Donnelly stayed on
until an apartment he had rented could be prepared.

_'\n the fiscal year 1979 defente statement, defence
secretary Harold Brown said that all of the SS-17, SS-
18 and SS-19 missiles being deployed in the Soviet
Union have a “high singleshot kill probability”
against even the recently-hardened U.S. missile silos,
STRIKE FIRST

With anticipated improvements in the Soviet missile
force, that means the Soviet Union will have a first-
strike capability against U.S. missiles by about 1993,
making it possible for a Soviet missile salvo to ef-
fectively destroy the landbased missile deterrent.

The harmful effects of such a first-strike capability

would not come solely in the unlikely event of Soviet ©

muclear aggression. :

The first-strike Soviet capabillty would be a potent
diplomatic weaponin future confrontations and woule!
influence foreign perceptions of U.S. and Soviet
strength.

The complete vulnerability of the missile silos could

Current doctrine is for the land-based missiles to
“ride out” an attack, allowing the president to make a
more considered decision on how and whether to
retaliate. The alternative, to launch the’ missiles
before they could be destroyed, assures a devastating
strike on the Soviet Union—even if the detected Soviet
attack turns out to be radar malfunction.

One school of thought holds that the United States
could simply do without its land-based missile force,
relying instead on strategic missile submarines and
strategic bombers as a deterrent.

Such an approach, however, would mean possible
disaster if satellite detection of the submarines is ever
developed. Their immunity from attack would vanish,
leaving them as easily destroyed ina first strikegas the
fixed silos. Most of the bombers would also be caught
on the ground.

The solution being suggested to Carter would in-
volve various means of making the landbased missiles

One problem with that is sheer cost, $40 billion plied

on top of the $40-billion Cruise program and the $25-
billion Trident submarine program.
Still, there is much to be said for modernizing the
land misile system to maintain the eredibijity of each
part of the triad and to preserve an option that could
essential in the future.

The bomber force was once on the point of being .

considered useless, but developments in electronic
warfare and Cruise missile technology have made it
again a real threat. And, if exotic weapons like
charged particle beams are developed to destroy
missiles, the bomber force could again be the primary
strategic deterrent.

Similarly, the land-based missiles may well be
worth keeping.
‘In the strange world of nuclear deterrence, where the
unthinkable is routinely thought, spending $40 billion

also lead a future U.S. government to ad

t the

“launch under attack” doctrine that has until now

been carefully avoided.

mobile, at a staggering cost of $40 billion, so that the
Soviet Union would never be certain of the precise

location of most. of them.

Joe Clark Attacks DREE

Charlottetown (CP) —
Federal opposition leader
Joe Clark said Wednesday
that a Progressive Con-
servative
elected when Prime Minister
Trudeau “gets the courage
to call a general election”
would change the federal
system to give the provinces
more say in running their
own affairs, ;

. “People here know better
bow to run Prince Edward
Island than some guy with a
PhD and a computer, in

government.

Ottawa”, he told a luncheon
for about 190 enthusiastic
party workers. +

He said the federal Liberal
government — has in-
ereasingly .concentrated
power in Ottawa during the
last 10 years, moving into
areas where the ‘provinces,
private enterprise, and
volunteers could do the job
better. .

Clark, on a three-day
Atlantic tour, said there has.
to be a strong central

government, but in a vast
country ‘such as Canada,
“diversity is not a danger.”

“The federal system can
allow for ‘the regions and
provinces to be trusted” in
running their own affairs.
NEED BALANCE
“We have to recognize the
need for balance and let the
regions do the things they do
best," he said,

He criticised the depart-
ment of regional economic
expansion (DREE}, saying
people in Ottawa ‘assume

what they want is better for
P.E.1. rather than the people
who live here,”

Clark said unemployment
had increased fourfold in the
Atlantic region in the last 10

ears— ‘You are going
ckwards,’*

And in the last four years,
$1.5 billion in investment or
potential investment “had
packed up and moved out or
just didn't come because of
the lack of a climate of trust
in Canada,” he said,

Senators Fight To Save Chamber

OTTAWA (CP) — After receiving clearance trom Buck-
ingham Palace, the federal government issued a statement
Wednesday saying Queen Elizabeth approves the highly-
criticized rewording of her role as outlined in Prime Minister
Trudeau’s constitutional proposals.

The statement was read ta a Senate-Commons committee
studying the proposals by Marc Lalonde, federal-provincial
relations minister.

Senators scoffed at the statement, saying the Queen had.
given her approval only afier advice from her Canadian min-
Isters. Constitutlonaily, the Queen has little choice but to
agree with what her ministers advise. :

Since the constitutional proposals were tabled In Parlia-
ment Ir tune, Liberal, Progressive Conservative and New ”
Democratic Party politicians in Otfawa and the provinces
have condemned the government for trying to tInker with the
monarch’s rale.

Lalonde maintains the government wants no change in the
Queen's rote but merely wants to reword the outline of the
functions of. the monarch and Governor-General now. con.
tained in the @ritish North America (BNA) Act of 1867. ,

"His statement sald:: “The prime minister recelved from’:

the private secretory to the Queen, dated June 20, a letter
Indleating that Her Majesty was content with the proposed
change in the royal style and titles and was satisfied that the
proposals would not alter the essential relationship of the
Crown to Canada. .

"The prime minister recelved a similar intimation from
the Queen personally during the audience she gave. him in
Edmonton on Aug. 5."

Trudeau told the Queen last October, during her visit to Of-

tawa, that tha government’ planned to Introduce con-
stitutional proposals possibly affecting the Crown’s
relationship to Canada, Latonde said. —

“He explained the Importance thata renewal of our federal
system could have in relation to meeting the campaign of the
government af Quebec to persuade the people of Quebec to
vote for separation of that province from Canada.”

_Affer the government formulated Its proposals, former
justice minister Ren Basford visited the Queen on June 15 at
Buckingham Palace to show her the recommendations. Five
days later, the Queen notified Trudeau of her approval.

Despite the assurances given by the government, Liberal
senators conilnued to oppose what they perceive as a
diminished role for the Queen.

: They sald the proposals would replace the Queen with the
avernor-General as one of the three components of Partia-
ment. The other two are the Senate and Commons.

The Queen would also be replaced by the Governor-
Genera! as commander. in-chlef of the armed forces,

The power of the government would no longer be con-
sidered vested Inthe Queen but in the Governor-General.

During special Senate commitiee hearings held before the
joint committee began, senators sald the proposed changes
suggest republicanism and that Trudeau appears to want the
Governor-General to replace the Queen as the head of state.
LEADS ATTACK
.-Liberal Senator Sidney Buckwold from Saskatchewan led

- the attack by senators on-Wednesday. There also are pro-

‘posals fo abolish the Senate, enshrine a charter of human
rights in the canstitution and give greater equality ta the
French and Enolish fanguages. |

The government's desire ta transform the Senate into a
House of the Federation, with half its members provincially-
appainted, would result In a chamber of horrors, the former
Saskatoon mayor said. ;

A Progressive Conservative senator from Quebec, Martial
Asselin, said the constitutional proposals, contrary to
Lalonde’s thinking, will do nothing to make Quebecers feel
happler within Confederation.

Several senators and MPs castigated the government for
pushing ahead with constitutional changes before the Task
Force on Canadian Unity has reported, :

The work of the study group and the money it spent are
wasted, sald Perrin Beatty, Progressive Conservative Mem-
ber of Parliamen’ for Wellington-Grey-Dufferin Waterloo,

to keep. an
And that ver

option open can make sense.
act is a compelling argument for

vigorous pursuit of nuclear disarmament,

" Fulton Attacks Gov’

Mr. Jim Fulton,. federal
NDP candidate in Skeena in
a press release received
today says:

Recent announcements by
the Conference Board of
Canada indicaté that
unemployment will continue
to rise, Nearly half of the
jobless in Canada are bet-
ween the ages of 15 and 24.
These young people must
rely to an ever greater ex-
tent on their families for
financial support.

“There are jobs for these
young people on municipal
projects, in business and in
rural areas if the govern-
ment would take the time to
plan,” said Fulton. “Every
town needs recreation

DEDHAM, Maas. (AP) —
A judge ruled today that a
comatose 12-year-old boy
must remain connected to
life-support equipment
despite a petition from his
father to unplug him.

Norfolk County Probate
Judge Jeremiah Sullivan
said evidence is not con-
clusive that the brain of
Louis Stone Is dead. The boy
has been in a coma since
July 2 when struck in the
heart by-a BB gun pellet
accidentally shot by his
father... The: boy-iis at God:
dard Memorial Hoepital.in
Stoughton, Maas. 3: ius -

The father, Neville Stone,
49, said Monday he wanted

Canadian
MONTREAL (CP) — U.S,
dollar in terms of Canadian
funds at 3:30 pm. EDT
Wednesday was down 9-100
at $1.1384, Pound sterling

facilities and landscaping;
every business would benefit
from new creative energy
and every farm has a
potential for labour.”

“increasing the production
of goods and services
through long-term planning
and job creation. must
become our national
priority," continued Fulton,

“Last week we heard the
Prime Minister apologize for
ten years of poor govera-
ment. The facts however are
clear, Canada needs a
government dedicated to
long-term solution, short
term budgets, after all,
apologies don’t buy.
groceries or raise families.”

Not Proud” |

the boy removed from
devices keeping him
breathing. He switched from
testimony July 28in which he
had pleaded with the judge to
keep the boy on a respirator.

“A vegetable,” Stone sald,
“T can't live with seeing him
like that.”

Myra Stone, Louie's
mother, had said she wanted
her son to remain on the

. -equipment.

Dr. Milton Brougham,
chief surgeon at Carney,
Hospital, testifying.far the:
parents, said some of Louis's
roflexes still persist-and the
boy has not sustained total
brain death. :

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was down 19-50 at §2.2469,

In New York, the Canadian
dollar wad up 7-100 at $0.8784
and pound sterling was down
7-20 at $1.0715.

— ‘Born Innocent’ Case Dismissed
Many Questions Still Unanswered

WASHINGTON (CP) —
The dismissal last week of
the Born Innocent damage
suit against the NBC
television network provides
few answers to the complex
and disturbing questions
about the effects of TV
violence on viewers.

Shortiy before a San Fran-
cisco judge threw out the $11-
million suit, NBC lawyers
assured him that the 1974
television drama did not
incite the grisly rape of a
nine-year-old girl just four
days after Born Innocent
was screened,

The jury never got a
change to decide what did
cause the attack, since NBC
persuaded the judge to
dismiss the case on con-
stitutional grounds.

But the question of
motive— what prompted
four children to pin the nine-
year-old down on a@
dune and rape her with a
beer bottle—likely will
persist, analyats say.

Earning Drop

Ef it wasn't the scene in
Born Innocent which
graphically portrayed the
rape of a girl by three or four
others using the handle of a
plumber’s helper—a type of
attack considered by human
sexuality experts to be fairly
rare—what Was it?
CREATES RISK

The child's lawyer, Marvin
Lewls, accused NBC of
negilgence and recklessness
for what he termed the
forseeable result of the
broadcast which, aired in
family viewing time,
“created an undue risk of
harm" for the chilé and
perhapa for others.

For NBC, the main job was
to show that television
drama is protected by the

U.S. Constitutlon's First |

Amendment, which allows
for freedom of expression.
- NBC warned, probably
correctly, that IEitis not, any
violent scene in future
television shows, movies,
books, newspapers or other

media might be held ac-
countable for real-life crime
committed using similar
methods,

The judge in the case ruled
that Lewis would have to
prove that the film incited
the attack on the girl. And,
following the lead of the U.S,-
Supreme Court, he in-
terpreted incitement of a
crime to mean advocacy of'a
crime.

Such a task, Lewis con-
ceded, was impossible. He
plans to appeal. ;

In using the 2% minute
Tape scene, NBC says its
Intention waa to cause
revulsion and condemnation
of such acts—exactly the
opposite of the. effeet the
child’s family and lawyer al-

lege.

The tragedy of the case ap-
pears to be, however, that if
the child's attackera did in
fact, get the idea from the
television show, then the
Intentions of the network are
meaningless.

White Pass-Yukon Fires Nine

VANCOUVER (CP) —
White Pass and Yukon Corp.
announced Tuesday that it
has dismissed nine senior
execullves in a major
reorganizational shuffle.

The integrated  tran-
sportation company, which
has been experiencing
financial difficulties
declined to name the em-
ployees dropped.

R. A. Hubber-Richard,
company chairman, said in
an interview

reorginizgtion in the Van-
couver office was prompled
by a significant decline in
revenue due to ihe loss of
Casstat' Asbestos Corp.
tonnage and by the decision
to locate the company's
senior operating managers
in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Cassiar closed its Clinton
Creek, Yukon, mine earlier
this year and sald it would
Ship asbestos from its other
mine in northern British
Columbia through the port of

Stewart instead of using
White Pass-Yukon,

News of the dismissals
came as the company an-
nounced a first-half loss of
$49,000 or 12 cents a share
compared with a profit of
$597,000 or 22 cents a share in
the corresponding period
last year.

The company blamed poor
results in Yuken and Alaska
trucking operations com-
bined with high maintenance
costs of locomotive and track’
in its rail operations.

If the attackers watched
Born Innocent—something
which has not been deter-
mined—Iit might be perfectly

reasonable to assume that -

the fictional presentation
served ag at least the basis of
the idea behind the real-life
crime,

Analyats predict that if the

case is*appealed, NBC will
probably be cleared of
responsibility for the brutal
attack of the child.

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