PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Tuesday. March 28, 1978

Growing Canadian Exo

MIAMI (AP) — Canadians fearful of an uncertain economy
and the prospect of Quebec separatism are pulling In-
vestment money ont of Canada and pouring it into Florida,

The Herald reports.

“Canadians are buying everything that's not nailed down,”
said Bob Potenziam, Chamber of Commerce manager in
Hollywood, where an estimated onefourth of the 126,000
permanent population now is Canadian.

Kidnapped Belgian Baron Hooded, Chained, Multilated

PARIS (AP) — The kid-
nappers of Baron Edouard:
Jean Empain kept the
Belgian industrialist hooded,
ill-fed and chained to a bed
during nine weeks in
eapitivity and cut off the tip
ofnhis little finger to send to
authorities as proof he was
being held, French police
sald today.

Empain, head of the
Em eider industrial
enpire, was released on the
outskirts of Paris on Sunday
night, He now is in seclusion
at his Paris apartment.

Nazi March Through Jewish Suburb

Police. Director Jean
Dueret told a news con-
-ference that three days afier
he was abducted, Empain’s
kidnappers sliced off the tip
of his little finger and sent it
to pulice to convince
authorities they had the 40-
year-old Belgian nobleman.

There had been un-
confirmed reporta of such a
mutiliation. ”

The wound was left to heal
by itself, Ducret sald. He
said Empain was kept
chained to a small bed in
such a way that he could not

. "The standard line around here is that if you want to sell a
property, put a totally exorbitant price-tag on it,” he satd..
“Some Canadian is sure to come along and buy it.” ‘

The flood of Canadianndollars comes from individuals
transferring their savings out of Canada and giant con-
gortiums behind some of the state’s largest commercial and
residential developments, The Herald reports after a five-

week inquiry.

stretch ou.

“He suffered greatly,”
Docret said. “Happily Baron
Empain is a very solid man
and ha endured these awful
conditions.” =’

After his release, Empain
looked exhausted but said he
is in good health, Police
Commissioner Pierre Ot-
tavioli reported.

He was freed two days
after police ambushed five of
the kidnappers as they were
about to pick up an $9.6-
million ransom payment.

PARIS (AP) — Kidnapped
industrialist Bayon E:douard-
Jean Empain; freed after
two months, says his captors
kept him chained and .
hooded, but despite rough
treatment he came home in
goodhealth oo

Empain, 40-year-olé€
Belgian head of the Empain-
Schneider industrial empire,
was freed Sunday night, two
days after police ambushed
five of the kidnappers as
they were about to pick up an
$8.6-million ranso
payment. ; ‘

Opposed By American Jewish Congress

MIAMI (AP) — The
American Jewish Congress
has affirmed lis opposition to
a plenned Nazi march
through the Chicago suburb
of Skokie although many
AJC members voted in favor
of allowing the march.

No exact totals of the vote
Sunday were announced.
Ricmard Cohen, a
spokesman for the AJC's
governing council, said
delegates aaserting a Nazi
right to march were outvoted
by about a bto-2 margin.

The decision supported a
January resolution in which
the council’ opposed the
march through what it called

Nazi Plot To Free Hess
Foiled by W.German Cops

Germany (Reuter) — Police
have foiled a plan by ne-
Nazis to free Rudolf. Hess,
Hitler’s former deputy, from
the prison where he has
spent more than years,
police sources said today.

Five members of a right-
wing extremist group, which
operated under the guise of a

club, have been
detained and a hunt has been
launched for between 15 and
20 others, they added.

The — sources said
authorities learned of the
Plan to release Hess by force
after searching homes of two

“a community whose
population consists of a very
large proportion ofholocaust
survivors and victims.”
Many residents of Skokie
were in Hitler death camps.

American Nazis originally
wanted to parade in Skokie
on April 20 to coincide with
the birthday.of Adolph
Hitler. But on Marth 17, U.S.
District Judge Bernard M.
Deckernin Chicago ordered
a 45-day delay.

He cited the “possibility of
turmoil and violence."n

Decker struck down three
village ordinances designed
to stop the Nazi march. He’
said he granted the delay to

West Germans detained
after an attack on a Dutch

army camp in the- state: of-

Lower Saxony last month.

- »rThe two. detainees, 2. 24-

yearold army corporal and a
zz-year-ald salesman, were
found to be right-wing ex-
tremists, the sources said,
Further inquiries ted to the
discovery of their fellow
conspirators. . ,

Armed masked men over-
powered four Dutch sentries
and took their sub-machine-
guns at their NATO camp at
Bergen-Hohne on Feb.. 5,
justice officcala said. The

- council resolution

give the village time to
appeal before the march was
scheduled to take place,
DRAFTED RESOLUTION
A minority group at the
AJC meeting here drafted a
regolutionnsimilar to the
position of the American
Civil Liberties Union that the
Firat Amendment to the

“Constitution protected the

right-of the Nazis to march.

But the 72-per-cent
majority vote Sunday
supported the January
that
declared, ‘While the First

Amendment guarantees free _

speech and expression, the
courts have consistently

guns were later recovered.

The sources said the group
was suspected of having
carried out several robberies

. to. obtain guns and cash.

Lueneburg public
Reifenberg, who is handling
the case, wes not available
for comment. -

Hess, who will be &4 next
month, isthe only prisoner in
West Berlin's Spandau jail.
He is serving a life sentence
imposed at-the Nuernberg
war crimes trils | in Ms.

é prison ia con iy
the Second World War
victors,

made clear that free speech’
is not absolute at all times
and under cir-
cumstances,”

There is no constitutional
shield, the resolution con-
tended, for ‘insulting or
fighting words, those which

by their very utterance in- Kept

Dict injury and constitute an
immediate breach of
peace."- ‘

The resolution added:
“The context is significant
here, The Nazis appear. to
have deliberately sought out —
such a community for the
purpose of provoking a
violent response.” .

The three Western govern-
mens have sald they are
willing to release him on
health and’ com nate
grounds, The Soviet Union,

” however, has refused to free
him. Hess tried to commit ~

suicidein February last year .
by slashing his wrists.

The sources eaid It is not
clear how far advanced the
group's plans were ]
Hess by force or exactly how
his sympathizers intended to .
get him out of the jail, which °
is under constant guard by at:
least a dozen soldiers and
wardens..."

Japanese Police Battle Demonstrators

TOKYO (AP) — Militant
foes of Japan’s new in-
ternational airport who
wrecked the control tower
wader cover of an assault by

‘thousands of demonstrators |

vowed: today to continue
thelr attacks onnthe Narita

eld,

“We'll employ everything
we can,’ said Issaku
Tomura, leader of the Anti-

rt League. “We'll fight
until we see the
abolished." ©

rt officials sald the
attackers smashed radar,
meteorology equpmen in
the control room, and the
opening Thursday of the
rt 68 kilometres north-
east of Tokyo will probably
have to be delayed again.
Demonstrations, riots,
attacks and other blockeng
tactics have already delayed
the opening of the alrport for
years, and five person
have been killed in battles
theren
At least 20 persona were
injured Sunday when about
6,500 militants clashed
y ce guarding
the alrport while 8,000 more
demonstrated in the town of
Narita, five kilometres
away, Police said 115 persont
‘were arrested.

. DIVERT POLICE
While most of the mob

threw firebombs, rocks and.

steel pipes at the police from
outalde the security fences,
groups on trucks broke
through the police lines at
various points and made
firebomb attacks to divert
attention from the assault on
the control tower. ,
Police sald that attack was

‘ made. by radicals who had

hidden for. more than half a
day in an underground
drainage system that runf
through the airport. The
police sald they found rice

, bread and other fond.
canteens, an « acetylene
cylinder and a pushcart In
the system.

Six of the group got to the
contro] room on the 13th floor
of the tower, barricaded
themselves inside. and
wrecked equipment for two
hours before the police. broke
in and arrested them. —

Five airport employees in
the tower fled to the roof and
escaped by police helicopter.
MOB FIRED ON .

The pollee opened fire on
the mob, a rare occurrence
in Japan, and wounded at

least one man in the foot. The .

police sald they fired only
warning shots and said the.
moan was hit by a ricochet. A’
second bandaged battler told
reporters he was shot in the
A dozen or more radicals
‘ were still holed up this after-
noon in a four-siorey con-

crete blockhouse built. on
private land near the main [. -
runway to serve as a foun- ~

dation for steel towers to
block the flight path, ==
The blockhouse has’ no

windows or doors except on -
the roof. The police attacked *-

it with tear gas, water
cannon and cranes, but tks.
holdows ralned {irebombs,

rocks and lengths of pipe —

down on them and drove

rt was built to
take the load of international
air, traffic off Tokyo's
Haneda Airport, which is to

be used for domestic flights. —

The foes of the alrvort in-
elude farmers who’ were

forced to sell thelr land for -

the field, and radical -stu-

dents and other leftists who ~

see it as an anti-government
issue and say the alrport:
might be used for military
purposes, . . :

More than 1,000 riot police
tonight swarmed over a

giant fortress used by left-

wing’ demonstrators at
Japan's new international

rt.

Radicals fightingnagainst
the opening of the alr
scheduled for next hur
sday, fled into the three-

storey concrete bunker but
police cut their way inside. n

‘The police first lowered a
heavy net over the top of the-

fortress, forcing ‘demon-

strators who were throwing
down gasoline bombs .and
iron bara to retreat inside.

Thesquads of police, firing
tear gas and wearing special
fireproof clothing, swarmed
up a ladder to the roof.’ n
demonstrators tried to climb
a @0-foot tower built atop the
giant bunker but were
captured by police.
oe four woe lowered, to
‘the ground by ropes as other
poice rushed the building
and slicing into the
sides of the structure with
cutting torches.

PROTESTERS SEIZED

It says Canadian property ownership In the state now is
conservatively estimated at §450 million, with anothe $1.3
billion planned by large Canadian consogtiums in the next 15

years,

The Parti Quebecois, voted into power in 1976, fas com-
mitted the province to a referendumnon separation by 1980.
The newspaper saya many investors are pulling up roots be-"

Three of the pickup gang
escaped without the money,
one was killed, and another
“was wounded and captured,
The captive, 36-year-old
Alain Caillol, telephoned
other members of the gang
Sunday night to urge them to
free Empain, the police

a

Police Commessioner:
Plerre Ottavioli’ said as
many as 10 men are believed
to have -participated in the
kidnapping and that Empain
was moved several times
during his captivity. He told
the police he didn't know
where he had been held. |

The kidnappers freed the

’ baron Sunday night on the

southeast side of Paris and
gave him a few francs. He
took the subway'to the Place
de T’Opera, telephoned his
wife from Le Drugstore, and
she and the police collected
him shortly afte.n
GUARDED BY POLICE
Empain went _ into
seclusion with his wife and
family in thelr Avenue Foch
apartment. A police cordon
throngs of reporters and
photographers back. :

Ottavioli sald Empain had
been “mutilated” but gave
no details. This apparently
confirmed earlier reports
that the kednappers had sent
one of the baron’s fingertips
to the police as proof that
they were holding him.

Empain was kidnapped by
five men on the morning of
Jan. 23 as he wag leaving his
bome for his office, ihe

appers are reported to
have demanded a ransom of
between $10 million and §20
million in Swiss francs. After
weeks of negotlations, the
$8.6-million payment was -

eed on. But the police
intervened because the

go Lo,
payment of ransom is an-
nincentive to more kidnap-
pings. .

The. Empain-Schneider
industrial group is one of
Europe's . most-powerful
conglomerates. It’ has 150
companies, employs 120,000
workers, has extensive
North Americannholdings
and did an estimated, $4.5
billion worth of bueiness last
year. ;

Brzezinski Wants |
Begin’s Removal —

NEW YORK (AP) — The
Spatial
“ le” source to
it that Zbigniew Brzezinski,

. President Carter’s national

adviser, was the

_ ‘Becurity
US. official who last week
: galled for the removal of

Israeli Frime Minister

. Menachem Begin.

- The newspaper said in a.
Jerusalem-datelined story
that Brzezinski delivered the

ra on ‘ “ te rig

WANTS TO LEASE

VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia Hydro is
advertising to lease an
11,00-acre rarich it bought

last year as a key property in .

its proposed plans for the

Hat Creek open-pit mine and -

thermal generating plant in
the. British Columbia -In-

terior. Hydro spokesman

Dave Robertson said: the
ranch was bought under
company policy of accepting
offers. on property which
may be affected by future

development,

Within minutes they were "-

pouring inside to round up

the rest of the protesters, the ~

hard core of thousands of
students, farmers and lef-
tlsts opposed to-the airport,
located 68 kilometres .nor-

theast northeast ‘ofthe ©

style raid Sunday by .

demonstrators who -
penetrated the airport’s
control .tower and cai
serious. damage to the.
operations center’,

Before the pollee action, |

the demonstrators vowed
today to continue their at- ©
tacks on the Narita field.

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NEW COMBINATION

VICTORIA (CP) — The
provincial government has
approved a $716,000 grant to
pay a thirdof the capital cost.
to build more than 100 sencor

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cause they're unsure about the future.
LUSES MONEY ..

Larry Stc dman, once part owner of a prosperous fuel-oil
distributarsiin in Montreal, now is 4 Bear in a Fort
Lauderdale business brokerage, placing Florida investments
for other Canadians. He says he.aglvaged only 65 or 70 cents

‘onthe dollar in selling out on the evéof the 1976 election.

“Tt was worth it,”’ he sald. “Better to get out now with that
than get locked in later.” pos
_He Fai he feared his children might be diseriminated
against because they are not of French heritage. "I feel
we're in the same boat as someone fleeing Poland, or coming
outover the wire from East Germany," Steadman said. ‘We
should be entitled to ask the Unies States: for polltical
asylum as refugees from Quebec,” - a

The outflow of capital also is being spurred by double-digit
inflation and the worse unemployment in Canada since the
1930s, The Herald says, -.. ° ;

About $300,000 in Canadian.cash passed over the counter at
thelandmark bank in Fort Lauderdalein February, said Otto
Holmedahl, manager of the international department. He
said the banknexpecta to handle $30 million in Canadian
money during 1978. °

The most visible part ofthe Canadian groundswell here are
the developments backed by large consortiums. Among the
jargest is the Villages of Homestead—a planned $1-billion
community of. 50,000 being bullt on £3,500 acres outside
Homestead. oO ,

‘Develovers are the real-estate arm of the glant Hudson’s
BAY Corp. and the Toronto-based Wimpey Developments

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