WINNIPEG (OP) - _ “RCMP. it Manitoba’ breathed a ‘sigh ‘

of relief. after no one was reported killed in a’ blizzard that =: -

rept through the province Saturday, stranding hundréds -
‘of motorists along highways.

- “We were actually quite amazed that there wasn't. a iot of.

people with frosi bite or half frozen," said Const.. Mike
- Keegan of the Portage la Prairie detachment of{hé. REMP,:

‘However, Minnesota, lowa and ihe Dakotas. to the'south |
‘Weren't so-tucky when the same storm. system :hit, U.S.

_ dffletals say at least 21 Feople-s are Sead t beeaute of, the ne
" ; ' “tony wind chill was’ extreme. |

"weather,

In Manitoba, traffic. ground to halt ‘along the Trans- |

Canada Highway as winds Busting up. to 70- kilometres an

hour. reduced” visibility ‘to zéro in-open areas..2°0 3,
Throughout the storm, RCMP officiers and snowmebilers

plucked standed motorists trom their cars # along the @ high:

TRE ee ee

They overflowed hotels and ‘noteli in towns and’ ‘cities
along, the. Trans-Canada, which connects ‘Winnipeg with
Regina ; ‘and Thunder Bay, Ont, "

About 250 people: spent the night on cols in, the provincial
government building’ in Portage in western -Manitoba.

‘Another 150 were pul up in the ice arena andon, the flocrof-a
= festaurant ‘it Ste. Anne, ‘about 0 kilometres e east of Win-
vnipege : ar ok
‘ “TEMPERATURES Low |

“with t temperatures that dipped below ~20, ‘the. danger

“There. wasn't much: ‘now actually, coming down: but
‘visibility was absolutely nil,” said Keegan, who added it
Was the worst blizzard he has seen in Portage. in ‘al deast

: “thrée years. a

You couldn't see: the end of | your car.’
“Atone point: during the storm, 14 cars <ited up in an ac-

"cident about three kilometres otitside Portage. No one was

a "Indonesian satellite alive.

AGS A ES HIE PALE AS Ie

OPAC RIED ALD (ASCE Mae ay ea PR ea Nan EF ag Sipe a

Americans killed in “storms -

‘injured. *

Phil Harder, manger of the Hi-Way Motel in Portage, said
his 24-unit place was filled to the brim, mainly witk people
who couldn't continue their trip by car.

‘They had a considerable amount of car trouble — the

“engines getting wet, all plugged: with snow under the hood
and their brakes. giving oul on them," said Harder.

He said all the holes in the city were full and he had to

send about 95 car loads of people to the provincial overn

meant building. .
“It was really severe, We couldn’t even see our sign from

' the office in the front yard here."

STREETS CLOSE so
‘In Winnipeg, city police clased a number of streets on the
outskirts to prevent cars from hitting stalled vehicles | in the
poor. visibility. : :
A number of hockey games throughout Manitoba were
postponed because leams were stranded by the storm.

and useful -

- turntable, ‘At: 10:13°a.m, —- Manoeuvred ° the: Earth-..

“way. we
“CAPE: . “CANAVERAL, ~ revolutions. a minute: on a

Fla, (AP). — Astronauts

aboard ‘the U.S. . space _ EST, six latches released

shuttle Challenger : “and springs : pushed | the

dispatched an Indoneslan twirling package away from

communications ~ satellite ” the shuttle, -. .

into space from the shutile’s' ‘It was-nall-biting tine for

cargo bay today, hoping it; ~:the © astrpnauts; . ..Mission

‘won't meet the same fate as. Control, °

Westar VI, which has been and the companies that hold

found ‘alive but totally the " $100-million insurance’

useless. on Palapa.

The _ deployment was

‘atisolutely : “normal, © on-
time,’” ‘astronaut Robert
Stewart .reported, ‘‘Can’'t

ask for any better,”’ Mission
Control in Houston, Tex.,
responded.

Under the guidance of
mission specialists Ronald -
McNair. and ‘Stewart, the
3,310-kilogram Palapa B2

‘satellite was spun'up to 50..--

4 ‘ :

Forty-five minutes later,
a rocket was. to ignite to -
propel the satellite toward a:
stationary:,: outpost some ,
25,880 kilometres above the:

' shultle’s
Canadian-developed -, “robot

and pilot: Robert Gibson

orbiting Challenger toa safe

. 18 kilometres away to avoid ©,

pogsible damage to the ship

- from the rocket firing; The
’ fifth érew member, Bryce
_ MeCandless, monitored. the
the" Indonesians - operation... |”

‘WORKS CANADARM

McNair positioned ' the
. 15-metre

arm so a television camera:.
on the etid could capture the
flring, with the pictures to
be relayed to Sarth-later.

Theastronauts could not see
the ignition , ‘because |
-‘Challenger}i is facing away
from satellite’ to avoid

Earth, It was at this point
last Friday that trouble hit
Westar VI arid its rocket,
shattered after the payload

was . ejected by the possible windshield damage
astronauts. from propellant gases.
- Commander Vance Brand Polapa | B2 will add to.a

‘communications .

- Thailand,

“network
that serves the Indonesian :

_ country of 13,000 islands 4s ~

well as the’ Philippines, .
' Malayasia,

“Singapore and Papua, New -

” Guinea.
name

_ Ba,
‘exercise, which had been =
_set for Saturday.

‘satellite’ S-
national

The"
means -
unity. ;
Although . the. . Westar .
failure remaineda mystery,

the Indonesian government

gave the go-ahead: for the -
spacemen.to launch Palapa ;
after ‘delaying the’

Rights, without a miss.

The string was broken
with Westar VI. There was
evidence of at least a brief
_ignition., But rocket. and.
“satellite, rose only a few
_kitometres, and the rocket
separated and broke. into

" yone large and 11 smaller

pieces.
The package was “lost fi in

' Space for several hours until

U.S. Air Force radar.

detected a cluster of objects -

in orbit near Challenger on
“Saturday. NASA | and

Western Union, which owns

Indonesia was counting on

a the satellite, felt certain’
the overall success record,

.they had found Westar VI,

attitude so that its batleries .
‘could be charged by the’

sun’s energy,.said Western
Union spokesman Bill

Ziegler,

“As far as we. ~ know we

‘have a spacecraft that’s in

the wrong orbit that’s
completely healthy,” he
. Said. ..
‘TOTAL LOSS’

However, there was no
hope of raising the satellite
to its planned ‘orbit where it

would be stationary 35,87-

kilometre above Earth, he
said. The most that could be
hoped for is that ‘‘we might
get afew hours lwice a
day,’’ he added. “In the
parlance of cars, I think it’s

’ a total-loss.””

of the ‘rockel that is but didnot confirm this until:

suspected of causing the Sunday. - ~ .

loss Friday. Previously, (he ~ A ground station in *

rocket had logged: 16 space - California succeeded | in
five: on, Shuttle © the satellite's _

fririgs, ‘changing -

_ from page one acer

-Gamayel accepts cabinet resignation

multinational peackeeping force in “mid-eity
said French troops were involved in a firefight. '
Shells could be heard crashing around the post:
The Lebanese army announced a tolal
curfew on both Meslem and Christian sectors, .
warning that anyone seen on the streets would’

be shot.

There were no reports of casualties in today’s

fighting, but more than,70
_ Killed and

"CABINET quits e

The resignation of the Lebanese cabinet,
Sunday deepened the political crisis. Gemayel .
accepted the resignation of Prime Minister
Shafik Wazzan and his eight-member cabinet ~
and said he might he * might serap the May 17

wounded since. ‘ihe. new, surge ins...
‘ght atarted last ‘Thursday.

key demand of Gemayel's opponents.

*_ impasse.”
7

i Fyre

ciliation talks Feb. 27.

- munities.

troop withdrawal agreement with Israel ~- a

* He said the failure of the U.S.-sponsored .
‘agreement with Israel, which envisaged the.
withdrawal of both Israeli and Syrian troops
from Lebanon, “has pul us in an embarrassing

Wazzan, a Sunni Moslem, said he and the.

ple have been .., I eight other ministers “stepped down in hopes ©"
- that-a coalition government | could be formed lo

" help: end the civil’ war? * Gerriayel ‘said he was‘

co, inviting the warring Moslem and Christian

factions to Geneva, Switzerland, for recon-

The president said he had a plan for reforms
that would guarantee equal rights and power-'
sharing — among . Lebanon’ Ss various com- —

Wazzan and his cabinet. were
manipulated by.Gemayel and his right-wing

about 60 per cent of the population. |

are supposed to govern as equal partners, most.
- prime ministers, including Wazzan, followed
the lead of: the president.

“fhe” cablnet:had,‘five Moslems, including
“Watztin;:and tiye Christians, ;

The presidential palace said Gemayel asked

cabinet could be formed.
Under the ‘unwritten ‘‘nallonal covenant”
made in. 1943 to share power between Christians
- and Moslems, the prime minister must be a
Sunni Moslem, while the president .is a
Maronite Chrislian. .

U.S. in. ‘Honduras another five years?

Senator James Sasser (D-Ténn, ) says the
U.S. military may stay 4s long as five years in
Honduras and that Congress may have to force
the Reagan administration to reveal its plans

for that country.

Sasser, a critic of U.S. policy’ i in Central
America and a member of the appropriations
subcommittee on military construction, toured |”
several U.S.-Honduran military sites during

the weekend.

“We could be here for as long as five years,”
Sasser said Sunday. ‘‘The Congress is having to
force the door open with a crow bar to find out
what is happening here in Honduras.”

In other. Central American developments,
Salvadoran military officials said Sunday
army soldiers and leftist guerrillas clashed in
the eastern part of the country; and in
Nicaragua, opposition parties protested a
’ decision by the leftist governmenl to postpone
preparations for 1985 elections.

Describing the second round of’. U. S.-
“Honduran military exercises, scheduled to end
this week, President’ Reagan has said the

ders Honduras.
BLAMES NICARAGUA

Salvador.

facilitles in Honduras.

discussed in the Congress.”

Honduras will lead to ‘
Congress,”

permanently stationed j in Honduras.

United States needs lo display its military
‘might as a warning to Nicaragua, whieh bor-..

Reagan has accused Nicaragua of trying to
export its 1979 revolution to other countries in
-the region, especially U ‘S.-supported = £]

Sasser said the United Slates plans to build: ne
military airstrips and munitions: storage : .

“We want to know what is. the policy of the.
administration with respect to eslablishinga °: -
permanent presence here. What are - they
seeking to do? J think this building ought to’ be 7

Sasser said he is afraid. the U.S. presence. inv’
‘increasing ' military
involvement in Central America, without our:
purposes being, stated to the people or the. |

Last . week, Defence | “Secretary Caspar
Weinberger said aboul 700 U.S. ‘troops will be :

In El Salvador, a \ military’ spokesman said

* operation in northern Chalatenango province,
where rebels overran a military garrison in-
December. - ;
The spokesman called the new operation a.
* “sweeping” offensive to clear out strongholds’
of rebels fighting in the four-year civil- -war.'

.( anarmy officer. in{he area of eastern Usululan,
we Provirice. : said soldiers: - fought several. skir-
mishes with’ Buen “illas. The-officer said 15
“guerrillas: and one -eoldier were killed. ;
Nicaragua’ s Sandinista . regime has an-
nounced the postponement of.preparations. for
‘3! ! elections because of lwo air raids last week on a
military post. It acctibed the CIA of. “ordering.

. the attacks, . .

‘the ClA-backed Nicaraguan Democralic
Force, claimed responsibility for the air raids.

- The Postponement was s protested by op-
_ postion parties. ee

Skalbania’s ‘unfinished. house displayed

VANCOUVER (CP) — It
has five fireplaces, an in-
door squash court with a
viewing gallery, a lighted
“gutdoor tennis court, six en
suite bedrooms, a three-car
garage, spiral staircases
and a spectacular view.

It’s very big, close lo the |

" elty atid the airport, and it’s
unfinished, The asking price

is $1,996,000.
Entrepreneur Nelson
Skalbania's unfinished

dreamhouse along. Van-
couver’s prestigious Marine
Drive was displayed to the
curtous public for the first
time Sunday.

Skalbania was building

the house, touted by realtors
as a “stunning _ palatial
mansion,” as a tribute to his
aecond wife, Eleni, before
his financial empire started

_ to crumble.
The unfinished house on

three-quarters of a hectare and install the. toilets, the

above the Fraser River’ Jacuzzi and the kitchen
needs considerable work. A cabinets.

‘new owner would still have The’. 1,115-square-metre ©
to put on the siding, finish Greek-style home :. also

“the Inside, landscape the

grounds, h hook up the wiring

contains ‘a two-storey living
room, a myriad of bay

- windows, indoor ‘and out-

instant. membership — in
door balconies, live

skylights ahd an impressive
entrance. ~The successful
buyer also gels a swimming
pool, a gardener’s collage,
housekeeper’ 5 quarters and

Vancouver's jel set.
Real estate salesman

Christine Dexter said the |

house has heen up for sale
since the beginning of the
year, -

Concert floor seats dangerous

VANCOUVER (CP). — A Vancouver concert organizer
hopies It doesn’t take a death to force the Pacific National.
° Exhibition to clear dut all.the floor seats al rock concerts in

- the Pacific Coliseum. -

. Gary Swillo, marketing director for Vancouver Ticket
Centre-Concert: Box Offices, said’ Sunday he watched
’ nervously as swarms of teenagers started fights, fell fram
chairs on which they had Been standing, ‘and crushed
against the stage at Friday night's sold-out concert by the
Byas boogie hand ZZ Top.

At ithe time, Switlo said he told his friends: “Somebody's
going to have to gel seriously injured or killed before.
somebody changes lhe sealing on, the floor.”

‘There are 15,600 seals al the Coliseum, with room fur
several hundred mare people in temporary chairs on y the

floor.

A dozen fights erupted near the stage Friday night. Two -

persons were sent to hospital with broken bones, a third
with a cut to the head and a fourth with injured ribs. About
$20,000 darnage was caused and 149 chairs were, shattered.'

Exhibition spokesman Landis Smith deseribed the in-
juries and.damage as a chronic problem.

Vancouver rock concert promoters and producers, Switlo
said, have been trying for years to have Coliseum officials
gel rid of the reserved seals placed on the floor,

They want 4 controlled number of fans to be able to stand,
dance and ream aboul‘unfetlered near the slage,

“ft feally think the PNE overreacted to The Who .

" disaster,” sald Switlo, referring (o the Brilish group's 1979
Cincinnati concer! in which 1 youngsters were crushed {0

; teath it a stampede (vu grab non-reserved seals,

' '
r

Moslem opposition groups had charged that .
being»

Christian Phalange pafly. Moslems make up

Although the president and prime minister:

Wazzan to stay on. as, a’caretaker until a new |

"the government has deployed 1,000 troops in an . .

a

Reporting on clashes that occurred Saturday, a

On Saturday, a Ela pane rebel group, |

Westar VI, representing a
$75-million investment by
Western Union, was insured
for about $100 million, as is

a Palapa B2, .
Following : the Palapa
~ deployment, ‘McCandless

and Stewart were to devote
several ‘hours to checking

the: suits and’ equipment
needed for their five-hour
excursion _ outside — the
shuttle Tuesday. They will
take - turns “flying a jel-

powered. ‘backpack, moving -

oul-to 91 metres away from
. Challenger in the first space
-walks.in which astronauts
are ‘not ‘atlached. ,to, their
ships by a safelyIin '

The —_astronaufs”.
perienced : more bad ‘Wuek
Sunday when a ‘$450,000
plastic balloon burst.afler it

. was kicked out of the careo

bay.

- The balloon, made of

mylar and carrying a 90: -

kilogram weight to give it
balance, was to have in-
flated to a diameler of two
melres. to serve as a larget
for the shuttle — a rehearsal
for the next. mission in
April,, when the larget will
bea defective satellite lo be
captured for repair.

7th, 1984.

The-New RivTow Express -
RivTow is pleased to announce the inauguration of
their new “Over the Road—Door to Door Express

Service". This new regular service will supplement
the weekly barge service. It will commence February

Now RivTow offers two regular runs weekly—
- - by barge or by truck.

This new road service, combined with RivTow’s
barge: service, now offers. regular twice weekly
. delivery at very attractive rates to Kitimat, Terrace,
Prince Rupert and area.

“The Herald Monday, February & 1934, Paga 3°

Regina Pats ét the ‘Western - Hockey League failed to:
make it.to Winnipeg for a game ‘against the Warriors on
Saturday. The team spent the night in Virden, a town in
western Maniloba,

Gerald Machnee, a meterologist with Environment! —

Canada in Winnipeg, said the storm front developed over
Dauphin, Man., near the Saskatchewan border Saturday
morning and: moved southeast during the day.

Machnee sdid there wasn't much snow, but the heavy :
winds caused problems.

“Visibillies in open areas were frequently: near zero in
light snow and blowing ‘snow,’” he said.
“There was only one to two centimetres of snow that fell
over southerr Manitoba, but the winds whipped it up and
blew it around quite a bil.”

‘Blowing snow and bitter cold blamed for at least 31 deaths
in the United States roared out of the Midwest today,
leaving a family of six dead in their car and turning routine

- (ravel into an icy hdzard from Kentucky to Maine and as far

south as Georgia,

.,A snowstorm invaded New England, with more than 30
centimetres i in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts and 25 -
centimetres in Vermont.

Temperatures tumbled into the teens overnight! in nor-
thern Georgia and up to 10 centimetres of snow was
‘reported today in Jasper, with 2.5 centimetres on the:
ground in Athens and Atlanta, where most schools were
clased today. Record lows were reported in Louisiana and
Alabama.

Heavy snow was reported today in southeast Kentucky,
where 15 centimelres were expected before the day is out.

Blinding snow whipped by winds to 100 kilometres an hour

.~ produced blizzard conditions over the weekend in parts of
_ the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota, stranding hundreds of

motorists. As the snow moved east today bilter cold set in,
_sending the mercury plunging as low as 26 degrees below
zero, . : “ot

" FAMILY PERISHES |

_ Of the 29 known weather-related deaths, 15 were in
Minnesota, including a family of six who froze when their
car stalled in swirling snow and got stuck in a snowbank,,
authorities said.

“Freezing temperalures stretched to the Gulf Coast this
morning," national weather forecaster Nolan Duke’ said.
“Jn fact, it was warmer in Billings, Mont., than in Houston

: and New Orleans.”

It was just below freezing in New Orleans, breaking the

record for the date of zero set in 1978, and 4 degrees in
Houston. It was almost 7 degrees in Billings.
A winter storm moved into the central Allantic states

today, with about a centimetre of snow falling in South ..
Carolina and up to 15 centimetres in the western counties of ~

North Carolina: Ten centimetres’ blanketed northerri
Alabama.

By Tuesday morning, the mercury could fall below
freezing in northern Florida, Duke said.

The worst of the weekend weather walloped the northern
Plains and upper Midwest. While only five to seven cen-
ltimetres of snow accumulated, high winds dropped wind

chills to 45 below zero and whipped up near-whiteout con- ”

ditions that made travel extremely dangerous.
800 STRANDED .

, An estimated 800 motorists were stranded Saturday night
in motels, restaurants, schools and-armories along an, 80-
kilometré:stretch of Interstate 90:front Sisux’Falls,'S.D;;‘to
Worthington, Minn.’ The riércuiry in‘both states ‘pturiged to

26 below early this morning, but most travellers were able
‘to move on cleared roads.

In North Dakota, four people were found dead in their car:
_of carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday morning. They had
left- the engine running to keep the healer on after the
vehicle became stranded, authorities said. Two people died
in an accident on icy Interstate 34 Saturday evening, and a ‘
man was found dead about a kilometre from shelter near
Kulm,

Fifteen storm deaths were reported in Minnesota, in-
cluding the six members of one family who died of exposure
near Windom, in the southwestern part of the state.

In eastern New York, where up to 20 centimetres of snow
had fallen by late Sunday, a mother and her two-zéar-old
child were killed when their cay skidded out of contra! and
was rammed broadside by a tow truck.

Truck Service:
Departs Tuesday PM
Arrives Thursday AM
. Barge Service:
Daparts Friday PM
Arrives Monday AM
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