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_MacEachen

- OTTAWA (CP) = —: Prime Minister Trudeau, will likely:
__ shake up his cabitiet, in mid-September but the number: of
- Shangen depends-on Allan MacE chen's. future: ia: the|
Finance past and the: Liberals’ popu arity: whe
‘-iberal Sources say. it's” ‘still too <soon’,
“MacEachen ‘will want to stay on ar. whethe
i J job.

, veterans: rewarded with’ Keats the: Senate, were hi
‘are 15 openings,. and. other plum jobs." .
_ His room to manoeuvre i is limited, howe ver, because the"

- forced to call ‘more ‘byelections’ to fill. their seats. a
" ‘Trudéau is expected to set a date for byelections in three”
. existing vacancies before the end of July.

Even the most optimistic Liberals admit the party, now
running -well behind {he Progressive Conservatives in
opinion polls, will have a hard: time in the byelections —
holding on to the one seat.it held-previously and stands a
good chance of being shut out.

‘\

If Liberat fortunes continue to sag, Trudeau may name :
fewer new ministers and settle mainly for shifts in the... wants to.

current lineup,.~ ~ -
There is also speculation that Speaker Jeanne Sauve, a
favorite target of the Tories, may be replaced. She could be

sent to the Senate or appointed an ambassador.

LONDON (AP) —
for the release of 600 Argentine prisoners of war still held
following ‘the Falkland Islands conflict. = = _.

The Defence Ministry said the prisoners, including Brig. *

Britain has scaled down its demands ‘

Gen. Mario Benjamin. Menendez, commander of Argen-

tina's vanquished Falkland Islands invasion force, ‘are
being held aboard British ships moored off the Falklands
capital of Stanley,

A spokesman said the ministry has not yet decided the’

Baseball fans. to have beers with cheers _

TORONTO (CP) — Cold beer on a hot afternoon at the
ballpark is probably only weeks away following a surprise.
announcement Wednesday by the Ontario government.

Ina sudden reversal of policy, the government said it is
proposing to municipal councils that beer sales be allowed

_on an experimental basis at professional sporting events at’ -

“Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, Hamilton's Ivor - Wynne
Stadium and Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park.

Ottawa city council waited only a matter of hours before

endorsing the idea Wednesday night, and ‘officials - in

‘Toronto and Hamilton are predicting approval will be given

by the end of July.”
Robert Elgie; Ontario's consumer and commercial

reat ceed,

-in paper cups from booths under-the stands and customers
vill be. limited to buying two at a time. ote
If police or liquor’ inspectors report that beer-drinking

fans get carried away and offend others, thé province will -

seriously look at ending the experiment, Elgie said.
He said the experiment, which will run until the end of
1983, is not being extended to hockey arenas because of the
' diversity of sports performed there, including boxing 2 and
wrestling. .

; BAGOTVILLE, Que. (CP) —
Kittinger lifted off from St. Louis, Mo., in their helium-filled
balloon Rosy O'Grady on Monday, they just wanted to fly to
Washington.

.’ But when they were rescued from the bush 135 kilometres “
north of this city after two days of helplessly drifting in. bad.

_ Weather, they found it may have set a world record.

It was the helicopter pilot who ferried the: two balloonists —
‘back to civilization who first suggested they may be able to
‘Snatch some glory from the jaws.of their defeat; Snow said:
- Wednesday in.a telephone interview from Bnalville, 180
“ Kiloriétres north of Quebec City. ~~ °

“The pilot said: ‘Hey, you guys must have flown almost -
1,500 miles (2,300 kilometres}. That must be a record.’

The: ‘distance record for a .1,000-cubic-metre helium
balloon — 2,253 kilometres — was set in Russia in £937.

Snow; 40, and Kittinger, 56, both from Orlando, Fla., lifted .-

_ relations minister, told the legislature that beer will be sold.

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_September,. wher : lacEachen : hosts. a” omesting : ‘of, the
“Trudeau. leaves for a: two-week ‘trip to. the Far. East...

only woul a mid-September shuttle ‘gly ministers :
hance. to “get settled: In’ new posts before. Parllamen
pti the fat; it” would, nt follow Teydeau’s pa

~ betting on when ‘Trudeau 'wilf quit.
His eventual retirement is also a, factor. in a shuttle as a

~ Fhe cabinet currently has-a record 36 members. |

Cape Breton bachelor who turned 61 on Monday.-

_ Some say he will bow out-of finance gracefully after his

~ June 28 budget designed to undo the political damage of the
Nov. 12 effort; others say he has regained the confidence of
caucus and has enough political credits to stay on if he

. “No-one’s going to. be pushing him out,” said David

: Weatherhead, chairman of the Liberal Ontario caucus,

“But I think he would want a change.”,
-Former cabinet minister Warren Allmand sees a good

os

: "destination of the prisoners. A government source said they
may be brought 8,000 nautical miles to Britain. - ;

_ .The British have returned 11,200 Argentinians captured
when the Argentinians surrendered after the. fall. of the
Stanley garrison June 14. Argentina invaded the Falklands

. April 2 to assert its claim of sovereignty over the British .
colony 350 nautical milea east of the Argentine mainland.

At first, ‘Prime Minister Margaret Thateher’ ‘8S govern-

.The announcement brought cheers from fans, politicians,
and team officials. ;

“I think the proposals show the politicians are starting to:

become human beings,” said Harold Ballard, owner of the.
Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

can stop hiding his bottle in a binoctlars case.

“Teouldn’t believe my ears when I heard it on the radio,” -
_ said Cam King, 20, one. of 7,000 ‘sweltering. fans at Wed-

nesday night's Toronto Blizzard soccer game at Exhibition
Stadium. “Do you suppose they waited for this until it was
the hottest day of the year?"

: “Our phone has been ringing off the hook, ” said Blue 1e Jay

vice-president, ton. “etre certain ye leased wea
» aul Ree yvery pleas ielowhileMoléon’s: 48 2a oftickal sponsbe st

about it.) eet tome

However, Toronto. Argonauts ‘president Ralph ‘Sazio
echoed other team officials when he predicted Wednesday
that beer will discourage fans from smuggling in hard

liquor lo games.

Saskatchewan is now the only province with a policy of no
beer at.professional- sporting events. Although the beer

debate has usually focussed 0 on moral rather than economic

Balloon: drifts to! new record -

When. Bob Snow and Joe’ and ballast trying to control theix. height.

’ By sunset Tuesday, they’ were over Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.,
with little ballast left..

They broadcast a distress signal which was picked up by
Eagle One, the aircraft carrying Lt.-Gen Kenneth Lewis,
commander of the Canadian Armed Forces Air Command

". based in Winnipeg.

off from St. “Louis on Monday- for ‘Washington: as par--

ticipants in a race Sponsored. by the MeDonnell-Douglas’
aircraft company.
Bad weather blew them off « course and they used up their

: ‘The general, on his way from North Bay to ‘Winnipeg,
‘ordered his aircraft to: stay with the Rosy O'Grady for four
hours until aircraft arrived from the Armed Forces search

. and rescue headquarters in Trenton, Ont.- :
“TT never met him but I sure want to thank. him,” said

Snow.
Buffalo aircraft and helicopters circled the 25-metre-high

balloon for nine hours. before it ianded at about 6 a.m.

Wednesday.

“The first person we saw in the moraing % wag Cpl. Diane
‘Labelle coming down on a holst;"" Snow recalled; “I-said to «-

my partner, ‘Hey, we're being rescued by a pretty girl.’ ”
The pair will begin work today to recover the balloon,
which is still hanging from: trees in the wilderness.

BURNABY, B.C. (CP) — Students at Simon: Fraser
’ University high atop Burnaby Mountain who cannot find a -

parking ‘space this fall, can hold graduate student Biair
’ Longley at. least partlally- responsible. -

Longley's vehement protest about | the planned

- Banks approved

MONTREAL’ (CP) —. Montreal-based Cariadian- Bond
Rating Service, which assesses the eredit worthiness of
corporations, said Wednesday the Bank of Montreal’ and
Torénto-Dominion, Bank are. still: in “its” top: triple A.
‘classification.

Brian Neysmith, president of the Montreal -based service, 7
‘convinced the university's top brass-that the 40 parking |

said the Continental Bank has a single A rating, while the ©
National Bank, of Canada is triple B. -

Neysmith sald hia firm does not vate all banks; including”.
the Royal Bank and the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Dominion Bond Rating Service of Toronto said-Tuesday it « ; ‘perhaps 50 metres tall by: one metre thick at the- ‘stump, :

has lowered its rating for the ‘Royal, Bank of Nova Scotia,
’ Bank of Montreal, Toronto: Dominion’ Bank, Canadian

Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Mercantile Bank on

grounds that the. general weakness of the economy has
increased the risk of loss on loans. .

Dominion dropped ail of their ratings to double A from |

triple A,

Neysmith said his firm maintained the ratings because”
Canadian chartered banks are among the: ‘strongest i in the
world. -

. i (Y 's only. natural ‘to expect high fon losses and’ Jower.
levels of earnings, he said.

future: uncel

‘The shufife v will. tH ly come between wes first weekend af

Ina Toronto tavern, cab driver Robert Chappelle said he

\ ‘chance MacKachen will stay in finance: because replacing”

- him, would: “pull ther out! from: vinder the government's .;
International ‘Montelary Fund in Toronto; and Sept, 13, When. he A eee

ondmic polices: and Fepresent, an admission of ‘defeat.
ut other: Liberala ( expect a-new finance iminister in the:!
‘to appeagé the ‘public, businessmen. ‘ahd: lnyéatora who: -
re-skeptical about MacEactien. '

ew budget...

“One possible scenario sees MacEachen shifted back to hia:

his buffeting in finance. «

- ‘Treasury Board President Donald Johnston Is mefitioned
_-Most Liberals: agree the key: this fall is MacEachen, the ...

most often. a8. the person. {o-replace MacEachen; partly

" because there are so few alternatives.

Energy Minister Marc Lalonde's chances were damaged -
by the negative business: reaction to the natlonal energy

.. program, Justice Minister Jean Chretien has already had

the job — known as the graveyard of political ambition’
and probably wouldn’t want it again.

’ Johnston, 46, used to be Trudeau's personal lawyer and
appears to be acceptable to the business community.

With his responsibility for the federal public service, his
immediate fortunes hinge of the success of the govern-

. ment said it would keep the other 600 prisoners _ mostly

officers and militdry specialists — until it received an
“authoritative” Argentine statement that hostilities were
-over in the Falklands and their dependencies, and in the air-

: and-sea corridor between the. islands and the Argentine

mainland, .
. But Thatcher's government now has watered this
demand ‘down to “positive indications" that the new Buenos
_ Aires government considers the fighting aver.

questions, teams in other provinces have shown that beer-.
drinking fans can add tens of thousands. of dollars in sales
tax to provincial coffers.

‘The Montreal Expos, who atiract about 30, 000 spectators ..

- 4 game, sell an average of a glass of beer to each fan-on a
- Warm summer day, according to concession manager Pat

Commerford. And beer accounts for. almost half the Expo's
concession business.

lIn spite of these statistics, Howard Starkman, director of
public relations for the Blue Jays, said the team expects no

| inerease in attendence and only a marginal increase in
revenue from beer sales.

An added twist to the beer. debate in Toronto is that beer

“ companies have substantial financial stakes in the Blue

Javs:\ (Labatt's)-and--the: Argonalits . (fain an
the’ Blizzard.
: But Elgie promised . Wednesday that “all makers will
“have beer sold at the events.” . . ~
“In Ottawa, Rough Rider. officials; eager to sell. beer as
early as this-Sunday, were told by the province that he
regulitions won't be ready for two weeks. -

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destruction of a slandof Douglas fir trees on the east side of

- Campus persuaded the university's administration to drop

its plans for the 40-space parking lot.
- “It was a minor miracle,” Longley said, wha is known on
campus for‘ his unconventional living: quarters. ‘No one

” expected them to change their minis. But I was of the at-
~ titude that it was necessary to make the point.”

Longely, 32; hada particular interest in the trees because
heis one of a few Simon Fraser students who over the years
' have: lived in secluded,- old cedar stumps on the heavily -
wooded mountain, .

Longley became invalved in the parking Tol: lssue because
he-once lived in a tiny makeshift cabin: adjacent bo the :

: Douglas firs. os a
_ Threatening. to, confront “the: bulldozers head-on, 1 he

spaces weren't worth the loss of trees. The university: ‘also
"saved: ‘about $40,000: by not. bullding the lot. :
“the largest fir in’ the stand is at least 150 years old and

Longley ‘estimated,

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Burnaby Mountain: “Was logged” around the turn of the:
century, he said,

Currently ‘Longley is living i if a room. vacsited -by the -

Alumni Association in university’ 8 transportation centre.
Earlier this year, fie fost his home — a rather elaborate,
‘three-level cedar stump. near. the top of the mountain, in

‘which he spent the winter.

“When I came back from the April 24th Walk For Peace,
the stump was completely burned to the aroun "he sald,
J suspect foul play. but I can’t say’ for" sure.”

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Article 118 of the 1949 Geneva Convention says prisoners
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British officials say. that, technically, they” have ‘not
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-Argentina considers “active hostilities” _at an end.

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The newspaper, which supports the opposition Labor:

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added: “Britain's proud standard of civilized international
- behavior is in danger of being sunk."

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