% : world. figure Russians back, skaters pleased — OTTAWA (CP) —The 1978 skating championships may go down 83 a watershed year in a Bport that has often been Under fire for its judging. For the first time since the championships began 82 years ago, three of the four defending title-holders were dethroned at the competition which ended Saturday night. What makes that even more significant is that in only 18 years has even one defending champion been defeated. And in only three have ag many as two ost their crowns. - One criticism ofnfigure akating is that judges seem reluctant to take a com- petitor’t title away unless it 4s absolutely obvious that By THE CANADIAN PRESS ' ‘The playoff picture looked tighter for New West: ‘minster Bruins after the defending Memorial Cup ‘ch picked up two weekend wins in Western Canada Hockey 8 ac: Leagu Hon, vaulting them into third Saturday placa in the Western Division two points ahead ofnVictoria and two behind Seattle Breakers. The Bruins beat Seattle 54 Sunday after an easy 3 win over Calgary Wranglers Saturday. The Breakers scored a come-from-behind 74 victory over the Cougars in Victoria Saturday: while division-leading Portland Wenter Hawks handed Calgary ita second loss of the weekend, *1 Sunday In Port- and. pomeone has come along - who is clearly superior. It's a little jike the heavy- weight boxing championship in which a title is almost never lost except by a knoc! What may have influenced the 1978 , skating’ cham- plonships was the one-year suspension of Soviet judges. The International Skating Union barred them after accusing them of being biased in the last four years, An examination of the marks by the judges here— nine for each of the four categories—indicates that nothing much would have changed even if there had been Russians juding. Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov would Bruins M eanwhile, B Wmeat Kings scored their 12th straight victory Sunday, aé-3 decision over Saskatoon Blades. Medicine Hat Tigers beat Billings Bighorns é4 Sunday after dropping a 74 decision to Lethbridge The Broncos remain atop the Central Division with 75 points, elght more than Billings. Brandon leads the Eastern a lat ge points for a 25-point over Filn Flom Bombers. In New Weetminster Sunday, the Bruins scored four goals in the first period, three of them in 1:39 after Seattle o a 20 lead halfway ough the frame on goals by Owen Lloyd and Dwayne Lowdermilk. atill have won the dance title, upsetting Irina Moiseeva and Andrei. Minenkov, and Trina Rednina, and Alexander Zaitsev would have had no trouble holding the pairs title, RUSSIAN FAR BACK Soviet judges could not have helped Vladimir Kovaley retain his men's Htle against the challenge from Charles Tickner of the United States. And their presence probably would not ve done an to melp Linda Fratlanne of the United States keep her women’s crown from going to Anett Poetzsch of East Germany. ; What some expert ob- servers speculate is that the judges from other countries took note of the suspension of the Russians and made a conscious effort to avoid any sign of bias in their own mark: ing. Whether the trend con- tinues won't be evident for a year or two but it is a fact that the ISU is trying to free the sport from the taints of ria or incompetent ju . Still to be dealt with, how- ever, is a problem that arises in singles skating. Although the marks for compulsory figures now count only 30 per cent, the wide range of scoring still gives figures an effective value of as much as 70 per cent. The ISU plans to ex- periment with a system in which marks are used only to beat Breakers New Westminster replied with markers by Brian Young, Boreas Fistrie, Randy Irving and John Ogrodnick, then got the winner from Jim Dobson at 3:18 of the second period. Ryan Hatfield and Glenn Merkowsky scored the other Seattle goals as the Breakers outshot the Bruins 39-$1 in the cleanly-played | contest, BOMB. WRANGLERS On Saturday, the Bruins scored five goals in the second period to beat the - Wranglers. : _ John Ogrodnick and Doug Derkson scored two goals each to lead the Bruins with fingles going to sonin Paul Kelly an Harrewyn Kent Reardon, Dave Orleski Penguins push Rangers up over head By GLENN COLE The Canadian Press New York Rangers have put themselves back into National Hockey League playoff contention with a lot of help from Pittsburgh Penguins. n The Penguins went into the weekend with a two-point. - edge on the Rangera in the battle for the last wild-card playoff spot, Petta also had a pair, Sunday against Toronto Maple Leafs. But. the, Penguins blew both of ‘them—losing 7-1 to the Leafs and 3-1 to Vancouver, The Rangers took ad- vantage of. - hapless W on to move into a pointe-tle with Pittsburgh as they crushed the Capitals 8-2 Sunday night. In other Sunday games, Philadelphia Flyers clipped Colorado Rockies 6-2, Vancouver and Detroit Red Wings fought to a 44 deadlock, Boston. Brulns manhandled Los Angeles Kings 9-3 and Buffalo Sabres outscored Chicago Black Hawks. 5-2. Aside from Pittsburgh’s loss to vancouver, noel Saturday, the Leafs listleas Clevetan ra ha Sa, Derrult edged e Kings Detroit Colorado 5-4, Atlanta Flames took a 4-1 verdict over Chicago, Minnesota North Stara and Ft. Louls Blues Pulledciphia walloped ‘the wi Bruins 62. PLAYED AS SHOULD | For once, the Rangers. A od th and Barons: er ap re gg er F.; GANUCKE.,, OR dumped the, Sabribs '4-2,: Saturday eight and angling” eeees the. Sabres © 4:2, played like they shoulb against a weaker team as Phil Esposito led the way with two goals and an assist, “Coach Jean-Guy Talbot thought the Rangers might have tried extra-hard against the Capitals because of a futile trip to Washington thi nonth only to find out a scheduled contest had been postponed because of what snowstorm. “The ithat:Junnecessary “trip “to “ Washington and I think they poured it on because. of that,” Talbot said. “What I liked was that we finally played up to our potential against a weaker team in- stead of playing down to thelr level.” th ne . Penguins, were no match for the Maple “Leafs. “In Pittsburgh, ___ Taft-Hartley almost puts coalers back ‘Coalindustry ‘and union “negotiators, noting they have made progress in resumed discussions, say they still face some hard - before a settlement is forged. . ‘The Carter ad- ministration, meanwhile, . back-to-work order that takes full effect today to ease -the plight of coal-short Tegions. _’ But it remained to be seea ‘bow many of the 160,000 _ Strixing miners would return to the pits. The union has ‘predicted that the back-to- . Work order would be widely ignored. “We're getting down ta the brasa tacks, to the hard is- v mes,” Nicholas Camicia, “We cauld two, three days and significant progress and then have a down,” he said. Miller said he has not yet summoned his bargaining council to Washington. The council would have to ap- prove any settlement bargainers. ey ORDERS SERVED M eanuwhile, marshals are completing efforts to serve the tem- . back-to-work orders under the Taft-Hart- ley Act to UMW locals, and operators prepared to reopen thelr mines, President Carter said at a that if jusi a number” of miners return to work, “we can prevent a crisis ,ovolvingnin our chief industrx bargainer, country.” n The protracted dispute has ‘said Sunday as he left the vhotel where the weekend ~ talks were held. He saidnhe was encouraged but added: - “We still have a lot of work to do." ’ TALES RECESSED n- * for a swift set- Hlement in the walkout that -began 14 weeks ago faded as the two sides” recessed : al talkf after a brief. : y session so that small ‘groups of lower-ranking “negotiators could work on contract language covering : c issues. « Officials of the Bituminous “Coal Opreaters Association peogrees inthe third day of e M the renewed talks and ex- Lean {some ar some form today, although no meetings were immediately sched- : President Arnold Miller ofnthe United Mine Workers - (UMW) agreed that there has been some progress, but. said he “wouldn't put a time frame’ on when a settlement will be reached. - “PERSONAL AND “ INCOME TAX PRE | $1 “NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY" 4602 LAZELLE AVE. TERRACE B.C, forced mounting . power tens - of: eats .and turned out to be a minor and Larry Melnyk. Calgary marksmen were Gerry Wilson, Glen Wylie and Brian Law. The Bruins fired 34 wuots on the Wranglers’ net and took advantage of a slo ‘defence . and sh goaltending by Warren Skorodensky. In Victoria, Lowdermilk and Len Dces scored two goals each to lead Seattle's George Buat, Ron Kolman and Tim Hunter also scored for the Breakers, which po trailed 3-0 after less than six minutes of play but battled back by outscoring the 41 in the second period to make a 6-5 [ead into the final 20 minutes. slot a skater first, second, third, etc.-go that a skater receiving high marks for figures is only one placing ahead of the second-place — skater regardless of how . poorly he or she is scored.n ‘If this scoring system had been used here, Fratianne - would have won the women's title and Robin Cousins of Britaln would have finished first Instead of third in.the mal al sipociatione-wil lation ations ~ be permitted to try the system in some international competitions in the next couple of years. Then a decision will be mada on whether to make the changes ‘ general—something by nm means certain considering ‘the conservatism of the ISU. Gary Lupul scored three goals, Bill Jobson added two and Bob Jansch had one for Portland got first-perlod goals from Dave Ross and Perry Tkrnbuli—all the Winter Hawks needed for the home-ice win. Ross scoxed on a rebound 53 seconds Into the game, then Turnbull scored in the . final minute of the period to make it 2-0. Doug Lecuyer scored on a backhand early in the second before Brent ’ Peterson made it 4-4) with a wer-play goal at 13:20. palgarys Mel Hewitt ruined Portland netminder Jerry Price's bid for a shutout with a power-p) goal late in the middle frame to end the scoring. Gunmen | supported - THE HAGUE (AP) -- Sup- portersof three West Ger- ‘man terrorists held in Dutch jails took aver a government office near the premier’s today, but police said they arrested the 21° demon- strators after an hour. No violence was reportéd. - The demonstrators oc- cupled a room used by the government information service in the ministry of general affairs building, where Premier Andries yan Agt also has his offices, police said. They sald the protesters called themselves sym- pathizers of the extremist Red Army Faction, also , known as the BaaderMeinhof gang, They sald the sitin was connected with appeals now before the Dutch Supreme Court of Knut Folkerts, Christo shootout in Wackernagel and Schneider were arrested after a gun battle at an Amsterdam apartment in November. { Wackernagel was sought in the killing of West German industrialiet HannsMartin Sehleyer last October and Schneider was wanted for the bombingnof a German - courthouse. Police said the takeover was not linked with today's seizure by South Moluccan .g gunmen of a local govern- ment building at Assennin northeast Holland, THE HERALD, Tvesday, March 14, 1978, PAGE 11 | Four feared dead in Swiss avalanche it - Ree edght rough snow up to metres deep Sunday night searching for four skiers feared byried under an ava- lanche ona slope in the Swiss ps. About 300 soldiers and civilians using dogs worked through the night without fin any victims. Reecue officials said people trapped might still. be alive in cavities formed as the anaw swirled around pylons of a ski lift. &s cue R e original estimated 15 to 20 people ‘night be buried under the avalanche down the slopes of the Vaudois | 2A SLUMBER LODGE WEEKEND SPECIAL! at the Alps near Aigle.. | t police said today that only four people were unac- counted for. 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