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Bungled breakout attempt stymied by grating.

..but nobody knows

who was leaving

' * NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities. are trying to
determine today who was the target for freedom in
a daring but bungled attempt by a man and’a
woman to pluck a prisoner from atop a Manhattan
federal prison by using a hijacked helicopter. .

The escape attempt fizled in mid-morning
Sunday wher the hijackers gave up trying to cut
through a grating over a rooftop recreation area at
the Metropolitan Correction Centre in downtown
Manhattan's Foley Square near City Hall. —-

But for the next three hours, 20 prisenera held a
guard hostage in the recreation area while police
trained rifles on them from rooftops and hundreds

- of people ‘watched from nearby apartment towers.

Warden Dale Thomas said a recently convicted
narcotics dealer, Robert Wyler, la one of the
prisoners under investigation asa possible target of
the incident, The FBI declined comment.

Wyler was accused of heading a three-state
cocaine ring and was alleged by prosecutors to be a
member of the Mafia.

The escape attempt ended without injury, and no

shots were fired. After lounging in the sun and -

playing basketball in the shadows of whirring police
helicopters, the prisoners om the roof, inchiding
Wyler, negotiated a surrendet at about 1 p.in. EST,
Officials said,

The incident began at 7a.m. when a dark-haired
woman who said ber last name was Sanchez rented
a helicopter from Island Helicopters Corp. at New
Jersey's Teterboro Airport, about 11 kilometres
from Manhattan.

The pilot, Identified by Palice as Thomas Niet-

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SURREY, 3.C. (CP) -~-
Racism is a crime, not an
attitude, and its victims
recourse
through the legal system,
MLA Emery Barnes (NDP
— Vancouver Centre) said
Sunday.

“There is no legal means
whereby one can deter-
mine whether their rights
have been offended or their
dignity has been affected,"’
Barnes told a rally spon-
sored by the B.C. Or-
ganization to Fight
Raciam.

“When their rights have
been violated, there is not
an immediate access to
challenge that source of
offence. I want my day in
court!"’

Under present
legislation, the attorney:
general's office determines
whether an act of dis-
crimination {8 serious
enough to
prosecution, not the in-
dividual involved, he told

about 400 people.
“If there is no legal
process, you'll have

. hoodluma doing what they

warrant ©

ache, took the woman over the Hudson River and
the inland of Manhattan to a heliport on Manhat-
fan's East Side, where they were met by another
wonan. =.

The seoind woman gave the first worst, two
bags, the women and the pilot had breakfast at a

nearby restaurant, and Sanchez and the pilot
returned in the helicopter to Teterboro, where they . ~

picked up a man who. appeared to be in his 40s,
authorities said.

Anthony Amanzio, general manager of Island
Helicopters, said the man and woman asked the
pllot to return to Manhattan. '

In the alr, the two passengers offered the pilot

money to land on the roof of the federal detention
‘gentre, Amanzio said. When he refused, “they

placed a sawed-off shotgun to hisheadand told him

it no longer was a request.”
Nietsche landed the helicopter on the cage over
the I2slorey jall shortly after 10 a.m. and the

prisoners there overpowered their unarmed guard
and OD ode him in a washroom. .
The woman in the helicopter let down a chain-link
ladder, lowered herself to the wire mesh and tried to
sever the wire, authorities said.
Her companion alse tried to cut the wire, without
‘success, .
In a final effort to puncture the cage,- the
" hijackers ordered the pilot to bounce the helicopter
on-it. But that also failed.

One of the hijackers tossed a, pistol to the | ae
prisoners through the cage and the pilot was or-

dered to fly to another heliport beside the Hudson
River on Manhattan's West Side.

‘Therea woman was waiting ina Cadillac, and the-
three drove away, authorities sald.

The carefully timed attempl recalled succesaful ’
escapes that employed helicopters in Michigan and -

Mexico City in 1971 andin Dublin, Ireland, in 1973. A

says MLA

did to that young man, or
people taking the law into
their own hands,” said
Barnes. He was referring
to Avtar (Terry) Dhami,
an East Indian college
student who told the rally
about 3 youths, some
carrying baseball bats and
iron bara, roughed up him
and his girlfriend and
smashed the car they were
sitting in last Thursday in
Vancouver.
“The police didn’t do
anything about it,” said
Dhami, “There has to be a
stop to this racial violence,
There was a lot of white
people on the street they
could have attacked. Why
did they pick on me?
Because of my color.”
But Vancouver — Ald.
Harry Rankin said new
legal remedies are not the
answer,
Rankin called on the anti-
racism - organization to
pressure police and local
governments to Investigate
such incidents and get
charges laid.
He said the group should
also pressure communities

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establish offices in the
Vancouver area. -

“We think that the most
_ important way to fight

racism. is by agitation,” °

sald BCOFR president
Charan. Gill. “If we

mobilize people we will -

build a strong force not
only against the Klan but
against all forms of
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$18 million.

sought for
salmon |

VANCOUVER. (CP) —
Federal Fisheries Minister
Romeo LeBlanc will be
asked for $18 million in
additional funding for the
salmonid é¢nhancement
Program, the program's
board of directors said

Sunday.

_ The decision to ask for
ey: was made
following jolnt weekend

tings Between an

alleged the program was in
danger of total failure
“because of a shortage of
funds. The program is
designed to double annual
catches of | salmon,
steelhead and trout by 1990.

The advisory body, the
salmonid enhancement
study group, is made of
members of the public and
Industries affecting the
salmon resource. The
group said inflation and a
‘two-year extension of the
program had made
original’ funding of $150
million inadequate.

The board had’ main-.
tained that the program
was already ahead of
objectives but has agreed
to-request additional funds.
The ‘am pow is in

- the fourth year of the

seven-year first phase. In

WARSAW (Reuter) —
Poles have been warned
ot the dangers of con-
tinuing labor unrest and
told that an- unending ©
a cycle of strikes i
damaging the country’s
Image abroad.

The warning followed
a threeday wave of
strikes by millions of
Polish workers

Deputy Foreign
Minister Marian
Dobrosielski said on na-
tional television Sunday
night that international
confidence in Poland is
beginning to wane.

"T have to admit
bluntly ‘that the
development of our
infernal situation does
not strengthest the in-

OTTAWA (CP) — The
New Democratic Party has
threatened to withdraw its
support of the federal
constitutional package if
the government keeps its
premise to accept a
Progressive Conservative

‘There's no way we can
accept the (constitutional)
- resolution with that
amendment in it," NDP
Leader Ed Broadbent said
in an interview Sunday.
Solicitor-General Robert
Kaplan announced last
week that the government
will accept the Con-
servative amendment even
though many provinces ob-
jected to a similar proposal
last ‘summer during
negotlations with Ottawa.
Parliament’s con-
stitution committee, which
contains 15 Liberals, eght
Conservatives and two

1978 attempt in Marion, Ill. ,oulside Chicago, failed.

POLAND FEELS
EFFECTS OF UNREST

ternational authority

and the position of
Poland," he said. -

Both the independent
trade union federation
Solidarity, which celled
the strikes, and the
government have sald
“they sre prepared to
resume talks on work-
free Saturdays and
other issues, but no date
bas been set.

Poland has been hit by
unrelenting industrial
unrest for the last seven
months, Officlal esti-
mates show that more
than five million Poles
stayed away from work
Saturday.

The countrywide
boycott paralysed in-.
dustry and caused a loss
in production officially
estimated at aid million

- and the right not to be

deprived thereo! except in
accordance with the
principles of natural

Several provinces,
eapecially Saskatchewan
and Prince Edward Island,
are afraid such an
amendment could interfere
with existing Jaws
restricting foreigners or
non-residents to purchase
land.

Kaplan has said the
proposed amendment
would merely ensure that
property cannet be con-
fiscated unless in the public

interest and only after a”

fair hearing. These
guarantees would apply to
both individuals and
corporations.

Loses of NDP support for
the entire constitutional
package would be a hard
blow for the government,

the first phase the federal New Democrats, was Prime Minister Trudeau
government was to invest expected to vote on the has been courting the NDP
$150 milton in hatcheries, — ixsue today. 80 that he can claim to have
fishways and artificial . The proposed amend- ‘upport from the Weat.
spawning beds with the ment reads: “Everyme Twenty-six of the NDP's 32
provines providing another © has the right to life, Hberty. MPs are from the West.
$7.5 million. and security of the person ‘The Liberals have onty two
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"slaty maintains &
that the governinent:
undertook to introduce a;
40-hour workweek in
agreements - with
strikers last summer.
The government con-
cedes the point but szys
that no timetable has.
been set.

The government has @

reduced the work week- fF

by one day every two,
weeks, telling Poles to}
work alternate Satur- @
days. Solidarity bas
suggested one working
Saturday a month aa

Negotlations are™
bound ta go far beyond
the number of bours
which Poles work each
week.

ey

The governments of |

British Columbia, : Alberta -
and Manitoba are:

vigorously opposing the.
federal constitutional

package. The NDP
government of Saskat-
chewan has given condi-
tutional support but is not

expected to win the can-.

ceasions it has been
seeking.

Broadbent sald he must
consult his caucus before
saying he will definitely
vote againat ‘the con-
stitutional proposals when
Parliament is asked to
send the  patriadion
package to Westminster
for final passage. However,
consulting his MPs seemed
a mere formalily,

“T haven't the slightest
doubt what their reaction
would be," he said. “I am
8 clear that I haven't any
doubts.”

It has been widely
reported that many of
Broadbent's western MPs
are uncomfortable with the
party's public support of
the constitutional package
and would, therefore, jump
at a chance to oppose the
proposals.

The entire affair could
prove embarrassing for the
Conservatives. They have
depicted themselves as the
defenders of provincial
Tights, yet introduced an

amendment that many

provinces, including the
Conservative ad-
ministration in P.E.L,
Opposes.

The Conservatives
defend themselves by
saying they want none of
the constitutional pro-
posals, except patriation,
made law until the
provinces agree. However,
the Liberal government is
determined to change the