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"KILDARE: Ireland (Reuter) — At least seven people died
~ and about 70 were injured, 27 of them seriously, when a
" erawded train. plowed into the back of @ stopped express

late Sunday,

The accident happened when a train. from. Galway; on the
west coast, ran into the back of the express. {rom Tralee,
County Kerry, as It was halted ‘on.a ‘stretch of track.about -
three kilometres from Kildare, There were a total of abdut
1,000, passengers on‘ both trains.

_ Officials declined to confirm reports. that the Tralee train «
had ren out of. fuel after substituting.a. smaller. locomotive
“when the original engine began overheating shortly after, dt. 1
started off. .-

As dawa broke, rescue workers wert waiting to recover:
"the body of one person known to-be trapped in the tangled .
wreckage. There. was a. ‘possibility: ‘they. might find. mare:

” Moat of the dead and seriously injured were tn the dining
car, which was reduced {0 a mass of. splinters, os

‘Three cars’ were compressed into the length of one, and’
‘above the wreckage a virtually. undamaged car was left
tilting upwards. ata 48-degree angle. (4. <r

‘Survivors interviewed at thecrash site and: after ihey had
been taken by bus: to Dublin, 56 kilometres east of Kildare, :
~ said they heard a loud crash. There was a bright flash, and
‘then everything went dark and silent. -

“Then there Wag. bediam,"” one man off the: Galway train
‘pald. “People were screaming their heads: off and running
all over the place.”

.. He said many People ‘were injured by lying tables and
bottles,

When police arrived, they ordered. all. those who could
"walk to evacuate the train becausé of the risk of fire. ‘Early -
this morning the. smell of ‘Bas was still hanging over the

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Police. mounted t a strong guard after catching a ‘group of

- youths trying to loot the wreckage soon after the accident.

Meahwhile, ' railway officials. launched ‘an immediate
investigation to try to determing why automatic: safety
devices. that should have stopped the Galway’ train did not
function. ©

They said rail traftic on the main route to the west would
be ‘blocked for, hours.

- Foree: displayed-

N'DJAMENA (Reuter) — French alr force combat
planes performed acrobatics over the airport in a dlaplay of
force Sunday. as they Toared into Chad to back French
paratroopers supporting the government, of President
Hissene Habre. -

The airport was cordoned off as soon’ as the six Anglo-
French-built Jaguar strike aircraft and four F-1 Mirage. jet
fighters flew in. :

Two of the Jaguars later left to be deployed in the nelgh-

boring. Central African Republic, a French military
spokesman said. He confirmed that four Mirages, which
will provide cover for the strike planes, and four Jaguars ”
were in Chad.
'. He described their role as protecting French troopa. ‘He
would ot say if they. would provide alr civer for.Habre’s
forces if they launched a counter-offensive against Libyan-
_ backed rebels led by former president Goukaun! Oueddei.

France has sent more than 1,000 troops to its former
colony, most of them based at.four points on an east-west,
-defence line set up after the rebéls Saptured most of the
north Aug. 10.° -

Habre's government says. the tebel-held towa of, Faya- ;

Largeau, 800 kilometres northeast of N'djamena, is where
Libya is sending equipment, including tanks,.and supplies.
In Paris, a Defence Ministry spokesman said France had
completed its alrlift ‘of forces to block further. rebel ad-
VanCes. |
TROOPS IN CHAD . ”
Sheand French spokesmen in N'Djamena deciined to say.
. how many French troops are in Chad, but the N’Djamena.
spokesman saldit is “possible that reinforcements of troops .
and more military equipment will be sent here.”
‘Published reports in Paris say between 2,000 and 3,000

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French troops are in Chad, including at Jeast 160 from the .

French Foreign Legion.“ --
. The French war planes, backed bya CK-135 tanker plane
for in+ flight refuelling, arrived during a week-long Jull in the
‘ fighting. The French are clearly hoping that their presence
- will deter. a ‘further southward. push by the rebels, who
N'Djamena says were backed by Ubyane air bombardments,
in their last successes, -

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Terrace Mayor Helmut Geisbrecht gives
Kitimat-Terrace and District Labor Council
President Surindera Malhotra and
recording-secretary Eilma Costain the
document roclaiming Sept. 5 to. 10 at Union
Label Week. The proclamation supports the

dispay of unlon identifications since
“organized labor has always endeavored to
amintain and improve good working
conditions and wage standards for
Canadian workers.””

Anti-Sandinista rebels pressed atlacks from the north and

~ south if Nicaragua, while U.S. Navy ships manaeuvred off

Central America’s coasts, U.S. special envoy Richard Stone
’ prepared for a possible second meeting with El Salvador's
guerrilla leaders. a

Nicaraguan Defence Ministry spokesman. Roberto

«Sanchez sald heavy fighting continued Sunday between

government troops and Honduras-based rebels in the
‘. northern, provinces of dinotega and: Zelaya Norte. -

.From the south, rebels based in Costa Rica, using speed
boats ‘along | border rivers, have been mounting hit-and-run
raids in southeastern Nicaragua, Sanchez said without

providing details... -
“ Inthe northern fighting, at least 4 rebels and 20'soldiers

“4 died, for a total of 204 guerrillas and 99 soldiers killed since
a 2,000-man force from the Nicataguan Democratic Front -

nyaded Nicaragua on Aug. 3, Sanchez said, It-was the
front?a' third’ attempt this year to. overthrow the leftist
Sandinista government.: . '

The front rebels, ox “contras". whom President Reagan

- has referred to a8 ‘freedom fighters,” Include national

guardamen under the administration éf Anastasio Somoza,
: overthrown by the Sdndinistas in’ July; 1979.
. Unlike the front rebels, who have recelved $19 million in

secret aid from the. U.S; "Central Intelligence Agency, the _

smaller, Nicaragua Democratic Alliance,“active in the

- south, 15 not known to have.received U.S, aid. 1 is led by -
- former Sandinista revolutionary Eden Pastora and made
- up of disenchanted Sandinistas, -

. 41962 Defence Intelligence Agency report made public in
‘Waihington said the ‘‘contras” have assassinated minor
Nicaraguan government officials and a Cuban adviser.

’ ‘The report said from March 14, 1962, to June 21, 1982, the
“contras” launched about 85 attacks, including sabotage af

- highway bridges, sniper fire against small military patrols,

“burning a customs warehouse, and destroying crops.

In El Salvador, rebels blew up a railway bridge 74
kilometres southeast of the capital Saturday, but there was

a lull in fighting Sunday. An. estimated 43,000 peoplé have.

been killed since the civil war started in October, 1979.
U.S. Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger has aid the

_ eituation is “going very much better” for government
; forces since the United States started training Salvadoran
troops two years ago. A contingent of 85 U.S. non-combat

military advisers are stationed in Ei Salvador, Weinberger
fs planning ‘to visit: El Salvador, Panama and Honduras

| from Sept. 6 to 8,
In Santa Barbara, Calif:, Deputy White House spokesman ,

Larry Speakes sald Sunday that Stone will travel to Central
America Ister‘this month for i: hoped-for: meeting with .

sao Duban (justert Hwy..14 Oe ; | ; Jeaders of the Salvadoran lefiist rebels: :

. Speakes made the statement fi’ response to @n an-—

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Reagan forces back rebels

nouncement Saturday by rebel ‘spokesman Francisco
Altschul in Washington that Stone and the leaders would
confer “sometime in the coming days” with an “open
agenda" in Latin America. He would not specify the time or
place.

Altschul also said leftist leaders would meet in the next
few days with the Salvadoran government’s National Peace
Commission in an effort .to- establish groundwork for
broader. discussions, Stone first. met. with rebel. leader
Reuben Zamora in Bogota, Colombia, on July’ 31. .

Meanwhile, a five-ship battle group led by the 62,000-ton
aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea is off the Caribbean coast,

_ and: will be joined soon in the Pacific. by. the 57,000-ton

battleship USS New Jersey and five other warships.

In: Honduras, preparations continued for “military:
exercises involving up to 8,000 U.S. and 6,000 Honduras
troopers to last until March or April. -

Militiamen clash

BEIRUT (AP) — Christian | and. Druse ‘Moslem,
militiamen clashed in heavy artillery and rocket battles on
the hills overlooking Belrut today, killing. six Lebanese
elvilians and woundlng dozens of people, including Italian
members of the International peacekeeping force,

Druse leaders threatened to shell the city's international
airport from their hilltop positions, again closing it to in-
ternational traffic. 7

Police sald six Lebanese clvilisns were killed and 21.
wounded in the seven-hour flareup~ that jeopardized
government efforts to attain a Christian-Druse recon-
ciliation before a planned Israeli military withdrawal from
Lebanon's central mountains.

Police had no reports of casualties among combatants,

Ger. Franco Angloni, commander of Italy's contingent in

. the multinational. peacekeeping foree, said he and six’

Italian soldiers suffered slight injuries.as a result of the
Christian-Druse exchanges on Beirut's southern outskirts.

’- A spokesman for the Progressive Soclalist party, which

leads the fighting against the rightist Christian Phalange
party, militia, accused the Lebanese army, which held
positions around the airport, of ehelling “densely and in-
discriminately” to back up the Christians... °
The. spokesman warned in a -statement issued in

. Damascus, the Syrian capital, that Druse forces would

return fire and force a new closure of the alrport "if this:
aggression continues,”

_ But Capt. Youssef Atrissl, spokesman for the Lebanese, ;
See :

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~ about:100 of approximately 200 total staff belong to the.
~” Hospital Employees’ Union.
‘> (6 an offer from the Health Labor Relations Association (an
.. " apgotiation of hospital managers): that: ‘would: Tesult, in a
1." three per ‘cent: pay. cut effective Aug.'1.-

- teturned untouched: ta her: by. the ei
aid ‘Aquino’s alster,- Lupita- Kashiwahera. “it's ‘not

Herald Btatt writde”:

; TERRACE—At Teast half. the staff. at. ‘Mis Memocial, oo
. Hospital will be directly affected by their union’ 8 rejection .
| “of thelr empldyer"

es final offer. -
_ According to “Milla: administrator Robbie ‘inlayson,

“HEY ‘has turned thimbedown -.

HLRA came up with that offer in’early ‘oly 2 after Ed”

. Peck, commissioner of the . ‘Compensation - Stabilization:
Program, rule the union’s. master agreement was.
’ “excessive” and sent the proposed new contract back to'the .

bargaining . table for ; further - “* talke.

. The HLRA proposed that an eight per: cent ‘salary —
increase which the union has been getting since Aug. 1, 1962: -
should be rolled back to five per cent beginning Aug. 1. In
addition, HLRA wanted to ‘remove all retroactive
payments. Arbitrator Don-Munroe awarded retroactive
pay of $70 per month in liew of making the percentage
increage of eight per cent effective Jan, 1, 1962, ° ~

Mills Memorial has pald all that was awarded to its union”
employees, and Finlayson says any adjustment needed
could be made by a simple bookkeeping procedure. Future -..
wage cheques would just be reduced until the hospital. had
recovered all the money previously paid out, .

Jack Gerow, the union's. secretary-business: manager, -
said the overwhelmingly rejected proposal by his union in'a
province-wide vote shows the unions determination to fight .
the Social Credit government and “ite accomplice the
HLRAA. ”

Gerow says, public. sector workers are not willing to be. :
scape goals for a right-wing rampage dt their economic
and social rights.”

He slates the next move is up to Peck, who is presently —
considering an HEU application for recdaalderation of his
June ruling." —

‘Aquino “mourned. .

MANILA (AP) — Hundreds of mourners today filed past

"the bloody body of Philippine- opposition leader Benigno

Aquino who was gunned down at Manila's airport. Sunday as
he returned home ‘from three years of self-exile in the ;
United States. <

' One opposition figure said President Ferdiiand Marcos
must take "direct responsibility” for the slaying of his main
political rival...

Police Chief Gen. Prospero Olivas-said lab tests showed |
the man authorities said killed Aquino had fired a‘gun. But
he said the assailant, who was killed by soldiers im-
mediately after Aquino was. Shot, still has bat been iden-
tiff

. The capital was calm today as Aguino’s body - ad still
dressed in the bloody clothes in which he died — was placed
in an open coffin in his home in suburban Quezon City:

The face was disfigured, with bruises and an undressed -
bullet wound. The body was -eldthed in a white shirt. and
jeans covered with dried blood: . yt

His. mother, Aurora Aquino, had. de ded he ody be:

“She wants the world'te dee what: thay did't ba’ her. aon

beautiful, and we don't want any mortician to make him
look beautiful. no

Opposition assemblyman Salvador Laurel said: “We
question the mysterious circumstances in which the
assassin was able to enter the restricted area.”
DEMANDS ANSWERS |. :

Laurel said if Marcos does not answer several questions
about the assassination, if could be ‘the end of his regime.”

He said the questions that needed answers were: Who
killed Aquino, why was the killer there, who went aboard’
the plane to fetch Aquino, and were any of the security men

- involved in the assassination?

Asked if he was holding Marcos responsible, Laurel said:
“T personally fee] that under this situation there should be
command ' responsibility and he Bhowld © ‘take . direct
responsibility.”*

Others jn the opposition levelled stronger accusatlons.
“The government did it!" political figure Salvador Gon-
zaleg shouted to scores of mourners at Aquino’s home.

Political leaders around the world called for a thorough
investigation of the slaying. The International Commission
of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, sent a cable to. Marcos
calling for an intiative for “restoration of full democratic
rights and freedoms” in the Philippines.

Marcos, said by government officials to be in. seclusion
writing a book, has not appeared In public for days,
renewing rumors he is ill. The rumors have been denied,

and the’ government said he has seen visitors. ~

He has made no comment on the murder since. Sunday’s
statement of condolence and warning against trouble,
EXPERIENCES BLACKOUT ,

A power blackout hit Manila and much of. the. main
Philippines island of Luzon one day after Aquino's killing,
further fuelling rumors, not only about Marcos’ health but
about possible reimposition of martial law.

Power began going back on in the afternoon: in some
areas and officials sald the blackout was caused by the '
tripping of a major transmission line that caused i a chain -
reaction in several power plants.

Marcos’ Malacanarg palace resembled a milltary
garrison today as troops with rifles and machine-guns ~

~ Guarded the area.

A-mortician helping with the autopsy confirmed an -
earlier government report that Aquino was killed by a
single bullet fired at close range after he left.the plane. The .
bullet entered below the left ear and exited through, the “

chin.

The airport: was crowded with thousands of Aquino
supporters. All reporters except those aboard the plane
with Aquino and a few regular airport photographers were *
kept out of view of the plane. -

Meanwhile, relatlves said Aquino’s wife Cory and his five
children were scheduled. to arrive here Wednesday from
Boaton, The family had lived there since May, 1980 when
Marcos released Aquino after almost eight years in prison
#o he could go to the United States for a heait operation.

Aquino was jailed in 1972 and in 1977 was sentenced io
death after being found guilty of subversion and the murder
of a village political leader. Aquino denied the charges. The
death sentence was pending a Supreme Court review.

“Marcos called the assassination a “heinous and —
outrageous crime” but stressed that he had warned Aquino
not to return because political enemies a bearing od grudges:
were going to kill him, —-

Aquino put on a bullet-proof vest shortly. belote leaving

- the plane.

Former Senator Lorenso Tanada, 85, expredsed skep-
ticiam about the results of the promised official in-
vestigation and wondered if an Jnderenient inary was
_ Posaltle.

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