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BURNS, SINKS

MUSCAT, Oman (ae) -A 320,000-ton ‘super-
tanker caught fire early today and was sinking
off the tip of the Oman peninsula at the entrance
tothe Persian Gulf, However, sources said it was
not expected to block the vital oil lifeline.

The sources said 37 crew members of the
Fnergy Determination were rescued. One was
reported missing.

The tanker was empty and was leading north
into the 50 kilometre-wide Straight of Hormuz,
inside Omani territorial waters, when the fire
started, the sources reported.

Most of the ‘Western world’s crude oil imports
from the gulf pass through the strait. Cause of
the fire was not known, but sabotage was not
believed to be involved.

Omani patrol boats responded to a distress
signal from the ship and picked up the'crew, the
sources said.

By ED YUDIN
Herald Staff Writer

Former Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo confirmed
Wednesday she will make a definite committment
regarding her possible candidacy for the Liberal
Party leadership at a riding association meeting in
Terrace on Jan, 20.

Campagnolo, who has been out of politics since her
defeat at the hands of Jim Fulton, elected NDP MP for
Skeena on May 22, has been the subject of increasing

. political speculation since the resignation of Pierre

. Elliot Trudeau as - liberal party leader:
Syndicated columnist Charles Lynch reported

Tuesday that Campagnolo was indeed testing the

waters for a possible run at the leadership.

. “I think he's quite accurate in saying that I'm

, Searching about trying to find a western perspective

and a northern constituency with a view of potentially

‘coming forward,” she said in a telephone interview:

Wednesday. ‘‘As faras I'm concerned, I ‘want to make
sure that my (northern) concerns are put forward.”

Campagnolo said there are ‘a number of issues I
feel strongly about,” ineluding the Kitimat oil port and
pipeline proposal, She noted there has not been a high
profile candidate yet emerging from the west, adding
the only Liberal MP in the province, Art Phillips, has
announced he will not run.

Campagnolo will attend the annual meeting of the

‘Skeena Liberal Party Riding Association in Terrace

on Jan. 20.

“By that time, I will have clarified my position,"
she said.

The former Liberal cabinet minister would almost
certainly seek to recapture the Skeena seat she lost to
Jim Fulton if she re-entered politics.

“Northern Canada is my home, I’m just camping
out here," she said. Campagnolo, whois the host of the
CBC show, “One of a Kind” is presently residing in
Vancouver, where the show is produced.

A Campagnolo aide said raising a sufficient amount

- of campaign funds would be a factor in determining

her candidacy.

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VOTE 9.1 |
Language
bills out

Called unconstitutional

Doug DeProy (second from right) shouts over the noise at the
‘meeting of Remo residents Wednesday night. DeProy and Rick

Jones, (far right) tried vainly to keep the meeting from becoming a

In a “Weetity’ “eat”
degenerated several
times into angry shouting
and recriminations, 45

residents of New Remo
signed a petition

- pequesting the provincial

government to construct
a partial dike along ‘the
banks of the Zymacord

River behind their
community.
The meeting was called

—along the Zymacord,

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lame meta.

‘to “aacuss the’ yovern-
ment’s proposal to enter
into a cost-sharing
agreements with the
residents of Remo to
provide limited diking
and bank protection

Rafe Mair, minister of
the environment, said in

a letter dated Nov. 5 that

the environment ministry

would be prepared to pay

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“8 per cent of the cost Of
providing unspecified
flood protection for the
community. Total cost of
the project is estimated
by the  ministry’s
engineering branch at

_ $100,000.

Most of the residents
who attended the meeting
were of the opinion that
something had to be done,
soon.

“The government is

Socreds say failure
was just oversight

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Just hours after he was
appointed, the man named to
Ipok Into Social Credit party
campaign spending
irregularities concluded the
probe with the explanation
that the party's fallure to
report more than $245,000 in
campaign funds was an
“oversight.”

Les Peterson, the party's
campaign chalrman in the

May 10 provincial election, —

told reporters at a - news
conference in Vancouver the
party made a_ late
declaration of campaign
expenses because

orsign and some late

Petergon, ‘a—s cabluet

Pinch
produces
punches

MONTREAL (CP) — Pity
the poor commuter who gets
his nose pinched in a bus
door, Pity the poor bus
driver when the commuter
catches up with him.

A 23-year-old St. Lemard
man faces assault cha:
today after a Montreal ‘
driver flelded a few punches
in that unlikely scene, And
the driver Insists it really
was an accident,

It ali started when a man
tried to catch a northbound
bus on Montreal’s St.
Lawrence Boulevard. The
bus door slammed on his
nose and the enraged
traveller chased the bus all
the way to the next Btap.

Bursting through th ack
door, the man rushed |
the front and began pune "
driver Gilles Pelletier,

minister in the former Social
Credit government of W. A.
C, Bennett, had been named
by Premier Bill Bennett less
than four hours before to
investigate whether
members of his staff had
breached spending provi-
sions of the Provincia)
Elections Act.

The reports including
allegations that Dan Camp-
bell, the premier's aide and
now intergovernmental,
affalra adviser, had handed
out a $1,000 bill for party
workers’ expenses without
“requiring receipts, not in it-

a violatton of the act.

Peterson said $65,000 in
funds was disbursed through
Campbell from a fund
controlled by Toronto
financter Austin Taylor Jr.
and Vancouver accountant
Ian Adam, treasurer of the
party's central committee.
Adam filed the party's
election spending flgures,

Peterson said that Camp-
bell was not aware until
Monday that the money was
not included in the ac-
counting.

He said $40,000 went to
individual conatituencies,
and the balance was handed
out by Campbell for varioua
expenses.

Peterson sald he does not
feel the party’s failure to
account for the funds within
60 days of the election, a8
required by law, violated the
ac

Attorney-General Allan
Williams said he would wait
to see Peterson’s report
before deciding what to do.

position Leader Dave
Barrett has asked former
New Democratic Party
attorney-general Alex
Macdonald to prepare a
legal review of the late dec-
laration.

Campaign spending
provisions af the elections
act require a. one-figure

getting “pretty, "ck of
helping us oul,” Rick
Jones, organizer of the
meeting, said. “They've
Said the last two times
we've been flooded that
we weren't geing to get
any more money, and one
of these days we just
aren’t going to get any
more help,’’ be said.

“If we don't do
something te help
ourselves, why should
anyone else do anything
for us?”

While most of the
residents felt that the
limited diking was not
enough to prevent
damage to their'homes in
the event of a serious

flood, several felt that.
any step forward was:

shouting match as disagreements raged about the validity of the
limited diking proposal made by the provincial government.

Photo by Don Schatfer

“Gordon Lee, one 2 of | the
signers, said after the

meeting wound down that.

the community has to
take a positive step. ‘So
far, any step is a positive
one.”

Some residents
disagreed with this,
saying that nothing short

of a $500,000 dike that
would run completely

around the community’

would be acceptable.

John Dignard, a long-
time resident, was the
most vehement in his
disagreement with the
limited plan.

“There's no point, we'll
be paying all this money
and getting nothing for

See page 3

OTTAWA (CP) — The Su-
preme Court of Canada
today struck down sections
of Quebec and Manitoba
language laws on the
grounds that the provinces
lacked the legislative
authority to enact them.

The court said Quebec’s
language laws making
French the only official
language of the province's
national assembly and
courts: are .in effect an

‘amendnrent to the Camadian”~

constitution and beyond the
legislative responsibility of a
provinclal government.

In a separate judgment,
the court said Manitoba also
went beyond {ts legislative
powers in 1890 when it
passed a law abrogating
French-language rights,
including the right to use the
French language in the
courts,

Aside from its political im-
pact, the change in the
Quebec laws will likely have
little effect on most
Quebecers. Despite its
language law, the province
has continued to translate its
Jaws into English although
the translations had no of-

-ficlal standing.

But Manitoba could be
faced with the monumental
task of translating into
French the laws it has
passed for the last 90 years.

Peter Blaikie, Roland
Durandand Yolne Goldstein,
three Montreal lawyers,
succesefully challenged the
Quebec laws through the
Superior Court and the Que-
bec Court af Appeal,

Quebec then asked the Su-
preme Court to reverse these
findings.

Georges Foreat af St. Bonl-

face, Man., first went to
court to protest a unilingual
English parking ticket. His
argument was dismissed.

He then went to the
Manitoba Court of Appeal,
which unanimously found
that - the provincial
legislature went beyond ite
power in taking away
Frenchlanguage rights in
1890.

try to stop war

TEHRAN (CP) — Iran's
four grand ayatollahs, the
country’s most revered
religious leaders, met in the
holy elty of Qom late Wed-
nesday against the back-
ground of a rift which one of
them has said might result in
civil war,

The four men, all in. their
late 708, met at the slckbed of
Ayatollah Seyed Golpaygani
for discussions belleved to
have centred on Iran’s new
constitution and the regional
unrest In the northwestern
province of Azerbaijan.

Many of the Turkish
speaking residents of the
province, like other
minorities, have demanded
reglonal autonomy. Al-
though one goverment of-

ficial indicated Wednesday
that Iran might move to a
federal system, there was no
confirmation by
revolutionary leader Ayatol-
lah Ruhollah Khomeini.

‘Tn the past, Khomeini has
contradicted officials who

have taken moderate
stances in domestic and
forelgn affairs.

Meanwhile, the United
States, which has launched a
diplomatic and economic
offensive to free American
hostages being held at the
U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
increased the pressure a bit
more Wednesday by ex-
pelling 183 [ranian diplomats
from the U.S,

__ RCMP investigation.

declaration of the total better than nothing.

amount a party or candidate
spends. The declaration does
not have to Include an
Itemized list of. how the
money was tised nor doea it
have to be supported by
receipts,

After Peterson's ad-
mission of the unreported
spending, NDP finance critic
Dave Stupich said he won-
dered what other dls-
crepancles remained un-
covered if Peterson
discovered that a quarter-
million dollars had gone
astray within hours of
starting hia investigation,

Speaking of the $65,000
Campbell spent, Stupich
said: “It is inconceivable to
me that Campbell had this
much money under. his
personal control without
cabinet ministers being
aware of it,"

Peterson said that on June
20, the party declared
electlon expenses af
$1,089,004, On Wednesday,
the amended declaration
showed expenses of
$1,335,808, a difference of
$246,712.

The amount of $181,712,
excluding Campbell's
$65,000, comprised _ bills
received since the June
declaration, Peterson snid.

Bennett said earlier
Wednesday that the
Cmapbell affair may be a
simple matter of sloppy

kkeeping,

The so-called dirty tricks
scandal has dogged the
government for the last
three months and now is
subject of a province-wide

Crews a are
clearing
railway
line now

Bulldozers working from both ends of two large
landslides five kilometres south of Prince Rupert
began clearing debris and 11 derailed railway cars
from the Canadian National Railways mainline
Wednesday.

Offictals estimate traffic should be moving by this
afternoon.

The landslides, caused by heavy rains and winds
Monday night, crashed into a freight train loaded with
wood chips bound for the Canadian Cellulose Pulp Mill

on Watson Island south of the cily.

Three engines and eight freight cars were derailed
by the tons of sliding rock, mud and uprooted trees.

The derailment cut off rail transportation to the
city, but industry officials said it will have little im-
pact on operations.

The slide occured just south of Casey Point, a site
which was considered as a possible location for a
major new grain terminal until federal Transport
Minister Don Mazankowski decided the Possibility a of
landslides in the area was too great arisk.

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