ae a eee EE oe WASHINGTON (CP) — Once again, questionable activity by one of President Carter's trusted advisers and personal friends has developed into a situation acutely embarrassing to the chief executive. The sudden resignatian amid scandal last week of. Dr. Peter Bourne, special assistant in charge of health affairs, was a personal and political blow for Carter, who once described the British-born psychiatrist as “about the closest friend I have in the world.” Bourne tendered his resignation after it became known that he had used a false name on a prescription for the controlled drug Quaalude he wrote for one of his staff. He now is under criminal investigation and might be charged with a Virginia felony which carries a maximum sentence of. five years in prison. The Bourne incident has dredged up memories of an- other Carter adviser who re- signed under questionable conduct, former budget _ director Bert Lance. ‘Parallels between the two cases are obvious—both men - were confidants of Carter alnce his days as governor of Georgia and both men left the Whit e House to face possible criminal action. As well, the area in which ‘Carter’s staff. _embarrassing As well, the full extent of his activities only became known after weeks of in- vestigation by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bourne, on the other hand, came under criminal in- vestigation while occupying a $51,000-ayear White House tr His offence was more clearcut and had more immediate results, including the arrest of the woman who tried to fill the prescription Bourne admits he wrote for her friend. . HOLDS LOAER POST The doctor's position in the White House, and his in- fluence with the Georgia group of top presidential assistants, were far below that of Lance. These factors, and the spectre of more bad publicity, were undoubtedly involved in the speed—and relief—which which the White House acepted Bourne's resignation. For Carter, the activities of some of his aides must be frustrating as well as em- barrassing. The Bourne ‘incident, for example, made - headlines on the day he had scheduled his first prime- time news conference, during which he planned to discuss the economic summit at Bonn, . His impatience at seeing’ some of his staff and aides step out of line appears to be each man was a specialist growing was also the area where improprieties occurred: the man in charge of the federal budget had problems managing his own finances; the man in charge of curbing drug abuse is accused of abusing drug laws. In the Lance case, however, the improprietles that led to his resignation, including questionable stock deals and shaky banking practices, occurred before he entered the White House. Three MONTREAL (CP) — Three prisoners serving time for robbery with violence escaped through a_ cell window at the federal medium-security Leclerc Institute in nearby Laval early today, a penitentiary man said. ° The three—Jean Jalbert, 25, his brother Roch, 21, and Michel Drouin, 18—escaped: by cutting through the barred. window of a third- floor cell, said Jacques Dyatte, regional ad- ministrator with the federal penitentlary service. “An inmate can cut through (the bars) in about five minutes with the proper tools,” Dyotte said. He could tot elaborate on what tools were used, -Dyotte said the three jumped from the window on to a nearby roof and would have had to cross the prison yard and scale two high fences to make their getaway. Guards making morning rounds discovered dummies in the beds of the three men at about $:30 a.m. EDT, he d, The penitentiary service has ordered an inquiry into the escape. wing, A week before the Bourne incident, he publicly chastised UN Ambassador Andrew Young for his out- spoken comments on po- litical prisoners in the U.S. and Soviet Union, Young's comment was the most controversial made yet by the outspoken UN am- bassador, But whkle Carter is still backing Young, he appears to becoming fed up with trouble from his ad-. visers. escape from Laval. Er ne Roch Jalbert was serving five years for robbery with violence and sequestration, Jean Jaibert four years for robbery with violence, auto theft and robbery and Michel Drouin three years for ar- med robbery and robbery with violence. Quebec provincial police spokesman Pierre Lemarbre said the fugitives are consid- ered dangerous although Dyotte said the three are not regarded as dangeraus by prison authorities. The Leclerc Institute is near the federal maximum- security Laval Institute where less than two weeks ago four prisoners escaped, killing one guard and wounding three others. A wouldbe escaper also died in that escape. Last week, two of the esca- pers were recaptured but the’ two others—Jacques Massey and Plerre Vincent—remain at large. Today's escape followed the peaceful ending Sunday morning of a hostage-taking at Archambault Institute at nearby Ste, Anne-Des- Plaines, Two prisoners there held four prison employees for three days before releasing them unharmed. RCMP believed terrorist suspect OTTAWA (CP) — The RCMP have questioned an American sought in con- nection with the arrest of Buspected West German terrorist Kristina Berster in the U.S. last week but de- cided he seemed to be in- necent of any wrongdoing, an RCMP spokesman said today, The spokesman said the American, living in Mon- treal, was involved in driving Miss Bersler to the U.S. border from Montreal. Miss Berster has pleaded not guilty to illegally entering the U.S . The spokesman said the RCMP checked the American's story carefully and have every reason to believe him but would in- vestigate further. The American toned one int three people s Ww Miss Berster when she tried to cross the border at Alburg, Vt. on July 16. She was later charged with using a fraudulent passport in eressing from Canada and rat is in an Albany, N.Y., Miss Berster’s three companions were released when they produced valid documents but the FBI and the RCMP sought then arain late last week for further questioning. Miss Berster'a lawyer in New York has denied she is a member of the West German Baader-Melnhof terrorist gang. An_ official in Karlsruhe, West Germany, has said she has been a member of the Socialist Patients’ Collective in Heidelberg, a group which preceded Baader-Meinhof. In another development, ay external affairs depart- ment spokesman denied reports that U.S. authorities have complained to Ottawa about the ease with which Miss Berster entered Canada. There were reports in a Montreal newspaper over the weekend that U.S. of- ficials were upset Miss -Berster passed an im- migration check at Mirabel International Airport on July $ with a fraudulent Iranian passport. i OFF-SHORE DRILLING...BUT NOT FOR OIL ~ For the first time in the history of Canadian mining, an off- shore drill rig is being used to search for minerals. Imperial Oil Limited of Toronto is using the rig to NORTHEAST OF Saskatoon. e explore for uranium‘ at Midwest Lake in northern Saskatchewan, the site of recent discoveries by the company. Midwest Lake is about 650 km (400 miles(¢ 3 dead in Rhodesian clash SALISBURY (AP) Black nationalist guerrillas and security forces clashed in the Rhodesian capital during the weekend for the first time in six years of war, leaving three insurgents dead and two wounded, police reported Monday. At least one black civilian was wounded in three shootouts in segregated black suburbs within 13 Kilometres of the central district of Salisbury, said a police statement that ended an official censorship ban on the incidents. Previously, clashes have been reported in Rhodesia’s secondlargest city of Bulawayo and beyond 32 kilometres of Salisbury between government forces and guerrillas seeking to topple the four-month-old biracial administration. The transition government promises black-majority rule in Rhodesia by the end No deals for hostage takers MONTREAL (CP) There are no actual "negotiations" with convicts who take hostages in federal penitentiaries says Canada's Com oner © coreatons Donald ‘R. Yeomans. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Yeomans defined Canada's “ne-deals” policy with hostage-takers as meaning ‘no ultimate benefits are gained,’’ although minor concessions are sometimes made to avert violence. The interview took place July 21, the second day of the bostage-taking at maximum- security Archambault In- stitute north of Montreal. The incident . ended peacefully early Sunday with the release of four prison employees and the signing of a 10-point agreement granting minor concessions to convicted murderers Serge Roberge and Maurice Paquette. “(Negotiations’’ referred to media and prison of- ficials, says Yeomans, ac- tually consist of ‘‘talks aimed at persuading hos- tage-takers to give them- selves up.” “Time is on our side,” Yeomans said. ‘‘We are becoming skilled in handling these aifairs, We are ‘training many of cur people to handle hostage-lakings, which cccur for a wide va- riety of reasons, including frustrated escape at- tempts.” AIM AT DETERRENCE Former solicitor-general Francis Fox brought in the nodeals policy last year. The © purpose, Yeomans said, was to show convicts that hostage-taking “‘gets them nowhere.”* He said most prison hostagetakers eventually end up in one of the 48 cells in Canada's two ‘‘super maximum-security” special handing units at Laval, Que., or Millhaven, Ont. Echoing comments made . last week by prison officials and spokesmen for prison guards, Yeomans said he hoped a threeman inquiry into the recent bloody escape at Laval Institute near Montreal would contain new recommendations to curtail drug-and weapor-smuggling into penal institutions. A guard and prisoner were killed during the escape by four prisoners, most of whom had escaped from prison previously. The inquiry hopes to be able to establish how the prisoners, two of whom haye been recaptured, managed to get hold of at least one handgun. "It’s rare for a gun to be found inside a prison,” Yeo- mans said, In most escapes and hostage-takings, con- victs use crude weapons fashioned in workshops or cells. ‘All sorts of ingenious de- vices are made and all types of things are found by guards during their routine sear- ches. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (guards’ union) has a museum of things including knives and files,” Metal detectors have provided some help in fin- ding weapons, he said, but they are “far foolproof." Huge hopes for Man. fishing CHURCHILL, Man, (CP) — The bustle of the 1978 shipping season is about to burst on Canada’s nor- thernmost port, freed from the grip of ice for the short summer months, and offi- cials are expecting a bumper year, The first two Canadian Na- tional Railways grain trans have arrived from the south along the only land link to the Hudson Bay facility and the first ship is expected Wed- nesday, The two trains, totalling 351 carloads of barley, will augment the 3.8 million bushel carryover which now is in storage, The railway, which has served the port exclusively since it was opened almost 50 years ago, is planning to move toChurchill about 1,250 carloads of grain a week. This will be maintained unlll the end of the shipping season in late October. Port general manager T.A. Lauzon says Churchill is preparing itself for a record-breaking seasoi. mainly in barley. SYSTEM CHANGED But the change to metric figures had made com- parison with previous years difficult. In 1977, the port shipped about 800,000 tonnes of grain, mostly in wheat. This year's figure is expected (o be about 700,000 tonnes, composec mostly of barley which weights less than wheat. from of this year, but excludes two © guerrilla leaders who have pledged to step up the war. The first clash was Friday night, the police statement said, when one guerrilla was seriously wounded after attempting to roba beer hall in the black township of Mufakose. The guerrilla opened fire with an.automatic weapon when police arrived and the beer’ hall was badly damaged in the ensuing battle, police said. HURLED GRENADES Police said three guerrillas traced to a house in the Highfields township in follow-up operations were shot dead after they hurled grenades at police who surrounded the house, Re- porters visiting the scene found the windows and back door shattered, about 2,000 bullets appeared to have ppered the building and the concrete floor was fuged by apparent grenade lasts. Saturday afternoon, another guerrilla and a black onlooker were wounded in the third shootout at a High- flelds beer hall, police said. “Police opened fire when the terrorist attempted to throw a grenade at them,” the statement said of the third incident. Police said they seized a quantity of arms and am- ‘munition manufactured in Communist countries in the townships. The Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and China © are the main suppliers of the two separate guerrilla ar- mies of Joshua Nkome and Robert Mugabe. Although news of the shootings spread rapidly through the black townships, with an estimated population of 500,000, military censors imposed a news blackout . under_emergency laws. THE HERALD, Tuesday, J+!ly 25, 1978, Page 9 Air Canada strikes MONTREAL (C) — Air Canada's 7,500 ground serece workers will staye rotaling strikes next month if the airline doesn’t make a satufactory contract offer,a union official saidmonday. barry Shaw, chief negtiator for the Intecational Association ofMachinists, sald in k interview strike action was authorized by 33 per cent of the workers who voted across Canada during the last two weeks. The workers have been without a contract since April 2. The workers include aircaft maintenance em- ployes, baggage handlers, ramp staff and loading and cargo agents at airports and Air Canada maintenance bases, A federal conciliator is finishing. his report and a strike would be legal seven days after it is made public, possibly late this wek or early next week,rShaw said, The workers’ vote authorized only rotating walkouts at this stage, Shaw - said. If the union eventually decides on a general strike, it will seek approval in a secoml vate. . “We reallze ‘this is the peak of the travel season and we don't want to in- convenience the travelling public any more than we have to,” the union negotia- tor sald, “Ali we're trying to do is exert the maximum pressure on management.” The rotating strikes, used by the same group in 1971 and 1973, probably would last 24 hours and affect all operations at a given centre, he added, Union and management were to meet here today at the airline's request, Shaw said, in a last-ditch effort to avert the threatened walkouts. After the concilation report is made public, Labor Minister John Munro could still: delay any strikes in- definitely by appointing a conciliation commission to study the dispute, Shaw said the dispute centres on wages, The union wants an 18-per-cent in- crease in an 18-month agreement, most of it to be paid next year to avoid fed- eral anti(nflation controls which will not apply to wage increases beyond 1978. The company has coun- tered with 12 per cent in a two-year agreement. Current top rates are $393 a week for machinists and $279 for baggage and ramp employees, Workers at Dorval airport here staged a brief protest last fall when the federal antl-inflation board reduced by 2.4 per cent a seven-per- cent increase their union leaders had negotiated. LJ TERRACE HONDA SALES ! 4842 Hwy. t6 West i 635-6571 0r 635-4325 - Dealer Licence Number 020664 Terrace, B.C, V8G 1L8 HONDA Test-drivea Honda today. Ride the warm Summor Breezes in a 12 ft. Kolibri Sailboat, 91.5 Sq. Ft. 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