11 LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY PARLIMENT BUILDINGS Viotorja, Bo, \WBV 12. ; he - ', dangerous ‘that Alex Fraser, provincial - highways minister, says he won't drive on - ~ va Friday night. .provineial government ls. creating three t ~ exlsting laws. - - them ta remain behind the wheel.” - “to by a police officer will be a fine of from These members of the - "Thorn a “olunteer Fire : Department recelved thelr certificafes, in car- dlopulmonary rescusitation (CPR) rec n hand for the presentation were instructor Betty Stewart and fire department members Owen Carlyle, A Alan Johnson: “fy a . oe a . feria: an ii tee i ce — Lebanoet roday ‘after elx days of fighting, but x. artillery; barrages resumed. south of Beirut - thrée hours after the ceasefire wert into effect. Jay Kelso, Brian Perry; Edgar Williams, Richard: a «] cents 7 ea hall to Soni In Lebsinon. a "The government hasi instructed all branches of the.army tq cease fire today beginning at 12 Sylvester, Cliff Munro and Claude Mercereau. Missing. were Henry Smith, Peter Stach. Clinton Dean and Billie Hoving. Established 1908 _ bombardments, ‘speed chases will be fined between $300 . tnonths. They'll algo lose their licences. for... m his licence suspended for six months for. a .* first offence. suspension will be fineda minimum, of $500. ~ . raids, killed at-least three ‘commandos. ina skixmish Britain.two. weeks ago, sald. ogi were shielded “by” intense * sal _There was no immediate comment on the: * reports. from Israel, which dropped leaflets. . aver Beirut Thursday warning of an imminent ~ VICTORIA iCcP)—B © highways é are 80 : In a attempt to seduce aceldents; the new laws and toughening penalties for ~ And this week, careless motorists got hit with the Insurance Corp. of B.C.’s an- nouncement of a new rating system which © will impose tmlimited penalties on bad drivers. : The rating scheme takes effect July i, although new premium charges won't be levied until Jan, 1, 1963, The government auto-insurance monopoly says: the new rating scale ‘will effectively identify the had drivers and make it very expensive for Fraser. says tough laws have been - needed to reduce accidents, Last year, 859. died and and 44,033 were ‘injured on. B.C; roads. The minister says the government has “ given police more authority to bring the estimated 100,000 bad drivers in the province before a judge. _ Punishment for failing to stop when told $100 to $2,000 or seven days to six months imprisonment: Drivers caught “in -high-. and $2,000 or jailed from seven days to six — three years. . of the base, A driver convicted of a Criminal, Code. offence such aa impaired driving will have. Anyone convicted of driving while under ; will be permitted to jail drivers who don’t pay their fines within a specified time. Attorney Genera] Allan Williams says the new rules won't be proclaimed until fall, likely Sept..1, to give the Highways Ministry time to make the public, police and the jucicial system aware of the changes ‘which are very significant,” . . Fraser says motorists with more than 15 penalty polnty (a minor speeding offence is worth three points) will lose their lieefice — - for two months if they are convicted ofan it ‘additional traffic offence. oo Under the new ICBC rating plan, "a motorist whp causes an accident would see hia” ‘base. premium (which excludes : Collision insurance and other extras) in- creased by 90 per cent. A second accident - would increase the base premium to 175 -per cent of its original cost. A third ac- - cident moves the premium to 250 per cent But motorist with one year of accident- . free driving will pay 85 per cent of the base premium when he renews his insurance. -The maximum fourth year of safe driving will reduce the premium to 65 5 per cent af ” the bape. ; . Argentina claims victories. ~ Argentina said. today that the week, "One British its. outgunned garrison at. newspaper . feported 70 - Stanley beat back repeated British soldiers . killed in. British Harrier bombing . those raids. John Paul, who. visited and teok one, prisoner. .: : before he left Rome that he The Joint ‘Chiefs of Staff - hopes for “a just and lasting © -- report on the previous day's _ peace’ « in” the “Falklands Argentinians to surrender but Argentina has refused.- British Defence Secretary John Nott told the House- of. Commons that the. air strikes, which damaged four ships and killed at beast ‘gix men, have. not’ hort: ‘Britain's plans to Tecaptine military activity around the | conflict" Bur“VaHeaR oe Stanley. besieged Falkland Yalands capital came as Pope John visit as purely pastoral and Paul journeyed: to Argen- ‘ruled: out any mediation tira to plea for peace in the effort by the- pontiff during ficialy fave ‘described his: ” Promising that “British troops will go forward with -another victory very soen,”. Nott said British units are in A-radio broadcast by a pro-Syrian Lebanese - - radio “station said Syrian and Palestinian gunners: were trading shellfire with Israelj. _ warships: offshore at. Khalde, 13: Kilometres south of the Lebanese capital. : : The artillery duels, which could be heard by: ‘Beirut journallgts, were taking place just south. . ~ of the main. runway of, Belrut International Airport. “Terael’a® ‘avasign’ ‘army: had ‘been - Jpattting. Palestinian. forces’ at the. southern’ ‘edge of - Belrut for the last two.days, after pushing tothe — gates of the Lebanese capital in 4 drive against Palestinian guerrilla etrangholds in southern: Lebanon.” 7 Earlier today, fighting on the ground and in the alr had continued-to within minutes of the noon (6 a.m. EDT) coasetire. ‘Israeli planes bombed, Belrut’s Palestinian. enclaves and res Earller,: the: official Syrian news agency - * “SANA reported Syrian President Hafez Assad - E |. ‘accepted the ceasefire provided Israelt troops - ‘ ‘withdrew ‘completely from Lebanon. ‘The: _graeli communiqué said nothing’ about “With: drawal, and the Damascus’ radio: an- conditions.“ There’ ‘was ‘no immediate. comment. oh ihe + trtyee “from the embw’ Palestine Liberation’ at Organization. aa a the Israell announcement. has coupled vith a. “i. immediately if its forces were Fired upon or the - “PS Syriana attempted ly moye fresh anfi-aircratt, + missiles into Lebanon, a of H Saying -Iarael. hoa “completed bes “mistion, 7 ” Peime “Minister: ‘Menachem Begin's cabinet ;- - ammounced ‘the’. censefire eae day alter the { : United States, ‘the Soviet t Union, ‘Saudi at Arabia’, te, - INSIDE apes. “Wiast. : me “See your special: : - Gomevgram in our. _ Entartalnmeit Guide : ‘Women toro 2 : 7 age. 2 | ‘Locans ‘sports, » Pages 485 © “Classifieds Pages 6. 788... Comics _ Pages 10814 | claimed to have shot down 18 more Syrian feta ~~ warning to Syria. that’ Israel -would- retaliate - i: ‘noon (6 a.m, EDT),”. Cabinet Sécretary Dan ' -- Meridor said, reading acabinet cormmunique in: _ Jerusalem. a “From this. time on, Israeli: ” soldiers will no- longer fire on all’ the fronts in Lebanon‘unleas they are fired upon," “~The statement also sald “any attempt by the: ‘ Syriats- to: try-again to..bring into Lebanese. ; territory” ground-to-air missiles in place cf.. thodé destroyed by our. pilots: will be blocked’ without delay and with all the measures cat the “ digposal ‘of the air force.” egin. fice at pitts 8 eastern Bekaa Valley There: waa’ ‘no. ‘imiiediate: response te the ceasefire announcement from the Belrut-based ’ Palestine Liberation ‘Organization, which has - been nearly shattered by Israel's: ‘invasion. but . has vowed-to rearm and wage guerrilla. war”... against "the Jewish - ‘atate: for: a. Palestinian : niouncement of & aSyrian ceasefire mentioned no a : _ homeland. . Israel's military command, in a statement - ” issued minutes, after ‘ihe Ceasefire was an- . nounced in Jerusalem, said Teraell ‘forees- in”: - ‘Lebarion engagedin shootouts during the-night Aagad announced the. ceasefire hours’ afte: thy talks with U.S: presidential envoy Philip Habib, during a late meeting Thursday - ; an “Habib le lettfor Terael early today for talks: my " continued to rage i in the. | t3-the dtaeli border, and in the Chout | : Mountains: southeast ‘ot Beirut: : invasion and: calling on Syrian soldiers to flee the Lebanese capital or face death. _ The Israelis announced that Palestinian "_ guerrijias killed a senior officer in an ambush ‘Thursday in southeastern Lebanon. Maj.-Gen. highest-ranking Israeli‘officer ever killed in “battle, ‘the Tel Aviv command said. Istael also reported 23 soldiers killed and 116 wounded Thursday, its highest one-day toll so far. Thatraised the overall reported Israeli toll in the first five days of combat to.66 killed and 424, wounded. . In “devastating action Thursday that lett hundreds killed, wounded and homeless over a wide area, Israeli forces duelled with Syrian - Planes and tanks in southeast Lebanon and ‘blasted away at Palestinian guerrilla targets in Beirut, wreaking destruction and panic on the ia city “of -one million already swelled by _ thousands of refugees who fled Israel's 50-mile -. northern thrust... gal dressed ‘to the commander of Syrian troops . passage. ftom Beirut but warned any attempts to resist. ‘twill be tantamount to suicide and cause “mnecessary blgodshed. ” The Syriqns ignored the Israeli threat and " threw’ their: forces outside Beirut against jad morning hours. with Palestinian and; Syren ut forces. ~ gyéian ‘warplanes? tried - several times to. . attack our forces ‘in the’ ‘morning: hourd,’ © the’ ‘statement said. “Eighteen Syrian plances: were ‘- shot down in shart dogfights. All our planes are . safe” ae : The latest israeli claims brought bo ” the. antimber of Syrian alreraft Israel - says it has * downed slice: Monday when the Syrians began . challenging the Israelis inthe Lebanon skies: : _;lerael anid it has lost one Plane | inv the offensive : 86 far," Earlier today, the PLO sald guerrillas halted: ” Israeli tanks ‘at the southern entrance to Beirut . a8 Israeli’ jeta..antl” warships’. pounded , the a ae devastated ‘Lebanese capital. ee . “Waves ‘of ‘Yergali: jets ‘thundered. over the a Lebanese capital at: first. light,: ‘dropping hhun-:.... Yekutiel Adam, a deputy chief of staff, was the South Atlantic. It is his first. his 30-hour stay. visit to the heavily Roman Catholic nation. - Britain asked the. Red Cross .on Thursday to ‘evacuate: 250 civilians in - . Stanley and said it ‘is determined. to oust the . AG: firm control of high ground . in an .arc’ surrounding Stanley. He said the loss of equipment: from Tuesday's. attacks “pre already being-- made ior od from other stocks. held ashore.” - Church bells rang out Thursday in Buenos Aires to r 700-Argentines killed - ce the fighting broke out , 10 weeks ago, and Argentina celebratéd its resolve to rae “Is 2 a - a “Tn a short time, we. wil capture the city, m read Israeli leaflets dropped over Beirut ad- - trapped theré. "They assured the Syrians of safe. ‘|. Heraeli tanks and: planes in ‘southeast Lebanon ~ Galtieri appeared in Plaza welcomed de Mayo, the main, square in ~ ‘front of Goverment House, VANCOUVER (CP) — for. a. brief military Forestry industry ceremony. “England ‘already: has sufferd tremendous losses governments’ announce- . 4nd will suffer more," said ment Thursday that they Argentine navy - Capt. will stick to a commitment | Adolfo Arduino. “We are to. provide finding..for 80lng.to. win. This is our marketing. B.C. lumber M™ost glorious hour.” products overseas. But Britain sald it will Canadian. Forest (ake the Falkland Islands Products Ltd. group vice-'- capital. although it suffered president Mike Robson sald shattering air attacks on its the givernments’” con-. - landing craft. Tuesday. tributions are highly British forees, now believed - spokesmen have welcomed the provincial and federal and (along | the vita! Damascus-Beirut highway, country. . * An estimated 25,000 Syrian reservists were . _ reported mobilized to pour into Lebanon .te - about 40,000 soldiers. " “The battle has been inyposed on us and: we have no: ‘thought but to fight it,” Syrian ; the’ official Syrian news agency: SANA, Astad told'U:S. “special. envoy Philip Habib that Syria will agree to a ceasefire in Lebanon only if Israel withdraws its forces, a Syrian night, for tha third time: in three days. : The. devastated» Palestine Liberation ‘Organization: “vowed - to: fegroup, tearm. and. dreds of tons of explosives on. the, Palestinian new Israeli tank charge— — the seveiith reported Asraell” _ fighter-bombers also rocketed ‘Palestinian | and: Syrian positions on the. hills overlooking! Beirut: inlernatlonal airport, the PLO said. | - The corhinvndeye seal cuertities repuleed *. new Isvaeli attempts to-land-hetieopter-borne --... .. soldiers at the airport. Tt sald the attempted ~_ district’ In southern: Beirut that houses: PLO |’ - “chief Yasser Arafat's: headquarters, the: ‘PLO. - 2 aid in a:communique. ot lt gaid -the-air-taid- followed. the defeat: of B. ae by the -PLO in three days — on the Lebanese capital from. its southern ‘eitrance at the. . coastal highway. Junction in Khalde. ; -,, Israeli soldiers in Lebariése cities seized earlier “this Week. 0050 moa daylong. ‘battles ‘Thursday. “Israel said'it shot down 25 Syrian MiGs and two helicopter gunships, with'no losses of its ‘2 owni Syria saiditshotdown aix Teraeli jets, lost * vances” ‘A. communique iémed in Damascus late Thureday night said Syria’s forces wrecked 164 “Teracell t tanks in the Bekaa battles and d inflleted _ promising | to drive their bitter enemy out ofthe - . they. will each give the Co- back up ‘the: ‘30,000 Syrian soldiers already said . _ to be there.-Israel is reported to have ‘deployed - President Hafez Assad was quoted as se ang by . official sald today, Agsad met-Habib'Thureday . Wage. guerrilla war, fpgainst the’ Israeli .oc- cupisrs. ’ ‘Shipers were reported, shooting: at. Forty: kilohtetred -soulhienst 6 of Beirut i thé _._Bekaa Valley, Israel! columns locked in-fierce combat? with: Syrian‘ tanks ahd artillery in. . welcome... tS TBST 95000; have been The governments said. steadily ‘losing in on the: estimated, 7,000 Argen-. tinians ‘hemmed in at operative Overseas Market. per Britain. has Development. Program. Stanley. $1.876 million, despite a ‘shortfall in the Council: of repeatedly called on the hold. the islands ~ by In Buenos. Aires, a _Argentinians despite proclaiming a “Day. of communique issued early devastating attacks on ‘National Sovereignty.” today by the Joint Chiefs of: British warships earlier in . “Be strong! Don't back Staff said British Harrier _ . down! Long live Argen- fighter-bombers attacked : tina!,’ people shouted as the capital twice on Offer President Gen. Leopoldo Thursday and were repelled both .times. before they caused any damage or casualties, -The com- + munique said Argentine - * aha 1 jailed a ‘minimum’ seven * daa for ihe or ‘firgt conviction and‘fined a minimum a - $00 and jailed. minimutn 14 dayson each ‘subsequent conviction. . . ‘».The offences .of excessive “gpeeding, "exceeding posted speed limita by 30. - kilometres an hour and driving without . due care and attention have been created "and conviction will carry a minimum . penalty of 6 §100 fine. ‘The courts will not be permitted to _” suspend senten¢es for convictions where a minimum penalty is specified under the. . provincial Motor Vehicle Act. And judges 7 4 J aircraft’ raided British ~ ~~ positions and the results of -the attacks were being evaluated. It also Argentine artillery intensely" shelled British emplacements - ‘on high - ground around Stanley, but | that the British artiHery’s activity was “‘slight.”” - The British Defence ‘Ministry refused to com- ment today on reports by. “Argentine military experts ‘that-the-British-assault on. “~~~ the Falklandi capital may. . be “delayed - by two. weeks ‘because of, heavy” losses from" latest ‘Argentine alr strikes. Forest Industry's con-" tribution: “The - orjginal WHY BUY NEW? _based on production. agreement ‘called - for, -the. three. to share the _ WHEN USED WILL BO! program's cost equally.” “Dayou wantparis to fix up your car but: your budget. COFI . controller Paul | won't allow 17 Beat the high cost of new parts with Crawtord said’ while the. _fallty used- parts from council's contribution Is sil -- being budgeted, it will: - probably be .$1.25 million. . | oe a K. B.. AUTO SALVAGE «This would gee rae 2) 7.635-2333 or 635-9095 ; mile arin __ 3440 Duhan (lustott Hor. 66) : Last year,.COFT. and the Te , " oO ~ two levels of government : C a _ ~~" or] each" contributed $1. 6: _ million to the program.” = Oe = = Robson. ‘said the. | > WESTEND CHEVRON . disastrous lumber market ° . ae a in, the U.S. ‘makes. offshore : , N Self Serve ‘market development: pressing concern for bs ane - OPE 24 HOURS A DAY industry. = — He said the reason CO's hey 16 W. 635- 1228 "-" eontribution is down this your... year is because the mem- . on i bers’ “contributions are Le SUPERIOR MUFFLER. dale J