— = ” _AEOTSLATINS a _ The central bank ‘announced, the rate- vould " remain at 15.40 percent, 0.25 'pereent above the ‘rate tendered for 91-day treasury: © bills at the weekly auction... > oz ‘The central bank dropped its tate on: ‘loans to... _ the chartered banks in the wake of decreases . earlier this week in the prime rate charged’ by Some private American banks, - ' ‘Morgan “Guaranty - Trust, the. fifth ‘largest U.S, commercial bank, Jowered its prime rate from 18.75 to 17.75 percent last Monday and was « .. . followed bya number of other r major American Bank: of Canada, “Toronto. “ restores. its Tate, to. a level 0.25 percent lower ~ ‘than: most! other. ‘major chartered: banks, a ‘position. it-held for ‘two’ weeks before briefly : falling. into. line with other, banks last week, . “iy addition the Bank: of Montreal announced ip Ae tehnnetiny l i ective immediately, on nonschequing enim accounts wil ate Pa i _ yield “12.5 percent’ and daily. Interest, savings . 12:5. -pereent from 13. 25 percent. . a, _ | Aecounta offer 12 percent. °° : : Toronto-Dominioa sald interest paid on its ‘the: ‘rate. for daily interest savings ‘accounts daily interest savings accounts would be p to: 12, Rereent Moniay, down from . reduced .50.percent to-12.85 percent from 1275 “OTTAWA: (UPC) = Bix ‘of. Cauda’ 3 aur : “The “Royal : pred'banks have-dropped their prime lending’. Dominion” nk, National Bank: ‘of. Canada, .- Hater after the Bask of Canada lowered its bank. ’ Canadian 1 | perial Bank of Commerce and™' rate‘for the third consecutive week; '. _Bank‘of Novg' Scotia announced 'they will drop - The central bank's lending rate, deciined 0: 7 . - their. prime - Piss rate. by 0.25 percent toa: oe 16.40 percent Thursday and moat of::: new” “Fate qt “16: 50°: ‘percent, effective next __ the ‘country’s’ chartered: banks: responded. by. Monday. 7 j- * galling thelr tending ‘rates: by between 0. 25,and |. i; The E Bank! af Rone hoivever, will op ita’ : 0.50; ; ea len ing rally + ‘Bank fate; which hita record1é.2 percent 8 ‘ ‘a’ “amonith: ‘ga, ‘has: ‘dropped «more ‘than’0:607)°." reent over the‘last two weeks, stabilizing Eee an upward irend established In the United. . CIBC C ainnounced a a 0.75 percent drop i in ‘the interest paid on non-chequirig savings accounts to 12.60. percent and on daily Interest savings accounts. to 12.0. percent. .: Scotiabank reduced the interest rate oftered. on'saVings accotints by 0.75 percent effective - immediately: Blue Chip Savings Accounts now ow" PPPrerr ree reer ie : Ps rats lev+ac@iceeedad _ injuries. . i error. Karrer was not| began Thursday, most of the first-floor pediatrics ward, were ‘2 hours instead of the usual four — t ‘The accident occurred ‘gas g (Elags a snd charted. the driver charged. | hospital's 500 patients had been Father Kleran Kenedy later. evacuated within ‘minutes, About a the woman was put on a stretcher and | about ; 2:45. p.m. Thur- - ‘Demons. trators in Detroit According to the police | cleared in the largest evacuation in - Twenty yards away the 6-storey, half-hour after the first alarm, became the last patient evacuated, of sday. °° It- took - the charged linto Mumford High | accident report,| thehistory of this steel town of 360,000, four-wing hospital, open since iL. authorities ordered the 577-bed ‘The whole. operation went off it dejartment: ‘of highways School and disrupted William Currie as the. 40 miles west of Toronto ‘stood looking like the victim & hospital emptied. without a hitch, said Donald Scott; | 4 I 7 effective Friday. POT batteries. etes Callas We are i” : wi Lu a Sat. 8 am. fi 6 pm ate . 7 Kincolith and. Is working on herrin aj jana halibut. . “Melume.74 No, 9% "Friday, May 2, 1980 \. Westend Food Mart Open “- 865 DAYS A YEAR”: - Chevron: Service 2 6:30am - 11pm . cee Open . _Tdays aweek, a ws Mes j OI o 635-7228 “it m7 capper, ins, ail mits, “sive Satisly T ere k “MWe isfy unimy ‘an Westend” Riots mar N I FOR HOSTAGES ‘By: SANDRA MICHIOKU , STOCKTON, ‘Calif. (UPI) ' — A gunman demanding to. go to Iran to: negotiate for" . release of the’ American hostages commandeered a h Pacific Southwest Airlines . _ plane and . took: a-.crew: ‘member hostage.‘for six: hours before surrendering. to FBI agents eatly’ today. Stephen William bison, 25; of Ceres, Calif., walked _down the plane’s- steps behind flight engineer Al ‘Romatowski shortly: before 1 am, PDT and surrendered -lo-waiting FBI] agents, Romatowski said he held — the ‘gun in. his hand. while. Bilson. read a three-minute statement. The engineer said he. was ‘the only . crew the man, who was waiting in ‘meniber held’ because. he “was the one who confronted “the cockpit when he.opened | the door, “y walked in and wa stood ,. face fo face for a couple of seconds,” he said. “For the most part he was calm, ‘rational ‘and ‘seemed well- 5Rematpwai 2, is ‘San “aboard the plane moment ~ earlier by grabbiig the pistol - ‘out of his belt while he wasn’t” looking. Bilson was to be: taken’ before a federal magistrate in Sacramento, Calif,, today - to .be charged with ‘air -" surrendered, Bilson read: a three-minute: ‘statement to reporterd over the. plane’s radio about his reasons for wanting to fly to-Iran. “Let me talk for you. Your - government can't —I can, as "a concerned. individual,” he sald inacaim, relaxed voice. educated. ” given guards - By SAJID RIZVI TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) -- Embassy. - takeover six months ago, the - Islamic regime dispatched * revolutionary guards to protect the British ‘mission from groups that might storm it. because of the siege _by Arab gunmen at the Tranian Embassy in London. As the. beefed-up guard Hijacker wanted to go to Iran . - ; -Romatowaki: said: “was nervous: because the blond, : curly-haired: gunthan was “pointing the gun at me; but he was very polite”. during the six-hour ordeal, Witnesses said tha gunman’ boarded. the. Boeing 727. around 4:50 p.m.. PDT | Thursday .and showed a ‘weapon to the captain, co pilot and engineer. Flight 613 - Was: preparing, to load pagsengersfor a flight to Los ‘Angeles when the takeover occurred. strongman: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. were demanding the release of 91 Arabs jailed in Iran and autonomy for . the. Iranian _ Province of Khuzestan. | But ‘ Khomeini ‘Was determined fiot to allow the London incident distract the current. hate’ campaign supply system, The bullding seen in the Keith Watt photo Is In ! - ‘AS akehouse Is: part. of the native Hf dian: community’ vs food ipply ¥ er Thebullding # o Reith We Pi of Is In piracy. ents’ “before ke . apparent eaing arepeat The gunmen in London Se a , =) e - against the United. States, - May Day celebrations in By SYDNEY, SHAW - group that sta.ged the brief - Cleveland’ olttcei workers,” on a flatbed - truce.” Several . “ally ‘in the state.capital, | The gunman also urged sti . _ protected the British Em- fran Thursday amounted to United Press International takeover of tH: Alamo this ‘meanwhile, | threw, rocks, ‘fist Fights. broke out, . “ descending en a@bout-15 RCP Am rericans to, demand the bassy, the | American a ‘Hate America Day,” and “The annual communist laborers': rite of. spring burgeoned into . bloody clashes among May Day ralliers, police and counter: © demonstrators across the ‘nation, ending in at least 75 arreots and darens of in- "Violence erupted in at least. six citiés-where May conducted, - |: ‘Paul [1 left today for an u- “| am going tothe heart of the center of the African the shah. He shouldn't have By DAVID COWELL " Iranian province: or ; Day marchers celebrated Twenty. ile were hurt’ . day tour of six natlons inthe. an. immense. continent, continent," the pope said, tocarry the burden for him. LONDON: (UPI);— Iran’ Khuzestan renewed their: d ff the. 92nd. radical. workers’ - inchiding pea igers and nine © heartof Africa saying he. was ..Africa, which received the “Unfortunately it was -not As Bilson prepared te read has given Britainafreehand' vow to kill the: Iranian iB holiday. ve a : f ‘sorry he cquid not visit other «light of Christian faith from possible to inciude all those the statement’ to reporters, - ta resolve the seizure of the hostages '. unless 5 [ran- -Most of the . ‘demon- strations » ‘Thursday ‘from Wall Street to the West Coast spring. Los Angeles] was the scene. of thé bloodiedit| rally, where t. Communist demonstrators ‘officers used {heir batoné.as. .. = Pope goes ‘on: African trip. clubs to halt ¢le beating about onstrators,- ‘a dozen of am’ Booth said an inveg,| Improper cond: inet would‘ bé. None of the ° injuries was. {prious. Ang¢jles police demonstrator Los . 4 them to the {qr ‘ound. Police’ Spokesman Wi . gation into ‘By JACK R. ‘PAYTON. , ROME (UPI) — Pope John countries on the” ‘immense ‘continent, * traveted: Pope in history, "In Chittleston, W.Va, flag- waving. patriots blocked . a. "USA, aie missionaries, * the pope said: before | ‘departing.. “At the “same time I am very happy. demonstrators and, chanting OME wanted : to extend my first visit to other nations in countries of Africa’ from which I have received by the International Court of ‘Justice,." “Cali your president, call your senators, call your congressmen,” Bilson said. -hostages today entered their .. list day in the hands of. “Islamic mililants, who have’: for burying the superpowers’ ine tacit backing of Iranian dominance,” .“I's better to hear both ¢ _ sides and let justice be done. Carter should not be responsible for the actions of Romatowski said he went to get some. orange juice, then returned. Iranian Embassy, saying it. was “prepared to accept" the death of the hostages Khomeini in an-address to -the nation said:it was a’ “day. Brits get free: hand. released it prisoners - and Britain provided a plane.: The gunmen allowed two , Wes ; ressing and aftectio : “aa, were organized - by-. the acres pf about one geaming. in, lghtwoght to. be able to: participate Nivtatobe " nate _ “He was about to read his held by three Iranian-Arab deadlines to pass Wednesday - Revolutionary May Day - rate from! Dh te cArthur withstand the African heat, intensely with my- presence |”; speech, He turned his back to gunmen. despite publicly scoffing at Committee of . .. the pa the pope boat rded a flight for in the joy. of. those: young: The - ‘papal “plane, -an; mie with the gun in his belt Hours before the siege an eye-for-an-eye reprisal Revolutionary Communist Park rally or | anized by ‘the. : RCP. They wi -Zaire at Leonardo Da Vinci churches, whose: bishops especially fitted Alitalia DC- 10, lifted off at 9:10 am, and I pushed him against the window |. and grabbed his entered its third day today, the gunmen who say they are threat. by. Iran .to kill one . prisoner in Khuzestan for. Ta aaa Rip ase Syst 8 RTT rearrested on” Part +a M olst-oriented have become the successors ; ee changes rang i From ng Aye ticles jon at italien the missionaries.” (3:10 a.m. EDT). gun,” he said. ethnic Arabs from the every hostage slain. o ficer to cro jing the street. ‘government officials, : cocepecesnebes _ sneaustanianneassenanansenes sesaninensnssssessnenanes ' Beer on against ere} light. _ African diplomals and about mm scene = es EEE, EL Raa amas bo “Police . sal the . demon- 2. high-ranking _ cardinals. a ican sett ; ; a -strators. were chanting. The trip will make John, ; ' road: a. “Red, whit u and blue, we ‘Paul _ the meat: _ Widely ; | Bpit on ‘you and. “started | : . . fy ‘swinging b AS. and sticks: at i" hazard. "> the officers! ;"* | J ; - But a Ww tness, attorney “ERRA TUM. Beer | “suds and. "gues! “saw one ian, thrown down ‘Charles. O! Reilly, said. he... ‘ 0 7 By RICHARD von ABBE... a nurses’ residence across the street. although the fire, which ignited in the we got the children out, then I kind of were - spredd: for ari aN hd, One cop wat | In the pli news on HAMILTON, Ont. (UPC) | ~ Sub- . They. were later transferred to four ceiling of a basement boiler room broke, down.” quarter mile 12 miles Poe ‘uther three were. Niers 1 4: / MMursday's'| dued,.frightened, some grimacing in other hospitals. and local nursing about 9:15 am. EDT, was quickly Dr. Ted Young was in the process of north of Kitimat on High- ‘| Hera it. waS{ ‘pain, the sick were led, wheeled and homes in a fleet of ambulances and brought under control, deadly danger rebuilding the cancerous jawbone of a way 25 Thursday. . -. Phe bottom of the semi-° trailer truck carrying the cases of beer on thé road. Several vehicles were damaged by the falling cases, but. there were no several hours to clean the . mesa up. Some cars stopped to’ ". Justice, - kicking atid beating him: One cop kijiked, him as hard: . ash he e fuld between the . -le load of Labatts Bhie split. , ae n spilling close: to 500° Open SP eae - conduct arid obstruction of ‘he arresis came. Jn Chical i if0, 13 people were arrested . for , disorderly after a nd iisy demonstration at the Daley Center ‘Plaza, - where mo ite than 100 people Classes. A group of students ran outsj je and overturned ore of ‘the rallier's cars. Police ar ested a total of 39 -Karrer was; charged. with driving: without due care and attention in the accident on the. Skeena Bridge, High- way 16 on Wedriesday night. This report: was in driver ‘charged... -We apologize to Mr, Karrer for any em- reported . that Rick? carried into the street as their hospital filled with. smoke, In one of: 12. operating rooms, r cancer surgeon completed rebuilding a. 60-year-old patient's jawbone while ‘the corridor outside filled with acrid fumes and nurses sealed the door with wet towels. -Two hours alter the evacuation of Hamilton’ s St. Joseph’s Hospital buses. Some directly out of surgery and ‘mortar attack; neatly every wiridow -many still attached fo intravenoug broken, smoke — pushed by huge fatis bottles, the patients were quartered In brought in by firefighters — pouring st from every hole. makeshift evacuation centers — The only casualties were six firefighters who succumbed to smoke inhalation and were taken to- other hospitals. One was later released. “It’s almoeta miracle of grace to be | able to evacuate so many’ critleally sick patients without any sighed hospital board Vice President was posed by the smoke which likely 60-year-nld woman contained toxic fumes generated by anaesthetist sounded the alarm. . “There was no. panic, we Just “If these people had not been carried on,” he sald: “This woman's evacuated, I don't know what we face was all apart, and we couldn't might have had," he said, adding an Iéave it like that so we stayed and electrical faull was thought the cause finished," ~of the blaze. casualties,” burning building materiais. “We could smell the sin the children’s ward," gait when an Nurses sealed the door with wet towels while the operation continued. The first patients, children in the When the surgery was finisned — In 3 ¢ fitzerdirector of medical services. He said ek) it ‘would be several days-.betor worker Leona Turner. “We managed patients could return, and estimat to get all the children oui before the damages at a minimum pick through the cases for Goricnstivatora as the group barrasament this error | ina sunny hospital parking lot, then at Assistant fire chief Al Grieve said amoke hit them, [ was all right after $100,000. 4 ¥50.000 to unbroken bottles, but the imerched downtown for a | @&¥ have caused him. ; ' . pickings were poor... - " tally at:/Kennedy Square. : Re