Veterans ‘of Foreign Wars convention. ' ‘after. Mexican President ‘Miguel de la ‘Central America’ “threaten. to ‘touch off a ’ conflagration.”” : ; summit: with: town. of La Paz, Mexico: | Barbara, Calif., for a two-week ‘vacation ’ with a week: of campaign-style meetings and events in Los’ Angeles sandwiched in’ between, = .. _ > He planned to return to the White House on Labor Day. , “We are , dilng everything we can tn to . build peace and prosperity," Reagan sald “ia remarks prepared for’ delivery to the "The preaident's speech oeéurred the day a \ ‘Madrid had told him-that shows of force in.”, Raagan flew here Sunday night from his 4 + dala ‘Madrid in the coastal “ Lh "5. “fin spite of the discouraging hype and- | After addressing the’ VFW ‘today, : Reagan was flying to his ranch near Santa . Explaining hig administration's Central .. , American policies once gain, ‘Reagan “declared he: was. interit' on ic baing that th ra Soviets: ‘and’ Cubans could’ “pot “brutally... _ impose: ‘Communist ; rule® and “deny | tn . dividual. dreedom" In the area.- _»\The national ‘commander: of the .VEW, - "Tames ‘Currleo,” travelled ‘to Central " America'laat month and returned to report “| that: Americans’ probably would ‘demand . . A cquple of divisions of troops down there”. . if they imew. how perilous the Communist :,.. threat: was, . ‘Reagan made: It. clear. he agreed with | . Currleo’s assessment of the seriousness of -- |: - the situation, although the White House | » hasrefrained from taking a position on the « . ’ VEFW's apparent intention to raise money to help the rebels. in: ‘Nicaragua fight the: government. hodpla you often hear, quiet, solid progress | “is belng made in - Central America Ae ie . Reagan said. ot - “In talking to the: VEW, " Reagan said the . , United « States dupports .. “democracy, |. . reform and. human freedom”? in the area. “We support ‘any effort, any avenue, that” will give the. people of, that region a more © free and prosperqus (future. But - i | ‘mentioned no ics, _ Wage freeze accepted " ‘VANCOUVER (CP) —* About 4,000 tnlonized ‘shoreworkers’ have voted 70.5 -per cént’ in favor of. accepting A wage 7 7 freeze for a year, | “The fish-plant workers ‘necepted aone- ‘year’ extension of their $11.30 an hour agreement with B.C. companies, Jack There will be no change in wages of benefits, despite earlier demands from the “Earle about 3,500 union fishermen and " tendernien voted 69 per cent to accept o _ lower fish prices, ending. FT two-day strike last week. “It's. as devastating thing for. the: ‘ {fishermen who must ‘continue ‘to. meet’. | ‘increased: ‘costs. but. these “ are~ tough . | ‘ - | economic times,’ Nichol, president of the United Fishermen — ~ and Allied Workers Union;.said ‘Sunday. a Nichol . said. alternative was'a eoatly and possibly Tong strike”? .. -. The Fisheries Association of B.C. _ representing most’ fish companies, had ; -dneveased its earlier offer of 98-cents’a -- - polind for’ sockeye to $1, well below last a , _ year" 3 ie 06. _ Telephone: strike 7 joined "About - 40,008 workers. at ‘Western. \ Electric Co. manufacturing plants joined ” the strike Sunday against the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which en- tered ita second week with no indication of when bargaining: might resume. ‘ - Moré than 60 per. cent-of the workers voted to reject. the company's proposed contract and go on strike, sald Tom Hick- man; director of manufacturing for the: International Brotherhood of Electrical - Workers, - _ . Picket lines went up at-some Western Electric ‘plants immediately alter the strike was called. >. : About 100,000 other IBEW workers had "gone on strike after their old contract with with AT and T which, although identical to; ’ the natiohal pact in financial terms, have. | ' individual clauses : covering working conditions at the various plants. Zi The strike against AT and T over wages, Jobsecurity and working conditions. began. » Aug. 7 after, talka- broke down on & new three-year: contract for’ the CWA's . operatérs and technicians, : ‘AT and T's last wage offer was for a 4J 5. per-cent raise for experienced workers in the first year of the new contract. In the , - second and third years, the contract’ would grant. all workers with’: cost-of-living , 3 protection. providing “percentage - raises | to about three-fourths ofthe annual | - increase in the US. Consumer® Price AT and'T expired Aug. 6. They were jolned . ~” Index. by 625,000 Conimunications Workers of |. . The CWA leadership is: zat least Amerita members and." 50,000 phone double ‘the company’s wage offer. -Top- ‘company employees represented by’ the set aa ST.. JOHN'S, Nfid. (CP). _ Tom’ MeNailly’s tiny boat Is back in St. John's harbor after a swiftly aborted attempt to - "sail: ‘alone actoss the Atlantic, _ He brought the 2.05-metre Big C back to Queen's. Wharf on Friday; several hours after “being towed out in’ light winds to ‘begin what he hoped would be a record: | .. breaking crossing. " “MeNally, 40, a ‘boiler, engineer trom _ Liverpool, England, has not been seen at: dockside since, harbar pilots said today... ~ -geale technicians now make $565.a,week, Telecommunications International Union.:. “The -Western, Electric mantifacturing '' employees negotiate. separate contracts while top-scale operators make $389. - _ Direet-dialing telephone ‘service has. so ., far been little attected Rd the ‘strike, He Wadsatill registered at a St. John's hotel : ., bitt equid not be reached. About 60 people gathered at the: wharf | Friday. as the Big C was secured to a charter: vessel and” towed. ‘through the. _ McNally | aborts ‘Sailing Narrows. to. “pen ‘Bea. About ) minutes later, It moved away from the. vessel and , disappeared over the horizon. _ One of the crew members on the charter . - sald there was. little wind. outside -the . harbor and McNally appeared concerned “gs he set-out on-his own. ' He was hoping to break a record for _ crossing the Atlantic In the smallest boat. a : That record wag set last week by another >’ _ Briton, Tom McClean; who reached Porto, -’ ~ Portugal, 62 days after, leaving St. John’s . in a 2..-metre sailboat.” McNally, who: sald-his main objective’ was to raise money for cancer research, ° ‘thought, he could im make the. tip in in 5 days _Nkomo_ plans. return ‘LONDON (AP) — ‘dim? Rhodesia, ead in & was pecbesary for me’... to ‘babwe opposition leader..: statement’ .Sunday ~ night \ try and work out some plan Joshua-Nkomo says he will from bis London hideout: “The 4 ONTREAL (ce Revenue Department ‘says. st leant Ps ‘Liberal ‘cabinet sininisters, ‘MPs and senators represeriting Quebec in . _ Parliament are dodging the province’s higher income - - fax rates by clalming Ontarto addreases, the Quebec. ‘Letters were sent out in early August warning the. * pelitictans: that Quebec Finance Minister, Jacques - Parizeau intends to make public the names of federal. : * politictans who did not file Quebec income tax returris’ for' 1982. A copy of the letter, signed by department - ‘official Gabriel Cote, was ‘obtained ‘by the’ Prengii: a "language Montreal daily La Presse. ts principal réaidence and can prove they paid incoma W taxes. instead to Ontario,‘ would -be exempt: from . ’ / Quebec tates, currently the highest in Canada for-- - Upper income earners. Buit admission. by Quebec. politicians, that they had given up realdence in the "province would likely be politically: embarrassing. . ministers and senators be subject to the same income ~-tax as the Quebec citizens hey ‘Fepresent,”" the letter ‘ Says. “It is Quebec government policy that MPs, cabinet | _ Federal cabinet ministers from Quebec who have ' established ‘residence . in” Ottawa ‘include Jean Chretien, Andre Ouellet, Francis Fox, Yvon Pinard, : Pierre de Bane,’ Moniqué Begin and Serge Joyal. ~ Aspokeaman for Joyal said leist week the secretary ‘of state continues to pay Quebec taxes. “planned toreveal the names of the federal politicians dodging provincial izicome tax before’ the Quebes ‘National agsembly.. > , ‘COSTS LESS’ ” ‘One ‘Liberal. ‘packbencher, Henri Tousignant ‘(Temiscamingue), confirmed he has recelved the. . etter. But he said hise cage was simply one of fling his . return. late. : But that’ was é wot io Bay Phe. would. not move to ‘Ontario when he leaves polities, Tousignant ‘said. _ “Y's even.a pretly sure thing,” he said. “There's , . hess trouble. there, and it-costs less" +. - Another. back-bencher, ’ ‘Alexander Cyr (Gaspe), 7 “sald he was an Ontario resident at the time of his first - ‘nomination and election ‘in 1965 and has been ever “since. . Cyr. said he has absolutely nothing to' do with the. * ‘gervices provided: by. the Quebec government, and proposals for a three-year ” therefore sees no reason why he should pay taxes to ~ Quebec City... ‘Most back- -bench; MPs. from “ Quebe -maintain Quebec, often in the ridings they represent. : ‘ ~ apartments: in Ottawa but keep. their homes in | . But the Révenue Department believes a number of “these members have claimed their: apartments as their principal residences, a violation of tax law, La _ Presse sald. The letter gives 9) ‘dave to provide explanations, * Quebec. politicians, who ‘¢laim Ottawa as thelr. . Bt “negotiations “unsuccessfully. ‘through - he “weekend, is the first in the” ~unton’s: as year’ history. Bt) Giles. Gauthier said toduy, - “dnd ‘the “members wn- . ' derstand that.’” strike | is. * . confidence in them.” * Canadian stores if the strike 7 atte which the Politictans x would face Renalities. . Leaders of. “banned. political .* parties - :- daim to have won the first - return: to his homeland ‘You will remember that tonight, ending five months ‘when .1 - left Zimbabwe | of self-imposed exile in because of the serious. Britain where he fled to ~ eircumistances ” : that escape what he called surrounded me at that time government plots to kill Isald I was not just leaving him. - ‘the country because.of my andin some place where 1 could do that.” . He" denied _ pewspaper “reporta that he decided to return home after Mugabe quaranteed his safety there," - but there wag speculation in London that he and Mugabe . Hewas scheduled to leave own safety, but because lt on an Air Zimbabwe flight | to attend a parliamentary . debate Wednesday = in Harare on whether his sent should be declared vacant because he has been absent for more than 21 days, ~, Nkomo, 66, leader of the -- Zimbabwe African Peoples’ Union, left -his cawitry *~ March 18 saying supporters ‘doldlers. . het made a private ceal., Town taken? | LISBON (Reuter) — Angolan tobels. said today they bad ‘ taken the towri of Cangamba in édstern Angola after an i1: ‘day siege, killing 709 af the defenders including 120 Cuban A communique lésued in the © Portugues capital by _of Prime ‘Minister Rébert ° UNITA, the Portuguese acronym for Natiqnal Union for the ~ Mugabe wanted him. dead. ‘Diplomatlg. sources. said : Total Independence of Angola, sald 165 Angalan govern- ment troops were taken prisoner. It gave UNITA tnases t as ‘the @overnment’s failure to 63 dead and 200 wounded. muster’ a majority. for a bs motion to strip Nicomo of his. “Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos sald Sunday . ~ that Cangamba, in Moxico province, had been destroyed in ‘feat convinced him the. ‘a dawn raid by eight South African planes. political mood in Harare, In Pretoria, South African defence chief Constaia Viljoen = Rawalpind) pelted police the Zimbabwe capital, noW denied today the. South African Air Force had. been Ini, may be in his favor... Nkomo, co-leader of bigck hatlonalist guefrillas: with: ° Mugabe ina seven-year war: ‘volved. The official Angolan news agency ANGOP said 1, 100 guerrillas had been killed as government forces. Beat off « to end minority white rule in’ rebels in art'eight-day battle that began Aug. 2. Its report. the former British colony of “Sunday put fevernment | lonses at 53 men. ~Oppenition “Victory claimed — _ ISLAMABAD (Reuter) — Pakistan's round in a-new campaign . * against six years of military rule after’ a surprisingly ‘large turnout at a protest rally in-Karachi, Police. fired tear gas to break up ‘clashes between” - 7 protesters and up to 15,000. goverament | supporters ‘in the port — city: Sunday, — Pakistan’s.. . 38th » dine dependerice anniversary. ‘The opposition Movement’ - for Democracy said about: 20,000 ‘demonstrators at- tended the Karachi rally,at, the gtart ‘of the campaign against-military ruler Gen. © -Fia-ul-Haq. . .- Mohammed - Thére were smaller protests in. other major cities. .. ‘Movement sources. ‘said : » more’ than 200 protesters | Were arrested in Karachi, and- further, acts of | civil _ disobedience, - Tefusal..to. pay taxes ‘and ~ possibly” more: protests, such «as would follaw, «3. We. have won ‘the: firnt. round," ' Fatehyab Ali Khan, Kisian . (Workera and ; Peasants). party,’ told __ Jolirnalists. ‘after. Karachi protest.- = ~ Zia, who. sald. Friday he would hold general elections — , by March, 1985, and then lift ~ martial’ Law; played: down the protests” at a news conference Sunday. He said people had aright to express ‘their views, but = added: ‘If anyone tries to disrupt law and order and " create confusion, for them we have a different treat- _ ment.””’ et . Relatives said Khwaja Khairuddin,- secretary. general, and Abid Zuberi, the © acting président, were arrested after the Karachi protest, and Movement sources said Farooq Leghari, secretary general of the powerful “leader: of the ‘Masdoor- the “= Pakistan People’s party of | executed former minister: . Zulfikar Ai Bhutto, was arrested in . Lahore. They said. protesters in y With rocks after they pushed “~ another . People’s” moet ‘eader, retired Gen, Tikka 4. >.- Khai, intoapolicevanashe .. party tried to address a crowd, . sources frime |. reported nightstick charges - by police. against ° ‘demon: ~“strators in Peshawar, ' lasts, . MONTREAL MCP)” iL Members: of the: Quetven | branch of the Internatiomal ; Ladies » \Gayment ‘ Workers Uiiion' abt'up plekét Lines ‘ today as.a strike affecting - 10 clothing manufacturers". ‘T°: in the Province hit ‘the Ine me : dustry, - No troubled was reported . - on the picket. lines, The ‘strike, ‘whieh a : : inidnight: ° "egatinase It's a. tough time for 8 strike, "union ‘president Even with the very anal ‘amount of money at stake, "the workers. still want to ge . ~ on. with the ‘strike because there's an awakening of “unionism by ‘the mem- ' Parizeau first raised the issue In June, warning he. Bership in Quebec, he. said in a radio Interview. . * “They know what's ahead ; of them. They know exacily what the meaning of the T have great Gauthier has predicted - “the Impact of the strike by” "some '9,000 union members Will be: felt in about ‘hwo | _ weeks, . Businesses will ‘have to > deelde’ then’ * whether . to Cancel ordera because of the Uncertainty of deliveries on time for September if the strike continues: ‘The strike backs up union “ contract retroactive to Aug. 3. The workers, 90 per cent _ ofthem women, are seeking 4 $1-an-hour increase from the current. $7 average hourly wage. -- There ‘could be “Kw garments for: the fall" in - Gauthier _ suld,. because the —- federal ‘government. has recently decided to -tonghen In- ’ spection of clothing imports from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and South Korea, _ He cong the mew Peter Ruane. The impact jarred’a 76-centimetre piece of Policy to tightened in- _- Spections on imported cars ~ Garment v ” strike)”: “But (we're willing ti go. “back to bargaining for | any. ne Although protectionist ~ ‘measyres were introduced, ‘Imported cars: stood for weeks on. Vancouver docks ° awaiting what is normally routine customs inspection. - “After 35; years, ‘we've; found the right moment: (to. ‘said Gauthier.” length of- time . at. a moment’ 8 notice. " Gauthier |” said. ‘ negotiations. . before. provincial: - coneitiator . ‘progressed on the weekend ‘With -dgreements on ‘shop committees and grievance and arbitration proceduréa. Employers, who ° originally wanted to reduce!’ -Wages by 16-per cent and "increase the work week to 40 hours from 35, have also dropped the attempt to we 1 rkers; strike, Herald, Monday, ‘August rH 1999 ‘Page 7 Vitae "A increase workload! ‘and have . _Proposed' instead \to freeze o, Wages until July.3i, 1064. The employers’ had ‘said _ earlier they could hot afford “the: ‘current wage: scale. | because of ‘slump. in sales caused by, the recession, a5 “ well as, increased -com-. petition ‘from: ifipotts and non-unionized ‘domestic... mantfacturers,:. who pay =." about $1. an: howe. Yeas in: _ ‘wages. The Quebec local, before ces » babnig reformed last‘ year, = was conaldeted.one of the least: Aggressive and most. a “tndemocratic unions in the , ‘province. ~ : - “About 5,000 rank and file -members who attended a union meeting - here last Wednesday voted.-_over-" ~ whelmingly by a show of “hands in favor of a walkout. Earlier, : smallers locals - outside Montreal also voted — 97 per cent in favor of a+ - strike. Crash examined - Federal aviation. authorities were examining. wreckage taday for clues to the causes of two helicopter crashes, near Washington's Mount St. Hetens volcano and off the coast of New Jersey, that killed seven people. Divers were searching in the Atlantic for the pilot and a teenage boy who were missing in the New Jersey crash. Two People were critically injured in that crash, and:a woman was hurt when a. commuter helicopter. struck a. landing pad support near the East River in New York, authorities said,” + “T think the tall end hit,” sald Beth MaeCurry, who saw the helicopter plunge | Into the: Atlantic off Dover Township, - NJ, on Sunday evening. “There were pleces of it flying out and ther it was gone.” fo “The mangled fuselage of ‘the. ‘to-seat Aero ‘Spatiale - -helicopter, owned by Janmar Co. of Morristown, N.J., was hauled’ to shore for examination by Federal - Aviation Administration investigators; police said. . On: Saturday, a helicopter ‘operated by Spartan Helicopters of Toutle, Wash., crashed in a wooded area near the Spirit Lake Highway, about 22 kilometres nor- thwest of Mount St. Helens, said Cowlitz County sheriff's - Lieut. 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