| NEWS IN BRIEF

MINEHEAD, England
(Reuter) — Former Liberal
party leader Jeremy Thorpe
was in a state of near panic
ater a male model made

blic 4 claim that they had
nm iovers and a plot to kill
the man misfired, a pros-
_ecution witness testified
Tuesday.
Peter Bessell, a former
Liberal MP now living in
California, testified that
Thorpe made urgent tran-
gatlantic telephone calls {o
him to plot a cover-up of a
failed bid to murder model
Norman Scott.
Beasell, granted immunity
from prosecution, is the’
Crown's star witness at the

court hearing to decide
whether Thorpe, 49, and
three other men should he
bound over for trial on
charges of conspiring to
murder Scott, 38, .

‘The Crown alleges that a
hired gunman Jured Scott to
4 desolate road and drew a
fun {n October, 1975.-He shat
Scott's dog, but did not harm
Scott.-

Bessell testified Monday
that he heard Thorpe discuss
murdering Scott as far back
as 1969 at a meeting with
Bessell and one of Thorpe’s
eaaccused, David Holmes,
48, former deputy treasurer
of the Liberal party.

* Bug indicated carrier

PENTICTON, 5.C. (CP)

— A acientist says resear-

chers have identified several]

of the carriers of little cherry

7 disease, the affliction that

.. iped out orchardists in the

‘- .. Keotenays in the 1950s and

has threated those in the
Okanagan.

“ “We are now 99.9 per ceng,

* ” gure the disease is spread by

the apple mealy bug,” said

Dr. Dave MeMullen at a

conference here Monday.

“Weare notsure about miles

as we haven't any prgof yet

that it is or isn’t a carrier."

McMullen said the virus

can also be carried by cut-

ting and grafting tools, wind,

small field animals and

birds.

VICTORIA (CP) -
Secarity at provincial court
here was tight Monday at the
start of a preliminary
hearing for the Tofino 17, a
group charged with con-

_ Spiracy to import marijuana
Into Canada after police
seized 13 tons of Colombian
marijuana near the west
coast Vancouver Island
community in July.

Five deputy sheriffs and

two uniformed RCMP of-
ficers were seated inside the
courtroom, and one deputy

sheriff was outside with a

1. two-way radio.

a Three deputy sheriffs from

the Vancouver area and one
from Nanaimo were brought

In to augment the Law

Courts building security’

staff, a spokesman said.

Anti-porn

OTTAWA (CP) - A bill
that would broaden the
Criminal Code definition of
obscenity and increase
penalties heavily was
reintroduced in the Cam-
mons on Tuesday by Justice
Minister Otto Lang.

The bill was unchanged
from one introduced last
May by Ron Basford, Lang's
predecessor. It includes.
provisions, also unchanged,
against soliciting by
prostitutes, parental kidnap-
ping, child abuse, loan-

Fa

Dr. John Slykhuis said re-
searchers are also looking at
ways to control the disease
which causes trees to
produce dwarf fruit with a
bland taste. Pruning and
Srafting are being _ in-
vestigated, he said, along
with various other methods.

“Sterilization of some
sorts may work and we have
tried alcohol, heat and other
fermicidal methods and
they all leave a little bit to be
desired," he said. “Perhaps
the best method we have
found so far is common
household bleach.”’

Slykhuis said the best
method of contol is to pull
affected trees from the
ground.

Security is tight

The 15 men and two
women were charged after
the plan to land the
marijuana was broken up by
a joint operation which in-
volved involved RCMP, 600
Canadian armed forces
personnel and two Canadian
warships,

Qnly one of the two
women, who were charged
Nov. 7, more than three
months after the 15 men
were charged, was in court
Monday. The other was in
hospital.

The preliminary hearing
has been scheduled for six
weeks between now and
January and is slotted for

three separate two-week

sittings. Five defence
lawyers are involved.

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bill again
sharking, wash trading of
stocks, and a number of
other matters.

Lang said he hoped for a
rapid second reading of the
bill, which could then be sent
to the Commons .justice
committee.

He also indicated that he
would like to see some
amendments to the bill.

Magazine distributors in
Canada have expressed
concern about the proposed
pornography changes.

- Brewed inBCby CARING

IN THE JUNGLE

Surviving cult membe

GEORGETOWN (AP} —
Survivors of the Jonestown
cult suicide, menaced by
flesh-eating piranhas and
other deadly perils of the
tropical rain forest, eluded a
manhunt .in the nearly-
impenetrable Guyanan
wilderness for a third day
Tuesday.

At the jungle site of the
mass suicide, the bodies of

409 members of the
American religious sect lay °
decomposing in the

equatorial sun. U.S. mililary
aificials made plans to fly
the bodies to the United
States, but a state depart-
ment spokesman in
Washington said they in-
stead may be buried at the
Jonestown camp if the
Guyanese government
authorizes it.

**The bodies are starting to
swell and some seem ready
to burst,” said U.S. embassy
official Peter Londoner.
About 200 U.S troops,
awaiting the atrival of a
dozen helicopters, stood by
in Georgetown for the evac-
uation operation. =

Estimates of the number
of sect members who fled the
Jonestown camp Saturday
during the ritual of mass
self-destruction by poison
ranged from 375 lo more
than 775, Stephan Jones, 19-
year-old son of the Peoples
Temple sect’s fanatical
founder, Rev. Jim Jones,
estimated about 500 had gone
into the inhospitable forest.

Jim Jones ordered the
mass suicide, a ritual he
code-named “White Knight"
and which he had practised
with his loyal followers, after
sect members ambushed
and killed U.S. Repre-
sentative Leo Ryan of
California and four members
of a Ryan-led party that
made an investigative visit
to the camp.

Jones was one of three per-
sons who died of gunshot
wounds, apparently self-in-
flicted, Aboul one-quarter of
the dead were children,
some babies whose mothers
were reported lo have fed
them the fatal brew of Kool-
Aid and cyanide.

Stephan Jones, who de-
nounced his father as a
“man  obsessed,"’ told
reporters here Tuesday his
greatest concern now is for
the well-being of those who
fled into the jungle, ap-
parently unwilling to destroy
themselves along with their
suicidal master.

“J want to do all I can to
see everybody gets a chance
to find some place to settle
down and start over again, if
that is possible,” he said.

But the younger Jones,
who had left the camp three
weeks ago on a trip with its
basketball team, said the
survivors could never return
to Jonestown, a four-year-old
agricultural commune cut
out of virginal forest 240
kilometres northwest of
here.

Guyanese familiar with
the area questioned whether

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the fugilives could long
survive without shelter and
steady food supplies in a
jungle filled with swamps
and criss-crossed by streams
and rivers inhabited by
piranhas and electric cels.
The rainy season is just
starting.

Jim Jones is known tohave .
instilled a fervid will to
survive among some of his
followers, however, telling
them their settlements could
become sanctuaries where
they would escape a nuclear
holocaust or other calamity.
A fear that outsiders were
about to destroy their small
society apparently triggered
the mass suicide, .

About 200 Guyanese troops
and police were trying to.
track down the survivors -
around Jonestown, but of-
ficials said they were
hampered by thick brush
that makes it impossible to
see beyond a few feet, There
is only-one road in the area,
and its potholed surface
turns to mud with the rains,
Aerial surveillance is nearly
useless because of the heavy
tree cover.

U.S. officials sald 14
Jonestown survivors, in-
cluding four children, had
reappeared in the area after
initially going into hiding.

Guyanese authorities sa
Tuesday they arrested two
sect members found in the
jungle near the airstrip
where the Ryan group was
ambushed. They were

identified only as Mike.

Prokes and Tim Carter,
Charges were not an-
nounced, but it was
presumed they are - being
questioned in connection
with the airstrip massacre,
in which 10 persons were
wounded. ,

Another sect member,
Larry Layton, about 32, was
arrested Sunday as a prime
suspect in the ambush.

State department official
John Bushnell said in
Washington about half the
bodies at the camp have
been tentatively identified,
but names were not
released.

The Peoples Temple sect
consists mostly of Califor-
nians, both black and white.
Fearful relatives have been
waiting outside the sect
headquarters in San
Francisco for word of the
fate of loved ones who
traveled with Jones to

Guyana, a former British

colony on South America’s
northeast shoulder,

The bizarre and bloody
episode has left questions
gnawing even at cult
members.

“Weare all here and in the
States are shocked,”
Stephan Jones told repor-
ters.

“T can’t believe that this

was a voluntary suicide,”’ be"

said. “There had to be the
use of force, although some
of it was blind loyalty.”

A camp survivor, Odell
Rhodes, said armed men
were stationed in a ring

around tne assembled
congregation at Jonestown
on Saturday evening as the
48-year-old Jones declared:

IN ECONOMY

“Thetime has come for us to

meet in another place!”’
The camp doctor and two

nurses had prepared the

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rs still in hiding

lethal potion in a stainless
steel tub and began handing
out doses to each resident,
Rhodes said. One woman

Moderate growth seen

EDMONTON (CP) — A
group of economists and
corporate consultanis has
predicted moderate growth
for the Canadian ecenomy in
1978 with a lower inflation
rate and possible softening of
wage demands.

An Alberta Chamber of
Commerce economic outlook
conference was told Tuesday
that industria] and resource
industries will fare
relatively well compared to
-previous years.

One economist, however,

- said real economic growth

will be only slightly more
than half the four-per-cent
increase predicted by
federal) Finance Minister
Jean Chretien.

John Grant, of Wood
Gundy Ltd., said that while
Canada’s gross national
product will not increase as
much as the federal
government expects, the
government itself, has
restricted its expected
growth so ag not to exceed
that of the economy.

The first six months of 1979
will be tough on the
Canadian economy, which
willimprove for the last half
and Inflation should fall to a
rate of between 5% and 6
per cent by the end of the
year, Grant said.

Grant said that next year,
workers will press for bigger
increases in early 1979, and
although held back by high
unemployment and» =}
government restraints, real
income gains will be made
and wage demands lowered
later because of the lowered
inflation rate.

Canada’s trade picture
will improve, with increased
exports to the United States,
Grant said.

Ev Bunnell, chairman of
the board for Northwest
Industraes Ltd., told the
conference the country must
increase processing of
resources to produce poods

for domestic consumption,
and called for government

incentives to aid labor-

intensive enterprises.

Cy Mattinson, a consultant
with Shell Oil Ltd., said the
petroleum and natural-gas
industry will earn $4.2 billion
in 1979, after deduction of
and
operating costs, a fiveper-
this
He said

taxes, rayalties

cent increase aver
year’s profits,

slightly more ‘than $2.7
billion will be returned an

exploration ~° and

velopment. .

heavy-oll developments will
play a major role: in the

Western Canadian economy, .

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