| 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. 9 o 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 EFE . oy 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 oo 1 vee The Herald, Wednesd: ¥, 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, . vn 7 . 7 w . « . ca . . " . a . ty - of ¢ a ta ' a ta a e ° a * A i” « * : a « a ra * * . . . + 2 u e * . ” * ™ * * who balked was shouted cala submission by the uti... ts said, After they drank tac poison, they went into care vulsions, (heir eves enbbel up, they haa aif uiaby breathing and they were dead in about five minute. he said, Rhodes said he Med iszor: theend of the macsirt and did not ser dane: Stephan Jones, ¥ mother alse dita suicide ritual, said his it was a sick man, ": frightened man ii or egotistical man bo cver knew." 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