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\ : Vie Loria, : B.C,.

isto Apri, exports limbed 1 Sper center

recard $7.7 billion-whlle imports rose only 1. \pet cent 2 a billia : That meant a ee bition“ ”

The figures: confirm improvements in. the. trad ‘picture. -

that show exports have generally Increased since anuarh ~ ‘and imports have risen sirice December, At first, the rate of .

‘inetease in| imports. outstripped cexports, ,

beginning to be Teversed,

balance. .

However, a Stallstirs Canada official ald an alysis of:

' cent below the last high peak reached in duly, 1982, and - : imports nearly. 18 per cent below thelr last, high beak reached in. July, i981, - ot ; Largest export increases. in. April. were ‘tor wheat; up 25 per. cent or $115 to $560 ‘million; oll and coal. products, up 48 per cent or $100 million. to $300. million; coal, up 133 per cent or $90 million to #160 million folowing ats ‘million decline in March. -

- Exports of trucks were up 27 per cent or $90 million toHi23 - ‘ million; crude‘oil, up 35. per cent: or: $70"million to $265 . ‘million after. a $65-million decline in-March; metal ores, concentrates ant and scrap, up 34 per cent or $65 million to $265. million, : .

Largest import increases in Apiil were for motor vehicle ~ parts, up 18 per cent or $140 million to $920 million, following ‘.

equipment, up 36 per cent or $70 million to $270 million: Statistics Canada sald there was 3-significant decline in y crude oil Linports; down 28:per cent or $40: million’ to #20 _ millon after a $78-mill on increase in March. : . There were two main contributors to the strong, increate in April exports. Exports to. the ‘United States, Canada’s | - largest trading partner, were up 5.5 per-cent to $275 million - ‘ to'$5.26 billion following a $180-million decline in March.-

_ $435 million after ah $20-milljon decline in’ March. -

Econoniic. Community’ countries incréased 11° “per: cent ‘or $35 million ‘to $350° ‘million. ‘But exports “to the ‘United Kingdom. were down seven per eet or $15million. to. $200 million, : we

The only Aignificand Inéresise in imports for April was fromthe United: States; up'14: i tier'cent or: $545 million io. #. 43) billion, following 3 a +400-million decline in March. |

gaan Rete Muted} her Conservative party to ‘keep Have her.a. 2i-polnt-lead.-. " In the four weeks since ihen;

wupapers have’ splashed

substantial victory Thursday for the Conservatives, and in the unprecedented barrage, the surveys themselveg have ‘become a major campaign. insite. : Thatcher's opponents in the socialist Labor party ; say the polls have distracted voters from the real issues: — In Labor's view, Britain’s 12, t-per-cent jobless rate, ‘and the danger of the nuclear arms race.“ “The polls are doctored and manipulated as part of a. gigantic con trick designed to keep out a Labor govern- “ment,” says party Vice-Chairman Eric Heffer: Another Labor candidate, Tony Benn, recites a list of “polls the ’ press will not publish,” showing Britons: pessimistic about the economy and critical of defence apending.. : But Thatcher says she too, wants voters to iguore the polls. She told rank-and-file Conservailves: ‘Opinion polls do not win general elections. Hard work: does.” oot The. centrist. alliance .-of. the Liberal ‘sind Social. ~ Democratic partiés js pleased with the polls, It was formed:. 20 months ago:to break the two-party. system ‘that, dhas dominated British politica in recent. decades, ‘and ‘some - recent surveys showed the alliance moving bt, Tabor: into” second plate. ea

ferent election,” said polite at ‘David’ Butler’ of. “Oxford University. - oe ma

said; “The election has catneallve-only in’ the race. for second: place.” * : : ; ‘Juesday wae'tie last’ fait day. of campaigning, and most politicians planned. to” ‘return to thelr home ‘districts by’. - tonight, ready for the start-of voting Thursday morning. ‘Two new polls published today: reinforced the prediction

of a decisive Coriservative victory. o A-polt of 1,040 electors by. National ‘Opinion Polls in The ~ Daily’ Mail put support for the Conservatives at 46 per cent, ~ against 26 for Labor, 24 fer the centrist alliance arid.two for. other groups. A poll by. Market and Opinion Research | International (MORI) predicted the Conservatives ‘would : win 408 seats in the House of Commons agalnst 201 for °- Labor, 19 for the alliance and 22 for other groups. ‘Throughout the campaign, the pollsters: have hit the” ‘ Bireeis'in unprecedented numbers, The 39 surveys. taken ag.” - of today:compared with 22 at the same point in the 1979 © campaign which brought Fhatcher to power. | wu _ “There are so many pollsters on the streets at present ~ that they'll soon end up interviewing each other,” The Daily Mirror. In fact, Thatcher might not have called thd. elecltén ware ft not for the polls. Still 11 months from the ent of her five: - year term, she was advised by aides that m ip aplnten would never be more favorable, ». .-

- Britain’s public. opinion crara see mie vt. with : Sheriff Floyd Tidwett: ‘tokd a’ authorilies the: house had. San. Bernardino. sheriff's - were contradictory, he said, - investigators had nothing to - Union on limiting medium: ~— their high-profile role. ms ihe to dobiinates / newa.-conference. TMesday. been cleaned - before ihe 4 deputy: Alexis. ‘Tanner seid The boy had undergone a link the eecapees to the range nuclear weapons ia ; ““I{’s like the announcer at the rag irae wo dominates night: the new: evidence "moved out June 1:9) “Tuesday: "tracheotomy to help “him murders. _Earope. a . the race,’’ said Robert Worcester, ¥ of MORL.:""He's indicated the killer had Tidwell: sald: bis Authiorities sald they have breathe. “Se re chu an be clear on ee stayed in-the ranch house investigation’.now.:. is postponed. further oe mA : — — ne Veo ‘of the track, which you can't see very clearly: _bametiene within the-last focusing on a: ‘reported interviews with the family's County Coroner Brian 7 WHY BUY NEW? | om | “sightlig of ‘the: vietims' lone. survivor, elght-year- McCormick said all four J > ‘WHEN USEDWILL Do! oT

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‘the underlying trend shows exports are still nearly’ four per £

] :a $205-million decline in March and other transportation’ *’

Exports to: Japan were up 36 per cent or $115 million.to

Exports . to. what - the’ agency calls ‘other European "

three doten more polls across their pages, Each forecast a © -

“Soviet policies G@iseussed.

4 Secretary George Shultz,

‘preparing to meet with his NATO colleagues, says he sees no concrete evidence the Soviet Union Is moderating its policies despite recent expressions

“with Washington.

early today for the annual spring meeting of NATO.

‘ of superpower relations, an issue expected to dominate

Thuraday and Friday. After an extended period

President

exchanges,:

A foresaw “better” relatiozis with Moscow. In addition,

Andropov, said. he was

felt that. the slopan implied ° “ralnbows’” meant the. metimes shinés.on the coastal city and took It upon: - ‘herself to makea slight change. ire @ ta the ‘city:o Highway 6.

een ian As what's called rah advertising Supposed to.sa elcome'to Princ «Oh Rainbows,’": which ha’ rel

the United States.” ; ald

‘upbeat tone, Shultz seemed

"Volume 77 No.110

- PARIS (AP) — US. State -

. of interest in improved ties. . Shultz arrived in Paris foreign ministers, Enroute

from Washington, he spoke to reporters about the state

his private talks today and - ‘the plenary meetings

of angry U.S.-Soviet . Reagan said last week he ~

former ambassador Averell ° Harriman, after a meeting a with Soviet . leader‘ Yuri-.

authorized -to say. that:

Moscow's ‘‘most. sincere |: - and fervent ‘desire” is to =

he signal appear at te id Sa nt

Bae enn a

week,’ Despite” Andropov's ”

eontrotfer' Gregory: Karam “—. ‘the, moat. . capable -pir-traffic controller L have: ever

"-. eane ef. food at 9 vacant:

left there and some other

“MONTREAL (CP) — The pilots of Air ~ Canada’s ill-fated: Flight 797 told for the first, time in public Tuesday how they landed their | -burnirig BC-9 at an sinfamiliar airport with only | -the, ‘Wolee of- an: air traffic, controller: to help them: .

Capt. Donald ‘Cameron, 61, said he pulled _deaperately. on. the control, ‘column: to. keep the -

+, dit)? said Catheron, “y Was: far too; busy: to passengers as could move were directed to - “ ’ plane from pitching ino a death ‘dive gin i Sworty). band ~ safety by: flight attendarits. |. T . Peansare ; at ie . ~‘s30-bllometre-an-hour descent through ‘¢ ou ~. Ouimet saldi* nimal instinct” took, over as Cameron said he tried to go to the passenger "4 . cover to Greater Cincinnati airport..." ; Asked about. - - the

. He: ‘and co-pilot. Claude Ouimet, 34, ald news conference that the cockpit instruments | and stabilization. mechanisms failed when ‘fire

- pilot, “unfantilier. with the terrain’ since: Air

Canada. doesn’t fly to Cincinnati, could not, o immediately, spot it.

aaa bt | admit that'right. about. this point, I was

Ouimet. said: “Pnever had. any doubt that’ ‘we e would. make

it,

othe flight crew,and the three Aight attendants:

: Went Into thelt drill,

~ Onimet. wag furiously ‘cranking a a small cack

“pit window opén'to: vent the. smoke that was

‘even considering. Ganding ort) sbighways, we

A don't have to answer that question."

~~ support [had would have dane Just as well, "he~-

. Asked how much longer he could have kept

term’ vement in U.S. ‘the DC-4in the air, Cameron said: “Thank God . Jmprovemen

; ties with Moscow.

“Thave to say you have to easure .an attitude “according - to the - substance,” Shiults sald, .“I can’t point to anything

“Any airline pilot in the. world given’ the m

- added. f. With the: plane. on, the ground, as ‘many~

“ section but was repelled by a blast of heat. Returning. to his seat, he passed out,

- Quimet had bailed out a window. Seeing the . ~ pilot still in his-seat, he told firemen to spray

. possibility. of a superpower summit, Shultz repeated the White House position that

knocked out the plane's electrical syste __ Seeping in and sit to allow Cameron to hear _ . fire-extinguishing foam through the open cock- Sesireble enle ‘ieee Twenty-three’ passengers “died of: his ‘radio : .. pit window. That brought Cameron’ to, and he of icant inhalation after‘ fire ‘broke out last: Thursday “*Sald Cameron, whose performance has been” '. ‘clambered out his window to safety. pahetateaed te hs signifi night aboard. the jet bound for Toronto ‘from: widely praised by U.S.’safety. officials: “I had ‘The three flight attendants didn’t: attend the sing meio. “Dallas. ‘Twenty-three people -survived, *tr the. easiest joh.'I just had to fly the plane.” - —-news conference, The senior attendant, Sergio _ However, he indicated a "eluding, the crew of five.’ ; ie ‘The first indi¢ations of trouble came when a ~bhennettl, 37,°who made an unsuccessful at- fo there be arranged. The plane was talked: down. by air-traffie . “ paagenger reported. smoke ‘and three circult tempt to'douse the fire with a hand ex- . there were a

‘Heard,” said,Cameron.: °°): : : “Things. really started ago bad tia a: hurry : ~: Everything had failed,.thére was ‘no, ‘way of. mowing | whether the aircraft was turning or

ere

The controller told ‘Cameron what tunes to... a make, when to start turning ‘and when to. stop. a

When the. platie pierced. the clouds Ouiet ‘bring the plane: down “like.a feather” on 2 of the Chancellory of Canadian Orders and Soviet forces . trom | "hada. “split-second”. of doubt. (0-4: . Runway 27 Left. He hit the brakes hard, ap- . “Decorations, said Ouimet and Cameron have ‘Afghantatan. L

_ To that the alrport was ms jut a ahead, the wo” pare tly cauting some of the a to burst. _ ‘beeei nominated for a national heroism award. gh ultz planned a seniea of

ne ee ee vs | bilateral meetings ‘ today, .

7 .. Healso was to meet withthe’.

fivecountry NATO. group

hino | killers. leave | slooc ly trail vhs ben cg

. . +. achdeying independence for

“CHIN, “Calif, (AP) — ” Items of evidence I'm nat at: Mesa,. who surrendered ‘initia Inteeviews Monday,.. day, before. the killings. ‘the South ‘Africa-

. Whoever” committed four | . Uberty to reveal.” vo, Tuesdaj,and confessed toa’ theboywhsuablé toprovide © Alboto Knori,31,heldona administered territory: of

brutal: murders. at a posh Ryen, and wife Peggy . liquor store holdup Monday . any useful information, said burglary” conviction, was Namibia, also known as

~ hiliside - home “left bloody Ann, both fi,..were slain night; said Costa . Mesa. San Bernardino sheriff's recaptured Monday in South-West Africa. Beaktes

~-sihbars, fingerprints, - " @lpthes:and: partly eaten - at thelr home, ‘Their ranch: house leas than 100. year-old Bon survived, na away, authorities .

wean Bemardino “County,

nearby. ranc*

The home had evidence

_ August Bulau, 33, “af

* the cockpit about 2:05 p.m -

along with their daughter -and a neighbor boy Sunday

: The last occupant: of. the | ranch house, a worker, ona

‘missing statign . Wagon in

> breakers controlling the toilet pump tripped in '

U.

5. officials. ‘reported that the pilot. radioed

vision was never impaired by smoke. . The plane finally-went into a normal descent, -

~ Only. half joking, Cameron said he was able to: .

Police Lieut, Tom Lazar. _Bulay,..booked foi. in- eight- . vestigation of robbery and » ~.. held at-the Costa Mesa City’ Jail :in: Jeu; of 25,000 ‘bail, * has “not been linked. witht

~told the ttitrder al- “this time,”

old Joshua - Ryen,: whose:

Costa University Hospital. In

Q mayday at 7:09 pan. to the Indianapolis air-’ ’: - oS traffic route contre] centre, which directed: the. "plane, to the nearest major aitport, Cincinnati. -_.Safety Board, with the help of the airline, the “, Contrary to earlier reports, Cameron said his * Blane’ s -manufacturer, McDonnéll-Douglas,

, Capt, Phil Schuyler.

A detective interviewing ‘Another prison escapee and = France and. West Germany. the boy Monday got him to ‘Oe bay Money 69. him to ‘ a local juvenile hall were Stultz ani his colleagues but nothing was legible and — still at large Tuesday. his Hmited verbal responses —

~ victims had been atabbed at

init that dade us to.belleve. Costa’' Mess.’ about: ¢4 throat was-elashed in the least 20 times and died Doyou want parts to.fix up your car. bv! your, er the pérson that waa in that kilometres southwentof the -attack : that killed ‘his within minutes of the - ‘unity ed paris oem cost ol-new. parts with home perpetrated the | scene of ‘the-erimes.°!.. parents, ‘aister. ‘Jessica atinck.

, murders of the (Douglas): : . Aman spotted near where _Ryen, 10, a playmate, Tidwell said investigators _ Ryen family,” he said. witness claimed to’have | Christopher Hughes, 10. also planned to talk with a S. K, B. AUTO SALVAGE “We found blood in’ the - _ gen the cay was in custody, ‘Joshud was in stable prisoner who escaped from ~ §35:2333 635 9095 ye -Fesidence, smears of blood, Tidwell sald. Detectives. condition. Tussday under the Chino tnatitution for 39-4999 OF O30- ee some clothes. {hat had been. were questioning, - Milton’ heavy guard at Loma Linda * Men, about elght kilometres q 3696 Duhan (just off Hwy, 16 E) ~

‘from the Ryen's home, the

~~. tinguisher; ia ‘visiting his sick father in Italy.

~ have returned home to Toronto. The main investigation into the fire is being | carried out by the U.S: National Transportation

control tallcs under. way: in Geneva, Switserland. On a ‘related: aubject,

some ‘movement -recently ' “on the positive side” in a UN-sponsored . effort. to -

| Canadian Transport ~Fepresontatfvear _In. Edmonton, David Johns, deputy director

_ Department

Temple City, 19 kilometres the United States, the group . ‘- northeast of Los Angeles. Includes Canada, Hritain, al7-year-old youth who fled . At the NATO’ meeting,

will review the status of the Tidwell

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‘breakthrough fn either of ¢ --Laura -Kayama,. 28, and Judy Davidson, go, thetwo-sets of nuclear arma - ~

Shultz said there had been ©

negotiate the withdrawal of - ‘

emphasized © U.S, talks with the Soviet.

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