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Court is — last hope

WASHINGTON (CP) — Envi- ronmentalists looked to a fed- eral appeals court today as probably their ‘last hope” in a battle to halt detonation of a giant nuclear warhead 6,000 feet underground on the isolated Alaskan island of Amchitka.

The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission says the blast, equal to five million tons of TNT, will go off no earlier than Friday. An AEC spokesman said no final decision has been made when the bomb will be detonated, But he said the process of plugging up the hole will take at least until Friday.

However, the U.S. has for- mally warned all foreign ship- ping to keep clear of the area and the Canadian government planned to send a plane to near the area to monitor the air for any radioactive leakage from the blast.

Lawyers for the Committee for Nuclear Responsibilily and six other groups planned to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington for a preliminary injunction halting the explosion.

Judge George L. Hart of the U.S. district court rejected Monday their pleas that the explosion might kick off ear- thquakes and tidal waves, kill Alaskan and Canadian wildlife or scatter radioactive waste into the air. He turned down their request to block the blast, final test of the five-megaton warhead for the new Spartan anti-ballistic missile system. LAWYER GETS PAPERS

After a week of tangled legal hassles, Hart also ordered the justice department to turn over to environmentalist lawyer David Sive secret government documents which Sive says con- firm environmental hazards of the blast.

Sive says the government suppressed conclusions from four government agencies that the biast is dangerous. Under

the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the govern- ment is required to consider the environmental consequences of anything it does and inelude them in an impact statement. Sive says the AEC statement, in effect, left out the bad news and included only the good.

The appeals court already has turned down one request for a stay of the test.

Should the appeals court turn down the environmentalists, Sive has said he'll go directly to the Supreme Court. The high court is not in session this week so the appeal for a temporary injunction would be considered by Chief Justice. Warren Burger.

Officiais of the conservation groups say they are pessimistic about the possibility of a favorable ruling from Burger. FINDS NO PROOF :

Judge Hart said the environ- mentalists did not prove to him that the blast would cause irre- versible damage to the environ- ment. He ruled the government was carrying out its national se- curity responsibilities in testing the warhead,

The state department said Monday foreign governments were being notified of the pend- ing blast and all passage of ships within three nautical miles of Amchitka has been sus- pended.

State department spokesman Charles Bray said notices were sent ta Canada, Japan, South Korea and the Soviet Union— countries that normally main- tain fishing fleets in the area.

An aircraft of Canada’s Na- tional Research Council will at-

‘tempt to monitor the air near

the Amchitka site of the explo- sion for radiation leakage,

But the plane, carrying four scientists, may not be able to pet closer than 50 miles to the Aleutian island nor lower than 18,000 feet,

We do not know what this: bomb. will do...

TORONTO (CP) — Chief “ Dan George said Monday In- dian religious thinking op- poses the United States under- ground nuclear blast set for Friday at Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands because ‘‘it is wrong to destroy anything created by the Great Spirit,”’

“We do not know what this bomb will do,” said the 72- year-old award-winning actor, from British Columbia’s Bur- rard reserve near Vancouver.

““Why can we not have con- fidence in it without testing it?” he asked during an inter- view at a Canadian Council of Christians and Jews banquet.

‘Chief George, who received the Order of Canada medal of service in Ottawa Friday, was one ofa number of prominent

Canadians who sponsored a s

$4,500 advertisement in the

Washington Post last week. The advertisement stressed

the dangers of a nuclear test

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Rev. Laura Butler officiated --at the afternoon ceremony,

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nieces: Miss. Julie: Roper of “Terrace: and Misa Betty : Bussanich of Prince Rupert.

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LONDON (CP) — The Queen rode through heavily-guarded slreets today to open the new ‘session of Parliament. A threat to bomb the legislative palace beside the Thames did not ma- terialize.

Reading from the throne the traditional speech prepared by the cabinet, the Queen outlined aheavy slate of proposed legis- lation dominated by bills to take Britain into the European Com: mon Market.

While hoping to sign next month the treaty adhering to the European Common Market,

(he government will make every ‘effort to maintain the strength

of the North Atlantic ailiance, to

“sustain the Commonwealth as- -

sociation and to uphold our other friendships and alliances throughout the “world,” the speech said:

Following two terrorist bomb- ings during the weekend, 4,000 extra police were on duty. in the heart of London today, and more than 500 Scotland Yard agents and police watched the progress of the royal coach carrying the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles.

Three helicopters also pa- trolled the royal route, and po- lice launches with frogmen guarded the River Thames ap- proaches to the Houses of Par- liament.

Some observers said the secu- rily measures were the most stringent ever for a British monarch in the capital.

Barbed wire was stretched around one building to keep out intruders, Netting above the entrance used by the Queen was taken down shortly before she drove up in the ornate state car- riage.

APPROVED PRINCIPLE

The last session of Parliament ended Oct. 28 when it gave ap- proval to the principle of joining the Common Market. Now the government has to press through a host of bills to bring British laws inte line with those of the six countries in the Euro- pean Communily.

The Labor harty has vowed to fight the Common Market legis- lation in an attempt to bring down Heath’s Tory government, This action could play havoc with other legislation, including

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VANCOUVER (CP) — Union leaders: representing about 70,000 B.C, workers’ declared their support Monday for a 30- minute work stoppage Wed- nesday to protest the proposed Arnchitka blast,

Acting on a call from the British Columbia Federation of Labor for all its affiliated mem- bers to stop work in a “shut-

. down for survival’ the Interna-

tional Woodworkers of America regional council led in asking its local unions “‘to co-operate to the fullest possible extent.’

The IWA has 39,000 members in B.C.

Also declaring support for the shutdown is the 13,000-member United Steelworkers of America. Local unions are deciding which operations can be safely shut down for half an hour at 11 a.m. PST Wednesday.

The steelworkers previously told mine workers to stay on the surface on the day of the blast as a safety precaution. URGES SUPPORT

Carpenters union president

Arnold Smith Monday “strongly urged” his union’s 13,000 mem- bers to take part in the protest,

The B.C. and Yukon Building and Construction Trades Council has endorsed the shutdown but most of its af- fillated unions were to meet

’ today to make a decision on the

protest.

The Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union urged its 2,500 members to join the

protest.

Pramone the unions that were to meet to discuss the protest call were the longshoremen, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and. Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents Vancouver’s bus drivers,

The Teamsters Union, which _ is not affiliated to the federa- “tion, rejected the shutdown protest,

Teamsters joint council pre- .

sident Ed Lawson said: - “T don’t believe in any sort of

self-inflicted punishment as a-

form of protest. I mean, why

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Council to monitor air radiation level

- OTTAWA (CP) — A National Research Council aircraft will attempt to monitor radiation levels in the air near Amchitka Island for radiation when the U.S, detonates a five megaton suclear bomb there later this week,

But the plane, carrying four scientists, may not be able to

get closer than 50 miles to the -

Aleutian Island nor lower than 18,000 feet.

Spokesmen in the NRC and in the environment department, which is co-ordinating the flight, said the plane will leave

Ottawa today, arrive - at’

Elmendorf Air Force Base near -

Anchorage Wednesday and then fly to Adak Island, 150 miles east of Amchitka,

The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission has announced that the underground blast, equal to five million tons of:

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countries that the blast may damage the environment, has

given his personal go-ahead for the ‘test.

“The U.S. -has put out a NO- TAM—Notice to Airman—that planes will not be allowed closer

than 50 miles to Amchitka or.

lower-than 18,000 feet on the day

_ Of the test,

The Canadian governm ent,

however, has asked for special .

permission to fly closer to the island to take measurements, + On the plane will be a spec- trometer to monitor gamma

rays, one type of radiation: pro- |

duced by nuclear explosions,

_ anda device to-take air samples.

to determine whether there is any venting of short-lived radio- isotopes from the blast, .

SANDY WANTS OUT “LOS ANGELES (AP) — San- dra Kay Duncan, ster of the Funny Face television series, wae filed a suit to end her three- Marriage to_actorsinger

couple. were married in Sep- tember, 1968, and separated last Aug. § 30.

[No bomb | 70,000 B.C. workers to protest the blast —

"penalize the ss eniplagera or take

a pay cut for.a day when. it of- fers no hope .of stopping. the.

blast.”

The unions who declared their

support for the shutdown did not say whether their membership expected to be paid for the time

re WORK, NO PAY.

F. G. Peskett, president of the Employers’ Council of B.C., ‘said unions should not expect thelr members to he paid for the half hour they do not work,

“The management -polnt of view is that it’s not a very logical way of making a protest, but If some people decide they're not going to work for half an hour I supposé they

won't work,” he said,

“However, they're not going.

to be paid either,” Mr. Peskett alzo criticized the timing of the propased walkout.’ “{t’s hard to imagine people working until 11 a.m., stopping

work until 11:30, golrig. back to .

work until noon ‘and then stop-

"ping for lunch.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Phoebe W. Ephron, 57, Broadway play- wright and Hollywood screen- writer, died Wednesday after a long illness, In ‘collaboration with her husband, Henry

_ Ephron, she wrote such Broad- ~way comedy hits as Three's a

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