‘3 Born in Belfast, she now lives with her husband and children in Toronto ~ as does her character Sarah Mtwell. 72 “T feel a bit homeless as a Writer,” sald the former Winnipegger. feeling. When I go t fo. BBR lelfast, I don’t feel at home . , 2 snymore." a: <‘<Harrs said she and her Gharacter have similar Lings about Belfast. ‘It's : ehate. That's about the . best way of summing it up. | Keep telling myself [ won'l back, but J can’t help but back. ii) = Harte’s novel is set in Bel: fast, where Caldwell, a velist in her own image, ta promote a book.

a a Mavor Moore has nothing Hgainst national defence, but fhe Canada Council chair. gnan «ss thinks = ‘‘there’s

something screwy” when the -

éouncil's entire arts support budget is less than the cont of

“It's oa.

demands’ and pressures,"' has $10 ‘million less to spend than it had in 1975, Moore said during a recent trip to Calgary.

“The funds are inadequate for the job we are doing and totally inadequate for the job we should be doing.”

It's no April Fool's joke, says Calvin Sterk, who has

’ puta large white sign outside

his home that reads: “‘To the

- thieves who stole my belong-

ings: I will buy them back for top dollar. Suit is $75. Radio is $50.""

Two weeks ago, while the 30-year-old Grand Rapids, Mich., man was attending a used-book sale, thieves broke through the back door of his house and took three suits, a combination radio- cassette tape player, a walch and $12 in silver coins.

He admits the idea for the sign was impulsive. “I had heard of someone else who had goods stolen and the

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put his money where his

mouth is. :

A Toronto corporation, un- happy with the way the Leafs are playing, offered Harold Bal-lard, owner of the National Hockey League Club, $110 Tuesday for controlling interest in the team.

David Kadis, a spokesman for King Key Corp. Lid., said the paltry sum is al] his firm _ feels the team currently is worth.

Kadis insists the offer is not a joke, saying Ballard could write the team off ag a tax logs,

He says his firm is willing

‘to spend up to $15 million

during the next five years to make the Leafs a winner, He blames poor management for the club's disappointing showing this season and said Ballard 1s only in hockey to make money.

Hecklers disrupted a speech Phyllis Schlafly was

the booing and yelling became extremely loud.

Saying she can't imagine “a greater takeaway of women's rights than an involuntary draft,” Schlafly chastised the feminist movement for supporting the ERA amendment. -

Meanwhile, feminist Betty

Friedan has called for a -

return to volunteerism, saying the public cannot rely on the government to Provide social programs. Friedan ' acknowledged that the feminist movement has opposed volunteeriem since it could exploit women. But she added that the movement must return to a reliance on volunteerism by both sexes and noted that the early feminista in the National Organization for Women were all volunteers.

In Las Vegas, singer Frank Sinatra, who produced Presi-dent Ronald

Reagan, but his publicist, Lee Solters, said’ the singer was “too shocked and overcome by this situation to ‘tall about it.”

Sinatra, who opened at the resort last week, has can- celled all shows through

Rita Jenrette insists she doesn’t go “looking for publicity,” but somehow, ‘it just finds me.”

And as with Margaret Trudeau, the more people asked, the more Jenrette told. And judging from the Une-up for interviews when she held a news conference

in Toronto this week, they're

asking plenty.

Jenrette, 31, who posed mide for Playboy magazine to help pay her Congressman husband’s legal fees after he was charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Abscam affair, was in Toronto to

LONDON (Reuter) —- The Unification Church, a religious sect commonly known as the Moonies, lost the longest and most ex- pensive libel] suit in English legal history Tuesaday and

was ordered to pay costs

estimated at more than 915 million,

Dennis Orme, 42, leader of the Moonies in Britain, claimed damages against the London Daily Mail for an

article in 1978 which accused -

the Moonies of brainwashing

‘converts and breaking up - families. . .

The jury, after six months of evidence from more than 100 «witneases, decided unanimously that the Daily. Mail -was justified in Its! accusations.

The Moonies, who have followers in North America

and elsewhere, are led by. South Korean Sun Myung .

Moon. The jury, in a rider to its

verdict, said the Unification Church's tax-free charitable status in Britain should be investigwted by the government's inland revenue department ‘‘on the grounds that it is a political organization.”

The editor of the Daily Mail, David English, who applied the estimate of the costs, commented: "We ga this verdict for what I saw as & plece of real campaigning journatism."

_ Orme told reporters that the verdict would not be much of a setback for the

' Moonies.

““In a court of law, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose," he tad reporters. ;

During the trial, which began last October, jurors heard a long sticcession of witneiaes,, many of them current or former Moonles,

and some of them distraught’

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