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VV '1 4' U' iU 4 4f S' 'LL Th 1 va WJJ coot A 7 a r' A v( 4 iV 1: A' 'li Aj 'C HAMILTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY APRIL 2 1980 VOL CXXXm NO TO METRO EDITION 64 PAGES 20 CENTS ii 1 i rt coalition New obstacle to Chrysler aid INSIDE Carter bounces back year be ME McCall said produced in company in Liberals NDP discussed UNERAL MASSACRE Boy Scouts saved Bishop Reding 7: RONALD REAGAN Runaway leader JIMMY CARTER Easy victory Terms not met says Bani Sadr STRIKE ONE Exhibition baseball called off 21 riends of Mr Stepanov believe he was pressured by the Soviets into leaving and the director of the New Jersey ballet where Mr Stepanov was return to Moscow a mystery dlse trade this cause of a US recession expected this summer TEHRAN (CP) President Abolhassan Bani Sadr says US Presi dent Jimmy Carter met his terms for removal of the US hostages from speeding up negotiations on new contracts with MgHr wages we nave specified Mr Bani Sadr told a rally yesterday the council would agree to take con trol of the hostages until the new Iranian parlia ment decides their fate if the US government pledges to abstain from all hostile action and pro paganda against Iran until their fate was decided by the new parliament ooo page25 WEATHER OUTLOOK: Mainly sunny tomorrow Low tonight 32 (OC) high tomorrow 47 (8C) DETAILS: Page 3 Trade surplus hits high GERALD BROWN Bows out Mr Bani Sadrs condi tions Statement Asked whether the si lence meant acquiescence a senior White House aide took a look at his 12 per cent showing in Wisconsin and in fact bit the dust voluntarily Mr Brown quit the Democratic contest after snendine a month of his time and $300000 in hard to ralse cash in a final effort to get his campaign moving Among the dwindling list of Republican hope fuls Mr Bush and Illinois Congressman John Anderson face similarly bleak prospects The Carter victories are likely to take some of the pressure off the presi dent who is engaged in a haffUng dialogue with Iran to secure the release of 50 American hostages con fined at the UJS embassy in Tehran for 151 days Now it seems more likely the president will stick to his Rose Garden strategy 24 bour strike today lea lng patients in many Ita lian hospitals without food and proper medical care I except in emergency and tatetnlve care wards The strike was called to OTTAWA (CP) The merchandise trade bal ance soared to a seasonal ly adjusted surplus of $815 million in ebruary It was the biggest monthly increase in more than a year Statistics Canada reported today January surplus was $317 million Decemb $658 million The monthly trade report says strong gains in exports food feed minerals and lumber more than offset a decline in imports such as motor vehicles and non ferrous metals Despite the large sur plus there are underlying signs of weakness in the trade picture which ap pear to support govern ment and private sector forecasts of a lower trade surplus this year com Cared with a record $41 illion in 1979 or instance the rate of increase in exports has been slowing more than the rate for imports since last October orecasters anticipate It was the third attempt to kill Lemus Gallardo in three years Authorities blamed the latest try and the others on leftists who oppose gov ernment because it sup ports El junta The US Salvador Cul tural Centre was invaded by 15 masked persons armed with automatic weapons They set off three bombs causing minor damage but no inju ries to the secre tary the only employee present Boy Scents page 7 rom Washington Post 'WASHINGTON A Soviet ballet dancer wbo defected to the United States in January and appeared to be enjoying Ms new life suddenly and mysteriously left for Moscow last nightwith Soviet officials Yuri Stepanov 32 a soloist with the State Department and the Immigration and NatoniizatkMi Service however met with Mr Stepanov in the presence of two Soviet consular officials at the State Department yesterday By JIM TRAVERS Southam News in a telephone interview waa absolutely glad to be out of the Soviet Union ana told me he had been planning his defection for five years Mr Stepanov left New Jersey last Thursday morning and disappeared Government officials later leaned he had apparently spent three days at the Soviet Embassy in Washington The Soviet embassy notified the State Department Monday that Mr Stepanov wanted to go back to the Soviet Union ORT BRAGG NC (AP) The US Army is checking thousands of parachutes since a parachute rigger was charged with murder in the death of an officer killed when his chute dd not open The rigger Private Alvin Williams 20 was charged yesterday and is being held in jail Private Williams is accused of sabotaging the parachute used by Captain Lawrence Hill killed last Wednesday when his main parachute did not open during a jump at ort Bragg many seats it would make sense to add i who would benefit and so on and there was a casual reference and only that to a coalition Mr assistant press secretary Susanne Perry said: office has no comment to make on it none at Denial The coalition question was raised when Southam News received information that Mr Trudeau and Mr Broadbent had met to discuss coalition as a mutually advantageous method of gaining access to the government' decision making process and bringing'' elected representatives from the West into the government According to information received by Southam News the discussion ranged over what cabinet positions might be assigned to NDP members It failed to produce results because the NDP Insisted on getting more both in terms of numbers and clout in cabinet A spokesman for the NDP denied that the discussion ever got as far as dealing with cabinet jobs for NDP members Mr Broadbent said he could not remember whether it was he or Mr Trudeau who had first raised the subject of the coaliton By DON SELLAR Southaip News WASHINGTON April Day held no un pleasant surprises for US President Jimmy Carter and former California governor Ronald Reagan As expected the two likely finalists in the Nov 4 US presidential ballot ing trounced their oppo nents in the Wisconsin and Kansas primaries Mr Carter bounced back stronger than expect ed from a pair of stunning upsets administered by Senator Ted Kennedy a week earlier in the New York and Connecticut Democratic primaries And Mr Reagan a runaway leader for the Republican presidential nomination recovered NDP sources confirmed yesterday that Prime Minister Trudeau and Mr Broadbent touched on the subject of a coalition when they met a few days after the eb 18 election to discuss the NDP proposals for a proportional representation system to be attached to the electoral system However spokesman for the NDP stressed that the talk did not go beyond the stage and Mr Broadbent insisted that the subject was seriously The spokesman said that the final rejection of the coalition idea was not delivered to the Liberals by the NDP until about 24 hours after Mr Trudeau and Mr Broadbent met He said the rejection came after the question had been considered by senior party people and rejected unanimously Mr Broadbent said the idea of a coalition up very we went on very quickly to something that was more relevant because from my point of view in a majority government situation that was not relevant want to be completely honest and frank about the thrust of the conversation and what the real serious discussion was all about was the proportional representation idea how SAN SALVADOR (AP) Leftists shot up the Guate malan car and set off bombs in the US Salvador Cultural Centre yesterday And two Dutch TV reporters were wounded by men they described as soldiers Hospitals on strike ROME (Reuter) 500000 hospital workers 'and went to the United States embassy there tceirti asylum They said after a lengthy questioning session they uncover evidence he was being forced to leave against his will "They got the impression that be did want to go an official said Mr Stepanov had stayed a month with Yuli Vzorov 1 who had been Ms teacher about 10 yean ago in the Soviet Union absolutely sure be wanted to stay in tMs Mr Vzorov said Mr Carter told White House reporters shortly afterward that the offer was a develop and that he will defer imposing further the control of the militants sanctions against Iran holding them However Mr Carter re Mr Bani Sadr said the Patedly ignored report Revolutionary Council questions as to wheth take custody of the er he intends to accede to a a Ifd DahI Cflflata aamJI captives until ne does is not important to us what opinion President Carter has expressed Mr Bani Sadr said in a statement distributed bv Pars the official Iranian said government is news agency is not aware that it has save Chrysler from breacMng the pact the official said But industry observers expect lafge car sales to continue to suffer this year as high fuel cost? and interest rates force consumers "to continue buyirig compact and sub compact cars now expected breach of the pact has already aggravated the political situation surrounding the request for federal aid Industry Trade and Commerce minister Herb Grav whose Windsor West riding has a high percentage of Chrysler workers is now considering the request for a The automakers have until July 31 to package of subsidies and loan guarantees declare their sales and production figures but said to total up to $750 million only a major buyer shut to larger cars will Chrysler misses pagelt The leftists fired 12 bullets into the ambassa car as they passed the Guatemalan Embassy in a pickup truck yester day None of the bullets hit Ambassador Carlos Lemus Gallardo or Ms chauffeur The real April fool yes terday turned out to be Mr Kennedy who was said to be close to Mr Carter at least in Wiscon sin But the feeling of eu phoria that had broken out In the Kennedy camp after New York and Connecticut turned out to be a mirage as Mr Carter wMpped him in Wisconsin by 56 per cent to 30 per cent and In Kansas by 56 to 32 Needs win Mr Kenndy now des perately needs a win against the Incumbent president to stay in the Democratic race The latest round of primaries the last for three weeks brought all the underdogs closer to the end of the 1980 presi from his minor defeat by aenuai campaign trau former CIA chief George One of them California Bush In Connecticut Governor Jerry Brown car hit by shots CALLING? TORONTO (CP) This April Joke was a little hard to bear for staff at the Metropolitan Toronto zoo It seems there are pranksters who get together every April Day to leave telephone messages for unsuspecting citizens They pose as tax andlton and leave names like aulks Wolfe or Lyon and with it they leave a number to cafi ne number Is a private line at the zoo where eight staff members dutifully take calls from puzzled residents wbo figure they are in trouble with Revenue Canada By noon yesterday they had handled LM6 calls By BEN TIERNEY Southam News OTTAWA The possibility of a Liberal NDP coalition to achieve West em representation in the present government has been discussed by i party leaders Pierre Trudeau and Ed Broadbent Chrysler spokesman Walt sagging US sales of models Canada may have put the jeopardy of breacMng the pact Chrysler was unable to provide detailed statistics yesterday but the US sales slump nas pusnea production across the industry down about 30 per cent so far this year news agency is nof aware that it has important is whether or engaged in any hostile not he takes the measures action or provocation The nMcirtnnt'c MmarUa aam stltute our statement on this matter I think I have made myself abundantly A member of the Revo lutionary Council said it will meet tomorrow to discuss Mr re sponse to Mr Bani Sadr ailure to comply with that key section of the pact Could lead to a manufacturer losing its tax exemnt status and being forced to pay TnnnNTn inanHaiiv trnnhiori nhrvsipr minions of dollars in duty tor cars 11 Canada Ltd is expected to breach a key section oi tne auto pact inis year mrowmg another obstacle in the path of proposed federal aid for the corporation Senior federal officials yesterday they do not expect the company to produce enough cars in Canada tMs year to maintain its duty exempt status under the controversial trade agreement That agreement signed in 1965 stipulates manufacturers must maintain a ratio of vehicles produced here on a net sales value basis to the number the company sells in Canada in a year Man held in chute murder Major Tom Woods public affairs officer at ort Bragg said the 82nd Airborne Division is rechecking several thousand parachutes to see whether the alleged sabotage is more widespread Parachute riggers in Private Williams unit are responsiMe for packing all chutes used by the division 'Major Woods who said others are being questioned about the case confirmed reports that the line" in Captain main parachute had been cut and it was thought to be deliberate Better late than never 9 Tom Longboat left and his brother Ted proudly been given by Toronto as payment for a examine the tarnished trophy their dad famed runner $500 debt the city owed their father dating frorri Tom Longboat won in Buffalo in 1909 The brothers 1907 With interest that debt has grown to $10000 will refurbish the trophy with part of the money Story on page 1 0 Picture by Bob Chambers mi mb Of JH Mk Jfe BRSp ohK JJMHIw 4 Wflft Uft' SaHfc i PLUS No charges in Milton stag 1 1 Edith stifled for good 50 Arm Landers 5Z Area news 10 Bridqe 1 5 Business 16 Careers 17 Chess 15 Classified 33 Canes 62 Crossword 63 Deati notices 33 Edrtonais 6 Entertamment 50 ront Line Horoscope 62 Local news 7 MORE 25 Sports 2t Stan McNea 52 Television 51' Women's 3 MOjwE bl UWy as A BL tM afe a 1 1 OUL Better late than never 9 Tom Longboat left and his brother Ted proudly been given by Toronto as payment for a examine the tarnished trophy their dad famed runner $500 debt the city owed their father dating frorri Tom Longboat won in Buffalo in 1909 The brothers 1907 With interest that debt has grown to $10000 will refurbish the trophy with part of the money Story on page 1 0 Picture by Bob Chambers.