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Y' I '7 TODAY'S 'NEWS TODAY Weather Forecast Low 55 High 72 Sunny. Winds Light Yesterday' Trmperatures Low 50 High 68 For details, ie page Ml 1 Serving Nanaimo and Central Vancouver Island For 98 Years Nanaimo, British Columbia, Saturday, July' 15, 1972 No. 77 15 20 Pages Friea 12c ly Carrier, 60c Per Week ULSTER VIOLENCE ifti(eini ii Day J. LJ (o3 7 21 1 Oil 'h3 On oil Eleven Dead rr i ilWil I 1( Jlj! II I Interior Workers Reject Package Offer Mr. Trineer said Industry's BELFAST (AP) A British! soldier and guerrilla gunman were shot dead in Belfast early today and shooting broke out in Londonderry as the Irish Re publican Army continued us ot-fensive across Northern Ireland.

Trnnrw in were fired on by snipers and claimed hitting two tneir attacKers. "We think one of them may have been killed," an army apokesman said. Eleven persons five soldiers and six civilians have been killed during the last 24 hours, raising the death toll in three years of communal fighting to 438. With the British government now fighting to salvage some nrnsnert fnr its four-month-old peace initiative, hundreds of Roman Catholics were neading for the Irish republican border and scores of families in the capital were leaving their homes to seek refuge in Belfast's strongly-guarded "no-go" strongholds. After a wfck of violence fol- lowing the collapse of the IRA's 13-day ceasefire last 'Sunday, manv nprsnns.

both Catholic and Protestant, feared the viol ence would hit a new peaK wis weekend. KILLED BY SNIPER The soldier was killed by a sniper shortly after midnight Friday night as an army patrol scouted Lenadoon Avenue, al ready the scene of bitter confrontations this week. At Lingoniel, on the outskirts 'Nt 7 It. I If 1 1 r'' W''iM--' 'i'i. i.

A- 'V 4:7 7.,, CXtA- "H'V VANCOUVER (CP) British Columbia forest industry negotiators on the coast were still hammering away at local issue negotiations today while in the southern interior, the union has rejected a package offer made Friday. The prospects for settlements in both disputes during the weekend appeared poor, indicating that a total of 34,000 International Woodworkers of America members will be officially on strike by Monday. about 4,500 of the 6,000 interior workers are off the job ahead of the IWA's .2 p.m. PDT Monday strike dead line, to back up demands for wage parity with the 28,000 members on the coast who con tinue a strike launched June 22. Friday's offer by the Interior Forest Labor Relations Associa tion was described as "in excess of the coast settlement" by IFLRA president Mike Davison.

He declined to disclose de tails of the package, made on behalf of '40 companies. SHORT OF PARITY But IWA chief negotiator Wy- man Trineer said it fell short of parity and "is not satisfac tory to the union negotiating committee. "There is absolutely no eco nomic justification for the in dustry not to give our member ship parity this year," 'he said. "We informed the industry of our position and are willing to resume negotiations at any time." The interior IWA, now lag' ging 14 cents an hour behind the coast, needs an 87-cent wage hike -wer' two years to match the coast settlement of 73 cents that will bring the base rate to $3.45 next year. Knifeman Shot By Bus Driver ivitif.

--J- PORTION OF SAWMILL COMPLEX SAVED Firemen from Lady smith, Chemainus and Crofton were able to control a fire which broke out early today in the Closed Doors Offer May Save Chess Series Vancouver Airport Steps Up Security Measures a result of the fire. Full story on Page 13. (Fre Press Staff Photo 'Which parts still like each Connally Lashes Out fit McGovern SAN Calif. (Reuter) President Nixon's election campaign against Sena' tor George McGovern is likely to use the argument that McGovern is a dangerous isolationist who has undermined Nixon's efforts to negotiate an end to the Vietnam war. This was the impression left 7" nf Belfast, four eunmen at tacked a Royal Marine position.

A military marksmen Killed one of the attackers as the group fled. TrooDs believed that another man also had been hit. They found a trail of blood leading away from the area. In Antrim, police stooped a car being used to transport a gelignite bomb and arrested a man. 'V Sfipuritv forces sealed off the shopping centre of Omagh in a midnight operation aimed at foiling guerrilla bombers.

Their barricades left a single entrance to the downtown area. SEAL OFF CENTRE Troops also sealed off the devastated city centre of London derry-today, where merchants have suffered an estimated za million damage from bomb explosions. Reinforced by 600 soldiers deployed from others parts of Ulster, the security forces manned barricades at entrances to the city. Every car and pedestrian entering the commercial centre was searched. Only a few shops were open for business.

At the same time, metal screens' 12 feet high were erected ori the fringe of the Bog-side, a Catholic "no-go" area in Londonderry and stronghold of the IRA. The corrugated iron screens went up in an attempt to stop the scores of sniping attacks against troops from inside 1 the heavily-barricaded area. was shot when he turned to leave the bus and was met at the' exit, by gunfire from another bus driver. That driver, who was at the terminal after driving a bus from Seattle to Ta had carried a pistol in his travel bag and rushed to the scene, Vejvoda said. The driver of the bus which carried the group from Portland said there had been no incidents during the trip which might have precipitated the attacks.

Ship Heads For N. Tests AUCKLAND (Reuter) The third protest ship to leave New Zealand for' the French Pacific nuclear test rone cast off from here today. The racing sloop Tamure fol lows the Greenpeace III and the Boy Roel into the area but, un like its predecessors, will sail directly to the test area at Mu-ruroa atoll and not stop at Rar-otonga in the Cook Islands. The Tamure, flying the red ensign and the coat of arms of the city of Auckland, is ex pected to take three weeks to reach the test zone. A report from Rarotonga said the Greenpeace III arrived there today but no report from the crew was available.

were 95 hijackings, of which 15 occurred under circumstances not related 16 pre-boarding screening. Of the 80 remaining instances, 28 have been identified as resulting from weapons brought aboard in, or alleged to have been contained in, carry-on baggage. Tipton, in reply, said he agrees in principle with Shaffer's proposal and would see that the matter has priority on the agenda on forthcoming airline conferences. United Air Lines, the largest United States carrier, said Thursday it would employ per sonnel to inspect luggage by persons boarding its 727 flights and continue its policy of mak ing spot checks of passengers boarding its other flights. American said it is inspecting all baggage at boarding gates for 727 flights and broadening nano-iuggage inspection other flights.

The 727 ias been a particular target of hijackers because of its rear door which can be, and has been, used for parachute escapes by extortionists. Eastern Airlines is inspecting all such lugpagei on its Boston-New York-Washington shuttle flights in accordance with President Nixon's instructions of last Friday. But the airline said it is not planning immediately to fconduct, similar inspections on its system, generally. TACOMA, Wash. (AP) A knife-wielding man who attacked five persons at a bus depot here Friday night was listed in critical condition today after being shot by a bus driver.

The five all were listed in satisfactory condition with stab wounds they suffered when the assailant suddenly attacked them on and off a bus, police laid. Police; identified the assailant as Alexander Murphy, 23, of a Mm a. They said he boarded tfie' bus in Portland, witty most of the other passengers. The Greyhound bus was scheduled to terminate its trip to Seattle after a Portland stopover. Detective John Vejvoda said the attacker stepped off the bus behind Linda Gail Chapman, 22, of Portland, then began stabbing her in the back.

When she fell, Vejvoda said, the man went back aboard the bus and began attacking passengers. Those injured were identified as John S. Hopkins, 63, Seattle; Luceil Osvold, 75, Portland, and Rita Kunz, 63, hometown unknown. The driver of another Greyhound bus at the terminal, Har-ley Virgil Powell, 57, of Ta-coma, went into the bus and tried to hold back the assailant, but also fell from stab wounds, Vejvoda said. Vejvoda said the assailant claim that the parity demand is a figment of imagination has led the majority of interior members to walk off their jobs this week without an official strike call.

what really precipi tated it," he said. The last interior contract ex pired. June 30, 15 days after expiration of the coast agreement. On the coast meanwhile, the IWA Friday filed a B.C. Su preme Court writ seeking, in effect, a court order that Forest Industrial Relations immediate- ly sign the contract accepted by the union membership last week.

WRIT FILED The writ asks for an injunc tion restraining FIR from refus ing or failing to conduct a vote of its 115 member companies on the memorandum of agreement signed by both parties on July 4. FIR this week deferred a vole pending settlement of disputes in 14 operations that the IWA had pulled out of the master agreement. FIR. president John Billings said Friday three of the disputes have been settled "and we are very close on a number of other operations." Meetings are being on local issues and progress is being made," he said. "We hope all matters will be resolved shortly." The coast strike the first in 13 years started June 22, but the IWA was ready to go back to work last Tuesday.

Mr. Billings said the union pulled the 14 operations out of the master contract talks "lo gain concessions over and above those" in the over-all settlement. vice-president, customer service. "We regret the inconvenience and the delays to passengers, but we must have security as long as the air piracy threat exists," another CP Air spokesman said. W.

J. Hartland, district sales and service manager for United, said the American airline is starting checks today on passengers taking its two daily flights south. Their hand lug; gage will be checked by airline personnel. R.D.K.- Scott, district manager in Vancouver for Western Airlines, the second U.S. carrier operating flights from here, sain" the line has been checking hand luggage for several months.

Air Canada also is continuing magnetometer and other checks, said a spokesman. The RCMP has increased its plainclothes presence at the airport. Miracle Chip Gives Trevino British Open MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP-Lee Trevino destroyed Jack Nicklaus" dream of glory with a miracle chip on the next to last hole, a shot that sent him winging to his second British Open golf championship today and left the Grand Slam still lacking a conqueror. Trevino finished with a total of 278 six under par-on rounds of 71, 70, 66 and 71. A remarkable rally by Nicklaus fell short and the American Masters champion finished second with a 279 aggregate.

He fired a 66 on the final day lo go with hie earlier rounds of 70, 72 and 71. Tony Jacklin of Britain, one stroke behind Trevino alter 54 holes, finished third with a total of 280. He had a final round of 72 after carding 69, 72 and 67 in his first three rounds. Doug Sanders, a veteran was fourth with a 70 today and 281 total. Brian Barnes of England came fifth with a 71 and 283 total and Gary Player of South Africa was next with a 285 total after firing Nicklaus birdtol five the first 10 holes fn his hid th keep alive his bid for the GranA Slam of the Masters, U.S.

and British Open and tic American' PGA and moved ahead of Trevino by one stroke. Doman Industries Nanoose Forest Products sawmill complex at Chemainus. The chipper plant and sawmill were' de-. authority to take the match away from the giant auditorium if either player requests on the grounds that he is being disturbed, the move can be only temporary until the disturbance has been" removed. DISTURBED FISCHER Fischer forfeited the second game of the series Thursday night when he didn't turn up because of the cameras.

Exclusive rights to visual coverage of the event are held by American businessman Chester Fox, who is not willing to remove the cameras. They have been repositioned at the sides of the stages so that only the lenses are visible and an Icelandic audio expert concluded after tests that the sound level did not increase when they were used. Paul Marshall, a lawyer for Fischer, arrived from New York today and. the American side immediately sought a reconvening of the tournament appeals committee:" U.S. officials said he had fresh evidence to strengthen Fischer's case following the committee's refusal to allow a replay of the second game.

The American side refused to discuss the nature of the "new evidence" or whether it touched upon the forfeiture or Fischer' stroyed but the planer mill, upper left, yas saved. The mill normally employs 42 men. about eight will be affected as demands that the television cameras around the stage be removed. They said only that the evidence was "substantial." But the sources said it was largely technical evidence about cameras. third Game Sunday? The third game was scheduled to start Sunday, with Fischer two games down, but the dispute appears to have put the contest in the balance.

Apart from the four-man appeals committee, the Americans are trying to bring an official of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) into the debate. In the absence of the FIDE's president, Dr. Max Euwe, who has chosen to remain in Amsterdam, the man being ap proached in Reykjavik is Canadian millionaire John Prentice, one of the vice-presidents. Prentice is chairman of the board of Canadian Forest Products, Vancouver. With the abandonment' of the world-title series apparently a real prospect, veteran chess experts believe it would wreck the 29-year-old American's' career.

They say there are parallels in chess history of players not abidin" by the rules or "acting in a wilfull manner" being shut out by the chess world. Charge Laid British rlorevmnn has hppn ar New Measures Ordered To Keep Guns Off Planes VANCOUVER (CP) CP Air and United Air Lines Friday an nounced they are stepping, up security measures at Vancouver International Airport as a result of the recent spate of skyjack' ings. CP Air said it now will apply to domestic flights the security measures previously applied only to international flights. This includes metal-detector checks for concealed weapons and checks of hand luggage "on occasion, said G. E.

Manning, Construction Dispute News Blackout VANCOUVER (CP) A news blackout was imposed Friday on talks aimed at obtaining a con, tract settlement with six con struction unions which are continuing to defy a government back-to-work order. Neither side would comment following the first formal meet ing to be held since talks broke down July 8 over a dispute in volving the Electrical Workers local in Kamloops. Construction Labor Relations Association, bargaining for the province's contractors, said it could not bargain while the Kamloops local had signed agreements with independent contractors. Union leaders charged the CLRA with trying to "sabotage' the negotiations. An informal meeting was held Wednesday and was successful in getting talks going again Friday.

Negotiations are expected to resume Monday. Eighteen construction unions originally were involved in a strike-lockout situation in May which shut down an estimated $500,000 worth of projects in the province. Twelve have since reached agreement, with CLRA. Meantime, the government has laid charges under the B.C. Mediation Act against a number of union locals.

The locals are charged with advising their members to disobey a cabinet order-in-council ordering an end to the strike and lockout. Several union locals have been successful in obtaining a B.C. Supreme Court ruling quashing search warrants used by the RCMP in looking for documentary evidence to support the Crown By STEPHEN CROALL REYKJAVIK, Iceland (Reuter) The organizers of the trouble-hit world chess championship today offered to move the match temporarily into a secluded back room of the playing hall to ensure that American challenger Bobby Fischer continues play. Fischer has complained that backstage television cameras distract him in the main halt But in the back room they would' not be present. The organizers' plan was disclosed to the American side at an emergency meeting today the day before the third game of the series is due to begin.

Apart from Fischer and world champion Boris Spassky, only the two match arbiters and three other functionaries would be allowed in the back room during play. Although chief arbiter Lothar Schmid of West Germany has Greeks Allege Plot To Kidnap John Kennedy Jr. ATHENS (AP)-The Greek government announced today the arrest of eight Greeks who it claimed planned to kidnap John F. Kennedy son of Jacqueline Onassis who lives part of the time on a Greek island. The government also announced that security police had arrested 'four West Germans, including a young woman, on charges of planning bombings, kidnappings and assassinations in Greece.

The government announcement said that the eight Greeks had patterned thefflselves after the Tupamaro urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay and that they sought to overthrow Greece's' military-backed regime. The announcement described the eight as being members of an organization called New Left. They range In age. from 23 to '5. They had planned to kidnap ambassadors, bankers, and such people as noted Groek-Anicrican businessman Tom Pappas and young Kennedy, the government said, The announcement said this information was divulged by the group ringleader, Christos Rama-danis, 31, during interrogation by military police.

CANADA'S HIGH-LOW Toronto R4 Dease Lake 41 WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration as asked the airlines for new measures to prevent weapons irom being brought aboard air- Manes in carry-on luggage. And several airlines have ken some steps to do so. Citing the alarming number of hijackings carried out with WORLD NEWS-IN BRIEF Japanese Ships Detained KODIAK, Alaska (AP) Four Japanese salmon vessels found fishing inside proscribed North Pacific waters have been detained until they can be turned over to their government, the coast guard said today. Bible Smuggling LONDON (Reuter) A by a blistering attack on McGovern by former treasury sec-r a John Connally nomi-dally a Democrat after a three-hour meeting with. Nixon Friday.

While Nixon remains temporarily out of the political battle, there seemed no doubt Connelly's remarks closely reflected the president's own feelings and foreshadowed the line Nixon will take when he personally enters the campaign. Nixon is believed to feel that McGovern's views are too far to the left for the majority of Americans. Connally's criticism of McGovern, made at a news conference arranged by the president at his home here, was the opening shot by the Republican side of what is expected to be a bitter, no-punches-pullcd election campaign. The most serious accusation by Connally was that McGovern has sabotaged the U.S, government's efforts to negotiate an end to the Vietnam war. He said there was no.

hope of a i negotiated settlement when Democratic presidential nominee pledged, before the eW't'nn, that he would pull out all U.S. forces and obtain Ithe release of all American prisoners within 90 days if elected. arms or explosives concealed in hand-carried luggage, the aviation administrator, John H. Shaffer, asked the a'irlines consider a "voluntary program-to bring about a significant reduction in such baggage." "If a passenger insists on carrying baggage into the cabin, it should be searched," Shaffer said in a letter to Stuart G. Tipton, president of the Air Transport Association, "In order to insure the integrity of a search, the carry-on baggage should be sealed and the unbroken seal shown to the cabin a tt en a during the boarding process." Shaffer added that if the airlines feature baggage stowage in the passenger cabin, the storage bins, might be locked at the point of departure, and the keys to We bins left-on the ground at 'that station.

The bins could be unlocked only hy the ground service agent at the point of arrival. I HIJACKINGS INCREASE I Shaffer said that from Jyly 1, -1969, through June 2, 1972, there in 'l rested in Czechoslovakia on charges of attempting to smuggle Bibles into the country, the foreign office said today, New Oil Deposit Found LAGOS (Reuter) A new oil deposit has discovered in Nigeria's continental shelf by Occidental Petroleum Co. A spokesman for the United States company said production from the new well has been initially estimated at. about 92,000 barrels a day." Hanoi Ready To Talk PARIS 'AP) Hanoi politburo mcmner Le Due Tho returned, to Paris today and said he is prepared to hold new secret talks with Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's foreign affairs advisers, if Kissinger has "something new'1 to discuss. 7' 7f 7.

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