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PAGE 2 OTTAWA JOURNAL Edmonton 10 25 Frederlcton 13 27 Halifax 11 21 Montreal 14 16 Peterborough Ouebec'City 14 17 Regina 7 22 St. John Nfld 14 24 17 20 Vancouver 13 20 Victoria 11 17 Whitehorse 5 20 Winnipeg 1 22 13 20 INTERNATIONAL Yesterdoys high Acaputcp 32 Amsterdam 20 Athens 33 Barbados 30 Bermuda 26 Bonn 14 Boston 31 Brussels 25 Chicago 12 Dublin Geneva Hong Jerusalem Lisbon London Los Angeles Madrid Mexico Miami Moscow New Delhi New York Oslo Paris Rome San Francisco San Juan Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Washington Forecast weather systems for noon today OOBMHRStNJO.H.f'1, Armed 'traditionalist' Indians watch and wait in the searing heat of their bunker Saturday Journal team goes into bunker) as armed Indians await attack By Mike Strobel JOURNAL REPORTER The place fit anyone's idea of what a Viefnam War encampment must have looked like indeed, of the Indians holed up were Vietnam veterans under arms again. Through the telescopic sights of a bolt action rifle and through a gap in the bunker's plastic sandbags I could see the New York State troopers arrayed on the roof of an automotive plant looking back at me over their shotguns from 400 yards away. But those of us crouched in the dugout, including photographer Gorm Larsen and five young "traditionalist" Mohawks, couldn't see the line of other St. Regis reservation members, bristling with rifles and waiting on the main Reporter Strobel highway half a mile away.

They had been threatening for two tense days to attack and oust the five Indians manning our dugout and the other some 60 besieged "longhouse people." And they were just out of view. Ominous news In the bunker, the two-way radio squawked. The 30 or so state troopers posted on the highway, the radio said, had been spotted forming along the Raquette River, one of (he few open routes to the encampment through its defences, and it appeared the long-anticipated battle was going to happen. We'd been given a hint of that earlier, from a state trooper back on the highway who suggested that things could get rolling at two o'clock that Saturday afternoon. We gave that bit of ominous news to the CBS television crew that we joined for the speedboat ride across the St.

Lawrence River from the Canadian side to the encampment's rear just after noon. They got their interviews in the compound with the traditionalists' leaders and caught the next boat back. Troopers hold off In Ihe bunker, with its collection of Molotov cocktails, the young Indians visibly tensed and their interest in displaying their weaponry and the state troopers on: the roof opposite dropped to almost nothing. They had talked of refusing to budge if the police and or the Indians on the highway attacked and they weren't moving anywhere now. As it happened, the troopers held off, apparently responding to the pleas of a U.S.

government negotiator to have patience. In the searing heat of the bunker, before the alarm dissolved, Larsen and I had a hurried conference. We decided to get his film, and incidentally us, the hell out of there, and politely staved off invitations to stay. We walked back along the path from the bunker, through a newly-sanded stretch of open land that ended in a narrow trench and the small man-made escarpment on which sat the encampment's four buildings and scattered tents. Early morning blast Two hours later, Michael Mitchell, a friend of the traditionalists and the director of a small Indian culture-orjented school, whom we, met on the Canadian side, said "Well, you know that area is mined." We hadn't known that.

While the traditionalists themselves refused to discuss the "defences other than what's visible, for security reasons," Franklin County Sheriff Percy Lyons told us that "we don't know for sure that that place is landmined, but I'm not sending any men In there to find out." Shortly after 3 o'clock that morning a blast from the area under siege was heard-by several people, including an OPP officer and others at the nearby Canadian Customs. The Indian school director said he'd been told by the traditionalists that a dog had strayed into the area and somehow set off one of the small mines. Mines or not, there could be no question that the-men and women in the encampment meant it when they promised to defend their small comer'of the reservation with their lives. All but a few of the men still in the compound before word of the troopers' movement came down had gone when we got back from the bunker. Young gunmen The handful of children who had been playing on a swing or riding the backs of their rifle-toting fathers had been dispatched out of harm's way.

What teenagers were left In the compound were preparing to join their fathers and older brothers. A youth who couldn't have been older than 16 and wh6 carried a rifle slung over his back shrugged off questions with: "Sorry, I have to go get my orders." The women carried medical supplies up from the dock or worked In the kitchen preparing sustenancfor the men on patrol, in the foxhole guard posts dotting the woods, and In the open field bunkers. 'Our backs are to the river and we're not ready to jump In," 26-year-old Beverly Boots had said earlier. And the women knew weaponry. While we were waiting to leave the camp, I sat down with a clearer near a tree overlooking the dock.

Under the tree was a box containing what looked like plain bottles. Three women walked quickly across from the nearby kitchen and were asking if I wanted to see any other part of the encampment before I'd even had a chance to settle down. After the women had politely edged me, and my cigarette, well clear of the box, Larsen, who served in the Danish air forceand military police from 1958 to me the bottles were parts of Molotov cocktails ready for use. The impressive supply of arms had been gradually building over the year since the traditionalists had laid claim to the 20-acre comer of the reservation. The rebels weren't saying where the weaponry was coming from, but it is known that the militant American Indian Movement has been involved in keeping the encampment going for the past year.

The traditionalists said they also had support from several foreign groups. Broken friendships The reservation members supporting the band council repeatedly threatened photographers whenever they pulled out cameras and many refused to answer reporters' questions. The people In the camp acted in much the same way the weapons aside as people in rural communes in Ontario. Tom Porter, one of the leaders, was a mild-mannered man who carried a young child on his shoulder and talked about the divisions the conflict has rent in families and friendships. Beverly Boots said the "longhouse people" were really battling the state troopers and not so much the Indians alongside police lines on the highway.

"We are defending our national sovereignty," she said. "The real outsiders here aren't us but the state police." A typewritten message sent Friday in reply to an ultimatum from the Indians on the highway said in part: "If we do not survive this assault, our hopes are that in the future our children will carry out their duties to the best of their ability." Though bloodshed had seemed inevitable for two days, the assault never came. Sunny and mild, with a high of 15 Ottawa Sunny with cloudy periods loday and high of 1 5. Clear overnight with low near 5. Tomorrow, sunny with high near 1 7.

Looking ahead Wednesday's forecast is lor cloudy skies with showers. For the record Yesterday's high 14.0C; low 10 4C; Record high: 31.7C. 1949 low: 3.3"C. 1964 Humidity (noon): 96 Precipitation: 1 .8 mm rain Today's sunset: 8:53 Tomorrow's sunrise: 5:13 Barometer at 1 0 p.m. 1 01 .0 kPa.

and rising. NATIONAL Calgary 7 24 Chartottetown 16 .20 WEATHER 16 38 12 23 29 32 27 21 19 25 20 29 29 .18 "38 29 21 21 27 23 34 23 17 32 29 34 I I High rratMira raS- Vi AAWorn Front i. corporate affairs department relax some of its existing safety standards for children's car seats. The team said in a report to Consumer Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet that standards limiting forward, vertical and lateral head and body movements to 45, 37.S and 67.3 centimetres respectively, should be changed to. aHow forward movement of 80 centimetres and vertical movement of 90 centimetres.

No specific dimensions for lateral movement were recommended. Jsts questioned The report said those current limits to a child's survival space in a car seat were too restrictive but recommended the new limits be applied on an interim basis until better ones are. formulated. "The real problem of the survival space concept may well be that current test conditions are inappropriate to assess the complex interaction in real life accidents, involving the whole vehicle system as well as the xhild restraint system on a vehicle the report said The problem of creating truly adequate standards from realistic testa and data has plagued the three-man team since it was formed in 1978. i.

MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1980 Children's catr seat law 'too tough' A team of government consultants This Was graphically Illustrated last has recommended the consumer and July when snectators at a nubile hear- ing here oohed and aahed as dummies of children smashed into dashboards, their necks snapping in a film of car seat tests at a Buffalo, N.Y., test facility. The film illustrated Calspan claim that methods used to test car seats must be changed and different criteria developed to measure potential stresses on real children. Representatives of six car seat manufacturers only two of them Canadian echoed that when they told chief investigator G.B. Williams that the only reliable, but obviously unacceptable, method for testing the seats would Involve children in real car accidents. Canadian prcss Blaze destroys hotel near Hull An investigation is scheduled for today into a fire in Sainte Cecile-de-Masham early yesterday that destroyed the 60-year-old Hotel Le Ma-chimo.

Officials said it took firemen six hours to bring the fire under control. No estimate of damages was "available. Sainte Cecile-de-Masham is about 50 km north of Hull. The Mayor and Members of Nepean City Council cordially invite you to attend the OFFICIAL UNVEILING OF THE CITY OF NEPEAN FLAG Tuesday, June 17, 1980 at 2:00 p.m. at NepLn City Hall 3825 Richmond Road Nepean, Ontario The Nepean Concert Band will perform from 1:40 p.m.to 2:00 p.m.

In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held Wednesday, June 18, 1980 at 2:00 p.m. Dear Residents: It gives me great pleasure as Mayor on behalf of Nepean City Council to participate in this historic and symbolic unveiling of our City Flag. It is appropriate that the Nepean Bell, analogous with our heritage, be the focal point of the Flag. By way of explanation, the Nepean Bell originally hung in belfrey of the old town hall (345 Richmond Road), which was constructed in 1896. While its functional value, as a means to alert the volunteer fire brigade and sound the daily curfew, has dissipated, its location in front of City Hall, 3825 Richmond Road, serves as an important link, with our early history.

The three architectural supports encasing the Nepean Bell symbolize the family unit of father, mother and child, the basic fabric of society. The circle encompassing the Nepean Bell and the supports recognizes the significant contribution made by the family in fostering a spirit of unity and fortitude throughout the community. The three architectural supports also form an abstract The banner of white running diagonally across the flag depicts the constant evolution and enrichment of our community from its inception as a rural township in 1849 to its maturity as a city. The rich green bachground is representative of the wealth of open public lands, parklands and rural lalds which add a valued dimensions to the quality of life enjoyed by residents. I sincerely entreat Of the City of Nepean to join in demonstrating the pride we share in unveiling our City Flag.

Kindest regards, Sincerely, li Ben Franklin MAYOR.