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MONTREAL, THURSDAY, JULY 3. 1980 203rd YEAR" PRICE METROPOLITAN RA 72 PAGES FINAL EDITION The LEADER in equipment and protein supplements "on sate throughout Canada and around the world. ESJG 'stiislla? jr computer goes awry JAPANESE CLOUT SALES OF SCOTCH LONDON (Special) It's enough to make any Scot's blood boil. Scotch whisky, Scotland's national drink and one of Britian's most lucrative exports, is taking a beating among the world's drinkers. Sales have been falling alarmingly for more than a year.

And helping to deliver the KO punch to the erstwhile top tipple is a Japanese variety made from local grain spirit blended with the real thing malt whisky bought cheaply in bulk from Scotland. Increasingly, Japanese-made whisky is being exported to compete with Scotch on the world fm Sin tween the controllers and the airport administrations. "The whole system here was made to be used only until 1974," he said. "We're six years overdue." Once the failure was discovered, Amato said, the controllers began to compensate for it getting basic information from the pilots themselves. Amato said the breakdown was not the first time the computers fed controllers the wrong information.

after that, the computer failed totally. We were very lucky tonight" The computer, located at JFK airport, serves Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports as well as assorted smaller satellite airports in the area. "The failure resulted initially in confusion, several possible close encounters of aircraft, and increased the possibility of a major air disaster," Amato said. The computer system has been a long-standing source of contention be A MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union yesterday rejected any further unilateral troop withdrawals from Afghanistan effectively dismissing West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's proposal that a timetable be set for a total pullout. The Communist Party newspaper Pravda said the only conditions under which Russian troops will be removed were those outlined by the Afghan government of Babrak Karmal.

The United States and most other it lV when the service would be restored. Before the computer broke down completely, it began feeding the controllers erroneous information, said Paul Amato, president of professional air traffic controllers organization. One of the errors, Amato said, involved incorrect information about the location of a small aircraft the controllers were tracking. "It went through the path of six or seven very large jets before we discovered the error," he said. "Right L.

1 V. V' 1 A to. .4 Wife to decide: Will we end it? By DAVID JOHNSTON of The Gazette Boxer Cleveland Denny of La-chine hovered near death last night almost two weeks after he took a battering in the Canadian lightweight title fight at the Olympic Stadium on June 20. Gaetan Hart, Canadian light-. weight champion and the man who knocked out Denny, said he felt badly but talked more of his hopes for a world title match in September.

Denny's wife Clarine was this morning pondering suggestions from doctors that she agree to have his life support system disconnected. The system has kept Denny alive through the 13 days and one brain operation that have passed since he was knocked unconscious by Hart. "This is a decision that only the family can make," Lynnwood Farr, a friend of the family told The Gazette last night "(Yesterday) they finally understood how serious Denny's condition is. They know there is little hope. And I understand that they're at the point of making final arrangements because it's imminent." Denny, 24, took a turn for the worse last Wednesday.

A brain scan showed his brain was losing its ability to keep vital organs (See BOXER, Page 2) Denny in flashback pictures sf caM ey air NEW YORK (UPI) The computer system used by air traffic controllers at the major New York metropolitan airports broke down last night, and controllers said the confusion led to a number of "near misses." The computer system used to identify planes on the radar screen failed at 7:22 p.m. Montreal time, during the evening's peak air traffic period. A official of the Federal Aviation Administration said he did not know Western countries have already turned down Karmal's proposal of bilateral talks with Iran and Pakistan. The Pravda article was distributed hours after Schmidt left Moscow at the end of a two-day summit with President Leonid Brezhnev, during which the chancellor called for a continuation of the troop withdrawal announced last week. The Pravda article appeared to dismiss such a plan.

"To all who now raise the question of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, it is necessary to remove the causes which made their introduction necessary," Pravda said. Moscow maintains its troops crossed the Afghan border at the request of that government, and only to repel outside interference from the U.S., China and neighboring Pakistan. "As for attempts to make the beginning of talks on this matter conditional on the withdrawal of Soviet troops, they are unacceptable since they turn the problem upside down." There are an estimated 85,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan and the Russians are believed to be withdrawing less than 10 per cent of that number. Meanwhile in Bonn, Schmidt yesterday sent his foreign minister, Hans Dietrich Genscher, to Paris and Washington to brief officials on his meeting with Brezhnev. And in Islamabad, Pakistan, the Islamic Front reported today that rebel forces near Kabul have captured a senior government official and killed more than 300 troops.

Dollar up by half cent Gazette News Services NEW YORK Canadian tourists and business travellers in the United States probably could look forward today to getting slightly more for their dollars. The Canadian dollar, which was worth less than 85 U.S. cents only a couple of months ago, has been recovering steadily and yesterday it surged upward by more than half a cent on foreign-exchange markets, closing at 87.49 U.S. cents. Dollar rebounds.

Page 37. Pte.Claire By STEPHANIE WHITTAKER of The Gazette The City of Pointe Claire will run its own buses from Monday to replace the severely curtailed service provided by the West Island company Trans Urbain Inc. The interim buses, which the city will rent with drivers from Trans Urbain, will run between 7 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Monday to Wednesday and from 7 a.m.

to 10 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Yesterday, crews were posting bus-stop signs around the city to mark the new routes. The two routes, which Trans Urbain staff and city planning officials have worked out will circle the city. The first will leave on the hour from the Fairview Shopping Centre and travel clockwise to Lakeside A Helping to bring Scotch to its knees are the changing tastes of American drinkers, who in the past bought a quarter of Scotland's output but in these times of recession are turning to lighter and less expensive spirits for their favorite mixed drinks.

As if all thi3 were not enough, the French, easily Europe's best customers for whisky, have to cope with extra taxes and other barriers imposed by the government in violation of Common Market rules to favor home-produced wines and brandies. WEATHER Mainly sunny Low 12, High 24 A westerly flow is due to bring sunny skies with cloudy periods today to southwestern Quebec. Tomorrow's forecast is more of the same. Pago 2 INSIDE Austin fails to Goolagong Tracy Austin, 17-year-old number two seed, goes down in the Wimbledon semi-finals to ex-champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley in a three-set upset. Page 22 Childhood friendships Parents often underestimate the depth of the attachment their children feel for their friends, says psychologist Zick Rubin in a new book.

Page 29 Making stage magic Emmylou Harris, one of America's most popular country singers, just lives for that moment when she can get up on stage and play her music. Page 49 Births 4 Deaths 71 Bridge 68 Burke 21 Business 37 Classified 57 Comics 66 Crossword Wonderword 67 Dear Doctor 35 Dorfman 41 Editorials 8 Entertainment 49 Horoscope 69 Landers 33 Money Game 39 Outdoors 27 People 29 Probe 16 Racing 26 Schnurmacher 49 Scoreboard 26 Sports 21 TV 4 Radio 54 "How about a straight swap, Jimmy? A partial Olympic team for a partial Afghanistan withdrawal! WD in it- -r. i DAD KARSN Cupid dad makes Karin mad CHICAGO (UPI) Eric Sontag wrote to the "Society Editor" of the Chicago Tribune, trying to find a "nice doctor" or other suitable husband for his daughter, Karin, whom he described as "a stunning German version of your Marilyn Monroe." A Tribune columnist published the letter and a picture of the 19-year-old and more than a thousand men telephoned the paper saying they wanted to meet her. "I was hoping that by chance my daughter might meet Mr. Right in Chicago, but instead she gets 1,000 men," Sontag said.

Miss Sontag arrived in Chicago and told the Tribune she was overwhelmed by the offers but had done nothing about them. Instead, she said, she has ben "hiding out" in a hotel with her father. "I don't want to get married. I'm too young," she said Miss Sontag, who does not have a boyfriend back home in a small West German town just outside Bonn, is not sure whether to be angry with her father for writing the letter. She I cried.

Then I was embarrassed. Then I was angry at my father. Then I thought it was funny. Now I don't know what to think. except to say that this experience has made me want to live in Chicago." New alimony law will hit cheaters Quebec's justice department is about to crack down on ex-husbands (and ex-wives) who fail to meet their alimony payments.

The government is setting up a special unit to track down former spouses who evade paying alimony and force them to pay up. Justice Minister Marc-Andre Be-dard has promised that the government will start enforcing the law, adopted last month by the National Assembly, by Jan. 1, 1981, at the latest But Charles Grenier, a justice department lawyer, says it may well be enforced in a couple of months. Law to tame alimony cheaters. Page 4.

Triumph of Gaetan Hart transcends tragedy of Cleveland buses start Monday Trans Urbain cut back its hourly Pointe Claire service in May to two buses a day. Mayor Dave beck said the cutback provoked so many complaints from residents that the city decided to operate its own interim bus service. Trans Urbain president Ian Smith said yesterday the firm had lost in July and August last year because so few people were using the buses. Heights, Valois, the area south of Highway 20 including Pointe Claire Village, Cedar Park railway station and the Lakeshore General Hospital area. The second, leaving on the half-hour, will be a counterclockwise version of the same route.

The fare will be a flat 50 cents except for senior citizens living in Pointe Claire, who can get free tickets from the city administration. 500 tragic Quebecers sterilized More than 500 mentally-retarded Quebecers, many of them youngsters, were sterilized between 1976 and 1978, and the Quebec Mental Health Committee, a provincial advisory board, has called for tighter controls on such procedures. In a report recently tabled in the National Assembly, the committee expressed surprise at the number of mentally retarded who are sterilized. It recommended that consultative committees be set up to approve sterilizations. The committee, which reports to Social Affairs Minister Denis Lazure, surveyed 170 Quebec obstetricians and gynecologists.

Full story: Page 5 2 EXPOS SIGN AGAIN The Expos' third baseman Larry Parrish has agreed to terms of a 'free agent' package which will carry him through the 1985 season. And manager Dick Williams has signed a lucrative new contract which will ensure he remains in charge of the club at least until the end of the 1981 season. Expos strengthen their ranks. Page 22.