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MM i 1 i i. The 85th Year-129 Phone 236-7511 Tuesday, May 12, 1970 IF Home Delivery, 60c Weekly 40 Pages Israelis Launch Attack Some Chained to Seats 1 1 i i OTTAWA JOURNAL Capital 237 59T7 Big Mideast THE NATION So That's the Reason TORONTO (CP) Canada's new computerized meteorological 'system apparently is suffering from growing'pains. A member of Toronto International Airport's weather staff said Monday that while the system provides data on which weather predictions are made, "we're not getting quite what wo Repeated forecasts of 75-degree weather in the. Toronto area last weekend failed to materialize. Bottle Deposit Raised WINDSOR, Ont.

(CP) Two associated bottling companies announced Monday they would increase the deposit on returnable soft drink bottles to five cents from two cents in an effort to help curb. litter. Seven-Up, Nesbitt's Orange, Squirt and Vernors now will sell I for 18 cents rather than 1 15 cents, said Valente, general manager, 1 of the Seven-Up Bottling Co. Ltd. and Vernors Bottling Co.

Ltd. New Road Barriers TORONTO (CP) Road barriers that promoters claim can absorb a 50-mile-an-hour automobile impact without injuring the passengers are being tested in four locations on -highways 401 and 400, Highways Minister George Gomme said Monday night. Mr. Gomme did not give details in answer to a question from Dr. Morton Shulman (NDP Toronto High Park), except to say the barriers have been established and "we're just getting information on them now." Known as the Fitch inertial barrier, the United States invention also is being tested in several U.S.

states. The barriers, a series of sand-filled plastic modules designed to fracture on impact, are placed ahead of hazardous fixed objects such as exit ramps or bridge abutments. 5 Tons of Mercury SARNIA (CP) A statement released Monday by Dow Chemical of Canada Ltd. says the company here spilled an average of five tons of mercury a year into the St. Clair River since the plant opened in 1949.

The release contained statements made last week by C. B. Branch, Dow executive vice-president, before the 'United' States subcommittee on energy, natural resources and the environment. Mr. Branch said the plant had, on occasion, lost "in the order of 200 pounds per day, but this was rare and occurred only during abnormal operating conditions." Even with these abnormal losses Included, the losses averaged about 30 pounds per day, he said.

Detecting Shoplifters LONDON, Ont. (CP) A United States security consultant predicted today that me- -thods of detecting shoplifting are being de--veloped which will virtually eliminate it in three to five years. S. J. Curtis, of JJayton, told the Canadian Federation of Retail Grocers that one method which will help is" application of radioactive ink on merchandise packages.

If the ink spot is not checked out by a cashier, he said, a bell rings" as the shoplifter attempts to leave the store. Mr. Curtis said one woman in 100 is a shoplifter compared with five of every 100 men. University Quotas LONDON, Ont. (CPpContinued restrictions eventually will lead to enrolment" quotas at all Ontario-universities, President -Dr.

D. C. Winegard of the University of Gue1phwarnedrMonday. 1 "If the financial squeeze continues some students will find they won't be able to go to the university, of their told a conference' of Ontario educationists atjhe' University of Western Ontario. "There will be a quota for the whole system." He said the Ontario government's formula system for financing university operating and capital works budgets has pushed universities to the limits of austerity.

On the'. Inside FAVORS UNION WITH BCiAIberta rejects pro-T posed merger of the three prairie provinces. Page 13 CUTS DEMAND FOR DOLLARS Canada cuts bank rate but maintains anti-inflationary policy. Page 8 'THE U.S. IMAGE Eminent British 'historian Arnold Toynbee comments on how the U.S.

looks today to the rest of the world Page 7 PORTAGE BRIDGE Twelve-man technical committee recommended for study of $10,000,000 project hur Nrr nnnneiHnn feared Paee Where to Find It Bi Heard Below tht Hill Births, Deaths Bridge v. Cloulfled Ad Comics Crossword Editorials Entertainment 2i Flnonclal Horoscope i Radio ScronvLets Sports Ten Me Why Theatres TV Weather Women's News 30 S2 14-1 17 11 4' 4 Battle Raging Israeli armor and' warplanes lunged into southern Lebanon to attack Palestinian Arab guerrilla bases today and Syria and Iraq announced, they bad joined the 'battle to help the Lebanese. From AP Reuters Israel launched its biggest-ever military operation into Lebanon today against Arab guerrilla bases, and Syria sent planes and tanks into Lebanon in an attempt to halt the Israeli drive, a Beirut dispatch reported. Big Grit Win In PEI CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) Alex Campbell, Prince Edward Island's Liberal premier, says'he will call the legislature June 2 to move ahead with a massive economic developments plan -after overwhelming voter endorsation Monday for the controversial program. The young lawyer from Sum-merside staked his political future on the plan and came away a big.

winner in the province's 27th general election since Confederation. SMASH TORIES The Liberals smashed the Progressive Conservative oppo-s 1 1 i with Party Leader' George Key suffering personal defeat. Final im us Liberals 27 17 PCs 5 15 Total 32 32 The walk-away victory was in sharp contrast to a 1966 cliff-hanger undecided until ('deferred voting in one two-member riding gave the Liberals a narrow win over the Conservative government. The Liberals received about 58 per cent of the popular vote Monday, the Conservatives only 42, compared, with a 51-49 split in 1966. Turn to Page 25 BIG GRIT PREMIER CAMPBELL ECM Entry Talks Set for June .30 i BRUSSELS (UPI) Common Market foreign ministers have set June 30 for beginning talks on admitting Britain, Ireland, Norway and The ministers were divided on.

who will represent the Common Market in negotiations' With the four applicants. Common market sources said the formal opening of membership talks in Luxembourg will be followed by a first round of negotiations in July in Brussels. GREENE HITS OIL CURBS 'US. Elephant Ol Poor Canadian DENVER, Colo. (CP) En- ergy Minister Greene today held up a natural gas carrot the gas-short U.S.

in return for a better oil export deal in a hationalistic speech that warned the U.S. that Canadians are determined to own more of their own resources. While assuring the mid-year i The Israelis attacked the guerrilla bases with tanks, artillery and warplanes and one guerrilla source said the Israelis used more than 100 tanks. An Israeli spokesman said three Syrian jets were shot down in dogfights. with Israeli warplanes.

In Beirut, a Lebanese spokes-, man said one Israeli plane was brought down by groundfire. The operation followed repeated warnings by Israeli leaders to the Beirut government to halt increased guerrilla attacks against Israeli settlements along the Lebanese border." A Lebanese military spokesman said the Lebanese had knocked out five Israeli tanks and seven half-tracks. The military spokesman said the troops, had checked the Israeli armored thrust and that Israeli planes had replied by bombing Arnoun, Hamra, and a flying through heavy Lebanese ground fire. Lebanese President Charles Helou summoned1 the Big Four ambassadors Brtain, France, the U.S. and Russia to urgent onsultations this morning.

-Turn to Page 24 BIG MIDEAST Gov't Lets $25 Million Contract The public works department has awarded a contract-worth $25,711,000 to two Toronto firms for construction cjf the new external affairs headquarters building on Sussex Drive. The two companies awarded the joint-venture contract are the Foundation Company of Canada and Janin Building and CivH Works Ltd. Public works said the two Toronto firms submitted the lowest bid. A total of five bids were received. Work hais already started on the new building, which is located west of cky hall, near the approaches to the Macdon-aid Cartier Bridge.

Public works says the headquarters will be built in- four stages, with the first stage, to be completed by the end of 1971 end the remaining three stages in mid-1972. design of the building is basically horizontal lines. The four attached units will be of varying heights and sizes. The tallest unit will be 10 storeys, the lowest 'four storeys. Architects forthe pro-, ject Zerafa-Menkes, of Toronto.

Postal Talks ReSlime between the govern-ment and the Counril of Post- al Unions, aimed at averting a nation-wide postal strike, were resumed at 10 a.m. today. The postal -council, which represented the country's postal workers, has set May 19 as the date for a strike vote. Should negotiations fail, the unions could go out on strike as early as May 20. The two main issues in the current contract dispute are job security and wages.

The postal workers' last contract expired Oct. 1, 1969. meeting of the Independent Petroleum; Association of America that Canada is as friendly as ever to the he sharply attacked American restrictions on Canadian oil importswhich he said could be interpreted as the "American elephant rolling over on top of the poor Canadian mouse and Rolling It v. It i 1 1 vol 1 1 I I I 1 Thirty-one women screaming for free abortion invaded the House of Commons Monday, all members of the self-styled "Women's Liberation Groups." Many of the women chained themselves to gallery seats. No arrests were made.

(Journal Photo Dominion Wide) TEXAS CITY DEVASTATED LUBBOCK, Tex. (AP) A deadly i -t i tornado trailed by hurricane velocity winds has turned this city -of 170.000 into a disaster area with 23 known dead and still more bodies believed hidden under debris. IsraelYAbba Eban To Visit Canada TEL-AVTV(AP) Foreign- Mjnister Abba Eban flew to Canada end United States today. He said he would meet top officials in both countries "Jor talks mainly on Soviet in-" volvement in Egypt. Mr.

Eban will arrive at lands-Airport af J.15 p.m. Wednesday. His asitjiere will in- f'clude talks with external af- fairs officials, a reception by the governor general, two formal dinners and a press conference Friday afternoon. He leaves Ottawa at 5 p.m. Friday.

qn Top suggested they are stalling broader energy agreement: negotiations. He also said but did not fully elaborate that Canada wants oil entry into U.S. markets on a normal commercial basis. Turn to Page 24 U.S. ELEPHANT mitt' the YC, A YELLING ON THE HILL 23 Killed by Tornado Hundreds were and property damage was unofficially calculated in the millions asJhe storm left a path of destruction eight miles long.

It was hours after the tornado struck just before 10 p.m." Monday before police could find time to beguvsearching -the-wreckage. A police spokesman -said- it seemed likely "many more bodies" would be found. Damage centred in the down-; town area, where virtually all store fronts were blown out and a policeman said "looting started before the wind 'died -down." Police patrolled the streets to curb further thefts. A. W.

Voight, executive direc Some U.S. Troops Withdrawn WASHINGTON (AP) De-fence Secretary Laird said today "several thousand" U.S. troops already "have been, withdrawn from Cambodia, more will come out by the end of the week and major operations against Communist sanctuaries will becompleted by June 15. The secretary told the Senate services committee that while the operations "have exceeded our expectations" and all U.S. forces will be out of Cambodia by June 30, the Nixon administration remains opposed to a proposed limit on U.S.

forces in Cambodia ap-proved Monday bythe Senate foreign relations committee. wmero tor of the American Red Cross in Lubbock, said: "Official reports are virtually non-existent. "We have no estimate of the number of homes or buildings destroyed because our efforts have been aimed at rescue and relief work." lThe twister tore concrete chunks off skyscrapers and whipped broken glass through, the streets, causing, many inju- Mayor James Granberry de-scribed the damage as "massive, just massive." Turn to Page 2423 KILLED Bourassa Assumes Power QUEBEC (CP) Premier-elect 'Bourassa moved into the premier's office and outgoing Premier Bertrand into the Opposition leader's office today. The move preceded the official transfer of power, sched uled to take place at 4 p.m. when tiie new liberal government is sworn in by Lt-Gov.

Hugues Lapointe. Mr. Bourassa, whose Liberal won the Quebec general -elecUons-AprH about' 20 minutes late in arriving at the premiers office. He had been delayed by meetings with civil servants: The 38-year-old premier smiled as he walked down the corridors of the legislative building, surrounded by a horde of reporters and photographers who followed him into the premier's office. 1 By RICHARD JACKSON Thirty-one shouting, chanting women activists took the disorder and chaos of 'street demonstrations into the House of Commons and shut it down.

They were the 31 members of the self-styled "Women's Liberation Groups" Who at 2.45 p.m. Monday took over the galleries of the House with well-planned and co-ordinated disruption, shrieking and screaming for "free abortion." For five frantic minutes the guards of the Commons' pro- rr i.j I I with the squirming, squealing women before Commons Speaker Lamoureux surrendered to the bedlam and adjourned the It remained recessed while the Commons and Senate guards cleared the centre block, closing the building to everyone not carrying official identity cards. When it went Into session again at 3.20, nobody said anythingbut almost everyone had DUUldillllg onj in uio iuuui and corridors outside. The sweep of the building wasn't easy. The woman, some of them flailing away with their purses, were handled reasonably gent-ly.

They did their best to make the sweep of the building as difficult and embarrassing as possible. Several, "perhaps five or six," reported Chief George A. Jones of the Commons protective staff, lock-chained themselves to their gallery seats and had to be cut' loose with heavy-duty, steelxclippers. But far more were tnvolved in the uproar than the 31 who got into the galleries, some of them using passes signed by MPs. 1 As many as another 50 Infiltrated the huge, rambling centre block, and had to be hunted down from' basement through all six floors to the top, dragged from hiding in nooks and trannies, cupboards and offices, and pushed out through the doors, their purses flying after them.

The names of some New Democratic MPs appeared on the passes used by a few of the women who were seated and self-chained to chairs in the members' galleries. New Democratic Leader Douglas said neither he nor his staff had issued signed passes. But Toronto NDP member Andrew Brewin conceded that he had unknowing, he insisted, of what was to result explaining that in such matters as access to Parliament's galleries, "we can't be too restrictive." He said he "deplored the manner of the demonstration," but added he believed they had' "a good cause," and gave them marks for having "the guts" to make it. Ul 11 .1 tt Canada tiext TargeVOf 1 nunc tjuuuicui oi NEW YORK (Retuers) An anonymous telephone call claimed Tuesday that en anti-Castro group called Cuban Commando-Nationalists was responsible for trying to place bombs obord four I I a Airlines planes in Europe Sunday. The caller, who said he was speaking for the group, said the action was carried out "because Spain is one of the biggest countries who trade with Cuba." "Japan and Canada will get it next," he added, speaking in I PREFER THE MINI MYSELF I rmiinv cunuucDc.

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