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107 airlines threatened GUSTY FLOWN 1 i if 130th Year, Number 3, 84 pages Ottawa, Tuesday, July 4, 1972 Home delivered 60c weekly. 10c per copy 9 The Ottawa Citizen On conditions Port rikers at Montrea. pact accep MONTREAL (CP) Striking Montreal longshoremen voted today to accept conditionally return-to-work proposals worked out by federal labor department officials, a union official said. Brian Mulroney, lawyer for the Maritime Employers Association said longshoremen in Trois-Rivieres also voted to accept the proposals. MONTREAL (CP) Striking longshoremen who have shut down three St.

Lawrence River ports since mid-May met behind closed doors this morning to consider return-to-work proposals worked out by federal labor department officials. A meeting which began in Montreal at 10 a.m. was expected to continue through the morning. Similar meetings were being held at Quebec and Trois-Rivieres. Federal troubleshoolers help on proposals 5 BELFAST (CP) The Belfast Telegraph says abducted Protestant murderer Augustus (Gusty) Spence may have been flown to Canada from nearby Aldergrove airport Sunday night.

Earlier, The Associated Press quoted a usually-reliable source as saying Spence had been flown to Montreal via Prestwick airport i Scotland Monday. A spokesman for the Royal Ulster Constabulary commented i on the reports: "We have no information that he may be outside Northern Ireland." As far as the police are concerned, Spence still is in Northern Ireland, the spokesman said. Spence, who was imprisoned for life in 1966 for the murder of a Roman Catholic barman, apparently was kidnapped Sunday night as he was returning to jail from a brief period of parole for his daughter's wedding. Returning Orangemen The plane which left Aider-grove at about 7 p.m. was carrying a group of Canadian Orangemen back to Canada after a visit here.

Authorities in Canada have been placed on the alert to make checks for Spence, The Tele- graph says. Belfast- police said the report about Spence being taken to Canada might be a deliberate at- tempt to send authorities on a "wild goose chase." A popular figure in the Protes- tant Shankill Road area, Spence was taken from a car in which he was riding back to Belfast prison. Four men took him away Some members of the Ulster Defence Association, a Protes- 5 tant vigilante organization, swiftly blamed the underground Roman Catholic Irish Republican Army for the abduction. Other sources suggested Spence might actually have been "freed" by fellow-Protestants. If there is confirmation Spence was kidnapped by the IRA, "the Shankill would go up," one of his relatives said.

From AP-Reuter GENEVA (CP) Warnings have gone out to international airlines of a terrorist threat to act today unless Israel frees Kozo Okamato, lone survivor of the three Japanese who staged the Lod Airport massacre at Tel Aviv May 30. Interpol warned An International Air Transport Association spokesman said the threat was made against all Jewish businesses, starting with the Israeli airline El Al. IATA has warned Interpol and the organization's 107 member airlines about the threat, which was received through Trans World Airlines. This is routine procedure. Many recent threats have turned out to be hoaxes, but this did not mean IATA was not taking this one seriously, a spokesman said.

The threat demanded that Israel free Okamoto, or allow him to commit suicide, and repay the cash compensation Japan gave Israel for the airport attack. S5 million deposit It also demanded that Israel deposit $5 million with the United Nations to be used to help underdeveloped countries, and quit all the territories it occupied during the 1967 six-day war. The anonymous ultimatum also, stipulated that United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim appear on television to announce that all the demands had been met. Okamoto is to go on trial before an Israeli military court within the next two weeks. In Tel Aviv, Transport Minister Shimon Perez said Israel "refuses to be frightened." At Montreal International Airport, the duty manager said El Al lands only at Montreal in Canada, usually every second day and with a small number of passengers.

He doubted security could be greatly increased because it "has been pretty stiff here in the last few days." On-the-spot ministry the major stumbling block to a settlement. The three-year agreement signed March 29 provided for a fund to compensate men laid off for technological reasons. It was to be financed by a levy on each ton of cargo handled at the ports. However, the lack of shipping traffic during the strike has cut down on the amount of money available and thus the start of any income security plan. When the longshoremen walked off their jobs, they said it was to protest management moves to break up traditional 16-man work gangs before a new computer-dispatch system goes into effect in September.

An unidentified priest stops to whisper a prayer over a young couple injured in a two-car crash at King Edward Avenue and St. Patrick Street Monday. Jean-Pierre Leguerrier, 22, of 56 Frechette Hull, driver of one of the cars, comforts his pasenger Marion McAdam, 22, of 2110 Woodcrest who suffered face cuts. She is in satisfactory condition in General Hospital. Mr.

Leguerrier was not seriously hurt. Driver of the other car, Eugene Carl Kleoppel, 48, of Sioux City, Iowa, his wife Yvonne, 49, and son James, 17, suffered minor injuries. Ulster Protestants lose barricade, but win right to aid army patrols Reaction of the 3,200 members of the International Longshoremen's Association was expected to be made known late today. It could signal the end of the crippling seven-week strike at the ports of Montreal, Trois-Rivieres and Quebec City. Today's meetings follow separate talks during the weekend and Monday by the two federal labor troubleshoot-ers and representatives of the union and the Maritime Employers Association.

Bernard Wilson, deputy labor minister, talked to reporters Monday before returning to Ottawa where Parliament's summer recess has been delayed because of the strike. He said the government will wait for the longshoremen's answer to the latest proposals before seeking a possible legislated end to the strike in Parliament. Key security plan The proposals, he said, involve certain return-to-work arrangements and include lifting an employers' suspension against the strikers. Brian Mulroney, lawyer for the employers' association, said later the key recommendation by the labor department officials concerned a date for phasing in of a job or income security plan negotiated in a collective agreement with the longshoremen in March. The MEA was to consider the proposals worked out by Mr.

Wilson and his assistant, William Kelly, after the union members vote on them. Mr. Wilson said the weekend talks and a four-hour session Monday indicated the two parties were "genuinely anxious to return to work." Arnold Masters, MEA president, said earlier that job security remained SeCOlHl FreilCil boillbf PARIS (Reuter) The usually well-informed Paris newspaper Le Monde said today France exploded a second nuclear device' in the Pacific June 30. A defence ministry spokesman declined to comment on the report. (See also page 67) But the army agreed to set up checkpoints and search anyone entering the district for weapons.

And it said the army not the police would maintain law and order in the area, assisted by unarmed UDA patrols. No Queen's Writs here" "No members of the police will be allowed in," said a UDA leader. "We feel that if the Queen's Writ does not run in the Creggan and Bogside, then it will not run here." He was referring to IRA strongholds in Londonderry, the barricaded "no-go" districts which in effect are autonomous IRA-Catholic areas from which the army and police are barred. It was. to protest this that the UDA 'I 4 CP photo began throwing up barricades during the weekend to create no-go districts of their own.

The army made no objections when the UDA barricaded off three other areas earlier Monday. But it took a stand in Ainsworth Avenue, it said, because the barrier would cut off about 20 Catholic families. "The area will not become a no-go area," said British army headquarters. "The security forces remain responsible for law and order." Police meanwhile reported another body found, the eighth after a weekend of assassinations. The victim was a Catholic who had been shot in the back.

over legislation and the revamped baby bonus scheme. No dock strike legislation They suggest that, if the government was so concerned about the Quebec dock strike, it would be preparing legislation to end it now. But, as far as can be determined, that isn't happening. A change of mood in the Commons to allow speedy passage of the government's priority bills does not seem likely. And the government is not like Oi the Happiness is hearing See page 48 Computer joins Ontario crime fight 2 Divided Koreas launch reunification machinery 14 Picard will try again for two-pronged CBC 44 A -J Pound, dollar continue slide LONDON (AP) The U.S.

dollar neared its lowest permitted level on European money markets today, re- suiting in intervention by the West German central bank. The pound ster- ling continued its downward slide. The pound opened in London at $2.4178, down half a cent from Monday's close. It dropped sharply within an hour to $2.4140, close to the $2.40 base that was predicted after sterling was floated 10 days ago. The dollar, weakened by the sterling crisis, continued to trail the pound downward and opened in Frankfurt at 3.15 marks.

This was a slight rally over Monday night's close of 3.1497, but only intervention by the central bank shored it up then. The bank began buying up dollars again today to maintain it at the lower mandatory intervention level and head off panic selling. In Paris, the dollar was near floor level at 5.0005 francs, down from Monday's 5.0015 close. But there was no sign the Bank of France was planning to step in to support the currency. The dollar also weakened in Zurich and Brussels.

1 Fischer flies in Weeks to go? Long session looms as MPs BELFAST (AP) The British army prevented Protestant militants from barricading one of their Belfast strongholds Monday night, but the Protestants claimed a "great victory." After a four-hour confrontation between 8,000 masked men of the Ulster Defence Association and 600 armed troops, the UDA the Protestants' answer to the Roman Catholics' Irish Republican Army abandoned plans to throw a steel barricade across Ain-sworth Avenue in West Belfast. Standard icebreakers replace Soviet A-ship MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government announced today that Russia is building two new icebreakers, each with engines, to help keep open the West-East Arctic trade route. The two ships, which run under conventional power, will replace the atomic-powered Lenin icebreaker as flagships of the 24-vessel Soviet icebreaker fleet. Slater: 'I like chess" Beating ban no bar DETROIT (AP) Gloria Judge, 24, may have lost her appetite for legal measures. Mrs.

Judge said when she told her husband she had obtained a court peace bond to prevent him from beating her, he forced her to eat the five-by-eight-inch parchment document, then beat her again. Clifton Judge, 34, was fined $100 for the assault. CHUCKLE A bachelor is a man who failed to embrace his opportunites. eye election plans ly to charge opposition obstruction until it has built a case for it on several more weeks of trying to get its legislation through. This suggests that the Commons could remain in session for some weeks to come; that Parliament Hill is in for another of those extended periods in which, as the summer days grow hotter, meetings of party House leaders grow longer in the attempt to reach a compromise which will allow adjournment.

inside Action Line 2 Ask Andy 56 Astrology 52 Births, Deaths 50 Bridge 54 Business 8-10 Comics 42 Crossword 53 Editorials 6 Entertainment 40 Frank Penn 43 Jumble 51 Sheila McCook 43 Movies 41 Radio 59 TV 42 Sports 34-38 Jim Coleman 34 Want Ads 50-65 Women's Pages 45-49 Weather Sunny and cool today, high near 65. Low tonight 45. Wednesday sunny and warmer. High 65 to 70. 5 hours before deadline 'Incredible 'offer brings in Bobby By Ben Tierney Southam Newj Services Members of Parliament are back in their places in the Commons here today, reluctantly.

To a man, they would much sooner be back home in their constituencies, working for the election most believe will come in the fall. But, as is not uncommon at this time of year, the MPs cannot agree on how and when to take their leave. Officially, they are staying because of the increasingly serious strike of workers at Quebec ports. According to Liberal House Leader MacEachen, the government did not want to send the MPs away while it was still on. But opposition MPs regard that as a government excuse to buy more time to pass a few of the more than 20 bills that crowd the Commons order paper before facing the voters.

These include the controversial foreign take- Burglars not piggy? they left the sink ST. THOMAS, Ont. (CP) Thieves who broke into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall during the weekend had their hands full when they left.

They took about $150 in cash, two revolvers, a box of shells, frozen meats including steaks and a quarter of beef, an old coin collection, assorted jewelry, some old paper money including 1923 mark notes, a tape player, a camera, small appliances and utensils, pillow cases, blankets, a bedspread, a radio, ashtrays, a bottle of whiskey and a hunting knife. They left the kitchen sink, police said Monday. i 6S I I 1 1 1 I the match in doubt again today. He lodged a formal protest, objecting that Fischer had violated the rules by failing to appear for the scheduled start on Sunday. He told Max Euwe, president of the World Chess Federation, that the postponement decision was unacceptable.

Asked whether he considered the Russian move threatened to wreck the whole match, Euwe replied: "Certainly." In announcing his offer, Slater said: "Fischer has said that money is the problem. Well, here it is." "I like chess and have played it for years," said Slater. "Many want to see this match and everything has been arranged. If Fischer does not go to Iceland, many will be disappointed." Fischer said Slater's offer was "stupendous incredible and generous and brave," according to his spokesman lawyer Paul Marshall, who claimed Fischer's holdout had been a matter of principle: "He felt Iceland wasn't treating this match or his countrymen with the dignity that it and they REYKJAVIK (AP) Ending his holdout which threatened to wreck the world chess championship series, American grandmaster Bobby Fischer arrived in Iceland today about 10 hours before he was due to meet Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for their first game. The 29-year-old American challenger flew from.

New York after accepting London banker James D. Slater's offer to match the $125,000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation. Now the winner of the 24-game match will get $156,250 and the loser $93,750. Each will also get 30 per cent of the $250,000 paid for the TV and movie rights to the match, or $75,000 each. The match, which could last two months, had been scheduled to start Sunday afternoon, but Fischer stayed in New York, demanding a 30-per-cent cut of the gate receipts.

The International Chess Federation postponed the first game 48 hours and told Fischer he had to be in Reykjavik by noon today or forfeit the match. He arrived about five hours before the deadline. Hours after Fischer arrived however, Spassky put.

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