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Pelletier blamed A SHIFT? 'NEWS' TO HIM Quebec war on crime Police powers boosted 1 31 1 i A i The negative comments were unusually candid for Mr. Trudeau, who has steadfastly defended other ministers caught in blunders. The prime minister went a surprisingly long way in placating those angered by the incident, placidly accepting the rebukes hurled at him from the opposition benches in the process. He promised that all future July 1 celebrations organized by his government would be bilingual and multicultural in nature, reflecting the realities of Canada. (It won't happen again, page 23) awa Citizen July 5, 1S72 Home delivered 60c weekly.

10c per copy SU oiTo a i CI A-i -rfpi Prime Minister Trudeau apologized "to Parliament and the country" Tuesday for Saturday night's Dominion Day concert on Parliament Hill that was conducted mostly in French. Blame for the concert planning was laid squarely on the shoulders of Secretary of State Pelletier, whose department has been in charge of the month-long Festival Canada celebrations. Mr. Pelletier was not in the Commons Tuesday. Mr.

Trudeau said that Mr. Pelletier will have a different portfolio after the next election a remark the prime 130th Year, Number 4, 92 pages 1 1 The 7 Govt announcing next move today Ports aiemacea l.T 1 1 I minister later said he made "half in jest." He said the remark was also "an indication that after the next election I hope to be in a position to shuffle all my members and ministers and I would have no intention of keeping Mr. Pelletier in that portfolio." The prime minister said Mr. Pelletier "has made mistakes, as we all have." In the main, however, he said the secretary of state had "filled his post well and had the hard task of moving the bilingualism program forward." 7 -UPI telephoto treasurer in Cornwall before being named clerk three years ago. Mayor Raina said Mr.

Morin hasn't been officially fired and has until July 10 to appeal his suspension. Despite this, the town is proceeding with plans to hire a new clerk and intends to place advertisements in area newspapers. 8404,250 lures firm to Renfrew The department of regional economic expansion has approved a grant of $404,250 for Lindal Cedar Homes Limited to locate in the empty Renfrew Aircraft and Engineering building. It is expected the company will provide 86 new jobs. Total capital outlay to locate in the Renfrew aircraft building was estimated at $975,000.

The grant is the 17th approved by DREE for Renfrew County, bringing the total federal grants to $3.7 million. JiTS Ott Ottawa, Wednesday, MONTREAL (CP) Secretary of State Pelletier Tuesday expressed surprise when informed that he would have a new portfolio after the next election. "It's news to me," the state secretary said when asked to comment on Prime Minister Trudeau's statement in the Commons made in response to criticism of predominantly French-language July 1 celebrations on Parliament Hill. The prime minister told the House lie thought that "after the next election Mr. Pelletier will have a different portfolio." Asked to Mm Pelletier said: "I don't know.

He made this statement?" He said he would not mind a and would welcome appointment to any post but that of finance minister. "You've had enough" "I think that when you've spent four mandates in any department, you've had enough and people have had enough of you." What he wanted to get into now was an election. Asked about the concert on Parliament Hill by Montreal pianist Andre who apologized for being able to speak only in French, the state secretary said: "I don't mind recognizing that it was a mistake. The opposite has taken place so very often, I don't think anyone should try to make a tempest in a teapot with this." But he said the performance "was unilingual only for people on the Hill." He said the show was translated into English for the CBC's English network. "I suppose they thought that they could put the feed from television on Ihe public address system on the Hill, and this apparently was not possible." Hunt for Adrian continued by few HOLMES LAKE (Staff) A few searchers still straggle through dense bushland here in the search for young Adrian MacNaughton, missing since June 12.

While police and military officials who combed more than 80 square miles in search of the five-year-old from Arnprior ended the official hunt June 25, a few residents of the boy's hometown are still looking. Adrian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Murray MacNaughton, wandered away from a family fishing outing at this Calabogie-area lake. As many as 1,500 civilians had joined troops and police at the height of the search.

On the inside 5 Stomping in vain See page 25 Cultures clash at council 2 Air Canada backs off the Concorde 23 God's back-up crew in Ottawa 47 Canada lags in growth of living standards 53 Action Line 2 Ask Andy 75 Astrology 71 Briths, Deaths 69 Bridge 73 Business 8-9 Comics 36 Crossword 72 Editorials 6 Entertainment 62, 63 Frank Penn 37 Jumble 70 Sheila McCook 37 Movies 63 Radio 78 TV 30 Sports 24-29 Jim Coleman 27 Want Ads 69-84 Women's Pages 47-51 Weather Sunny today, Thursday. Low tonight 45. Ilih Thursday 75. Details on page 3. Victory brings a 'Banzai' QUEBEC (CP) Justice Minister Jerome Choquette Tuesday declared war on organized crime in Quebec, introducing legislation in the national assembly which will give the Quebec Police Commission new and increased powers of investigation, search and seizure.

Under the proposed legislation the police commission will be allowed to: Search any establishment believed connected with organized crime without going through the normal and time-consuming process of obtaining a search warrant from the courts. The commission will issue its own warrant; Employ "any measure necessary to carry out the required Examine and seize any books or other documents by its own warrant; Hear private testimony at an impending inquiry commission into organized crime. This measure would help an individual who, fearful of reprisals against his testimony, could speak confidentially with the commission without having hs name mentioned; Accept written testimony from persons residing outside the province who might fear returning to Quebec if their lives are endangered. The justice minister said he is confident the new powers would make the planned crime commission's inquiry "much easier and more effective." "We hope to get the hearings under way sometime this fall," he said. (Further details, page 23) Paris govt, steps down PARIS (Reuter) The government of Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas resigned today.

The resignation of Chaban-Delmas' cabinet was announced immediately following today's weekly cabinet meeting. While rumors had circulated on the move for several months, there was no indication that, the resignation would take place before France's forthcoming legislative elections. Chaban-Delmas, prime minister since President Georges Pompidou came to power in June, 1969, had come under fire from both the opposition and from within his own ruling Gaullist party since allegations of tax irregularities earlier this year. He also was attacked for maintaining in his government a junior minister, sentenced in a building scandal but who has since resigned. Kemptville charge of on By Jack Walker Citizen staff writer KEMPTVILLE Clerk-treasurer Vincent Morin has been suspended from his post following a police investigation which found a municipal record had been tampered with.

Mayor Ralph Raina said Tuesday he was now satisfied the minutes of a council meeting held May 10, 1971, had been altered. The investigation showed a line had been added to the official minutes of the meeting claiming the financial statement for Kemptville Hydro had been presented to council for study. But councillors' minutes did not contain the additions, and Mayor Raina claims the audit was never presented to the town. The financial records of the hydro Valley towns set to greet PM Prime Minister Trudeau will visit Smiths Falls, Prescott and Brockville during a fast swing through eastern Ontario July 15. In the morning he will appear on an open-line radio show in Smiths Falls and catch a helicopter to Prescott where he will officiate at the town's fourth annual historic military pageant.

Following the Prescott military tattoo, expected to attract about 20,000 people, Mr. Trudeau will travel to Brockville to attend a reception organized by the town's service clubs. After stepping from a Victorian carriage at Fort Wellington in Prescott, the prime minister will open the pageant by firing a 1760 cannon. Participating units include the Fort Henry Guard band and drums, a Parliament Hill guard and the Service Rifle Shooting Association, which will provide a display of uniforms and weapons from the 1S12 to 1972 period. our the to Mr.

Kakuei Tanaka, 54, a pro-American politician, who rose from high school dropout to construction millionaire, raises his arms and shouts 'Banzai' (long live) after he was elected Prime Minister of. Japan today. He succeeds Eisaku Sato, resigning after seven years in office. Tanaka scored an upset over Sato's personal choice, Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda. (See story page 52) Pelletier: 'It was a mistake' row 11 "We have lost," said one stevedor after the Montreal vote.

"They are going to be able to break up the gangs and we have lost nearly eight weeks pay. Offer refused "Now we just want our executive to get us the best deal possible." The MEA turned down an offer from Norman Quigley, international vice-president of the ILA, to re-open the two smaller ports on the condition management not sue them for damages caused during the strike. "We refused the offer," said Brian Mulroney, MEA lawyer. "The labor department proposal was a take-it-or-leave-it situation and no riders or conditions could be attached to it." Two new deaths increase threat to Ulster truce BELFAST (AP) Two new murders and a series of shootings brought new horror today to Northern Ireland, endangering the province's fragile ceasefire. Two young men in their early 20s were found shot through the head on the road to Belfast airport, seven miles from the tense city centre.

The latest victims in a wave of unexplained killings lay one on top of the other at the side of the road. Eight men were murdered in similar circumstances during the weekend. Six were Roman Catholics and two were Protestants. Police speculated today that the "executions" were being carried out by men masquerading as taxi drivers who picked up people in the city and simply shot them if they happened to be of the "other" religion. "He apparently decided he was not going to get out" of the airport, said Richard Ash, special agent in charge of the FBI office here.

"If there's no shooting, I'll come out," the man said before he emerged from the aircraft. Ash said an FBI agent had sneaked aboard the plane and confronted the man. After being assured there would be no shooting, the man threw down his knife and carried the little girl in his arms down the ramp to a waiting police car. She was unharmed. Slipped aboard jetliner Police identified the man as Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo.

He apparently slipped aboard the unoccupied jet about 5 a.m. and demanded that American Airlines provide a pilot for the craft. "I want a pilot; I want a God-damn pilot," the man shouted to police who surrounded the plane. The tiny hostage was about three years old. Police said Smith stabbed her mother and a man on a Buffalo street earlier, then grabbed the girl and drove to the airport.

MONTREAL (CP) The stalemated St. Lawrence River dock dispute was dropped back into the federal government's lap Tuesday after striking longshoremen in Montreal gave only a qualified yes to the government's take-it-or-leave-it proposal. The Maritime Employers Association and dockers in Quebec City and Trois-Rivieres voted at meetings Tuesday to accept the proposals to end the seven-week strike hammered out during the weekend by federal labor department experts. But the Montreal local of the International Longshoremen's Association voted to send the proposal back for modifications. In Ottawa, Labor Minister O'Connell said the government's next move would be announced later today.

He said the Montreal dockers wanted withdrawal by employers of court action against the workers and a specified date for re-implementation of job-security provisions contained in the existing contract. Bernard Wilson, the deputy labor minister who spent the weekend trying to bring the two sides together, said his proposals called for the Job-security provisions to take effect Oct. 15. Govt, prepared The two sides had until Tuesday night to reply, but Mr. O'Connell said earlier that that did not mean the government is committed to special legislation if either party rejected the proposal.

Aside from job-security provisions, the government proposal called for lifting by employers of all suspensions of workers and payment of vacation pay "as soon as possible," Mr. Wilson said. The proposal also called on the union to accept the arbitration decision of Judge Alan B. Gold who last week ruled the strike violated terms of a contract between the MEA and the ILA. The decision would be subject to right of appeal.

Little eirl safe suspends its altering town records commission are currently under investigation for suspected irregularities. Three separate teams of auditors have been poring over the books since the hydro manager and his commission failed to agree on the reasons for an over-expenditure of funds. Mayor Raina said some of the trouble at the hydro office might have been averted if council had seen the complete financial statement. "Things not all well" "There were comments by the auditor in that report which said things were not all well. Had this come to attention, we would have asked auditor for an explanation and we would have caught the hydro problems a year ago." The town records were handed over police last week after one councillor made an unsuccessful bid to fire Morin for the discrepancy between the official minutes and councillors' minutes.

Mr. Morin denied the charge at the time and indicated the variance must have occurred in typing. The former accountant was with an auditing firm ess 'char Hostage-liijack flops BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) A man who held a young girl at knife-point in an attempt to hijack an American Airlines Boeing 707 at Buffalo International Airport surrendered to an FBI agent today. 191 ''ee ing in a guarded villa at the edge of town when Spassky counter-attacked.

The 35-year-old Soviet champion called Fischer's conduct insulting and intolerable. He said Fischer had insulted Spassky personally and the Soviet Chess Federation and had jeopardized his right to play for the title. Spassky's statement demanded that Fischer be punished. However, Max Euwe, president of the international federation, said the Russians had not formally requested punishment. "What should I he asked.

"Put him in the corner?" In New York, Col. E. B. Edmondson, director of the U.S. Chess Federation, called the dispute a charade and said it had "gore far enough." If either player failed to appear for Thursday's match the other should win by default.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky now is scheduled to start Thursday afternoon following another postponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champion. After holding out for more money and getting it, the American challenger came to Iceland Tuesday. But Spassky walked out of the noon drawing to decide who would move first because Fischer was not present. He had sent his second, a Roman Catholic priest. The Icelandic Chess Federation had rejected Fischer's demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts, but he agreed to come after a London investment banker doubled the $125,000 purse.

The 29-year-old American grandmaster was rest.

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