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Page 60 Nov. 8, 1S72 The Ottawa Citizen Mackasey overrules deportation order cJi Blind girl allowed to stay Mackasey tioned Mr. Mackasey on Miss Hackett's behalf and Tuesday he announced she would be issued with a discretionary permit to remain in Canada for one was classed as a prohibited person under immigration regulations. In addition, she had failed to score the required points on her visa application to qualify for landed immigrant status. Several hundred Canadians, including Donald S.

Macdonald, federal minister of energy and resources, peti- year. TORONTO (CP) A year of uncertainty and disappointment ended -Tuesday for a blind woman from California when Immigration Minister Mackasey overruled a deportation order against her. Lynn Hackett, 23, sightless from birth, was ordered deported a year ago because she has epilepsy and thus Ironically, Sir. Mackasey's decision means the woman will have to leave the country temporarily since the per mit is only issued when the person crosses the border into Canada. Miss Hackett said Tuesday she in tended to cross the border today into the United States and return to Cana da on Thursday.

Appeal rejected I Cave in I I Two boys killed in tunnel I The blind woman had appealed the deportation order to the immigration appeal board and was turned down last Friday. Her lawyer, Maurice other five mnaaged to run away before the tree fell across the tunnel opening. Police and firemen cut the tree to pieces and dug through two feet of rain-soaked mud before reaching the bodies. Firemen attempted resuscitation, but the children were pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. Mr.

Benninger, whose wife caled police, said: "I tried to see the kids, but there was nothing but tree branches. I pulled the debris away, but I couldn't find them." TORONTO (CP) "I couldn't do anything but help dig them out," a North York man told police after he struggled to save two children who died Tuesday afternoon when a tree fell on them while they were tunnelling into a slope in northwest Toronto. Paul Benninger, an unemployed plumber, ran to the scene when playmates of Peter Charles Ingrey, 10, and John Bridgeman, 12, came to his apartment for help. Seven children were playing on the slope, tunnelling under the roots of a 50-foot tree. The Green, had been preparing to carry the appeal to the Federal Court of Canada when Mr.

Mackasey announced his decision. Miss Hackett first came to Canada on a visitor's visa in 1969. She returned twice more on visitor's visas, the last time in the spring of 1971 when she applied for immigrant status. As she went through the routine of her deportation hearing and later her appeal, she worked at times as a babysitter and housekeeper, sometimes stayed with friends, and for a two-week period in August received welfare support of $77.50. Mr.

Green argued before the immigration appeal board that the Immigration Act prohibits persons who are afflicted with epilepsy, but he questioned application of the word "afflicted" to his client Her epilepsy is totally controlled through medication, he said. He said she failed to score the required 50 out of 100 points on her immigration visa application largely because of her education level and occupation status. Morocco sentences 11 to death for trying to assassinate king Location 1S44 St. Laurent Blvd. Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre Inside Steinberg's Food Store Tel: 737-0242 Three weeks ago.

Miss Hackett was hired to work in the customer rela tions department of a music recording firm in Bramalea. She travels to work from her Toronto apartment by bus with a guide dog. day night for trying to assassinate King Hassan are expected to appeal, their lawyers said today. The court, sitting at Kenitra, north of Rabat, passed the death sentences on 6ix officers and five non-commissioned pilots at the end of a three-week trial in which 220 air force officers and men were accused of complicity in the assassination attempt The attempt was made Aug. 16, when fighters from Kenitra air base attacked the Boeing 727 airliner in which King Hassan was flying home from a visit to France.

The 43-year-old king was unhurt and the bullet-riddled plane landed safely at Rabat airport But at least eight persons were killed and 47 wounded when other rebel fighters strafed the airport In addition to the 11 men sentenced to death by firing squad, 32 men were sentenced to prison terms of from three to 20 years. The remaining 177 accused, mostly ground staff at Kenitra, were acquitted. RABAT, Morocco (Renter) Eleven Moroccan air force men sentenced to death by a military tribunal Tues- B.C. minister decries frequency of strikes VANCOUVER (CP) Provincial Labor Minister Bill King told the annual British Columbia Federation of Labor convention Tuesday that he "decried" the frequency with which strikes occur in B.C. "Do not destroy the unique opportunity we have to make gains," Mr.

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