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Sun he si JJ1 5111 lulurniation I ImtlMtioB 56 PAGES FOUNDED 1S VOL. LXXXVI No. 228 "Vi?" VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1972 PRICE 15 CENTS wMUS rry jobs, economy threatened' Stop eattfe takeover, dockere say "To emphasize the point," it said, "we should add that some shipping lines are taking Vancouver-bound cargo to Seattle even when their ships call at Vancouver. Seal. and, which is responsible for much of the business we are losing to Seattle, is a huge world-wide American-owned corporation that has grown fat on heavily subsidized U.S.

war contracts. "Three years ago. SeaLand came here to siphon away Vancouver business to move through Canadian ports. And to control Canadian cargo, said the brief signed by union president Don Garcia, Canada needs a publicly-owned merchant fleet. Talk of tbe Seattle takeover has been looming large in shipping circles in recent weeks.

Harbor sources say current lahor talks between dockers and the B.C. Maritime Employers Association have been less abrasive than usual. In fact, the employers sent a memorandum to all members of the union saying: new container shipping service, which intends to take Vancouver bound cargo through Seattle, the union said. Phoenix Container Lines Ltd, through its agents Line, the brief said, planned to offload goods at Seattle, then truck them into Vancouver. The service, hIiro gets way this month, follows the pattern of three other steamship companies Sea Land Shipping Services, American Mail Line, and Line, the brief said.

"Too much business is now flowing through the neighboring port of Seattle." The memorandum, signed by Ed Strang, president of the employers association, urged union members to consider this when deciding on contract proposals. It has already been reported that both sides are working to avoid a strike this year because of the Seattle threat. The union brief pointed out that for every Ion of cargo crossing the docks, $20 is injected into tbe local economy, in wages and profits to people involved in the movement. The figure has long been recognized by management and government alike. With 300,000 tons lost in a year, the union figures this means an annual loss to Vancouver of $6 million.

"We understand this amounts to 30 per cent of the total container cargo destined for Vancouver," Uie brief said, "if the present trend continues, it could easily rise to 40 per cent." A recent example of the drain was the setting up of a ByfiiKisiy Mccormick Tbe C. duikers union appealed to federal authorities during the weekend to stop a Seattle takeover of Vancouver cargo. Every month 25.000 torn of Canadian cargo goes through the Port of Seattle, said the union's angry brief to members of Parliament. Cargo drains svvay because of insufficient facilities here and because of the power of foreign steamship interests and even Canadian railway regulations. First designed to attract cargo through Vancouver, they work against the port, the union said.

The international Long -shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union said such diversions threaten the jobs of its members and the economy of Vancouver. called for the immediate construction of container facilities and an end to dis- 'criminatory rail rates, fostered by outdated regulations. The union also asked the Canadian Transportation Commission to set itself a new goal that Canadian cargo Keith Dixon, president of Uie Canadian importers Association, has repeatedly made a similar statement. The dockers also said that SeaLand is taking away export commodities as well. "It (SeaLand) is loading frozen meat, pulp, bides and malt in Vancouver and trucking it to Seattle where it is loaded for shipment across the Pacific," the brie said.

The union also pointed to the practices of large department stores here in shipping "Dockers" page hijacker to death (KlaDDoi Hocked Seattle college grad slain aboard jumbo jet SAIGON AP) A young Vietnamese man who fried to hijack a jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday. The hijacker was identified CLOSE! 1 Mix-. 4 V) r- )mkj, 'f RECALL HITS VEGA AGAIN DETROIT (AP) General Motors Corp. announced today the recall of aOO.OoO Chevrolet Vega mini-cars for inspection and possible replacement of defective rear axle shafts.

The recall involves virtually all 1971 and 1972 Vegas built prior to last May and includes 23.000 sold in Canada. it is the third recall order since April for Vegas, built only at the Lordstown, Ohio, plant. Earlier ones involved 350,000 and 130.000 vehicles for checks on throttle and fuel system troubles. Pakistan, India in peace pact SIMLA. India (AP) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India and President Zulfi-kar Aii Bhutto of Pakistan reached their first peace agreement early today.

They promised future negotiations on the other issues between their two nations, including Kashmir and Uie Pakistani war prisoners held by India. The agreement, which came after five days of talks in tins Himalayan resort, said Indian and Pakistan forces will withdraw from the territories Uiey seized last December along India's western border except in Kashmir. There Uiey will maintain Uie ceasefire line established by the two-week war in December. The pact also contained a pledge to settle all disputes bilaterally and peacefully, and said steps should be taken to restore relations, which Pakistan severed Dec. 5 when India recognized Bangladesh, the former East Pakistan.

The agreement gave no timetable, but called for measures to resume communications and air links, page 2 tuday as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S. government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. The young man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name of Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot of the Pan American World Airways plane tricked linn and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. The other passengers were evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion. Several persons suffered minor scratches or bruises and one passenger, a D.S.

Air Force lieutenant-colonel, broke his leg. To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two homemade grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could have exploded. The airline described them as harmless g-s a objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. The hijacking attempt began alter the Boeing 747 jumbo jet, flight 41, left Manila on the last leg of its Sail Francisco-to-Saigon flight.

Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu, grabbed stewardess May Yuen, 23, a Hong Kong Chinese, as a hostage and "Hijack" page it Chichester safe after vild rescue Sun News Dispatches PLYMOUTH. England -Sir Francis Chichester, the ailing round the world solo yachtsman, was In hospital here biday, his attempt to win thu transatlantic race at au end. The 70 year old sailor slipped ashore here after an emergency crew brought his ketch Gipsy Moth into port after intercepting it at sea as he fought to overcome an illness and Uie side eiecu of a pain killer. One other yacht was not so lucky it was at the bottom of the ocean with seven of its 11 crew members feared drowned. The Danish yacht Lesteria altered course to go to Chichester's aid.

But it was rammed by the French weather ship trance II and sunk. It was Uie British frigate HMS Salisbury that finally put a rescue crew, including bis son Giles, alward Uie Chichester ketch. In the listeria incident, three Americans and a Swede were pulled from Uie water alive. The body of an Ameri- can woman was later recovered, but six others remained missing. Glenn Baalo Photo last saw each other in the Ukraine in 1928, when Alicia left to come to Canada with her husband.

(Story, P. 6.) TEARS OF JOY end 45 years of separation for sisters Alicia Vilzke, left, and Lea Witzke, at Vancouver airport Sunday. They NIXON DIVORCE SAVES MITCHELL MARRIAGE Ulster ceasefire teeters; 7 slain in bloody weekend Dock strike delays MPs' holiday break last week as saying she had been manhandled by security guards assigned by the Nixon re-election campaign committee. She was quoted as saying that politics was "nothing but a cops and robbers game." Mrs. Mitchell was perhaps the best known of the Nixon cabinet wives because of her frequent phone calls to reporters to present her often controversial views on issues and personalities.

When Mitchell resigned as attorney general March 1, lo take the campaign post, his wife made clear her dissatisfaction with the move. WASHINGTON (A -Former U.S. attorney-general John Mitchell and his wife, Martha, are together again today. A stormy week of marital problems was climaxed by Mitchell's resignation as director of President Richard Nixon's re election campaign. Hie Committee for Uie Reelection of the President announced that Mitchell has resigned as campaign director in order to devote more Ume to his wife and family.

The resignation came after Mrs. Mitchell told reporters she was leaving him until be got out of politics. Mrs. Mitchell was quoted estant hero, was apparently kidnapped. Four men stopped the car taking Spence back to jail after a two-day parole to attend his daughter's wedding.

He had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 for killing a Catholic. UIM chieftains said they would mount a lescue operation if Spence was not returned alive. The IRA denied taking Spence and charged the LDA staged a phoney kidnapping to free Index Proteslants, and the fifth was a 19 year-old Jehovah's Witness from England who bad been working in a camp for poor children since coming to Northern Ireland a week ago. His body was found on a garbage dump, and authorities believed he may have been killed by mistake. Soon after the seventh body was found early today, gunmen hidden in a factory in a Protestant zone fired about 40 shots into the Catholic Auder-sontown district nearby.

Guerrillas fired back until British troops moved in and stopped the shooting. Leaders of the militant Protestant Lister Defence Association threatened reprisals against the IRA after Augustus I Gusty) Spence, a Prot BELFAST (AP) Seven men were killed in Belfast during a violence-ridden weekend. The bloodshed threatened the flimsy ceasefire in Northern Ireland and fanned fears of "eye for an eye" warfare between Protestant and Roman Catholic gunmen. All seven men were shot in the head, and some were bound and hooded, the trademarks of the Irish hepublican Army's execution squads. But at least two of (lie victims were Catholics.

Although there was some speculation they had been killed by IHA punishment squads, authorities believed tJicy were the victims of Protestant extremists. Four of the victims were By VICTOR MACKJE Sun Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA The seven-week strike that has shut down the St. Lawrence River ports forced the government In cancel its plans to close 15 Biidfte 12 f'oniiiii 12 riouoi-ri 12 rr. Alvarez "8 iiiar.ee 24 i.arrjcna 37 Loners 5 Lively Arts 29 living Nanus Nc)itl Spoil 5ubtjrbii Thealici TV Wcatlifr ,1 $130,000 SWEETENS CHESS POT Next gambit up to Fischer Two killers sought LONDON (AP) A British banker today offered Bobby in city shootings Parliament for Uie summer last week. The Commons will resume sittings Tuesday.

Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudcau had an adjournment motiun on the order paper for the Commons Friday. But when the striking longshoremen voted Friday to continue tiioir walkout the government abandoned its hopes stait the summer recess June 30. Shouts of disappointment from the unhappy members of Parliament greeted Government House leader Allan Mac-Fachen's announcement that the situaUon in the ports of Montreal, Quebec and Trois Rivieres remained unclear and consequenUy the Commons could not adjourn Friday for the summer. Most MPs had made plans to commence their summer vacation over the long weekend. During a light hearted exchange with Progressive Conservative whip Tom Bell before this announcement.

Tru deau hinted at an election in October. Later he told newsmen he would be giving serious consideration" to a fall election. Third reading of tbe Canadi an Labor Code was granted by the MPs Friday. Tuesday the House will resume consideration of the family income security plan and it may also try this week to gel its foreign "Commons" page I was reported as saying he would not appear in Iceland unless bis demands for more money were met by Uie tournament organizers. And their answer today was: No deal.

Slater, chairman of Slater Walker Securities which has worldwide business affairs, has proved a package containing several alternative offers. One is to double the prize money for the match which now is $125,000. The winner would get under present terms. An increased prize would mean that the winner gels $156,000 and the loser $104 ,000. 7he alternative is to give a straight $130,000 extra to the winner, boosting his prut money to $2.08 ooo.

"The money is mine," said Slater. "I hope the offer is being considered. "I like chess and have played it for years. Many want to see this match and everything has been arranged. If Fischer dots not go to Iceland, many will be disappointed.

"The idea is to remove the problem of money from Fischer and see if he has any others." London bookmaker William Hill made Fischer odds on favorite to defeat Spassky and gain the world championship. Some chess experts who have gathered here from distant parts of the world for what promised to be the match of the century expressed a belief thai Fischer, in the end, would sabotage the championship. Fischer's 24 game match with the Russian world's champion was to have begun Sunday, fcdeialion president Euwe announced it Uie American challenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday be would risk forfeiting his chance at the title. The Russians reluctantly accepted Euwe's decision to delay the match. Asked what he thought of the situation, Spassky replied: "1 came to play." An Icelandic chess player and longtime friend of Fischer, Freystrinn Tfcorbcrberg-sson, flew to New York and said he would try to persuade Fischer lo meet the Tuesday deadline.

Fischer continued to hide out from newsmen in New York but was reported to have stayed until Friday at the home of friends on Long Island Fischer and Spassky hsd earlier agreed to split a purse, with Uie winner five-eighths, with each to get three per cent of Uie sale of film and television rights. But Fischer suddenly demanded an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts, and his representatives had been negotiating this point with sponsors of (be match Among the more optimi.itic was Larry Evans, a former American champion who knows Fischer well. He said, "I say there was a 50 50 chance he will come." One Swedish expert left for home in disvust. Icelanders Uiemselvcs. though they may not believe Fischer will come, have made no great rush to return the tickets they purchased for the match Fuwe said his personal opinion was that "there will be no play at all." Fischer a deal worth $130,000 to try to entice Fischer to play Soviet rival Boris Spas-sky for the world chess title.

James Slater, an investment banker, said in making Uie offer: "Fischer lias said that money is the problem. Well, here it is. "What I am saying to Fischer now is, 'Come out and play'." Slater's offer was made through Dr. Max Fuwe. president of the International Chess Federation, and was relayed to Fischer in New York, a spokesman for Slater said.

Fischer faces a deadline of noon Tuesday to be in Reykjavik. Iceland, for his match with defending champion Spassky. The American challenger City police are hunting for the killers of two men, both in Uieir 20s, who were victims of separate shootings during the holiday weekend. Brian Martin, 24, whose address was given as 12t5 Southeast Marine Drive, was gunned down outside Gassy Jack's Plate restaurant, 7 Alexander, Saturday. He died in hospital Sunday after undergoing surgery lo remove a bullet from his fiomarh.

Weather Sunny Tuesday. I-ow. near SO, High, upper 70s. Police said lie was shot when he tried to reason with an "excited man" who had fired several shots from what was described as a high-powered rifle. In another shooting Saturday, Donato Buscitti, 23, was killed outside the Yale Hotel, 1300 Granville.

Ruscitti, whose address was given as 1023 Bute, was a beer parlor waiter at the hotel. Polit said had apparently bein involved in an argument with a man inside the hotel before the shooting. They believe the man waited for Ruscitti outside, then shot him in the chest. 4,.

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