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2 The VANCOUVER SUN: May 1071 "VrnnH mall roiiUtrnlion number Alls" Motor vehicle acciilenli In Canada killed 455 persons during Nnvemher, 1970. FISCHER-TAIMANOV CHESS DATES SET Atrocities bared in Pakistan tour 2 million Pakistanis flee strife MODERN CHURCH BUILDING Centtal Burnoby location Offered at $58,000 MR. CLOVER 435-1471 BLOCK BROS. REALTY LTD. WEATHERMAN 5 bombers get terms NKW YORK (tin I Four-year prison terms, the maximum, were ordered Friday for three members of the Weatherman who admitted plotting bombings.

Stale Supreme Court Justice Harold Buns ordered th terms for Richard Rubin Palmer, 40, described as Ihe leader of the group, Sharon Krebs, 33, and Martin Lewis, 25. Claudia Conine and Joyce 1 also Weatherman members, were sentenced lo three years. Sentencing of a sixth rie. fenda nl Christopher Trenkle, 19 was delayed pending a psychiatric report. 'ihe six had admitted plotting lo bomb a branch of Ihe First National City bank, twn police stations, the Bolivian consulate, a New York University building and Mudge, Rose, Gulherie, and Alexander, President Richard Nixon's former law firm.

The quarter final world championship chess match between Hoherl Fischer of the U.S. and Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union will begin next Thursday the University of B.C. graduate centre. Games will be played May 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 3i, June 2 and 4. Games will start at 4 with the exception of May 30 and June 4, when they will begin at 2:30 p.m.

Spectators will be admitted to a separate room to view a demonstration board. Admission is $1 per game, or $5 for all games. First player to score 5'i points wins Ihe match. Others in the quarter final series are Bent I.arsen of Denmark and Wolfgang Uhlmann of Kast Germany; Tigrari. Pelrnsian of the Soviet Union and Roh-ert Huebner of West Germany; Viktor Korchnoi and Yefim Geller, both of the USSR.

Kventual winner of the series will meet world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the title. Great Selection In Styles and Colon NKW DELHI (AP) The Indian government says two million refugees have fled civil strife in neighboring Kast Pakistan, crossing into India and creating the largest refugee problem in modern history. Some 50,000 refugees cross the border daily to escape from the eastern province of Pakistan where Bengalis mounted a civil war last month to win independence from West Pakistan. Indian Foreign Secretary N. Kaul announced the latest figures in a meeting with a Ihree memher team from the UN High Commission for Refugees which arrived here from Geneva to see how it can provide relief to the Fast Pakistanis.

Indian officials said the number of East Pakistanis now exceeds the o( Palestinian refugees, which Ibey said totalled 1,425,219 as of January, 1970. "India would he glad lo receive sympathy, under-standing and assistance from other countries in dealing with the refugee problem," Kaul said. He said that about 1.8 million nf the refugees in India were in the stale nf West Bengal, of which Calcutta is the capital. were devastated as If by explosives or Pakistani army artillery. In Jessore, reporters saw Hie grave of a 59-year-old Italian priest reported to have been gunned down by Pakistani soldiers in his mission hospital complex.

Four East Pakistanis, Including a mother and 14-year-old boy, also were killed by the troops in the attack, residents said. According tn an authenticated report, the Mario Verotu'si, who had hern here IS years, walked nut of the small mission house the morning April 4 as two soldiers approached. Hi was cut down by automatic (ire. as he raised his hands, it was reported. A fellow priest buried him nearby the following day, taking 6'i hours because of gunfire whistling around him.

A nun from the mission Is reported to have left, for the Vatican, with the blood-soaked Red Cross badge the priest was wearing when he was shot, The market area of Jessore looked bombed and burned nut, A number of houses and shops were said to have been razed both by Bengalis and Ihe Pakistani army in taking over the town, A resident described what, he railed indiscriminate firing by the army seeking lo dislodge the rebels who had controlled Ihe town. JESSORE, East Pakistan (AP) Communal violence and military action to put down the rebellion in East Pakistan have wreaked death and devastation here, and in Khulna, the province's second port and third city. In Khulna, reporters on an army-conducted tour saw today what a non-Bengali resident described as a human slaughterhouse. Sheds were said to have been used by East Pakistan's dominant Bengalis in mass killings of Bihar! immigrants India, West Pakistanis and other non-Bengalis during March and early April at the height of the secessionist uprising, Reporters were shown a wooden frame wilh chains affixed on top where women and children reportedly were beheaded with knives. There was a form of garrotte attached tn a tree, where, the resident said, vir-', tims were choked to death.

Cords attached In one tree were described as hanging nooses. Bodies were said lo have been thrown over a low wall into the river running alongside. Long rows of shops and homes In the non-Bengali sector of Khulna were badly burned, apparently by Bengalis, hut other sections, Including solid brick buildings in the Bengali dominated town MARK TAIMANOV 10 game match A beautiful way to he tm forlahle dress heels, medium heels and low heels in Summer's r.fwest While -Beige Bone Blues Patent and Mesh, etc. Wirllhs AAA lo EE. They're so comfortable you'll enjoy wearing them again and ogain.

WIDMAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED ANNOUNCEMENT 00 619 Dunsmuir. 681-6111 (Btlween Granville Seymour) Open Fri. 'Ill 9 p.m. DOLLAR A DOUGLAS PAINT'S He Parley probes affairs of foreign students CYCLONE ffTS E. PAKISTAN KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) A cyclone struck loday near Ohittagniifi, major sea port in East Pakistan, and then swerved south when ils force apparently was declining, the official Radio Pakistan reported.

The storm was first reported along the northern Bengal coast where a cyclone and tidal wave last November swept at least 300,000 persons to their deaths. 3 policemen wounded in shooting CHELSEA, Mass. (UP1) Three policemen were In hospital today, two of them on the dancer list, wilh wounds suffered Friday in a wild shootout following a $9,300 bank robbery. Four suspects, apprehended about 75 feet away from the hank, were in custody on $100,000 double surety hail, scheduled for probable cause hearings May 20 in Chelsea District Court, Reported in slightly improved condition but still on Ihe. danger list were Chelsea patrolman Chester Swankow-ski, 54, shot once in Ihe abdomen, and Everett patrolman Edwin Guarino, 4fi, who was shot in Ihe chest.

Sgt. Leo McIIaltnn of Ever-ell was reported in fair condition with bullet wounds in the leg and shoulder. Police said a "silent" alarm at Ihe Stale Street Bank and Trust Company branch on Reacham Street, near the Everett-Chelsea town line, was triggered' during Hie holdup, sending men from both department to the. scene, A Chelsea police cruiser wilh Swankowski and McHnt-lon was first on the scene as three bandits came out (he front door of the hank, Swankowski ran toward I tin three and was shot down at point blank range, MrHallnn was wounded later. An Everett police cruiser arrived, parrying Cluarinn and his partner, Sgt.

Penla. The. Iwo men teamed up with McHiilton and began' chasing Ihe bandits, riolh sides exchanged about 30 Minis and a bullet hit Guarino in the chest. Couple die in shoot-out MARIETTA, Ga. (LIPII -A wealthy hiifihand-and-wife learn of doctors were beaten and shot tn death Friday by bandits who broke inlo Ibeir fashionable borne.

Dead were Lir. Warren Bond Mallbews, fiO, chief pathologist at Kenneslnn Hospital here, and his fifl-year old wile, who was chief pathologist at Piedmont Hospital in Allanla. She practised under her maiden name, Dr. Rosina Vincenzi. Their deaths apparently followed a bloody shoot-out and police said Ibey believe Ihe Matthews' assailants were wounded.

"It was a real shooting match," said Cobb County Police Chief K. H. Burress. "From Ihe angles of Ihe shols, il looked like she (Mrs. Mallbews) may have fired some." Students restless MADRID (liril Hundreds of Madrid university sludenls boycotted classes Friday In a mounting countrywide wave of student unrest R.

W. (Bob) It OSS E. T. (Terry) UPGAARfi ENDS MAY 15th! Charles R. Widman, President, id id an Industries Limited is pleased to announce the addition of Terry llpgaard and Bob Ross to our trading staff.

Mr. llpgaard holds an M.B.A. degree, from Simon Fraser University and has had several years experience in Ihe U.S. rail marked with a large forest products company in Vancouver. Mr.

Ross, who joins our company as a lumber buyer, whs previously wilh McMillan Rlocdel Id. for 14 years in many areas of lumber and plywood marketing. lie holds a diploma from the Sales and Marketing Executives 3 year course administered hy Ihe University of British Columbia. The addition of these experienced executives will greatly strengthen the company's merchandising program. Widman Industries Ltd.

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FOR ONLY UCS "This is our regular high-quality paint at a tremendous SAVING" idoughas mm 68 6th Sf. New Westminster 13756 104th (Hjorth Rd.) Surrey More than fiOfl students will meet at the University of B.C, for a week-long conference on foreign student affairs beginning this The conference, jointly sponsored by Ihe U.S. National Association (or Student Af fairs and the Canadian Bureau of International Education, will fealure group discussions by the, delegates on ideas about foreign sludenls, stiidcnls abroad and other international programs. A Vancouver theatre group, The Tarragon Theatre, Ensemble, will dramatize various issues, such as those that Bi'ise between foreign sludenls and administrators, through-mil Ihe week. The conference is heing staged at URC's Totem Park conventions centre.

As well as the conference delegates, 15 representatives from embassies at Washing-Ion, D.C., including ones from Formosa, Ihe Republic of Congo, and Thailand, will attend, IJDC's International House has been awarded a grant from Ihe federal department of slate tn help bring Canadian and foreign students from across Canada In Ihe conference. Continued from page 1 drew Ihe top monetary authorities nf Western Kurope, including all the heads of Hie Common Market central hanks. Baron Jean-Charles Snoy, Ihe Belgian finance minister, lold reporters: "Above all, we have one great concern, and that is to find a European solution." Hendrik i 1 1 the Dutch finance minister, said he doubled whether the measures proposed hy Ihe executive commission nf the Common Market would he sufficient The crisis erupted with the flow of dollars lo Kurope, by high interest rales and Ihe expectation that West Germany would revalue its mark upward once again. The mark has been revalued twice before, in 10 and Iflfifl. The U.S.

dollar plummeted lo a record low Friday in West Germany. The closing quotation in Frankfurt was 3.55 marks for a dollar against the official rale of 3.H6. An American was obliged In pay 28 cents for each mark as opposed to 27 cents before the crisis began In midweek. In Washington, Treasury Secretary John Connolly said Ihe U.S. stands for maintaining current parities between Ihe dollar and foreign currencies.

Connally said Ihe U.S. "contemplates no change in ils own gold and foreign exchange policies" as a result of Ihe monetary crisis. The Common Market ministers have, before them lodav proposals from the market's executive commission, representing Ihe joint Interests of the six as a whole. They are authoritatively reported to: Omit any provision for floating (xchange rales, nut right, changes in currency values, or a change in Ihe price of gold. Provide Ihe first steps lo con) red Ihe freewheeling market in Eurodollars an amount of $r0 billion lo $ti() billion on deposit outside the U.S.

on INVESTIGATE LOBO LEISURE HOMES TODAY! i 't in hi iv ANDRAS GETS 'WOMEN' JOB OTTAWA (CP) Robert Andras, minister responsible for housing, has been assigned to co-ordinate programs In implement the report of the, royal commission on Ihe status of women, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau told the Commons Friday that Andras will co-ordinate Ihe plans of each government department In bring ils programs Into line with the report's recommendations. He said each department is studying the report, made public in December, and ex-a i 1 government programs to ensure they meel the needs of women. 8-for-l rocket up MOSCOW (Iteuter) The Soviet Union has launched eight earth satellites in ils Cosmos space research program all from the same carrier rockei, Tass news agency reported today. The launching Friday was the second to orbit eight salel-liles at the same time. Ulster soldiers wounded in blast BELFAST (Reuler) Two members of Ihe Ulslfr D-fence Regiment, Northern Ire land's volunteer army, were injured early today when their vehicle was damaged by an explosion near the Irish border.

A Ibird man suffered minor ruts and bruises. The, Iwn injured men were tuken In hospital but their wounds were believed not lo be serious. VIIrlll IMI VI I Good Vision Smile, be confident that you look your besl. Sea us for glasses, frames lo brighten your I'ul ure. PlesctytioH Optical liere friips Air Aluwis Rfasnnnhlt fcrl.

Heath to talk to Pompidou LONDON (Reuler) British Prime Minister Edward Heath will go lo Paris May 20 for a Iwo-day meeting wilh French President Georges Pompidou to discuss Britain's entry inlo Ihe European Common Market. Announcement of Ihe Iwo-day Hireling was made jointly in Paris and London. The Henlli Ponipidoil talks will lake place on Ihe same dales that had been set for a visit In London by French nriitn Minister Maurice Schumann. The visil now Is replaced by the lop level lalks, which also hit Ihe universities of Barcelona, Siinlnnder, Val-ladolid and Valencia. EXPLOITATION CHARGED IN MONTREAL Women's protest ends in fracas t' i' 1 Yj.i-, i 1 IX i i JO tccifl i ir i i i i ik (fljftT tax.

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