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TTCUIIICI witn a few cloudy intervals. Low-high: Sum mid 40s, near 60. tt 1971 1 SUNNY volJMP Jig8 Ms VUU LAAAV NO. 163 classifed M3-20SJ PRICE 15 CENTS By Carrier $3.00 Per Month 92 PAGES VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA," THURSDAY, MAY 13,1971 ROYAL FAMILY BACK AT WINDSOR CASTLE LONDON (CP) The 'Queen, Prince Philip and Princess Anne have returned to Windsor Castle after their 10 -day centennial tour of British Columbia. Their plane landed here early today, ending a flight from Vancouver.

Meanwhile, a telephoned bomb threat forced Princess Margaret and 1,400 other persons to evacuate the Chichester festival theatre Wednesday night. No bomb was found. bod sunns. en Major hurdles cleared at talks Lathers hit 7 more sites Jurisdictional dispute with carpenters widens Lathers' Union members picketed selectively at seven construction sites today in their jurisdictional dispute with the Carpenters' Union. 1 The small Local 207 expand- Sun News Dispatches' BRUSSELS Britain and the six Common Market nations made a major breakthrough early today in their negotiations on the British application for membership in the European Economic Community.

"If I were you I would bet on success," chief British negotiator Geoffrey Rippon, beaming, told a dawn news conference. "We are now definitely in," added another British official. New mood in Paris EGYPTIAN SPLIT WIDENS the 10-hour final negotiating session, broke out bottles of scotch for the participants. It was France, under the leadership of the late President Charles de Gaulle, who blackballed Britain in 1963 and 1967. The other members of the Common Market are West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Still to be resolved are the questions of New Zealand's dairy exports and the future of the pound sterling. The negotiators were optimistic that these can be resolved at the next session June 7 in Luxembourg. Agreement was reached on three important issues, including a formula to reckon Britain's payments into the joint budget in its first years of membership. The budget now amounts to about $4 billion a year, more than 90 per cent spent on sup-porting Western Europe's dwindling farm population. A series of concessions by France paved the way for the breakthrough, indicating a new mood already exists in Paris.

As if to underline this, French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann, who chaired CAIJtO (UPI) President Anwar Sadat tonight accepted the i a i of vice-premier and interior minister Shawari Gumah, the semiofficial Middle East news agency said. No reason for the resignation was given. The agency said Sadat appointed Alexandria governor Mamdouh Salem to the post. Last week Vice-President Ali Sabiy was fired because of a dispute with Sadat Over Egyptian membership in a new federation with Syria and Libya. (Earlier story on cabinet split, page 16).

Concession for Canada will be safeguarded through a quota system. A number of other raw materials, such as wood pulp and plywood, will be given similar treatment. Sigismund von Braun, the West German secretary of state for foreign affairs, said the time now is ripe for Britain to join the Common Market. "Everyone is convinced of "Britain" page 2 Hans de Koster of the Dutch foreign ministry predicted that negotiations to admit Denmark and the Republic of Ireland could be completed at the same time. He said the future of Norway's application was less certain because its proposal on fisheries is unacceptable.

Canada gained at least one important concession agreement by the Six that duty-free imports of newsprint lllllll 'Y i wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmHi mtlmmJk WllKBSk ed its picketing to projects in Chilliwack, Burnaby and Vancouver, striking legally after mediator William Freeborn bowed out of the dispute late Wednesday. There was no immediate indication that Construction Labor Relations Association would invoke its lockout threat, or how many other building trades respected the picket lines. Local 207 business agent Courtenay Burton, said the pickets went up at a Chilliwack General Hospital extension and an Air Canada proj- David vs. Goliath battle, p. 10 ect at Vancouver International Airport to house the Boeing 747 jumbo jet aircraft.

The lathers were also picketing the new Ocean Cement headquarters at Marpole, a medical building at Tenth Avenue and Commercial, an office building at 1090 West Pender, an apartment complex at Halifax and Phillips, and the Alexander MacKenzie school annex. Companies involved in the dispute are Brown and McLennan, Wolfe and Innis and Whitehall contracting. CLRA president C. J. Con-naghan said the association wants to assess the extent of the actual shutdown by other trades refusing to cross the picket lines before it makes a move.

"But we have a number of options open to us," he said. He charged the lathers "have made a complete and utter farce out of collective bargaining by resorting to strike in a jurisdictional dispute with the carpenters." The lathers have refused to sign a proposed contract with CLRA unless it gives them jurisdiction over studding and boarding of walls and ceilings, a job also done by carpenters working for CLRA contractors. Except for this jurisdictional issue, all terms of the contract have been settled, Burton said. Drivers can get licences back Canada's inflation record 'best' PARIS (CDN) Canada has the best record in fighting inflation of any of the 22 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a U.S. official said here today.

Dallas Jones, economic policy adviser to the U.S. delegation, made the statement in an interview. He is here with U.S. ambassador to the OECD Grccnwald to prepare for the organization's 10th anniversary meetings June 7 and 8. ''By any measure, the United States is now doing better on inflation than the other countries, with the exception of Canada," Jones said.

"For the first quarter of 1971, our cost of living rise was under 3 per cent, compared to 5 per cent a year ago." For Canada, in the first quarter of 1971. the increase was under 2.5 per cent. Last year Inflation in Europe hit 8 3 per cent in Britain, 8 in Sweden, 7.5 in Spain, and went over 5 per cent in France, Italy, Holland and Switzerland. "What it really boils down to is that in the suspension of licences following impaired convictions there has been a procedural defect insofar as the department is concerned and this will be remedied." He added that the decision doesn't affect cases where there has been a "valid exercise of discretion" by Hadfield. Peterson said that about one-third of licence suspensions for impaired drivers are for more than 30 days and in those cases the suspensions will stand.

"But where the discretion was not exercised where there were automatic 30-day suspensions following a conviction for impaired, these will be the suspensions that will be affected. "Where we have not yet picked up the licences, we won't do so, and if we have, they'll be returned upon request," Peterson said. "Maybe we need legislative authority so that when a driver mixes driving and drink, there will be an automatic suspension, and it is going to apply to everyone whetlier they are cabinet ministers or what have you," he said. By IAIN HUNTER Sun Victoria Bureau VICTORIA Attorney -General Les Peterson said today that drivers' licences which have been suspended for 30 days for impaired driving will be returned to motorists on request. The decision to return the licences and not to proceed with any automatic 30-day suspensions for impaired driving results from an Appeal Court of B.C.

decision declaring that superintendent of motor vehicles Ray Hadfield exceeded his jurisdiction in imposing the automatic suspensions. But Peterson warned in an interview that Hadfield still has the power to suspend licenses on his own discretion. And he indicated legislation may be introduced next year so that automatic licence suspension for 30 days on first conviction of impaired driving can be resumed. "The public should know that this is not a get-soft policy on drinking drivers," he said. "Probably it will end up the reverse." Peterson said he had read the court decision and cannot quarrel with it in any way.

Ray Allan Pholo brown-headed cowbird, only Canadian species that does not build a nest. Like English cuckoo, it lays its eggs in other birds' nests. BIRD IN THE HAND delights nature lover Dick Nairn, 89, who has been tramping Stanley Park trails twice a week for last 45 years. Bird is female Negotiations fail on Four Seasons Fishery officials leery of power plan Cause of the latest dispute is the announcement by the giant page 2 Minister Ray Williston re- without energy. Otherwise plied: "I would say basically, you're going to lock the coun- yes.

Because I don't see how try up and throw away the you can develop the country key. BIG MATCH POSTPONED Room for dispute in chess world Fisheries officials expressed concern today over plans to put a 400,000 horsepower hydro-electric dam on the Iskut River 200 miles northwest of Prince Rupert. Dixon MacKinnon, chief biologist for the resources branch of the federal department of fisheries, said a dam on the river would "certainly create problems," Maurice Houghton, chief of the department's conservation and protection branch, said the scheme would be "looked at very carefully by our department. And a spokesman for the provincial fisheries branch said a dam depending on its location could be "critical" for salmon. However, the provincial government appears to be supporting the new dam proposal.

Asked today If the government would allow power development, Land and Forests now that the plebiscite will be defeated," Campbetl said. The mayor estimates it will cost at least $10 million to acquire the site and pay damages. He claims if the plebiscite is approved the park board won't have any funds to develop or acquire parkland for the next 15 years. "There'll be nothing but bush," Campbell said. "I think there's more than parkland involved in this.

There's politics." The park board has opposed the multi-million dollar development construction of which is lo start this summer on the grounds that it would congest the Georgia Street entrance to the park and form a curtain of concrete adjacent to it Campbell has maintained that the developers were willing to negotiate to reduce the size of the development only if the park board and city council were in agreement on the changes. In support of this contention that Four Seasons was willing to negotiate, Campbell had pointed out that Four Seasons' president Isadore Sharp had agreed to cut the size of the planned 600-room hotel next to the park by 200 rooms. But Sharp said Wednesday that there would be no major changes in the plan. By AL SHELHAV Negotiations have collapsed for a compromise to the controversial Four Seasons apartment-hole! complex at the entrance lo Stanley Park. Mayor Tom Campbell said today there is no room for further negotiations because the park board has reiterated "all or nothing" policy.

Park board chairman Sandy Robertson Kiild today the Hoard agreed at a meeting Wednesday that it opmses the project unless there are "radical and extensive chaiiRes" in the building planned next to the park. "We reiterated our aland thai the hlork next to Stanley Park must he left for open upace lo protect Ihe entrance to Ihe park," Rohrrtson said. Campbell, who has been talking to the board and the developers In an effort to reach a compromise, de-ncrihed the aland as "the park board'! fully of the century." City council has approved putting I money plebiscite to property owners, probably during the week of June 28, and has asked Tor an Independent appraisal nf the Four Season vaterfrnnt site to determine the enl of acquiring it fur parkland It' going tn cost Ihe rlty ef Vanmuver lo find out what everybody knows night while a frantic search was made of the centre for a room suitable to both Fischer and Taimanov. The TV room, it seemed, was too small. "I cannot breathe in this room," said Taimanov to his Russian interpreter, grandmaster Alcxei Kotov, Fischer also rejected the room at first glance Wednesday, but later changed his mind and agreed to play.

At one point during the day Kotov and classics dean Malcolm McGregor, UBC's representative, held a heated discussion over use of the centre's library. It was the only room acceptable to both factions, but McGregor refused to allow its use. He said the centre was a private club and he could not bar students from one of their By BILL RAYNER A "Nyet!" rang through the hallowed halls of the University of B.C.'s Graduate Centre Wednesday, thereby stalling the world chess championship match between grandmasters Bobby Fischer and Mark Tat-manov. Fischer, of the U.S., and a i a of the Soviet Union, were to begin the Taimanov versatile, P. 47 10-game match today, but a dispute over playing conditions has forced postponement of the first game until Sunday.

The Russian growls of protest began in the afternoon over the centre's TV room, chosen by the Canadian Chess Federation as site of the match. They continued during the most popular gathering places. "It's like strangers coming into a private home," he said. He also took the position that the TV room was accepted for play by the CCF as representatives of the players, and that the players should be told to play in it. "Tell them to stop acting like children," he said.

McGregor's adamant stand brought a flood of anti-Canadian and anti-L'BC rhetoric from Kotov. He accused both UBC and Canada of a lack of hospitality, and at one point threatened to take the four-man Russian team home to Moscow. Earlier, Kotov had declared, with heavily-accented sarcasm, that Canada was a "Cbess" page Index In News 1fl Sport 29 Suburbs 45 Theatres 82, TV 48 Wnsserman 49 Weather 3 nrlriae BO Comics HO crossword mi Klnmwe 37 Hinders 5B, H7 t.cllers 5 Lively Arts I9 Living- Today rip itHlnh Bower Pholo BOBBY FISCHKR, MARK TAIMANOV po.se with referee Bozidar Kazic.

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