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The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 3

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The Provincei
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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THE PHOVINX'E, Aioiuluy, June 2(i, 1973 3 Some ivould loot while others lend helping hand I 1 1 I i (Mllii. t' I i 4 i 1 'Mj 1" t. it r.iiii-AVmrriv. we i 1 4 "5 A 1 In the city's bobiness district, troopers guard against looters as firemen tea 'Jlie young and the old retrieve lmloiigiugs bonKcd by Hoods in tlinira, N.Y. France lo demand (inn value U.K.

entry to ECM threatened Someone to cling to Sources said the French delegation in Luxembourg will call for joint action to set up controls in Europe over money speculators seeking profits from currency devaluations and over the unchecked movements of capital across national frontiers. Olivier Wormscr, hank of France governor, said after an urgent meeting with the common market central (government) bankers that market members will keep their monetary markets closed through Tuesday, The markets closed Friday as speculators zeroed in on the U.S. dollar and sent its value plummeting below llie floor price. Various estimates quoted in informed financial quarters placed the amount spent by European central banks in support of the pound and the U.S. dollar between $2.6 to billion.

AMONG OUR PATRONS are many families of three generations whom we have served for their optical prescriptions. Naturally we enjoy this confidence. WhtRE PRICES ARE ALWAYS REASONABLE prescription Optical Est, 1924 work logufhur hurnlay to THE 0 PROVINCE mm a temporary measure taken because speculators had been betting that the pound would be devalued and force Britain to use up its reserves in gold and U.S. dollars to keep the pound within its official value limits. Sunday, Britain announced that along with the decision to iloat the pound, il was selling up new monetary regulations for dealings between British residents and those in the overseas sterling area whose member countries peg their currency values to the pound.

The Republic of Ireland was excepted. Britain's moves, which sour-cos said were plotted without advance consultations with Cummon Market members, caused dismay in France, a co intry by tradition opposed lo floating currency rates. V'alcry Giscard d'Eslaing, French finance minister, held an emergency meeting with President Georges Pompidou and later hinted that France would enact tighter monetary exchange controls. Li (. Hi N.

4sr Vi.tft' -9 Yfl I If i JJh "a 1. -j tw- Lit A Associated HARRISBURG, Pa. Pies-iiient Ricliard Nixun, a barefoot black girl clinging to his arm, toured a fiuod evacuation centre here Saturday and told victims of raging Susquehanna River waters, "We appreciate your spirit." Flying alxiard a U.S. Army helicopter Nixon landed on lie football field of Harrisburg's William Perm high school where gymnasiums have been filled with cots to house evacuees. Slaying more than a half hour, he mingled with the victims offering words of encouragement, signing autographs and distributing presidential pens to all those over 80.

Some 1.0(d) flood victims are living at the school. "We think we have troubles," Nixon told one group. "We see people like you and we realise we don't have any troubles at all." The eight year-old black girl attached herself to Nixon and made the tour with him, alternately holding his hand and clutching his arm. POLSON'S DOUBLE BARREL SALE OF OFFICE EQUIPMENT see Pg. 23 little girl who said lu name watt Jess clings to Tresitknt Nixon in centre lor Hood refugees.

United Press International PARIS France will demand today that Britain set a firm parity value on its pound sterling to correct the damage to European economic stability brought about by Britain's floating the pound on the open monetary market, diplomatic sources said Sunday. Informed sources said Britain's decision Friday to let die pound find its own value caused some French officials to question whether Britain can join the Common Market as scheduled Jan. 1. Common Market rules call for its members lo have firm currency valuei. Sources said France will demand that Britain set firm currency values when the six Common Market finance ministers meet in Luxembourg today to study the latest international monetary crisis.

The meeting will hear British Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber, who said Friday that floating was Au IK A shoot it out BELFAST (AP) British troops claimed to have hit 10 guerrillas in running gun fights across Belfast Sunday only 36 hours before a planned truce with the Irish Republican Army. The prolonged gun battles raised fears whether the truce lo halt three years of sectarian conflict thai has left 3S3 dead in Northern Ireland begin as scheduled. Security authorities said Ihcy had no way of telling whether any of the 10 IRA guerrillas were killed or how seriously Ihcy were wuunded. In usual IRA fashion, dead or wounded comrades wc-c spirited away. There were no reports of British casualties.

An army spokesman said IRA gunmen repeatedly attacked a military post in the Inadoon area of the Roman Catholic district of Auderson-towu. Gunmen also attacked a post in Horn Walk in the neighboring district of Suffolk. 4 will rf4 relied flooded stores. scheduled to arrive here this morning to prepare fur the 24 game world chess championship match starting July 2. T.

Thorarisson, president of the Icelandic Federation, said Fischer had cancelled the flight but that he did not know the reason. (lumper killed YEI.rowSTONE NATION Al, PARK, tto. i UPI) An Alabama man camping with a friend was attacked and killed before daun Sunday near Old Faithful geyser by a bear apparently raiding a (ood cache. PolenttJ Uui what vhII f.i I Qivo up 70 duW 30 miles from Hanoi U.S. bombers knock out slccl plant i nrrrnnfrnnnTrfncin i Press The child would not tell her name to reporters but whispered in Nixon's ear it was Jess.

"The most moving thing was the kid that grabbed my hand," Nixon said. Nixon, who saw widespread flood damage along the Susquehanna during his two-hour journey, said the biggest long-run problem in the Harrisburg area will be to find new industry. There apparently is some question whether Bethlehem Steel Co. will reopen its inundated plant nearby. Chatting with a middle-aged black man who said, "We lust everything but we're still alive and that's what matters," Nixon recalled the year of the 1W9 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Many then thought one of the worlds most beautiful cities had been destroyed forever, he said. "But the city came back more beautiful than ever and the people were stronger." one cse civilian, South said. (jiinhoul Iialllo CAIRO (UPI) For the third time in two days, Palestinian guerrillas and Israeli gunboats battled off Israel's northern coast. Sunday night, exchanging machinegun fire in the glare of flood lights and flares, guerrilla sources said. In the latest incident, the sources said guerrillas opened up on four Israeli boats approaching in the dark.

skyjacker Press flat framland have been eliminated, leaving the 10 square-mile area of heavy woods and water. Searchers doubted (he man had slipped out of Ihe briar-covered, second growth woodlands. Martin said Ihe hijacker still was unidentified and il was uncertain whether his chute opened, raising the possibility he may have died in Ihe lull. When the bandit, said lo be luting a sub -machine-gun, began Ihe hijack Friday night in St. Louis, he had to he shown how to use the parachutes he had demanded.

II I IM I I I 11 I III LM I I III 1111 I I The Israeli patrol boats turned spotlights on Ra.shidich refugee camp on shore and the guerrillas fired flans into the black sky. The Israeli boats withdrew, guerrilla sources said, firing hursts of machinegun fire as they ucnt. Fischer caiK Is flight REYKJAVIK (UPI) -Bobby Fischer, U.S. challenger to Russian chess world champion Boris Spassky, abruptly cancelled his flight ticket lo Reykjavik, Icelandic Chess Federation officials said Sunday night. Fischer, of Brooklyn, was SacldcnL HAIR Just think! j-, Vou havt It within your power lo cornpllah outstanding re- V.

lull that will Changs your lilt ftjV it lor lh better. vv Feel mo're energetic vibrant 'i it SAIGON (NVT) U.S. fighter-bombers using guided bombs have wrecked North Vietnam's only modern steel plant, the US. command claimed Sunday, halting production there. The raids, carried out Saturday, were said to have been directed at the Thai Nguyen steel works, 30 miles north of Hanoi and 6j miles from the Chinese border.

Meanwhile, six communist rockets slammed into a South Vietnamese army induction centre on the outskirts of Saigon, wounding one soldier and No sign of Associated PERU, Ind. Left with a 10 square mile area of water and thick briar-covered woodland still to cover, the FBI Sunday ended Ihe second unsuccessful day of search in north-centra! Indiana for a young hijacker who left a commandeered jetliner with more than $500,000 in ransom. Jim Martin, agent in chargc of the FBI in Indiana, suspended Sunday's search saying he had no leads in Ihe case. The FBI earlier had called on an expert skydivcr to help pinpoint (lie flight of the air pirate after he fell or parachuted from Ihe American Airlines 727 early Saturday. Fresh agents from Ohio and Illinois as well us Indiana were lo resume the search this morning in Ihe area of Ihe 3.200 acre Missiiucw reservoir.

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