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fl-2 9 THE MONTREAL STAR TUESDAY SEPTEMBER I UTS Paris bank hostages safe Bandits 9 $135 million ransom bid succeeds Congress trust papers to Nixon PARIS (AP) Two gunmen escaped with gl35 million last night after releasing seven hostages seized during a bank holdup and eluding police in a high-speed chase The robbers had held the hostages for more than 10 hours in a central Paris bank while negotiating for the money and a getaway car No one was Injured When police delivered the money and a white limousine the gunmen fled taking three women hostages with them but freeing four men Sadat: No secret deals in Sinai pact Police cars pursued the getaway vehicle across the city sometimes at speeds nearing 90 miles per hour but the robbers managed to switch can twice and vanish When they abandoned the first car they left one of the woman hostages behind and jumped into a car on the northern edge of Paris with the other two women The second car was found in south Paris with the two women inside chained but unhurt i nesses said the bandits drove away in a third car Commissioner Robert Groussard head of the elite anti-gang squad said: almost got them it was touch-and-go for a few moments Witnesses in the bank said the men were perfectly calm and very At one point they fired warning shots in the air but no one was hurt The ransom money delivered in two sacks was left at the door of the bank- but the gunmen waited almost lour more horns before agreeing to the getaway arrangements Police cleared a route for their escape and as the gunmen drove off they were Mowed by police cars ambulances and reporters in a mad chase through the winding itreets The robbers armed with malic pistols and a sawed-off shotgun entered the bank around 11:39 am1 They let two customers go after entering the bank but forced seven other persons to remain inside More than 2S0 policemen including sharpshooters surrounded the bank near the Invalides which houses tomb Police closed off all streets around the buy Left Bank intersection near the small bank and subway trains ran through the station without stopping Policemen kept low and pedestrians were not allowed near enough to the bank to see what was going on Reporters were requested not to broadcast information on the siege so as not to aid the gunmen who were believed equipped with radios CP Wlrtphota Cindy sees the Falls Cindy Waite 12 who rapidly losing her vision huddles with her mother against the spray from Niagara Falls while touring on the Maid of the Mist Ann Waite who gave birth to Cindy white she had the measles has brought her daughter from Bournemouth England for a whirlwind 17-day tour of North American scenic splendors including the Grand Canyon and Disneyland WASHINGTON (AP) The US government said yesterday Congress felt Richard Nixon had a to distort the historical and therefore had good reason for laying claim to his presidential papers It also said Nixon ill to claim now that it would be a violation of free speech rights of individuals involved should his White House tapes be made public The justice department made the statements in a 100-page brief in the continuing fight over ownership of Nixon's papers A three judge court will hear oral arguments on the Issue Sept 22 had a rational bass for perceiving that his1 presidential materials might not pass intact into the custody of the United States if he were permitted to have custody of them even the jurtice department said It added that Congress reached the conclusion: Nixon would not be a trustworthy custodian even Cites 3 factors The government cited the 18Vi-min-ute gap in one taped conversation for which satisfactory explanation has ever been the White House transcripts of -tape recordings which material and repeated statements that he had no knowledge of the Watergate cover-up before March 1973 when transcripts to the In a deposition filed in the case Nixon said that he his wife and daughters should decide which of his 42 million pages of documents should be made public suggestion is to put it kindly stud the government Lawyers for a group of historians and individual reporters such as columnist Jack Anderson also filed a 187-page brief with the court taking issue with Nixon's claims That brief also cited the feeling of Congress that yras grave danger that the materials would not be safely preserved if placed in Mr 'Record fhat fear was prompted by own record in 1973 and 1974 the brief said adding nation felt that it had been misled and that the documentary record had been altered or by the Nixon administration Hie lawyers said it is long-established law that the federal goemment owns any record or works created by employees in the course of official duties And they said to accept Nixon's argument that he ia the proper person to assert claims of executive or presidential privilege would produce an intolerable situation that Mr Nixon should die tomorrow This would leave no one in a position to assert the privilege unless of course Mr Nixon contends that Ids presidential privilege is an asset that can be devised to his children or other they said As part of his argument for the papers and tapes Nixon said he intended to use them for his memoirs That prompted the lawyers for the historians reporters to say there was nothing in the constitution a former president should be entitled to own history in this AP-Reuter Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is quoted today as saying that his country's interim peace agreement with Israel does not include any secret clauses He said the accord Is not Cairo's final settlement with the Jewish state In an interview published by the Kuwaiti qewpaper Al-Seyasaeh Sadat described the accord as another military disengagement between Egyptian and Israeli forces He said that earlier reports from Syria and other Arab countries that the accord was tantamount to the end of a state of belligerency with Israel distorted facts In Tel Aviv Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said yesterday the rTianriM of his country Mowing up the accord by concluding similar peace agreements with Syria or Jordan are But in the same British Broadcasting Corp television program Syrian President Hafez Assad told another interviewer he foresaw an agreement or the GoUui Heights Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy told a Beirut magazine he thinks a Golan accord "is imminent'' Elsewhere 3000 leftists and Moslems fought to encircle a Christian village in northern Lebanon in con-t i I sectarian fighting over the plan tails the city's control of its own spending as the only alternative to a default by the city on its debts Default might come as early as this week and appears inevitable by next Monday without some state action Some legislators of both parties say default would not only disrupt city government but also would wreck state credit and make it impossible or expensive for local state governments to raise money The legislation is designed to borrow about 923 billion for the city through devices such as a direct state purchase of 9750 million in bonds and notes 9750 million in investments by state and city public employee pension funds and money from the state Insurance fund and other sources The borrowing would only provide for the cash needs through November Takeover of fiscal affairs State approves Palestinian issue and Israel offered her Arab neighbors a Middle East Common Market broad technical assistance and the use of Israeli ports for trade The fighting is largely over the Palestinian Arab presence in Lebanon The Modems support the guerrillas and the Christians want them curbed Street battles and mortar bombardments also raged throughthe day in Tripoli 50 miles north of Beirut cutting telephone communications for part of the day interrupting water supplies and a i dozens more casualties police said At least 19 persons were kilted Sunday A Tripoli resident reached by trie-pone said he and his family were holed up in their apartment and armed men were roaming the streets is Impossible to estimate casualties exactly because of the intensity of the fighting in various areas of the a police spokesman said An emergency meeting of Premier Rashid Kar cabinet broke up without announcing any new measures to end the latest violence But Karami repeated appeals for a return to cairn to avoid civil war In Washington State Secretary Henry Kissinger told the House of Representatives international relations committee there will be no more than 75 American technicians In the Sinai at a time to monitor the new accord between Egypt-and Israel because the maximum of 200 must man three 'shifts Stationing Americans in the desert Is subject to congressional approval Asked In the BBC hnterriew if the interim pact with Egypt would make it easier to reach similar agreements with other Arab neighbors Rabin said: possibilities ofaninterim agreement between say Jordan end Israel or Syria and Israel are practically nonexistent Egypt and Israel we have a lot of room to manoeuver wc have got Sinai But when it comes to the Heights the area is much more limited The terrain is different We have settlements there Therefore practically there is almost nonexistence of room for manoeuvring that is required in the context of any interim Assad said: may agree to demilitarization of equal areas on both cannot accept complete demilitarization of the Golan or even a part of the Golan unless an equal part is also demilitarized on the other he added incarceration did not meet acceptable The performance and the criteria were not explained The parole criteria set down in the national parole legislation are that the prisoner must have derived full benefit from imprisonment his release on parole must aid his rehabilitation and he must pose no undue risk to society Car crash claims rabbi family Rabbi Samuel Cass 67 of Montreal his wife Annabel 61 and their son Ely 26 were killed yesterday in a traffic accident which also claimed the life of a Toronto woman riding in their car on Highway 401 one mile west of the Que- bec-Ofltario border The woman was identified by Ontario Provincial Police as Lottie Weiss 74 The accident occurred about 4 pm when their car and a tractor trailer collided Rabbi Cass was born in Toronto and was educated at City College of New York He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters In 1933 Past president of the Board of Jewish Ministers of Greater Montreal he became director of the Hillel Foundation at McGill University in 1946 He retired in 1967 but remained associated with the Miriam Home for the Exceptional Funeral arrangements were not comrlele Parole board refuses to free Morgentaler GillO Continued (ram Page A-l school Actually be was in French kindergarten in another Mr could not explain how or why Mrs Nesparoli had received a letter saying Gino had passed Mi test However lie said that letters with information regarding test results sent out by individual schools were as valid" as letters sent by the commission letter was apparently though it was signed by Mr the principal Mrs Nesparoli was called and in-fmmed that Gino after all could not enter Grade 1 Out of curiosity I asked Mrs Nesparoli what French kindergarten Gino had attended she asked stayed home all last year We sent our older boy to French kindergarten three years ago and had a hard time getting him into English Grade 1 So we kept Gino She Tflontreol Star NOME DELIVERY DATES Mauopalitan Madrid In malt areas) MONDAY TO SATURDAY SI OO SATURDAY 30" Outfda Montreal Mara available) MONDAY TO SATURDAY SI IS SATURDAY 40" SINGLE COPY HATES Metropolitan Montreal DAILY (MONDAY TO FRIDAY) 10" SATURDAY 30" Outaidi Montreal DAILY (MONDAY TO FRIDAY) 15" SATURDAY 40" The Canadian Praaa It atduoivnty entitled to the tat for reproduction of aN nawa dispatches In the paper credited to it or to Ota Attaoiatad Prase or Raitor and alno the loop newa pubfiihed tenia All rights of (production of ipscid dopotches therein or reserved TELEPHONE NUMBERS Our tdaphone ay atom provldn earnraniant (bract dialing to it Stir departments To Roach departments not lioted hare call 282-2211 ALBANY NY (AP) The New York state assembly approved a 92-billion plan yestefdayfora state takeover of New York City's fiscal affairs to stave off the financial collapse As the Democratic-controlled lower house passed the tell by a 80-to-70 vote Republican Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson announced his support which would guarantee that the Senate would pass the bill Anderson who spent the day in Washington seeking federal help in the fiscal crisis said his visit convinced him there was growing of the problems by the Ford administration got no commitments that are cashable nothing that I can put in the he said I went down there feeling pessimistic I feel that way Anderson said he discussed the idea of a federal guarantee or insurance program tor all municipal rowings as well as some specific federal assistance to New York City with Treasury Secretary WilUam Simon and with William Seidman economic adviser to Ford He said Simon will meet with In the US Minneapolis Chicago Detroit Albany Boston New York Washington Pittsburgh Cincinnati Atlanta Miami Forecast for noon Ford today and discuss the possibility of aid to the city which both men so far have rejected However President Ford said: am sympathetic I understand their difficulties but basically New York City is going to be forced to straighten out its own Complaining as he had in the past that the city lived beyond its means Ford said in a television interview filmed Friday for broadcast in Cali-fornia yesterday: New York City will have to tighten its belt make up for the pour management that existed for too long a time and find the solution Anderson said that before voting for the bail-out bill he would want some amendments to increase from five to seven the number of members of a state board set up to take over control of the city's spending Gov Hugh Carey Democratic author of the bill agreed to the changes In the six-hour assemtey debate Republicans and Democrats from northern regions of the state provided most of the opposition Supporters said the plan is the only way to head off financial disaster Many legislators and New York City Mayor Abraham Beame are accepting the plan which sharply cur Pan-American 8 8 8 13 19 17 30 11 13 21 27 19 20 20 27 24 26 29 25 32 28 31 Acapulco Barbados Bermuda Havana Kingston Mexico City Monterrey Nassau San Juan Trinidad St Kitts 24 26 25 23 24 14 21 25 26 23 26 30 31 29 31 30 23 29 32 31 30 today and expected high temperatures The weather Sunny days on the way The National Parole Board has refused parole to Montreal abortionist Dr Henry Morgentaler saying his in jail and the charges standing against him make him unacceptable Dr Morgentaler started serving hs 18-month sentence March 26 and would have become eligible for parole Sept 26 after serving one-third of his sentence A Montreal jury acquitted him on a charge of performing an illegal abortion but the Quebec Court of Appeal reversed the verdict and the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the reversal During his jail term Dr Morgen-taler has issued public statements through friends and has criticised the prison system He suffered a mild heart attack June 16 following an argument with guards and was taken to hospital then to a convalescent home The parole board decision was announced in a statement attributed to vice-chairman Claude Bouchard A board spokesman said that while parole rulings are not normally publicized the ruling on Dr application was announced because is such public about his case Mr statement said Dr during his French ponder tax on porn PARIS (Reuter) Finance Minister Jean-Pierru Fourcade said yesterday a tax on pornography might help to' balance France's 1976 budgeL He made the remark in a radio interview in which the growing amount of pornography available in France was A ridge of high pressure is moving into the Montreal area from the southwest and it should bring us sunny skies tomorrow No precipitation is expected and winds will be light tow tonight in the region 5 to 8 (41 to 47) High tomorrow near 20 (67) McGill Observatory Record: temperature at 10 am today 105 maximum temperatures yesterday 241 minimum 117 maximum same date last year 241 minimum 128 barometer as at sea level at 10 am today 3012 lowest yesterday 2991 at 7 pm humidity at 10 am today 66 The next 24 hours Sun rises tomorrow at 628 am Sets at 716 pm Regional forecasts: Montreal Ottawa Eastern Townships LaurenUani: Sunny tomorrow with light winds Chance of rain nil Low tonight 5 to 8 (41 to 47) High tomorrow 20 (67) Quebec Troll Rivieres Lake St John: Mainly sunny tomorrow Light winds from the southwest Low tonight 5 to 7 (41 to 45) High tomorrow near 18 (65) The temperatures Overnight low temperatures and high: BUSINiU SUMS CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT Mui Fn 9 totnOoMdSeUmlar 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