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4A DETROIT FREE PRESSTUESDAY, OCT. 6, 1981 dateline nation UJOFld: Canadian air controllers suspended for role in U.S. strike 150 face 3 days without pay OTTAWA More than 150 Canadian air-traffic controllers are being suspended for refusing to handle planes from the United States in Shagari said the question of Namibian independence predates U.S. concern over Cuban forces in Africa. Cleric Is Iran's president ANKARA.

Turkev Hard-line Islamir rlprir August, Transport Canada spokesman Dave Austin said Monday. Most of the controllers will be off work without I a ii im Dateline Michigan: Page 8B cents, down from a previous $1.28. The Greater London Council has been providing the London Transport about 24 percent of its operating funds and with the loss in revenue, will now have to provide 50 percent. The move has put the Labor Party-run city hall on a collision course with the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Her government is punishing "overspending" local governments by cutting their federal subsidies by the amount they overspend.

U.S. may fight busing orders WASHINGTON The Justice Department is close to joining some school boards in asking federal judges to lift existing busing orders, the administration's chief civil rights enforcer says. Assistant Attorney General William Brad James C. White, a businessman with ties to Texas and Louisiana, put up $57,000 for the aborted mission. But defense lawyers said Michael Perdue, the star witness against the two and an admitted ringleader of the invasion, was trying to lie his way out of a stiffer prison sentence.

Matthews and White are charged with conspiracy to overthrow a friendly government. Attorneys said the trial would last three days. The two men are charged with hiring 10 ragtag soldiers of fortune with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and a Canadian neo-Nazi group to assault Dominica by sea and oust Prime Minister Mary Eugenia Charles. Prosecutors said Matthews and White were promised shares in Nortic "Enterprises a corporation that would have run the island's tourism, gambling and forestry. pay for one to three days, as aayea aii ivnamenei was officially declared the winner of Iran's presidential election Monday, giving the clergy complete state control.

In a growing crackdown, 129 foes of Ayatol-lah Ruhollah Khomeini were executed. Khamenei, 42, leader of the ruline Islamic Renuhli- 0 LMf Khamenei ford Reynolds, who heads the department's civil rights division, also said the department is considering suits against other boards that provide inferior educa U.S. African policy assailed MELBOURNE, Australia Commonwealth Three were being nourished back to health in hospitals and two have resumed a normal diet and returned to their cells. Richard McAuley, spokesman for Sinn Fein, political arm of the Irish Republican Army, said the IRA would "wait and see" what the govern-. ment announced.

The IRA has threatened new hunger strikes if the reforms are wanting. Border governors meet EL PASO, Tex. Governors from U.S. and Mexican states with common borders met Monday to discuss border issues, including President Reagan's proposed immigration reform and drug traffic. The two-day Border Governors Conference was to hear reports by committees formed at last year's first governor's meeting in neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

The reports were expected to be approved without difficulty Tuesday, officials said, because negotiations over them were completed before the governors convened Monday. Hijacker foiled in Buffalo BUFFALO A man who said he had a bomb' tried to hijack a U.S. Air jetliner with 66 passengers aboard Monday, but he was seized when the pilot landed in Buffalo saying he had to refuel, officials said. U.S. Air spokesman David Shippley said the: man told the crew on the Albany-to-Detroit-flight that he had a bomb and would detonate it if the jet was not diverted to New York City.

The pilot told the man that he would have to', fly to Buffalo to get fuel and the man, who was' not identified immediately, agreed. When the plane landed, the four crew! members and and 62 passengers left, and the; man was seized by authorities. No injuries were-reported. After the plane was searched, it continued on4. to Detroit, arriving about an hour late at p.m.

leaders lashed out at the Reagan administration tion in predominantly uiaCK and other minority schools, If I RovnnMc caif tho Inc. 1 -T Monday for its uniust. in- rir; SI i'na Honartmont urill onnltr jJT comprehensible" policies I (', on South Africa and I Wm warnpd of "hlnndv war" in I VP they can be spared, Austin said. He added, however, that three or four controllers who "actually could have endangered aircraft" by theiractions face harsher punishment, including dismissal. Their cases are being reviewed.

The 154 controllers refused to handle American flights after their U.S. counterparts went on strike Aug. 3 and the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association said U.S. skies were unsafe. In Washington, the U.S.

Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it is requesting another 400 military air traffic controllers to help replace the civilian controllers who were fired for striking. The request would bring to about 1,200 the number of military controllers called up as replacements for the 11,000 fired two months ago. London cuts transit fares LONDON Subway and bus fares here were slashed an average of 25 percent Monday fulfilling a campaign promise by the new socialist-controlled city government to the six million daily riders. But property owners are having to make up for the estimated huge revenue losses to the London Transport by an immediate 25 percent increase in their taxes. Another 25 percent hike is planned in April.

A short hop on the Tube, as the subway is called, has stayed the same roughly 36 cents but while it used to cost about $1.10 to travel about eight miles out from city center, it now costs about 55 cents. The highest bus fare is now just under 73 two tests to determine whether a school district is I IV- in compliance with the LJ LJ Constitution: whether it Reynolds supplies equal education to all students and whether it has achieved the maximum possible desegregation without mandatory busing. can Party, became the first clergyman to lead Khomeini's government and the third president of the Islamic republic in 31 months by capturing 95 percent of the 16.8 million votes cast during Friday's polling, Tehran radio said. The latest executions brought to more than 1,500 the number of political death sentences carried out since the ouster in June of Abolhas-san Bani-Sadr, Iran's first president who fled to France. Prison reforms approved BELFAST Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet has approved prison reforms for Northern Ireland and will announce them within days, the government said Monday.

Two days after Irish nationalist prisoners gave up their hunger campaign at Maze prison, (he Northern Ireland Office, which administers this province, said an announcement of changes in the prison regime could come by Tuesday. Attempting to allay Protestants' fears of concessions to the almost exclusively Catholic IRA, the government has said any reforms will apply to all inmates. The six men who gave up their fasts Saturday were no longer in danger, the government said. Africa over Namibia. The Commonwealth's 42 leaders heads of Britain and its former colonies and representing a quarter of the world's population resumed their summit after a two-day break for Shagari informal talks in Canberra.

The United States came under fire from Nigerian President Shehu Shagari. "Regrettably, South Africa has felt encouraged by the new U.S. administration's intent on linking the so-called issue of Cuban troops in Angola with the question of Namibia," he said. "Needless to say, this American position is as unjust as it is incomprehensible." Accused plotters go on trial NEW ORLEANS Two men accused of bankrolling a bizarre plot to take over the tiny, impoverished Caribbean island of Dominica went on trial Monday in federal court. A court spokesman said a jury of 11 women and one man was seated.

Federal prosecutors said l. Matthews, an electrical contractor from Florence, and a winner ne wherever he is By JACKIE JONES Free Press Slafl Writer Somewhere in Europe, 72-year-old Matt Forsyth is visiting countries he has never seen before. That's why he doesn't know he's about $15,000 richer, thanks to a third-place win in the Irish Sweepstakes last Saturday. He isn't scheduled to return to his home in Farmington until Oct. 21.

Forsyth's ticket was drawn and matched with the horse "Lulav," which finished third in the Cambridgeshire Race in Newmarket, England, last Saturday. Sweepstakes winners were determined by the order that the horses finished in the race. Forsyth's third-place prize was 10,000 Irish pounds, worth about $15,300 at the current rate of exchange in Detroit, according to a banking official here. NOELLE NATHAN, secretary of the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes in Dublin, said Monday that sweepstakes officials have been unable to reach Forsyth. And Forsyth's family does not have his itinerary and has not heard from him since he left about two weeks ago.

Forsyth's son, Jim, said Ireland was his father's first stop on the tour and that's probably where the ticket was bought. "He had never been there, and it's one of the places he wanted to go," Jim Forsyth said. The sweepstakes is held eight times a year, Nathan said. Proceeds go to the Irish Hospital Fund, which finances the country's public hospital in Dublin. The hospital fund has received more than.

123 million pounds (about 1 88 million) from the contest in the 50 years of the sweepstakes, officials said. More I han 263 million pounds (about $402 million) in prize money has been awarded. ooooooooooooooooooooo One-way Super Coach DOZENS OF Americans win sweepstakes prizes each year, although Irish law requires purchase of tickets in Ireland, Nathan said. Last Saturday's two top winners were from California. Tickets are already on sale for the next sweepstakes, scheduled for November, Nathan said.

"People send them to friends and relatives (through the mail) or come over on holiday and buy them," Nathan said. Winners are mailed claim forms, and the money is wired from Dublin to the winner's bank unless special arrangements are requested. It takes several weeks to complete the transaction, Nathan said. When Forsyth returns from Europe, his family and friends won't be the only ones waiting to see him. The Internal Revenue Service in Washington said Monday that Forsyth may owe as much as $2,142 on his $15,300 win.

Slain jogger was kin of officer A jogger who was fatally shot on Detroit's east side Saturday night was identified Monday as the brother of a Detroit policeman. The body of Steven Douglas Hearn, 2 1 was fied by Officer James Hearn of the 10th (Livernois) Precinct at the Wayne County Medical Examiner's ooooooooooo One-way Buy 'N Fly Discount Fare ooooooooooo Each way on round-trip Supreme Super Saver Office. Hearn died of gunshot wounds of the chest shortly after runnine into Ruhv's Bar. 1 3837 Conant. at 11:15 These are just three of the Delta discount fares you can get to cities all over the country.

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Th in line tun by protostiun.il p.m. Saturday, saying he had been shot. Police said Hearn was a frequent customer of the bar. Homicide detectives said they had no leads and knew of no motive for the slaying. Police said Hearn, who was unemployed and lived with, his sister, had been running with his dog, which returned home.

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