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A strong and final call for
an immediate moratorium
on uranium exploration
throughout British Columbia
has been made by a task
force representing major
participants in the Royal
Commission into Uranium
Mining. The task force was
directed to inform the
government that August 6
will be the deadline for the
moratorium to go into ef-
fect. If this demand is not
met, participants will
reconsider their position in
relation to the inquiry.

August 6 is the 34th an-

Page A14, July 29, 1979 - Sunday News

IT JUST KEEPS GROWING. Mike Fong stands beside the strange plant which has
grown from two feet to eight feet in three months. The plant, apparently some variety
of thistle was already growing when Mike moved into his Bouse at 234 St. James’

Road, North Vancouver three months ago and has been a mystery to the Fongs.
(Te

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Kelowna (Canadian Com-
mittee for
Responsibility).

This moratorium demand
is the latest in a long series of
calls for an end to uranium
exploration pending the
outcome of the inquiry. The
B.C. government ordered a
moratorium on uranium
mining September 27, 1978,
and the task force has been
instructed to.convey that the
participants believe that a
moratorium on uranium
exploration should have
been ordered at the same
time.

Nuclear:

Uranium task force |
demands moratorium

occurrences throughout the
province. The survey,
launched in 1976 at a
reported cost of $5 million,

is part of a three-year
program.
Continued exploration

spending, participants claim,
puts in doubt the sincerity of
the B.C. government and the
credibility of the Royal
Commission.

In addition, the task force
has called upon the Royal,
Commission for a
broadening of the terms of.

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Sword wielder captures rapist

SAN ANTONI, Texas (UPI)
- A teenager who allegedly
taped a woman and warned
her he would return the next
night arrived to find her

husband wielding a 3-foot-
long samurai sword.

The husband held the
sword over the head of the
terrified

teenager until

officers arrived — carly
Tuesday, police said,

Danny Cortez, 19, was
charged with aggravated

rape ard jailed in lieu of
$20,000 bond.

Police said he broke into
the man's house and raped
his wife early Monday—
while threatening her with a
knife—after her husband left
for work.

The attacker told the
woman he would return the
next night.

The woman reported the
first attack and agreed to
cooperate with police by
telephoning them if she was
bothered again. But when
she telephoned police
Tuesday, she said her
husband had stayed home to
Capture the teenager
himself.

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