-RCMP shut down two
‘hashish operations on
opposite coasts and
claimed more than 9,000
pounds of the illicit drug
worth nearly $30 million

on the street.
Three Americans and
one Portuguese were

charged Thursday in the
“largest” hashish haul in
Canadian history after a
sailboat was seized off
the Nova Scotia coast
with a shipment of the

drug estimated to be
worth $24 million.
RCMP seized 8,324

punds from a !4-metre

9,000 pounds of
hashish seized

boat Sea Tern which was
experiencing mechanical
trouble Wednesday
morning off Peggy's
Cove, RCMP Cpi. Brent
Crowhurst said.

“This is the largest
seizure of hashish in
Canada ever, and
probably the largest in
North America,” he said.

But Vancouver In-
ternational Airport was
the scene of the second
bust that. netted police
about 1,008 pounds of
hashish estimated to be
worth about $5 million.
No charges were laid.

Pope appeals
to save Indians

MANAUS, Brazil
(UPI)—Pope John Paul II
wound: up his 12-day
Brazilian odyssey Friday
in the steamy Amazon
jungle, where he ap-
pealed for government
protection to save the
primitive Indians
threatened by extinction
from modern culture and
technology.

The Pope celebrated
mass in front of Manaus’
cathedral, then climbed
on a launch to cruise to
the confluence of the
Black and Solimoes

rivers, the beginning
point of the main Amazon
channel that snakes its
way nearly a thousand
miles to the Atlantic.

The 60-year-old pontiff
looked tanned and
healthy when he arrived
in the equatorial jungle
Thursday from the
Atlantic city of Fortaleza,
where he made a keynote
address to Brazilian
bishops, calling on the
Roman Catholic Church
to transform society, but
without becoming
politically involved.

Battles rage on
Thai border

BANGKOK. Thailand

(UPI)—Bloody battles
raged along ai 33-mile
stretch of the Thai-

Cambodian border Fnday
in the worst fighting since
Vietnamese troops
crossed the § frontier
nearly three weeks ago.
The frontier” from
Phnom Chat in the north
to Phnom Malai in the
south exploded in rocket,
mortar and artillery fire
with Vietnamese forces
fighing Cambodian rebels
loyal to deposed Khymer

Rouge cheftain Pol Pot

The fiercest fighting
was at the border
straddhng camp of Nong™
Samet, a squahd = set-
tlement of 100,00
Cambodian refugees, 145
mites northeast of
Bangkok

Internat(tonal Red
Cross delegates msked
ther hves under heavy B-
40 rocket and 60mm
mortar fire to cvacuate 85
wounded refugees, most
of them children,
the ravaged camp

from

Violence flares
in S. Africa

JOHANNESBURG Sou
th Africa (UPI) Pohwe
fircd tearpas and swung
clubs against crowds of
black students
workers ino four urban
black townships Friday ia
the latest NMarcup of
simmering political
unrest.

A renewal of a school
boycott by  non-whites

aod

against discnmination in
the government

system

school

started the

trouble

The

that un the Coastal city of

spokesman said

beast boone ys hee used

tearpas aud dogs to
disperse about 200 black
stnkers At) least 124

people were arrested

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And he predicts that one
more slap in the face is liable
to push the west over the
edge, for the “messiah” to
emerge and for westerners to
leave established political
parties to join an organized
western separatist party.

Cook sent a questionnaire
to all his constituents and
has so far received more
than 1,200 replies to the
various questions he asked.

Of those, 30 per cent said
they favored
separation. A further five
per cent said B.C. should be
a separate sovereign state,
while four per cent thought
B.C. should become part of
the United States.

However, 90 per cent of
people replying also state
that they are in favor of
staying in a renewed con-
federation which gives B.C.

Signals for accident

Traffic lights have been
approved for the in-
tersection at Queens and
Lonsdale. North Vancouver
District council voted
Monday evening to spend
$28,000 from their 1980
reserve fund to provide the
lights this year.

Western.

more powers. -

Cook told the News he
carried out the survey to give
Ottawa an indication of
western feelings.

CHUCK COOK
“The east doesn’t un-
derstand at all what is

happening in the west,” he
said, commenting on the
result of his survey :“The
percentages are clear there
are one hell of a lot of
dissatisfied individuals

There were five accidents
at the intersection in 1978
and four in 1979 which could
be considered in the
“preventable category.”
according to a report by the
supervisor of — traffic
Operations.

The need for traffic signals
is determined by a series of

28th St. parking to go

Improvement to the foot
of 28th Street in West Van-
couver to provide more
public parking at the beach
access were approved last
week by West Van council.

Total cost will be $5,300.
Of this sum adjoining
residents will be required to
pay a total of $1,125. The
charge arises because it is

counci! policy that’ en-

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removing their encroach-
ments.

At the same time council

30 per cent say ‘separa

concerning provincial and
federal powers.

“I wanted to show the east
that this attitude really does
affect a lot more people than
they think.

“They think of the western
separatist movément as
being a fringe group. But
three out of every 10 replies
say B.C. should join the
other western provinces and
form a western sovereign
state.”

IT SCARES ME

As for his own attitude on
western separation and his
poll, Cook said: “That scares
me a bit. I am a Canadian
and want the province to
remain in confederation. But
I want a new deal for B.C.”

“There could be an ex-
plosion here in the west
through a spark of one kind
or another — from a
referendum or unfair tax

spot

“warrants” established by
the Roads and Transpor-
tation Association of
Canada. The Queen's and
Lonsdale intersection met
three of seven
investigated,

warrants
any one of
which can justify a traffic
signal.

ahead

said no action would be
taken until residents agree
on the timing of the project.

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imposition,”’ Cook
predicted.

“I think it would produce a
leader for the separatist

movement all of a sudden,
causing thousands of people
to leave the established
parties and join one of the
separatist movements.”

As for the immediate
future, he said: “I am
working to try to convince
the east that the separatist
sentiment in the west is at
least as serious as it was in
Quebec as it includes
economics rather than just
culture.”

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