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GDANSK, Poland -
Solidarity’s national
congress Friday re-

elected Lech Walesa as ~

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union's national

_ chairman with more than

percent of the vote ina
four<way race.

te-resign from
the union if he had been
defeated by any of his
three radical opponents,
received 462 of the 844
votes cast.

-The delegates in the
congress ..gave- Walesa,
who has led Solidarity

sinck its birth a year ago,
a standing ovation lasting
for several minutes.
Walesa’s -closest
challenger was Szczecin
regional union chief
Marian Jurczy, who
received 201 votes.

wate: --thio#- Vice-Chairman. _

Andrzej ‘Gwiazda
received 74 votes and
Bydgoszcz regional chief
Jan Rulewski, who made
a controversial anti-
Soviet speech during the
campaign debate
Thursday night, received
only 52.

Labor y wants cup

BRIGHTON, Efpland -
The Labor Party voted
overwhelmingly to pull
Britain out Of. the
Common Market without
a referendum if the party
is returned to power in
- the ‘next general ‘elec-
tions.

“The Labor Party will
put a clear choice before
the British people — to
vote Labor and take
Britain out of the
Common Market or to
vote Conservative and
keep. Britain in,” the
party's executive said in a

~

statement before
balloting Thursday.

The vote at the party's
rank-and-file convention
was 5,807,000 in favor. of
taking Britain out of the
Common Market
1,000,000 against.

A proposal to hold a
referendum first on the
issue was also defeated by
a vote of 5,830,000 to
1,072,000..

“We believe the British
people will have no
hesitation in voting to
take us out (of the
Common Market),” the
executive statement said.

Bennett-sees
hopeful climate

WINNIPEG -. B.C.
Premier Bill Bennett said
Friday there was ‘a
‘climate of ac-
commodation” across
‘Canada, and hoped Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau
would recognize that
mood when he returned
to Canada to discuss the
constitution with the
provinces.
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“I'm hopeful the Prime
Minister... will consider
ways... in which we can
proceed in the Canadian
way, and that's by
agreement,” Bennett said
at a néws conference

tollowing talks with
Manitoba Premier
Sterling Lyon.

Bennett said he would
talk with Trudeau after

he returns from
Australia, where he is
attending the Com-
monwealth Prime

Ministers’ Conference
Meanwhile Trudeau
said Friday he would stop
in Vancouver on his flight
back to Ottawa following

the Commonwealth
conference to discuss
provincial consttuuonal
proposals with British
Columbia Premier Bill
Bennett

Germany holds
spy swap

BONN, West Germany

East Germany superspy
Guenter Guillaume, who
penetrated to the heart of

the West German
government, was sped
across the border in o

cloak -and-dagger swap of

jpaticd agents, the
government = confirmed
Priday

Inner German

Relations Minister Egon
Franke declined to say
who clac besides

eke bee

Guillaume was involved

tn the trade but) other
sources said three other
Bost) German agents

including formor Defense
Mimstry secretary Renate
lutze were exchanged

It was not clear if. the
other two were an bast
German = general im
prisoncd inp France and
Jorg Meyer a spy jailed
in Denmark in 1979) who
were reportedly part ol
the deal

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road was blocked by three 48

- ft. railcars, each containing

100 tons of sulphur, hooked
up to six more cars which
had left the track.

“Tm glad that is all it was
for our people and for the
population in general,”

_ Deputy . City Fire Chief
* Ralph Meldrum told the

had occurred_-
“We. have. asked to be
—notified. of all derailments,”
~Meldrum—said._‘What may.
not be a problem to them
(CN) may be a problem to
us.”
‘The derailed cars were
part of a train of 82 traincars
all loaded with sulphur from

Alberta, on its way to
Vancouver Wharves.
All the sulphur bin cars

were new, having been
recently bought by Sultran, a

. local representative of the

company told the News.
First car on the rails

line track. The test involves

“the engineer checking the

locomotive brakes while a
car man ensures the brakes
on each: car are working.
The test is then repeated.
Menard said the derailed
train was transferring from
Lynn Creek yard to tHe BC
Railintersection.
Transfer trains within a
terminal are _ required to

rior to the declaration of
the policy last January,
Menard says, there was no
set pattern as to which, if
either, of the checks the
locomotive engineers would

_choose in. which cir”

cumstances.
Some railway workers still
feel a number one brake test

‘ should be made in all cir-

cumstances. .
CN work crews had the
derailed cars cleared off the
road by ‘midnight Wed-
nesday but Low Level Road

was still closed to traffic.

Thursday while city
engineers checked the area.
The. derailment placed

extra pressure on the already - |

immediately ahead of the ~congested Third Street

_@erailed sulphur cars was a
CN boxcar which had a
brake |. calipur making
contact with the rail.

Initially the calipur was

, Singled out by CN as the,
likely cause of ‘the
derailment but CN Public
Affairs Officer Al Menard ©
later said: .

- “We are satisfied that the —
hanging brake gear was as a.
result of the derailment, not
the causé of ‘the derailment.
We are still speculating what
the cause would be.”

The derailment once again
raises the question of in-
spections to CN trains.

Currént policy is for CN to
carry out number one brake
tests when trains are moved
between stations on main

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Fire chiefs- consider
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_low risk, especially in this
instance where there was no
- material spilled and little
chance of fire.
But deputy chief Meldrum
still thinks CN should inform
his department of

derailments, which would

also overcome ch
Situations as this of “the
department receiving

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sources.

City fire chiefs have
previously met with CN
about the problem and had
been given an assurance that

‘all derailments would | be

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are-supposed-to—tet-the fire
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