-VICTORIA (UPC) -
The right of B.C.
motorcyclists to ride
bareheaded with im-
punity ended Friday
following the- hasty
passage. of amendments
that plug a loophole in the
provincial Motor Vehicle
Act.

The amendmeats,
which require all
motorcyclists to wear
approved helmets, went
into effect at midnight
Thursday after a brief
debate in the legislature
and speedy royal assent.

But a spokesman for
the Motorcycle
Protective Association,

WASHINGTON (UPD
- Somalia has agreed to
allow U.S. armed forces
to use its military ports
and airstrips, the third
country in the strategic
Indian Ocean and Persian
Gulf region to permit
such a pact, ad-

ministration sources say.
United States,

The

WASHINGTON (UPI)
- For the first time in 13
years, the cost of living
for Americans did not

increase in July, the
government reported
Friday.

A dramatic decline in
mortgage interest rates
cancelied out higher
prices for food and other
goods. As a result, the
Labor Department said
its Consumer Price Index,
after seasonal ad-
justments, remained in
July exactly where it was

TOKYO
Fearing radiation
‘leakage, Japan Priday
refused a crippled Sovict
ar submarine

(UPI)

passage through — its
territorial waters.
Government officials

said notification of the
refusal was made through
the Soviet Embassy in
Tokyo as a Soviet tug and
three companion ships
manocuvered to
shepherd the submarine
to its Siberian base.

the law again

U.S. cost of living
stays steady

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which successfully
challenged the act in
court 10 days ago, said
about 300 of its 2,000
members will continue to
ride bareheaded. The
association claims
helmets are unsafe and
that riders would be
better off without them.
The amendments were
supported by all speakers
in the legislature, except
George Mussallem, the
Social Credit MLA for
Dewdney. Mussallem
said he believed helmets
save some lives, but can
be dangerous because
they restrict vision and
hearing.

Somalia gives U.S.
~ access to bases

concerned about the
Soviet threat in the In-
dian Ocean and Persian
Gulf areas, already has
negotiated such
agreements with Kenya,
Somakha’s southwestern
neighbour, and with
Oman, located on the
entrance to the oil-rich
gulf.

in June.

It was the first time the
index has held steady
since March 1967. Before
July, prices had risen 0.9
per cent or mare every
month for a year and a
half. In June, inflation
was running at a com-
pound annual rate of 12.3
per cent.

But private economists
quickly labeled = the
government report a
statistical farce, saying
the index gives too much
weight to mortgage rates.

Japan refuses
passage to sub

A fire swept the 4,600:
ton, Echo-1! submarine
Thursday cast of
Okinawa, killing at tecast
Dine crewmen
seriously burning three
others Officials said 55
survivors were cvacuated

and

Thursday by aio Soviet
cargo ship) icaving a
Skeleton crew oon the
submanne

Japancsc milatary
experts said the nuclear
submanine may have been

On a spy Mission

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metal baseball bat alleged to
have been found near the

been released on two
$10,000 sureties, charged
with murdering Dianne
Bourne, of Frederick Road,

‘and David John Van Wilde

“podies in the lower bedroom

of the house, which had been

set on fire after the killings.

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A 23-year-old North
Vancouver man, Robert
Bruce Barker of 3440
Bluebonnet Road, has since

Tests by health officials
showed that pile driving by
the Dillingham Construction
in Lower Lonsdale was

_ exceeding North Vancouver

City’s noise bylaw, a month
before the company was

’ granted exemption from the

bylaw.

And Charles Young, the
North Shore’s chief health
inspector, said that the noise
caused by a large Diesel Pile
Hammer has been
noticeable on an infrequent
basis, since May 10.

Young said that tests
taken at the corner of First
Street and St.Andrews, and
145 St.Georges, on July 21
and 25, showed that the
noise of the hammer ex-
ceeded the legal limit in a

. quiet daytime zone, by over

25 per cent.

But because of the
procedure's outlined in the
bylaw, the company was not
granted exemption from the
bylaw until last week.

Young said that the matter
was handled as quickly as
possible and that Dillingham
cooperated in solving the
problem.

Dillingham has
granted permission

been
to ex-

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Rode, of Surrey, both aged
20.

RCMP detectives believe
the deaths were “a crime of
passion” resulting from an
estranged relationship.

North Van RCMP had also
launched a murder in-
vestigation when a North
Vancouver man returned to
his Lonsdale Avenue

ceed limits set in the noise
bylaw, from 8 p.m. to 5:30
p.m., until December 31.

_A nearby resident, Helen
Flood, describes the noise as
“very loud” and says the City
should not allow people to

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