A4 - Wednesday, May 25, 1983 - North Shore News

By UNITED PRESS CANADA

BELFAST, Northern
Ireland - A 200-pound
bomb hidden im a van ex-
ploded Tuesday in front
of a police station, shak-
ing the foundations of
nearby houses and injur-
ing 15 people, police said.

Police, tipped by an
anonymous phone caller,
were frantically trying to
warn passersby in the
street when the bomb ex-

WASHINGTON -
Holding flowers and
loaves of bread above
their heads, an interfaith
coalition of Christians
brought their witness for
peace and prayers for
justice to the US.
Capitol. Nearly 250 of
them were promptly ar-
rested.

In one of the largest
religiously oriented peace
demonstrations in a
decade, nearly 1,000
demonstrators, Roman
Catholic, Lutheran,
Episcopalian,
Evangelical, Mennonite
and others, rallied Mon-
day at the foot of the
Capitol for what Del.

NEW DELHI, India
(UPI) - The commander
of Afghanistan's most
vital rebel stronghold has
agreed to a truce with the
Soviet Union in a mayor
“military and political
success” for Moscow. a
Western diplomat = said
Tuesday

The diplomat said
Abmed Shah Massoud.
commander of guernila
forces in the = strategic

Condemaing president
Reagan's Middle East
peace plan. five officers
under the command of
Palestine Libcration
Organization chicf Yasser
Aralat have widened a
gucerilla split by refusing
orders to leave their posts
in castern iLecbanon

A statement issucd
Monday by the Damascus
office of Namer Salch. a
spokesman the

foe

to action

Arrested for
praying

Partial truce
in Afghanistan

ploded in front of the
police station at 3:15 pm
local time.

Witnesses said the in-
jured included a baby,
two elderly people, a
policeman, six women
and five men.

Police said they did not
have an accurate count of
those hurt in the blast at
the station, located two
miles from the heart of
Belfast.

Walter Fauntroy of the
district of Columbia en-
couraged as a “necessary”
and “disciplined witness”
against the arms race.
The demonstartion was
a part of Peace and
Justice Week, a week-
long, nationwide series of
demonstrations, religious
services, and teach-ins on
nuclear war. The actions
are sponsored by a broad
colation of religious
groups including the Na-
tional Council of Chur-
ches, the Sojourners
Fellowship, the Catholic
Worker Movement,
Clergy and Laity Con-
cerned, and Fellowship of
Reconcihation.

Panjshir Valley. agreed
to a truce in direct talks
with Soviet occupation
forces carlicr this year.
“There 1s a truce in the
Panyshir Valicy it was ar-
rived at between
Massoud and the Sovicts
carly in the year without
involvement of the
Alghan regimc,” said the
diplomat, who asked not
to be identified “There 1s
no fighting now in’ the
Panyjyshir Valicy ~

PLO divided
over Lebanon

GMissidents within Aratats
Fatah guernila | group.
said the five would “re
main with thew brother
officers and struggicrs” in
Lebanon's Bekaa Vallicy
Last week, the Patah
central committec
ordered the five officers
stripped of them posts in
the Bchaa Some 10.000
Palestiman fighters and
40,000) Symans are sta
honed in Lebanon agarnst
30.000 Esrach troops

Number of fire calls drops

FROM PAGE A1

reports a relieved

A series of last year's fires
in the municipality were
blamed on a local man who
was arrested on suspicion of
arson last July 23 at a fire
which had broken out at 130
West Keith Road, the ad-
dress where ne was living at
the time.

An It-day trial heard
evidence from some 35 pro-
secution witnesses last
November and on December
16 23-year-old Cameron
Whittaker was convicted of
arson. On February | 1 Judge
D.T. Wetmore sentenced
Whittaker to six years’ im-
prisonment.

Fire chief Hallaway’s
report shows that as well as
accounting for by far the
preatest value of property
damage last year, arson was
also the number one cause of
fires in North Van City.

Total fire loss for the
municipality in 1982
amounted to $992,013 — the
third highest in the history of
the fire department.

The only worse years were
in 1973 and 1975 — both due
to fires and explosions at

Burrard Terminals.

The largest single loss was
the $200,000 fire at
Sutherland School.

Arson incidents dropped

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to just seven fires during the
last five months of the year,
totalling $75,400 in damage.

Though it was among the
worst of years for fire
damage in North Van City,
the actual number of fire
calls was down.

Total for the year was 568
— two less than in 1981 and
43 less than in 1980.

Fire Chief Hallaway com-
ments in his report: “This is a
rewarding sign, especially
when one considers that 85
of the fire calls in 1982 were
attributed to arson.

Once again the fire
department was kept busy
with many emergencies
other than fires.

“Our rescue and safety
vehicle continued to be one
of the busiest trucks in the
station,” Hallaway reports,
“responding to 536 calls for
the year.

“This vehicle is complete-
ly equipped with the
capabilities to perform auto
extrication work, medical
emergencies and a host of
other rescue operations.

“The men who man the
vehicle are highly trained,
extremely dedicate and have
a tremendous pride in the
role they play in offering a
rescue and safety service to
the community.”

The department was again
plagued by false alarms dur-
ing the year — 253 in total.

Hallaway comments: “The

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glaze of ice.

The Etruscan Shrew, only
3 inches in length, is the
smallest adult mammal.

man hours expended and the
wear and tear on the equip-
ment in responding to these
false alarms is of con-

siderable conceern.

“The exceptionally high
concentration of apartment
buildings in the City, all of
which have internal fire
alarm systems, and tenants
maliciously pulling fire sta-

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tions, contributes to the high
volume of these particular
calls.”

No lives were lost to North
Van City fires last year but
six civilians received injuries
related to fires and were
treated in Lions Gate
Hospital. Four injuries were
directly attributed to the
misuse of flammable liquids.

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