WASHINGTON (UPD -
‘Of the six continents, only

‘growth rate that’ was in-

“greasing rather than

« declining during the 1970s
‘the U.S Census Bureau says.
_- “Reinforcing a. trend
which first became evident

in the mid-1970s, world

+ population growth. has been

slowing over the past 10
years,” the Census Bureau
said Wednesday in its report,
;“International Population

. Dynamics 1950-79.”

‘ The Census Bureau report
said 97 per cent of the
world’s population lives in 87
countries with a population
of 5 million or more,
comprising 4.28 billion of
the world’s estimated 4.4
billion people.

“Of the six continents,
only Africa showed a
population growth rate that
was rising rather than
diminishing” during the
period 1970-1979, the report
said.

The report also showed
that between 1950 and 1979,
Africa was the only con-
tinent that showed a steady
increase in its population
growth rate, North America,
Europe, the Soviet Union
and Australia showed steady
declines during the 30-year
period.

The world population
grew 1.7 per cent between
1975 and 1979, down from
the 1.9 per cent growth rate
registered between 1970 and
1975 and between 1950 and
1955.

Africa, on the other hand,
showed a growth rate of 2.9
per cent during the 1975-79
period, up from 2.8 per cent
during the 1970-75 period
and 2.2 per cent between
1950 and 1955.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.
(UPI) - An enraged husband
accused of shooting his

’ wife’s pet bunny = and
parakeet to. death with a .22-
caliber rifle, was ordered to
court Tuesday to be formally
charged.

Michael Torre, 22, was
held in lieu of $10,000 bail in
the San Mateo County Jail.
He was to be arraigned on
charges of firing a weapon in
an occupied house and
cruelty to animals.

“If she can’t love me, she
can’t love the rabbit and the
bird,” police said Torre told
arresting officers.

Torre's wife Rosemarie,
30, was not hurt in the
shooting Sunday, which she
said began when her
husband returned form a
neighbourhood bar.

Police said Torre fired
eight shots, damaging the
family television set, stereo
and wall clock. He also fired
a shot through his wife's
aquarium but the fish were
picked up from the carpet
when officers arrived and

saved in the bathtub, they
said

Keep Canada
Beautiful

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