Pee 12, Ape 18, 1979 - North Shore News - Post Office officiais have hear, and’ _there was --no. admitted the security system— surveillance or alarm system | in the main .Ottawa: postal in the: building. ae terminal was inadequate in ‘the wake of the largest postal theft in Canadian — history. . Thieves * Sunday - “night made off with between four “> and six million dollars worth - of valuables after” breaking into, the -back of the Alta Vista. postal terminal, which at the time was guarded by only one commissionaire. ~ _'The thieves had to smash three windows to get what they .w. too far away for the guard 1 to UB injured i in airport a » Post Office officials could not explain why security was - * $O poor and said they had 4. made. efforts: to- upgradé' the . system, ‘but said requests for better security had _been denied. Postmaster General Gilles ~ .Lamontange says budget ; restraints delayed the in- stallation of an alarm system _ for the building. ~ He also said the theft might have been prevented if in their concern for the _ Terrorism at Brussels ' Twelve people ‘were in- jured Monday in Brussels airport, as a: . Palestinian guerilla team, apparently 4 thwarted in its attempt to a -attack an Israeli aircraft, threw an explosive device at passengers. . . The guerilla t team, which was made up of three or four terrorists including one woman, intended to attack a Boeing belonging to the Israeli airline El Al, which had just arrived in Brussels ’ from Tel Ayiv. Officials said the terrorists could not get close enough to the plane because of extra security . arrangements provided for Israeli aircraft. ~ When. the guerillas could not get at the plane they threw an explosive device, thought to have” been a -molotov cocktail, onto passengers ‘from the aircraft, from a balcony overlooking the main transit hall. They then ran into the airport restaurant shooting at police and seeurity guards with automatic weapons. After an exchange of fire, two.terrorists were arrested. At least one and possibly two guerillas escaped. Several ‘people injured by the explosion and the gunfire were taken to the hospital, Death liability admitted The Nationalist govern- ment of South Africa, after . three years has admitted responsibility for the death under police custody of black underground leader Joseph Mdlulu. it will make compensation of $2,250 to the family of Mdlulu, who police claim had died of natural causes. Gas wins. 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