° 2 China has"

. ‘halted.
-Amilitary,

advance -

-avoided the start of a Third
‘World War.

Had the Chinese reached
Hanoi, it is considered that.
Russia would have felt

“unable to remain  unin-
‘volved. It is widely accepted
that any war between the

IN TEHRAN

The Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) has
taken over the Israeli em-
bassy in Tehran, en-
couraging Iranian guerillas
‘to join the PLO in its fight
+ against Israel.

= The changeover occurred

Sunday as Iran’s new leader
-Ayatoliah Khomeini severed
all diplomatic relations with
Israel, expelled the embassy
staff and handed over the
-building to PLO leader
: ‘Yassir Arafat.

A serious economic effect
of the breakdown of ties
being suffered by Israel is
the cancellation of all oil

its
into .
2 Vietnam. and pulled: back |
<across the border — a move .-

-which observers feel : “has

Chinese ‘and “the Soviets ;
would -. be

of nuclear —

Proportions.

China had entered only
within about 10 kilometres

“Iti is felt China had delayed
its: ‘attack — until -

relations with the United
States.

of Vietnam, in retaliation for™ There was tension across

the Vietnamese invasion of
Cambodia and for their
treatment of ethnic Chinese

in Vietnam. Vietnamese

claimed to have shot 3,500
Chinese soldiers.

Palestinians gra
the Israeliembassy

exports to that country from
Iran.

Israel used to receive 60
per cent of its oil from Iran
but says it can cope with the
economic problems, having
foreseen the circumstances a

year ago and arranged for.

alternative supplies.

the world Monday when the
Soviets staged'a preparation
for confrontation by can-
celling the leave of all army
officers in what is suspected
as being a large-scale show
of propaganda.

Resumption of Iran's fi

disrupted oil production

began this week.

Meanwhile, anti-Americ-

an feeling is : still. running.

high in..Iran and in the
northern city of Tabriz the
United States consulate was
burned down. .

Oil hoarding feared

Peter Gunther of the
Atlantic Provinces
Economic Council fears the
hoarding of oil as a result of
the disruption of Iranian
supplies. He was speaking as
the Commons continued its

second reading of the
government’s Emergency
Energy Supplies Bill.

The bill would allow for
gas and oil to be rationed in
the event of shortages, with

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Energy minister Alastair
Gillespie says the allocation
of crude oil could be con-
trolled within a week whil€c it
would take two months to
bring in controls on refined
petroleum products and
three to six months to ration
gas.

first ..
establishing close diplomatic

Gleam of
hope in |

troubled
Britain -

“Even as more. “unions. hit
* strike bound : : Britain with
industrial . “action, an
agreement between the
government and the Trades
Union Congress (TUC)
provides a glimmer of hope.

‘The agreement, similar to.

the ‘social contract’ which

preceded the present wave
of strikes, provides for the
government and unions to
work together in maintaining
an annual inflation rate of
just five per cent.

Meanwhile, with the
centre of London tran-
sformed
dump, 54 Westminster
garbage collectors have gone

back to work because of lack. -

of support for their strike.

Critics have slammed the
labor

agreement as a
popularity ploy by the Labor
Government~- which must
face an election before
October.

The agreement would call
for consultations between
government and unions over
Picketing: ‘practices,

afranging new negotiating

procedures for public
service workers to maintain
essential services and for the
joint assessment of national
economic prospects.

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Broad e nt warns of

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double digit inflation |

NDP leader Ed Broadbent
predicts Canada will see

takes quick
preventative action. ;
Figures released. by
Statistics Canada show the
cost of living price index
rose to 8.9 per~cent in
January and that food prices
jumped by increases four
times those of other items.

Spring.

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double digit inflation figures .
this year unless the federal —
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Opposition critics say the
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policies.
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