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S.
envoy Philip .. Habib
Friday announced an‘end
to two weeks of fighting
‘between ‘Israel “and
Palestinian zueérrillas
along the Lebanese
frontier in a- cease-fire
that an Israeli official
called a “gentlemen's
agreement”.

PLO. chairman Yasser
Arafat told U.N.
Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim he could not
remain silent “toward the
killing of Lebanese and
Palestinian civilians,” but
would stick toa cease-fire
“on condition the other

side abides by it.”

“It’s a gentlemen's
agreement,” an Israeli
official said..“If they (the
Palestinians) are going to

be gentlemen, then fine. .

But we are
suspicious that
won't.”

very

The wording of the
typed, -half{-page
agreement avoided use of
the word “cease-fire”
since that would require
the signatures of both
warring parties. Israel has
refused any direct or
indirect contact with the
Patestinians.

Postal talks
continue

OTTAWA - Mediator

Alan Gold cautioned
Friday that mediation
talks, now grinding

through the eighth day,
have their own pace and
can't be hurried by round-
the-clock bargaining
sessions to end the 25-day
postal dispute.

The postal strike, the
longest since a 43-day
stoppage in 1975, has
crippled the national mail
service, forced hundreds
of businessmen into
bankruptcy and _ cost

millions of dollars a day.

Postal leader Jean-
Claude Parrot, wearing a
blue button reading “The
Struggle Continues,” told
reporters progress was
being made in the
mediation talks which
edged past the 60-hour
mark before the two sides
broke for lunch.

Reports indicated the
two sides were now
concentrating on the use
of television surveillance
for post office security.

Hungér strikers
near death

BELFAST. Northern
Ireland - Red Cross in-
vestigators abandoned
efforts to end the Maze
Prison hunger — strike.
apparently dooming two
inmates nine weeks into
their protests Friday to the
same death as six
previous prisoners

Kicran Doherty, 64
days without food, and
Kevin Lynch, who
refused to cat for a O3rd
day, were as “stable as
possible under the cir

cumstances.” according
to the fatest medical
bulletin, said a

spokesman for the

republican Press Center.
Lynch, 24, was said to

be weaker than Doherty.

25. Neither had lost |

consciousness but both
were reported by their
families to be suffering
“great pain”.

In Dublin, rumors of
fresh moves to end the
fast were touched off
when Prime Minister
Garret FitzGerald
cancelled a speech on the
hunger strike, saying he
did not want to endanger
any possibility of a sect-
tlement

MPs get
more money

OVTIAWA House of
Commons administrators
have recak ulated the
impact of a cost of hving
adjustment lo MPs
salanies and determined
the legislators newly
raised salaries would be
an average $4 900 more
than onginally reported

The MPs voted
themselves a caise July 9

The revised = fagures
show a legislator without

special responsibihucs
would get $43,800 a year
rather than the $40,200
orginally reported = by
officals On top of the
basic salary is a 315,700
tan free expense
allowance

originally
reported as being
$14 400

A year ago MPs were
carning $30 600 plus a
$14 000 exzrpense
allowance

they

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society's problems would be
a corporate sponsor. He is
hoping - that someone may
come forward from a major
company who would
welcome the promotion
from being the service's
backer and act as a sponsor.

Mullins says that rescue
helicopter programs
operating -in. other -localities
have. found that contact with
the emergency services is
not sufficient to achieve
widespread use of the
program.

Public education is
equally. important, he says,
so that when someone cn-
counters an emergency
situation they aiready know
of the existence of an air
ambulance service and how
to contact it.

As such, he feels a con-

certed publicity campaign is
mecessary for the Coast
Mountain service before it
well and truly gets off the
ground.
Meanwhile, the society is
exploring possibilities of
obtaining a flight pad for the
helicopter in Vancouver.
because they still have not
received any answer from
North Van District council
to their requesi for a local
site to be made available.

Six injured
in 3 vehicle
collision

Six people were Laken to
Lions Gade Hospital
Wednesday) afternoon.
following a three vehicle
collision on the Squamish
Highway just north of Sunset
Creek.

A northbound = vehicle
crossed the centre line and
struck a southbound motor
home head-on. The motor
home was then rear ended
by another car.

An cight-year-old girl in
the motor home underwent
internal surgery and a Surrey
man driving the other
vehicle aon the head-on
colhsion has multiple in
jyunes. Three others were
treated and reicased.

Haute Cutie
Polernatonal

But # their preference is for
a locality on the North
Shore.
mountains and the local
emergency rescue program.

Mullins says the society
considers a little known area
of parkland near Lynnterm
to be ideal for the purpose
but adds:

“We have heard nothing
from North Van District. We
still want a base over here as
this is where we (the
emergency rescue team) got
started.” ¢

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