A2 - Sunday, June 26, 1983 - North Shore News eutside.. VANCOUVER Two macabre thefts — one last month of a skull from a cemetery and another earlier this month of bones from a_= church grave — have prompted RCMP to confirm public- ly that a satanist cult may be responsible. Surrey RCMP Sgt. Lee Joubert said Thursday police were searching for a Satanist cult believed responsible for the recent desecration and theft of OTTAWA — Finance Minister Marc Lalonde Says imterest rates on long-term Canadian government bonds are lower than U.S. rates, proving that government restraint policies were working. : Lalonde told the House of Commons Thursday that last year Canadian interest rates were up to 5 percentage points higher than U.S. rates. The Canadian prime lending rate, the rate set CALGARY — Federal energy minister Jean Chretien could) move unilaterally next week to pee the pnce of Alberta oil if he cannot reach an agreement with his Alber ta counterpart John Zaozirmny The two ministers met Thursday for four hours in Calgary, but failed to reach an accord on whether the pnce should be raised as schedulca Ju- ly 1 or rolled back to within 75 percent of the world price “At the neal mecting WASHINGTON The Uinited States built a secret base in Eeyypt to mect any crisis in the Per sian Gulf and 100° omen and milhon worth of cquip ment at the tsolated tn stallatton hoaown as “Site Mike | congressional (testimony and hagh level sources disclose stationed $7o a4 The tnland clandestine baac was kept sccret from Egypt warned the United States publ disclosure Congress because would By UNITED PRESS CANADA Police suspect Satanist cults bones from two graves in Greater Vancouver. A woman's skull ws Stolen in mid-May from the Capilano View Cemetery in West Van- couver. Human remains were then taken June 15 from a 50-year-old grave in St. Oswald’s Anglican Church in Surrey. “We believe there are Satanist-type cults in Several areas. It is generally known that Vic- toria has a huge cult population.” Restraint working says Lalonde by banks for their best corporate customers, was 11 percent Wednesday, half a percent above US. pmme. Lalonde said that while the economy was recovering from _ reces- sion, unemployment rates were still too high. He said he hoped that within a year, the jobless rate would fall so that “the Canadian people will reap the sacrifice that we've all been asked to iad carry. Decisions soon on oil prices there will either be an agreement or no agre- ment at all and I will have to face my responsibility if there is no agreement,” Chretien told reporters. He was uncertain when the next meeting would be held or where. He said there is. still disagreement on how the September 1981 cnergy pricing agreement should be interpreted. “(Premier Peter) Lougheed said the situation called for a freeze (on prices), We have always said the Situation called for a rollback US secret base suspected force it to be shut down, the sources Thursday to furnish location of because — of « lassiftcation “Peas out an Che middle of nowhere ~ May Cron Chek Smith Jr an Au borce strategist with the Joint Chicts of Staff told a House subcommittec said They declined the precise the base its secret Feb 16 “ltts a very pood base for secret opera tChoons The Pentagon dec lined camment The crew merely had to have a newspaper delivered. Or else they could have turn- ed on the radio. According to a Senate report, the Maritime Com- mand of the Canadian forces is “pathetic” and “at least a generation behind in its capacity.” The report, released by Senator Paul Lafond, stated flatly that Maritime Com- mand “cannot meet its com- mitments to the protection of Canadian sovereignty, to the defence of North America — much less to NATO.“ ‘ In some ways, the Senate subcommittee paints an even bleaker picture of the navy than the one most of us knew. I don't think any joke was intended when _ the report said that we “could maybe repel an attack by St. Pierre-Miquelon”. The truth is, Canada’s once-mighty navy has been deliberately gutted by the Liberal government because its admirals fought against cutbacks and the unification of the armed forces. As recently as last year. Ottawa put the boots to Rear Admiral William Hughes, chief of Pacific operations, for some truthful remarks he made about the navy's ability to deal with Soviet warships which were hanging around our coast in the fall of 1981. Yet it's quite clear from this latest report that the former navy chief, who retired early after his remarks ruffled federal SYNTHETIC & HUMAN HAIR AT ICES SALES & SERVICE 3&9 TRADING CO. LTD. 608 W. Pender St. Van. 685-1911 Day or .Appts. _ Closed Sats. 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