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this. week expelled the

Ramachandra Mohan, 40,
a native of India, told-UPI he

- TEERAN, Iran (UPD) - Tran.

Dr.
director-general of foreign

Ali. “Behzadnia,

‘Wall. Street Journal’s publications said Mohan was
correspondent in Tehran for expelled because he failed to
making “unauthorized observe regulations.
contacts,” bringing to 20 the governing foreign reporters
number of foreign reporters and had “unauthorized.
ordered out of the country contact. with - ‘some
since July. | _ propaganda agencies already

closed down by the National
Guidance Ministry.

WASHINGTON: Nikolai Sharegin (R) a . former Soviet prisoner charged I last. week that Russian prisoners are
‘souvenirs for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, including this medal and. Misha the Bear, the games’
symbol, which ch Sharegin ts holding. At left is Viadimir Bukovsky who also testified before the International Sakharov

_ hearings

Human Rights | in the Soviet Union. (UPI wirephoto) —

‘Ontario unless pollution
‘controls are implemented in
Canada and the United
States, but the government is
not ready to impose controls

n~ Canadian industry,

- Environment Minister John

Fraser says.

Fraser told delegates to
the Air Pollution Control
Association Tuesday that
unless emission controls
were put on Sulphur
smelting plants in Canada
and the U.S., 48,000 lakes in
Ontario will die and a $600

100000 men
.WASHINGTON (UPI) -
U.S. Defense Secretary

Harold Brown has strongly
endorsed a U.S. “rapid
deployment farce”
100,000 men that could be
sent rapidly to trouble spots
from the Caribbean to the
Persian Gulf.

“The rapid deployment
force is likely to be crucial in
a limited contingency,”
Brown told the Senate
Foreign Relations Com-
mittee in prepared testimony
calling for ratification of the
SALT II treaty.

Brown said American
military planning is giving
“high priority” to improving
U.S. high mobility forces

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of.

Despite the . warning,
Fraser said: he was not yet
ready to slap controls on
Ontario plants.

He estimated it would cost
about $350 million annually
to reduce sulphur dioxide
emissions in eastern Canada
by 50 per cent. But, he told
reporters later, “It wouldn't
do any good to reduce
emissions in Ontario without
cleaning up U.S. industries
because we would still be

which President Carter
called for in March 1978.

The force, Brown ex-
plained, would not be
established as a separate
unit, but as a package of
different types of units based
in the United States and not
committed to NATO
defense.

The thinking within the
administration as explained
by one official is that a
Soviet attack on the United
States is unlikely. Far more
likely is the possibility of a
limited conflict involving the

Soviet Union or: -Soviet-
backed proxy forces in a
distant trouble spot that
could range from the

- them.

was told by the National
Guidance Ministry to leave
_ within 10 days.

Mohan was the last
remaining correspondent
accredited to a major
American daily newspaper
in Iran. The government:
earlier. expelled the Los
Angeles Times and The New
York Times correspondents.

On Sept. 4, the Associated
Press news agency office in
Tehran was shut down and

UNLESS POLLUTION CONTROLS IMPLEMENTED

Acid rain will doom 48,000 lakes -

OTTAWA (UPC) - Acid rain million-a-year_ sport fishery
kill some_48,000-lakes in- ~market will dry up. an

pounded by acid rain from_

A similar cleanup’ to
reduce the 19 million tons of
sulphur dioxide emissions
from the U.S. would cost
about $5 billion a year.

“We have to have an inter-
national agreement with the
United States and we are
working on = that now,”
Fraser said. “It is not the
intention of my government

to simply put up with
pollution ... we are trying to
make full uses our

of
resources.”

,

U.S. strike force suggested

Caribbean to the Middle
East or Asia.

Despite the crisis over
Soviet combat troops in
Cuba, the administration is
continuing to. press
energetically for the
ratification of the arms
limitation treaty, which it
considers to be in national
interest.

Whether SALT is ratified
or rejected, a highly placed
official said, the United

- States must increase defense

investments which have
declined over the last 15
years, even as the Soviet
Union has had a_ military
buildup.

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—

The minister said the
estimate of economic losses
if menaced Ontario lakes die
“does not include river -
spawning salmon or char
fisheries. And it is not yet
possible to estimate what the
final losses

the provinces primarily_
affected by acid rain - would
co-operate with the federal
government.

“There are not good guys
and bad guys in. this. battle

to forest against environment
productivity could be. pollution. We all have to
work together.”
“But we do know that even .

a small decline in forest
growth could have a massive
impact on this $4 billion-a-
year industry in eastern -
Canada.”

He said he hopes Quebec,
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