BRANTFORD, (UPC) - Ont. Ambassador Kenneth gave U:S. diplomats = safe refuge in the Canadian embassy in Tehran and provided them with papers that allowed them to escape the strife-torn nation, Prime Minister Joe Clark Tuesday. In a copyright story by its Washington correspondent Jean Pelletier, the French- language newspaper Lapresse said there were unconfirmed reports Taylor aided between 12 LONDON (UPI) - Britain's militant steel unions Monday defied England’s chief judge and expanded their four-week strike against the government-owned Brit- ish Steel Corp. to private steel mills. In another example of union muscle, 100,000 workers staged a one-day general strike in South Wales, paralyzing the industrial region to protest the planned shutdown of two’ steel plants and the loss of more than 20,000 jobs. HALIFAX (UPC) - Only a tenth of the oil spilled in offshore accidents can be recovered in clean-up operations, a conference on Eastern Canada’s offshore energy resources was warned Monday. “In our climate, oil degradation rates must be measured in terms of years, possibly even decades, and despite massive recovery efforts and clean-up, roughly 90 per cent of the spilled oil must be left for nature to look after,” Dr. RW Trites told the three-day conference OTTAWA (UPC) The four westem provinces will provide 8O per cent ol Canada's real cconomic growth this year, despite the fact they account for only 30 per cent of national production, the Conference Board in Canada says. ' orth Shore News . confirmed Most of not recoverable Good forecast for West outside... Canadian embassy served as refuge and 25 American em- bassy employees. Taylor, who began an extended vacation in Europe Tuesday when the Canadian government announced it had closed temporarily the embassy and recalled staff, first offered refuge to the Americans November 4 when Iranian militants began rounding wp Americans. “I can confirm that the report by Mr. Pelletier in Lapresse was. sub- stantially correct,” Prime Minister Clark said. British steel strike expanded Thousands of steel workers threw up pickets around privately owned steel mills throughout England in defiance of a ruling Saturday by Lord Denning, the nation's chief judge, who had banned the action on the grounds that there was no dispute between the private companies and the unions. The one-day general strike in Wales — which paralyzed buses and trains and idled all steel, coal and engineering plants in the region — was not related to the strike against British Steel. oil spill He urged caution in developing offshore oil reserves because expertise to deal with spills and knowledge of their effects on food fish is lacking. extreme Trites, of the Bedford Institute of Ocean- ography, said 15 years of research has resulted in lide firm knowledge or expertise A mayor spilt on the East Coast’) would pose special problems because of the frigid waters, Trites told) the Nova Scotia government-sponsored conference year The board, in its quarterly provincial forecast Monday. = said that Quebec and Ontano. which together provide more than 60 per cent of lofal Canadhan output, will account for barely 10 per cent of national growth FROM PAGE A1 The telephone poll conducted January 24 asked a geographically balanced sample of 383 North Shore households from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay: “If the federal election were held today, which party would you vote for?” After.— i -43 households which refused to answer, the overall North Shore percentage results from the 330 positive respondents were as follows (with results of the earlier January poll shown in brackets): Cons. .........33.0 (29.6) Lib. .. 2.0.2... 20.6 (16.0) NDP.......... 8.8 ( 8.4) Other......... 6.1 ( 2.4) UNDECD .....31.8 (43.6) When broken down between the two North Shore ridings, these overail figures produced the following results: CAPILANO Cons. .........37.7 (34. 7 ( Lib. .. 2.2.2... 20.3 ( NDP.......... 4.8 ( Other......... 6.3 ( 9 ( UNDECD .....30.9 (42. NORTH VANCOUVER BURNABY Coms..........25.2 (22.5) Lib. .......... 20.1 (15.0) NDP.......... 25.5 (12.5) Other......... 5.7 ( 5.0) UNDECD .....32.5 (45.0) If the undecided voters in each riding are ignored, the percentage preferences of those who had already made up their minds translate into the following (earlier poll results in brackets): CAPILANO Cons.......... 54.5 (60.4) Lib. ..........29.4 (29.2) NDP.......... 7.0 ( 9.4) Other......... 9.1 ( 1.0) NORTH VANCOUVER BURNABY Cons. .........37.4 (40.9) Lib. ..........398.3 (27.3) NDP..........22.9 (22.7) Other......... 8.4 ( 9.1) In the case of the North Vancouver-Burnaby tables it should be noted that the figures refer only to the approximately 61 per cent of the voters in that riding who live in North Vancouver between St. George's Avenue and Indian Arm It ignores the roughly 39 per cent of voters living in North Burnaby. The most surprising feature of the latest poll was the big (8.1 per cent) yump in the number of Capilano riding respondents who indicated they had decided to vole for a candidate other than Conservative, Liberal or NDP This “Other” Capilano ts figure in difficult to evaluate because a number of the respondents in question — while firmly rejecting all the three mayor parties -- did not specify ther alternative choice of party or candidate The poll was conducted tour days before the January 28 closing date for candidate nominations to be filed with the Returning Officer — at which time the only ad rpa ditional contender known to be running in Capilano was Richard The Troll of the tongue-in-cheek Rhinoceros Party. ° Unless respondents rejecting the major parties without naming their alternative choice were secret backers of the Rhino Party, two possibilities appear to arise. _ a Either they were hoping for some other more at- tractive last-minute can- didate to emerge or — as - seems more probable — they ee | vote | should | actually have been counte among the = un- decided. 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