| Grain delays —

West coast

marine
meet with ~grain and
Vancouver port officials
to resolve grain export
delays said to be caused

partly by lack of
longshore manpower..

outside...

_ upset officials —

employers have agreed to. Maritime

‘complained. earlier this

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been set for the meeting

with the British Columbia
Employers’

Association. — -

- Port of Vancouver and
grain terminal officials _

week’ of a backlog of

_just

-“It is the Olympics of -
ocean racing and the crew —

had been training for some
while,” he said. ;

“To be denied a finish by
two miles was an
agonizing decision but-I-had
to think in terms of “the
safety of my crew and we

quit ‘and, in retrospect, I -

hope it was the _ right.
decision. And: yet, we
failed.” —

i

“h - : a
At the time of pulling. out,
the crew was optimistic they
might be placed well out of
the 309-_boats in the race.

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“When the wind gets over
about 70 knots yow have this
mist all over the water and it
reduces visibility down to a
very short-distance and you
can’t see anybody.

“We could only see one or.
two boats .at any one tyme
and we didn’t see any in

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a special port-grain of-

discuss the problem, said
Thursday no’ date had

. BISHOP ABEL
MUZOREWA

TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) -
An F-4 Phantom jet of the
Iranian air force has
crashed and another has

. been hit by bullets during
a reconnaisance flight
over Kurdestan, scene of
fighting between Kurdish
insurgents and govern-
ment forces, reports from
the area said Friday.

The jet hit by bullets
got back to its base but
there was no word on the

“~ fi

In. the Kurdish town of
Paveh where heavy

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
More than seven times as
many cases of measles
have been reported here
in .the first six months of

1979 than occurred
during all of 1978, the
city’s medical health

officer has reported.

In British Columbia,
there have been 1,292

John Slos, chairman of...

ficials committee that.
met earlier this week to’

| Muzorewa admits

troops fired first

“

- government forces with

Tranian jet shot
down by Kurds

ntgm that —

Measles outbreak
hits Vancouver

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grain cars waiting to be
unloaded while some
longshoremen have
refused to work the. day.
shift, preferring night-
shift work for time and
half pay.

SALISBURY, Rhodes-
ia (UPI) - Prime Minister
Abel Muzorewa § said
Friday that. government
troops opened fire first in
clashes that-killed at least .
183 _counter-insurgeticy
auxiliary forces loyal to
his chief internal rival,
the Rev. Ndabaningi
Sithole.

In a_ statement to
Parliament, Muzorewa,
described the incidents in
late July as a “regrettable
affair’ but. said the
mutinous behavior of the
militiamen left regular

no option.

fighting has been going
on since Wednesday one
nurse was killed and the
only doctor in the
hospital injured during
the fighting, the sources
said. ;

The official death toll
has been given as three
but informed sources put
the figure as high as 13 to
1S dead.

A large number of

“Kurdish”
insurgents in and around
the western town, sources
said.

cases compared tv 68 last
year, while Vancouver
has had 148 cases
compared to 20 last year.

Dr. David Kinloch said
almost all = infected
youngsters could have
avoided the sickness if
they had been immunized
as soon as they were a
yoar old.

The wind had hit them

about 20 miles away from
Fastmnet Rock and they were
directly downwind of the

south-westerly. “

“Once around the rock it
would have been straight-
forward sailing, according to

couldn’t get any further
because there were records
of the wind being 100 knots
and the seas were about 40
feet high.”

*, Even at that time, the
crew was unaware that boats

‘were sinking and -people

were dying.

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got into Cork we realized
there had been a terrible
tragedy. :

“When we arrived in Cork

--Newton:--“But: --we-=—just- there -was-a thick-crowd of

people, all anxious about the
‘safety of their relatives.”

__ Newton isn’t sure whether
he will enter the race again:

“The effect of that one

race isn’t going to affect my.

decision one way or
another,” he said: “T’ve been
racing all my life and know

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distress. It wasn’t until. we.

YACHTSMAN Newton talks of the storm.

- Newton. °

English Channel

ed

Theron =

decision’ saved crew

disaster is | the.quest for faster _

storms are expected and if I .

want to go I will go anyway.” ©

The Irish Sea is known for
violent
breaking out, although years

‘had seen favorable weather

for Admiral’s Cup races.

people a false. sense of

. security so they might have
said

been unprepared,”

“I am satisfied the safety

regulations are.adequate but .

it’s still up to the individual
skipper to enforce the
regulations.

“We were organized and
we tock a conservative view.
and quit the race. I think the
sea is cruel and must be
respected.” ~

Another factor he feels
may have ‘contributed to the

(start)

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storms: suddenly —

-weather. . .

boats, . with yachts” being
built lighter and lighter, and __

as - durable _ against _ such

os -He feels the: -facts.._will.
“This may have given —

emerge. from the various
investigations _ that. .-will-

--he wonders if light- boats are-— -

.

inevitibly result and’ “con-
siders the race will pose a

serious---problem—-for—_the: —~<=-—~~

entire yachting industry.” _

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