‘former Justice

. Minister John Turner

were. apparently told in
December 1970 that the
RCMP .had been “com-
mitting illegal activities

.for 20 years, the Mc-
“Donald Commission

seabinet’s “Gommittee,

John | ‘Staries” —- then
director general “of the
security service — raised
the touchy issue and that
Trudeau asked that the

LISBON, Portugal —
Two South African ar-
mored columns, backed
by tanks and jet fighters,
have crossed 90 miles into
Angola from Namibia and
engaged Angolan troops
in violent combat, the
Angolan news apency
reported Tuesday.

Citing an Angolan
Defense Ministry

‘statement, the agency

said the two South
African columns—one
“composed of 32 tanks

oe @
By USITED PRESS CANADA

: matter be turned over to
another cabinet com- ~

mittee. . RS

In its conclusions : “on 1

the episode, the com: ;
mission said there was-an —

effort by senior RCMP
officers to inform
government ministers

- that illegal activity had
taken place. _

‘McDonald's report said
Trudeau, who has denied
any prior knowledge of
any crimes committed by
the. RCMP, testified in a
secret hearing béfore the
commission last year that
he had no recollection of
the conversation.

_ South African
invasion claimed

and 82 vehicles”—thrust
across the border
Monday and moved
toward Xangongo and
Catequero, 60 and 90
miles respectively north

of the frontier.
Signed by Defense
MinisterCol. Pedro Maria

Tonha, the statement said
one column had captured
Catequero and the other
was besieging Xangongo,
while South African jets
bombarded the town of
about 4,000 inhabitants.

Forest workers
still out

VANCOUVER —
Forest fires, poor lumber
markets and a dissident
union have kept more
than 20,000 British
Columbia forest workers
out of work despite
contract agreements
which ended a six-week
strike by the industry's
two major unions.

About 16,000 of the
48 ,000-member Io.
ternational Woodworkers
of Amcrica, which signed
a two-year contract with
the industry Friday, were
unable to return to work
because of ai market
slump and the = fire

hazard.

The 7,000 members of
the Canadian Paper-
workers Union were
expected to be back on
the job Tuesday after the
Prince George, B.C. unit
resolved local issues,
clearing the way for a
general return to work, a
CPU spokesman said late
Monday

But some 5,500 pulp
workers in the militant
Pulp. Paper and
Woodworkers of Canada
remained off the job
because of a continuing
dispute with the industry
over local issues

Chapman
begins jail term

NEW YORK — Mark
David Chapman Tuesday
was transferred to the
state prison system to
begin serving a 20 years
to-life term for slaying the
cx-Beaties stars John
Leanon

A spokesman for the
city Correction
Department said

Chapman was taken in a
van from aie heavily
guarded solitary cell at
Rikers Island jail Tucsday
morming to the Ossining
Correctional Facthty. He
arrived at Ossining about
10:1S a.m.

The prison serves as an
cotry point for all inmates
beginning scntences in
the state system

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