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on his Zimbabwe Rhodesia
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AT COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE

Clark plans
ma bias aS RS lengthy talks on
SE Be ZittbabweRhodesia

.Muzorewa’ S contentious.

Minister. -Joe—Clark _three-month-old- Zimbabwe —

government, and Britain,
which would like to find a
way to remove trade sanc-
tions against the breakaway
colony.

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Prime Minister Joe Clark was one of the guests of. Queen Elizabeth I at a party given for heads

of state visiting Lusaka for the Commonwealth Conference, last week. (UPI wirephoto)

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HONG KONG (UPI) -
Police said friday that more
than 270 cans of deadly
cyanide salt were swept into
the sea around Hong Kong
by Typhoon Hope, whose
150 mph winds left behind a
toll of 11 dead and at least
_ 260 injured in the battered

British colony. — -

Marine police combed the
harbor and the sea around it

Man’s best

SEATTLE (UPI) - Don’t try
to tell Albert Chistante that
dog is man’s best friend. His
dog seems to prefer the
ladies.

Chistante, 55, was walking
his dog in downtown Seattle
Tuesday when ‘two women
attacked him, hit him
several times and grabbed
his wallet.

_

but recovered only about 60
or 70 cans of the cyanide,

which officials described as

“extremely poisonous,
especially after it has been in

' contact with water.”

Another 200 or so cans of
the cyanide, washed into the
sea from a harbor warehouse
destroyed by Typhoon Hope
Thursday, were missing,
police said.

friend?

As Chistante yelled for
help, the women ran and
jumped in to a nearby car.

And what of Chistante’s
dog — a mix of a German
shepherd and a Doberman?

Police said the dog
“jumped into the suspects’
car and left with them.”

OPPOSED TO GOVERNMENT CUTBACKS

Civil servants fight |

QUEBEC (UPC) - The
Public Service Alliance of
Canada has decided to go to
the Canadian public in their
fight against the federal
government's drive to chop
60,000 jobs off the civil
service payroll,

The 180,000- member
union will begin a country-
wide advertising campaign
directed against the effects

of the new Conservative
government's austerity
program.

The Clark government

announced last June that it
would honor its campaign
commitment to reduce the
public service by 60,000 jobs
through attrition over the
next three years. Ap-

proximately one-third = or
20,000 jobs would be
climinated by the sale of
Crown corporations to the
private sector.

The union's board of
directors said last week,
during the PSAC’s annual
convention, only retirement
could be truly classified as
attrition. It

said = any
reduction through
resignations, which = it

claimed accounted for 60
per cent of all civil service
departures from = 1973-78,
“would create a gross im-
balance in the composition
of the public service.”

The union
government's
increase

said = the
pian would
the disproportion

came up at the Com- The -plan calls. for the
monwealth conference Temoval of former’ prime
Friday. minister Ian Smith, leader of
- oe ; Rhadesia’s . white
But Assistant Cabinet SUPFemacist government
Secretary:Jacques Roy said Since its unilateral
Clark would hold “quite Declaration’ of’ In-
’ lengthy discussions” on the dependence i in 1965 until last
plan during a weekend of ‘Pring, and for a new
private informal talks, Constitution entrenching
blacked out to the press, Certain white rights,
where the leaders will be Probably including

proportional representation
in government.

able to talk more freely.

Clark’s five-point plan is

- designed to place Canada Clark laid out his plan for

- squarely in the: middle British Prime Minister
- between the African nations, . Margaret Thatcher in a
’ : - who favor the complete private session’ Thursday

ouster of Bishop Abel evening. -

washed i into the sea

Each of the mission
, cyanide cans contained
about 40 ounces of the

deadly salts. “About 60 were
found...most intact. But one

or two ruptured. Obviously-
. Some cyanide might have

leaked into the sea but only a
minute quantity,” a police
spokesman said.

Couple
tries to
sell son

HOUSTON (UPI) - An
unemployed man and _ his
girlfriend who said they
thought they legally could
sell their five-day-old son to
help them out of financial
trouble have been convicted
of trying to. sell the infant fog
$5,000.

between the number
women, natives and fran-
cophones in the civil service
and their respective per-
centage of the population.

The delegates also
demanded a “security of
employment” clause in their
next contract with Ottawa
and to insist that the federal
government stop contracting
out. work that “could or
should be performed by the
public service.”

The national executive
was given the mandate to
take whatever § action= it
deems necessary “to
demonstrate the concern
and opposition’, of | the
alliance to the’ federal
layoffs.

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