“OTTAWA (UP).
“Former. =prime |: “minister
-Pierre.: Trudeau.’ “said

"Tuesday - ‘he has: post-

«. poned-his retirement and

"accepted a request from

‘the Liberal Party that he
lead them in the Feb. 18

general. election cam-

paign. .

as

-. “My duty is to lead the
party and that duty is

_even stronger than my
desire. to return to private
life,” Trudeau announced
_ata press conference._

Trudeau, 60, had
announced Nov. 21 that

TEHRAN, Iran (UPD -
A trio of gunmen Tuesday
assassinated a close aide
of. Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini and the
government blamed _ the
United. States. Militant
students said they would
put 50 American hostages
on trial unless the shah is
returned tolran. —
also
verbal

° The | students

declared open
warfare on Foreign
Minister ‘Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh, branding as
‘irresponsible’? his
statements that some of
the hostages might be
freed by Christmas. They
threatened to take over

SWINDON, England
(UPI) - Don’t adjust your
watches just yet, but 1979

will be one second longer
than 1978,

The Science Research
Council issued a reminder
that a “leap second” will
be slipped into the last
minute of this year,
making it 61 seconds
long.

“Leap” seconds are
introduced to ensure that
the Royal. Greenwich
Observatory's time
signals, which = are:

PEKING (UPI) - China
charged Tuesday that
armed Victnamese raided
a Chinese border
province Dec. 13, killing
an undisclosed number of
people and wounding
others.

Trudeau

omeini’s friend
assassinated |

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he owas

election campaigns. A

leadership. .convention —
immediately

was
scheduled for next March
in Winnipeg.

In his announcement,
‘ bitterly
criticized Prime Minister
Joe Clark’s seven month
old Conservative
government for inaction.

“Over the summer we
offered no opposition.
Instead of months of
action there was month’s
of waste,” Trudeau said.

Iranian embassies abroad
from Foreign Ministry

‘personnel. -

Three gunmen on one
motorcycle killed

- Mohammed Mofatteh,

head of the main Islamic
religious school, in a hail
af- bullets in downtown
Tehran before they
escaped. A guard was

also killed.

Mofatteh, a leader of
the anti-shah movement
during Khomeini’s exile,

was the third close
confident of the
Khomeini to be

assassinated recently.

This year
will be longer

atomic
clocks, will remain within
one second of mean solar
time at Greenwich,” the
council said.

This “mean solar time”
- the precise relationship
between the earth and the
sun at Greenwich,
England, from which the
world’s time zones are
determined - is
established “by
astronomical ob-
servations of the slightly
irregular rotation of the
earth,” the council said.

China accuses
Vietnam of raid

The Chinese forcign
ministry issued a formal
protest to the Vietnamese
Embassy in Peking over

the Dec. 13> raid into
Yunnan province, the
official Xinhua news

agency said in Peking.

resigning as.
-Liberal leader after more
than 11.-years and four

2 New: flood” ‘control. ‘and -
‘storm - ‘drainage measures

in ‘West. Vancouver came

rain with ; flying - colors,

* ‘Director’ ]
Don Walker told: council in.a

flooding” of
-basements,..

lawns: and

had survived intact.
| Alderman John. Hum-
phries’ commended the
municipality. for
_improved drain and. flood
control”. .
“The . new
"above the Upper Levels,” he

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operating, without vital
supplies which they have
only been able to receive by
the BCR line since the
Second ‘Narrows rail bridge
was knocked down in Oc-
tober.

B.C. Rail spokesman
Hugh Armstrong said the
railway had offered the
unions’ council monetary
and early retirement benefits
in exchange for the reduced
crew clause which the
council found unacceptable.

The railway offered a 29-
month agreement’ with

per cent. The unions’ last
request was for a one-year
agreement with wage in-
creases in excess Of 30 per
cent, although management
say BCR workers are already
paid more than their CN and
CP counterparts. *

Management and the
unions’ council met Friday
for hard-bargaining
negotiations which con-
tinued Sunday until talks
broke down at 10 p.m,

There are still about 120
union demands oustanding,

increases being retroactive
over the past. five months,
during which time they have
been without a contract.

Tha railway has indicated
that the retroactivity issue 1s
Negotiable providing the
question of reduced crews ts
resolved - and both sides
stand firm on that matter.

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introduced over recent years .
through: Monday’ s torrential.
council heard Monday night.
of “Operations .

-memo. that, although there
chad .been considerable “spot.

all the major.
creeks in the municipality

“its -very-

subdivision

increases totalling about 14_

including the issue of any ,

under: the’ new. run-off.:and

been «so ‘successful’ that
almost ‘no- problems — have

been found i in that area.” ™

“Humphries also. reported
that firemen. and a number '
‘of high school students were
to help -fill,
any”.
residents with local flooding |
problems can pick up. “With -
that kind of ‘spirit in West

volunteering

sandbags ' which

Vancouver,” he declared,
“we won't have to worry.’

In a. three-hour period
Monday’ from. 8 to -I_a.m.

the gauge at the municipal |
hall measured almost half an -

inch of rain per hour.

Manning issue
sparks rail strike

A member of the North
Vancouver local of the Shop
Crafts Union called
News and said of last week's
line close through pickets’
action: “It
causing the strike. The only
picketers are the Squamish

“said; “was the first. one 5 built

_ flood: contro! guidelines. It’s -

the —

is” Squamish _

people. We have been asked .

by Squamish to stand behind
them on their picket lines
and we have totally refused.”

He said the picketing was
due to Squamish employees
being told they would not
receive retroactive pay.

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