‘CARTER
‘WASHINGTON - (UPD -
President Carter will go
on ‘television Sunday
night to feport on the

7 today.

U. S. -Soviet deadlock

over 3,000 Russian troops

in Cuba, it. was learned

’ Sources said Carter will
discuss the latest
development and

. probably his response to ©
the Soviet Union — in the ©

nationally broadcast talk"

Carter met Thursday
night. and again Friday
with Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance and other
top national security
advisers on the situation.

~ Quebecers

—FRONPAGEAT—- ince the. court had heard

The youth ‘testified that
while he was in the- ~empty
classroom when the blaze

_ started, it was the 16-year--
old youth that was with him -
. that set fire to a map and not

accused had set fire to the
-Mmap.

In cross-examination, the

he. Bic.”

The youth said the two .

had been playing around
with their lighters and the
other youth set fire toa map,

He said:he did sot report
the fire because he was
afraid the couch would burn,

which he. quickly ex- have their smoking
tinguished with his hand. priviledges. withdrawn and
they would be blamed for it.
About a minute later, he
said, the youth set fire to the HINK -
map again and this time he — POF YRLENDS -

_ could not put it out and he
stood on a couch and tried to
kick it. In answering a question

The burning map’ then not ‘think about the well-

dropped onto the couch, he being of his friends and what
said, and the couch caught would have happened if they
| fire. had been caught in a fire.

At this point both youths

QUEBEC (UPC) - Just
months from next spring’s
referendum on the
province’s political
future, most Quebecers
support renewed
federalism over “sov-

don’t believe the
Levesque government
will win its referendum.

“All the questions are
logical, but the answers
are illogical,” said
Edouard Clouteir, a
researcher and analyst

OTTAWA (UPC) - Prime
Minister Joe Clark, in an
attempt to offset Liberal
Party strength in the
Senate, has appointed
two leading Quebecers
and an Albertan to the
upper chamber.

In the appointments
announced Thursday,
Clark said = Arthur
Tremblay, a_ long-time
Quebec public servant in
the Liberal and Union
Nationale governments of
the 1960s, will join
Montreal businessman
Guy Charbonneau and
Abertan Martha Bielish.

VIENNA, Austria (UPI) -
A pre-dawn blaze swept
through a Vienna hotel
Friday, killing at least 26
people, including an
American beauty queen
and two other U.S.
tourists.

Fire officials said it was
the worst blaze in

ereignty-association” and.

At least 26 die
in Vienna blaze

MORE WORLD NEWS BEGINS P. Al6

|support federalism

with the Center for the
Research of Public
Opinion, Thursday.

CROP conducted the

poll for the Quebec
government at a cost of
$60,000.

Asked if they would
give the government a
mandate to negotiate sov-
ereignty-association with
the rest of Canada, 53.9
per cent of those

responding agreed. Only _

14.2 per cent were un-
decided.

Clark appoints
three to senate

Since assuming power,
Clark has made seven
appointments to the
Senate, including
Economic Development
Minister Robert de
Cotret, former Tory MP
James Balfour and
Conservative Party
campaign chairman
Lowell Murray.

However, the Liberals
still hold a commanding
position in the 104-
member Senate with 71
members to the Tories’
24. There are two In-
dependents, one In-
dependent Liberal, one
Social Credit and five
vacancies.

Austria's
history.

At least 26 persons
were killed, including
three Americans. Ten
other persons were
critically injured.

One of the dead was
Ellen Wight, 24, Miss
Oklahoma of 1977 and
the daughter of a Maine
travel agency owner

post-war

janitor’s room where they
stayed until the fire alarm

A 18-year-old Victoria
youth who stole three
cheques from the
chequebook of his host and
used them to get cash in
North Van and in’ Alberta
pleaded guilty Wednesday to

FROM PAGE A1 forgery and theft. ;

Crown Counsel Glen

Then, towards the end of Paruk told North Vancouver

his. speech, Humphreys
turned on the afterburners
with the stricture:

“If you ladies and gentle-
‘men couldn't. put your
membership up to 150 inside
three weeks by just a little
trying, and I mean good
‘active membership, then you
shouldn't be in business.

This matter is serious,

splendidly serious.”

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" evidence from’ the other
youth who claimed the ©

accused admitted that he .
had a habit of “flicking his

the rest of the school would -

from Petronio he said he did

deft the rose and rant the--YOUTH-GUILTY- OF FORGERY-

Stole cheques from

- $100, and

. “ephink “about
Petronio said. .

In summing up his case,

Defense Counsel David
Morgan said the court has to.
choose between the

evidence of the two accused.

He described. the evidence.
as. being. “diametrically

opposed to each other” and
said the fire chief's evidence
was too general to count
against the accused.

‘In summing up his case

_Petronio said “I think the
evidence clearly deals with.

recklessness.”

He said there
evidence of a plan made
before the fire to burn the
school down, but there was

“that, »

was no

evidence the accused started
the fire by: acting recklessly. ‘

He said’ the fact the ; “ac-
cused ‘has _sort. ‘of
fascination with fire and. the
fire chief's evidence’: “Sup-
ported the evidence of the
other youth.

North Vancouver. District
Fire Chief Bob: MacDonald
testified that...the : fire.
probably . started .:in =. the

' general vicinity of where:the

accused youth had: been
sitting but he addéd that the

fire could have started in

another part of the room.

Judge John Layton said

, that while he did not like to

delay the trial any further,
he wanted to read through
the transcipt of the trial, -

Provincial Court that Randy
Toddstole the cheques from
the car of people he was
Staying with, on June 18.

He then wrote cheques to
himself for amounts of $130,
$70, which he
cashed at the Bank of British
Columbia in North Van and

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