"Exxon Corporation | has *
causeda flap in Ottawa that -
_ appears to have got some

r

“Veneke g of Venezuelan “oil ;

without. “warning: -fFom

‘eastern Canadian: refineries :

to.'the United States. ‘by

results.. ; CO ede
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The re-direction of the oil

' supply comes as a. direct.

~ result of the chaos in the il

. Vancouver... ‘police:

industry caused

by the
revolutioninIran. - yo

Caught in the ‘middle is

Imperial Oil, a subsidiary of
the. multi- national _cor-

. poration Exxon.

has: demanded that Imperial
Oil Company ~ resto
.. quota of imported pol
serve refineries in.

Maritimes andi in: ‘Quebec.

. the arrangement before”

“Minister: Alastair“ Gillespie.

—“Bgxon had, © cut ‘pack on
. 25,000 barrels‘of oil a day to
the eastern Candian markets
for diversion to. the_ United.
States.

Furthermore, “he ‘insisted

.> that Imperial’ ‘cut away from.
its parent company, .Exxon-

in this matter- and make Rd
deal with’ Venezuela ©

supply the same amount of .

oil from that country as he
he
Iranian crisis.

Gillispie was buffeted: in
the Commons by both

_ Consevative and NDP op

‘sean vdne’s

Another B.C. court judge
has become the attention of
the media after a run-in with
police.

Mr. Justice E. Davie
Fulton of ~B.C.. Supreme
Court has been charged with
impaired- driving after
in-
vestigated two: rear “end =
accidents Saturday ieM

‘He is slated to appear’ in =
provincial court on “the “=
impaired charge March 14. |

Chief Justice
McEachern says he will not

Allan

ask Mr. Justice Fulton, a

onetime _ member of the
Diefenbaker . Conservative

cabinet, to step down from
the bench as a result of the
charge! laid against him.

He. . says | judges - have

_ ‘previously been convicted of -

_ impaired. - “driving. without
: being - suspended from the”

Sy jndiciary.

hae alee provincial Attorney. .

“General Garde Gardom says
he is satisfied no further
action need to be taken in
the matter. ;

ana a Three:

‘At a press conference
Thursday, Imperial Oil
President Jack Armstrong
_gave assurance. that new
arrangements had been
worked.out with the parent
company stating there will
not be cutbacks of oil: co
_eastern refineries in the first
quarter’ of 1979. Eastern

.Tefiners will work at full
AIR GILLESPIE capacity, he said. .
“position ‘members for the oe
Liberal government's
handling 0 of the oil situation.

‘For the rest of the year,
Armstrong said, the oil

The ‘helicopter skiers are being buried in 20 feet of
back this weekend on the snow before he managed to
slopes of. ‘Purcell Range
mountains near Golden
undaunted by Wednesday's
tragedy that took the lives of
seven skiers. .

_ of snow.

Ten skiers were swept
away in an avalanche as they
began .their last run of the
day. Six Swiss skiers and one.
American were killed in the
_ snow that had been loosened
" from the rim of an unnamed

_ mountain.

id, including”
‘Banff. ski: Guide Rudy Gersh, ">.
* whose’ brother..was one of ©
the: siting ‘skiers from |
- Switzerland, ;

Veteran’ “of. 28" “years of
skiing, Victor. Bradley, . age
63, of Kent, Washington was ||
one of the survivors despite

Skiers die in Golden

work his way to the = surface

import teduction will not be:
25,000 barrels daily but that

oil ‘from Mexico's new oil
finds, has~ run into snags.

it will be reduced but around The president has'received’a
9, 000. “-»  ¢ool -feception in “Mexico
- . City from president Lopez
Portillo. mes :
Observers were predicting doo .

the Iranian situation can’
result in nothing but higher -
oil prices for consumers in
the - coming months and
there were’ stirrings. in Ot-
tawa for an investigation into
increasing oil prices.

He: bluntly told Carter
-during his state visit to the
Mexican capital that the
Mexicans are not going to be
put. down as second class

the oil needs of Mexico first.

Also, he “said that. the
Mexicans will’ develop their
new-found oil riches off the
coast. at their own pace.

“ Meanwhile, President
Jimmy Carter’s . quest. ' for
assurance of a steady flow of

avalanche

Bradley, who was taken to

“ ¢

ski the high elevations of the

hospital in..Golden, admits. mountain again.
he was lucky to.estape but |: —
says he’s. gong to continue fo _

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