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By UNITED PRESS CANADA

QUEBEC - In a surprise
announcement, Finance
Minister Jacques
Parizeau said he would
table a supplementary
budget in the Quebec
Assembly Tuesday in an
effort to combat. the pro-
vince’s more than $3
billion deficit.

Government insiders
indicated that. the pro-
vince’s worsening finan-
cial situation wil] force
the Parti Quebecois
government into increas-

France denies

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unp ecedented’

ing taxes, including in-
come tax, and making
more cuts in the public

- service sector.

Both Levesque and
Parizeau have hinted that
major _ measures were

- needed to combat an un-

precedented $3 billion-
plus deficit on total ex-

- penditures of $20 million.

Liberal finance critic
Claude Forget, who is.
resigning his Assembly
seat, has said the pro-
vince was “technically
bankrupt”.

Khadafy plot

PARIS - former officials
in the administration of
ex-President Valery
Giscard d’Estaing denied
a report in Time
magazine saying an of-
ficial of Giscard’s govern-
ment proposed the
assassination of Col.
Moammar Khadafy of
Libya at a White House
meeting last February.
Giscard’s former
foreign minister, Jean
Francois-Poncet, ap-
parently the official refer-
red to by the magazine,
said the article is “without

MOSCOW .- The Soviet
parliament met Tuesday
to discuss President
Leonid Brezhnev's “very
grim” appraisal of a third
consecutive bad harvest
that likely will force the
Kremlin to buy 40 million
tons of grain from the
West.

“It was a very grim,
knuckle-down = speech,
telling the people there
are even tougher times
ahead.” a Western
diplomat — said

after

Russian crop
failure ‘’

Fishermen to

any foundation”.

Time magazine said the
French official made the
proposal in a meeting
presided over by National
Security Adviser Richard
Allen.

Attributing its report to
unidentified sources in
Washington, Time said in
a current issue that the
official of Giscard’s
government proposed at
a White House meeting
last February that the
assassination be carried
out by Libyan exiles.

grim’

Brezhnev provided sup-
port for forecasts that the
Soviet Union would have
its worst harvest m= six
years.

The U.S. Department
of Agriculture estimates
the 1981 crop of corn,
wheat and barley at 170
million tons — 66 milhon
tons below target and the
worst since the disastrous
1975 crop of 140.1 million
tons. Soviet sources
predicted an even lower
yicld

sail on Ottawa

VANCOUVER
United Fishermen = and
Alhed Workers Unoron
will send a delegation to
Ottawa Friday to protest
proposals that | would
reduce the number of
west coast fishing veascts,
URFAWU

treasures

The

secretary
George
Hewtson said Lucsday

Pacific Fishenes Com
missioncr Peter Pearse
last week issucd an in
term report recommen
ding a federal crown cor
poration be established to
buy - and then retire -
salmon and herring

vessels who compete for
diminishing
the BC coast

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_ public with an appeal

AN ELDERLY woman has.
been missing from _ the
Kiwanis Lodge old people's

home in West Vancouver
since November 14° and. |
police are now turning to the -

seen wearing a faded blue
raincoat.

Anyone who may have

seen someone matching this contact West Van police at
description is asked to 922-4141. —

help in locating her.
Annie Robertson,

about 4 p.m. on the date she”
went missing. ie

Since then police have .
searched the area with the ~
help of volunteer rescue
members of North Shore
Rescue and are now asking
for help from anyone who
may have seerher.

She is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, heavy
built with short grey hair and
has a cut with stitches over

her right eye. She was last ANNIE ROBERTSON

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