SANTANDER, Spain
(UPI) - Police forces went
on emergency alert
across northern Spain
Friday after discovering
the theft of eight tons of
explosives and blasting
material by Basque Guer-
rillas disguised as civil
guards.

The elaborately
planned heist was the
biggest of its kind in
Spanish history. .

A seven-member group

OTTAWA
Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau and Alberta
Premier Peter Lougheed
resumed their second-day
of private talks Friday but
both parties were not
overly optimistic an oil
pricing agreement would
be reached.

A. spokesman for
Trudeau, who met
Lougheed at his official
‘24 Sussex Drive residence
for the discussions, said
“movement” was made in
Thursday’s talks but the
‘two leaders still had “a
long way to go.”

The resumption of the

TORONTO (UPC) -
Canadian writers and
publishers have rallied
behind author lan Adams
and his contention that a
novelist should not have
to reveal his sources
before the courts.

The 3,000-member
Association of Canadian
Publishers, and_ the
Writers’ Union of
Canada, supported by
several other writers’
groups announced
Thursday it had set up a
common defense fund for
Adams’ legal costs in
fighting a libel suit by
retired RCMP in-
telligence officer Leslie J.

VANCOUVER, Wash
(UPI) - Mount St.Helens
has ceased its rumbling
for the moment, but
scientists predict it will

erupt periodically for
years to come.
“You can say the

volcano will erupt again.
That is a certainty,” said
Tim Hait of the U.S.

“Spanish police
on alert

Mount St. Helens
will erupt again

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police said belonged to
the separatist organi-
zation ETA (Basque Land
and Liberty) kidnapped
two armed guards and a
truck driver in the
robbery but released all
three unharmed once
back in the Basque
country.

Besides the plastic
explosives, the guerrillas
got away with 15-miles of
fuse and hundreds of
detonators.

_ Pricing talks
not optimistic

(UPC) -

high-leve. talks began
amid further reports the
prime . minister was
considering recalling
Parliament on Aug. 15 to
deal with the oil pricing
issue if the talks broke
down and Alberta
threatened to move
unilaterally.

The Ottawa Journal
reported Friday the prime
minister would bring
MPs back from their
summer recess to deal
with oil pricing but
Trudeau’s press secretary
Pat Gossage shrugged off
the report as
“speculation.”

Canadian writers
back Adams

Bennett.

“We believe that only
in the rare and unusual
circumstances where a
vital public interest would
be served by the revealing
of sources should any
writer be compelled to
reveal the names of
persons consulted in the
course of research.”

Bennett, a former head
of the RCMP’s Russian
desk, claims the double
agent"S” described in
Adams’ book, “S. Portrait
of a Spy.” 1s modelled
after himself and that the
description is damaging
to his personal
repulatvion

Geological Survey “But
day to day, hour to hour,
you can't say.”

He explained = the
volcano'’s history = in-
dicates it gocs through a
period of multiple
eruptions that last for a
number of years before it
again becomes dormant.

North Vancouver District
council heard only Monday
that such was the case, as a
result of its staff checking
the law because of the
controversy over the plan to
create a group home at 953
Gladstone for children in
care of Human Resources.

The District had sought
the clarification because all
three municipalities had had
different bylaws governing
approval for group homes
and the District had wanted
a unified North Shore bylaw.
It received the answer that
none of the bylaws applied
as the Community Care
Facilities Act gives Victoria
sole control.

Davis told the News of his
surprise at learning the
municipalitjes were
powerless in the matter of
locating such homes.

“T didn't know until now as
it hadn't been an issue on the
North Shore until now,” he
said.

AMENDING ACT

“I think the province
should delete that particular
clause from the Community
Care Facilities Act,” he said.
“I think their (the munici-
palities’) powers should be
reinstated in this way.”

“It is a matter of amending
the act and it will not happen
this summer. But I will do
my utmost to make sure it
happens nexfsession.

According to Davis,
Grace McCarthy shares his
concerns.

“Philosophically, I am op-

.posed to that part of the

legislation which out-of-
hand overrules the zoning
authority of the munici-
palities and she is very
concerned about that as
well.”

He went on: “It is giving
certain of the ministry's
officials concermed with
group homes the power to
escape the zoning
requirements of the munici-
pality.

“They don't have to go
through any other screens.
They will answer only to
their own ministers, and
then only if it is brought to
that minister's attention.”

Davis said McCarthy was
not aware of how her staff
were implementing the act.

“She was aware she had
these powers but was

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assuming there was local
Zonsultation and .a_ fair.
amount of communiciaton.”

Of the specific instance of
the Gladstone home, Davis
said: “She (McCarthy) is not
surprised there is opposition
locally. What does surprise
her is the extent of the
opposition. And she is
unhappy that the home was
purchased without the locals
knowing about it.”

Davis has canvassed the
area and says neighbors are
opposed to the group idea by
a ratio of a minimum of two
to one.

UNSUITABLE

He has also reached the
conclusion that the home is
totally unsuitable for Human
Resources’ intended pur-
pose.

Such a home, he says,
should not be in an area

devoted totally to single
family dwellings.
The home would not

appear beneficial to the
children it is intended for, he
says, as there are no nearby
recreation facilities or parks,

no nearby public transit and .

“apart from a few square
yards of pavement and a
basketball hoop” there is no
recreation area on site.

Davis adds that the home
would be too congested to
take six children with staff
on a one-to-one basis.

TOO CROWDED

“A dozen people in a
home like that is close to
overcrowding, however you
want to define it. It certainly
doesn't fit in nicely to that
community.”

The situation appears to
place McCarthy in a
dilemma.

“She its torn both ways,”
Davis maintains. “On the
one hand it 1s her respon-
sibility as minister to push
for the group home
program. On the other hand

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suitability of that location.

“I hope she will order her
officials to look for another
location. If that act stays the

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where they can sell this
home and this idea to the
community at large.”

Davis feels McCarthy
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be located.

“I think that zoning, to a |
considerable extent, has to
be a matter for people
locally and not governments
at a distance,” he said. “it
should be a matter,
basically, for the munici-
palities.”

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