MORONG, PHILIPPINES: Centre of a national ‘controversy is

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MARONG,

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Phillipines—+there is only a (UPI) - It was just a quiet - fishing town | before . work

“remote possibility” of such an ac- cident and hope to resume construction shortly.

center of a national con- troversy.

“The fish moved away years ago when w

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” acct i, now 20 per cent ~ , also lies between two dormant volcanoes only

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Die enbaker wanted

home to become

‘an historic site

Relatives, friends main benefactors i in will

OTTAWA (UPC) - Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker left thousands of dollars to relatives, close friends and _ longtime associates and his Ottawa residence to the federal government for use as an historic site.

The late Conservative Party leader left instructions in his will that his step- daughter, Carolyn Weir, her -and fix

Officials, who released details of the will Thursday, still do not know how much Diefenbaker’s estate is worth, The will was revised only nine days before his death last weck at age 83.

. “condition”

Charity groups - such as the Salvation Army of Prince Albert, Sask., Ottawa's Hig Horizons Club for Crippled Adults and the Tunis Shrine Temple of Ottawa - are among r¢cipients of Diefenbaker’s financial holdings.

Diefenbaker's family homestead at Prince Albert will be given to the to be mai of Saskatchewan

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future. generations will be ablé to see how his parents lived during the years from 1905 to 1910.

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Dicfenbaker asked that

the University lease out the farmland surrounding the

homestead to provide scholarships for arthritis research.

In his will, Diefenbaker

said he wanted the federal government to assume ownership of his home in fashionable Rockcliffe Park, where he lived after losing the Conservative leadership to Robert Stanfield in 1967.

“The only real property |

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: fouaté ‘Road South,” ‘he’ ‘said in a will “dated Aig. 7, 1979. “The government of Canada shall have the opportunity to have title to said property providing that it undertakes to establish it as an historic site and operate it as a muscum. ‘

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Metric march may halt

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (UPC)

- The Conservative Member of Parliamegt for Kamloops- Shuswap, where metrification is a way of life now, says his party will Teview the program = in caucus and it’s possible it may be cuminated.

Don Cameron, representing one of three Canadinh cities where

complete metrification — is being tried, said Monday the Tories ~vill review the costly program.

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Kamloops, Peterborough, Ont., and Sherbrooke, Que., have been used as test Cases for complete metric im- plementanon across Canada.

Cameron said the con- version is costing the B.C. lumber industry alone as much as $20 million to $30

million and that Canada

the U.S.

gocs metne before putting

should wait until

the program into effect here

government - economically

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began construction on |the

plant,” 18-year-old villager .

Teodora Santos said. “Fishermen now have to go

farther out to sea to find

fish.”

Westi ise Electric is building the $1.1 billion plant for the Philipines in the backward town of Morong on the World War 0 battleground of the Bataan Peninsula, 19 _miles from the Subic Bay Navy Base and U.S. 7th Fleet repair yard. ~

Last. month, President Ferdinand | Marcos sus work on the plant

because of his fear of a repetition of the Three Mile Istand accident near

Harrisburg, Pa.

He threatened to scrap the project altogether unless assured by Westinghouse that the plant will not im-

peril Morong’s’ 10,000 fishermen and farmers and other nearby towns.

A three-member panel was appointed to determine whether adequate

safeguards have been taken to avoid a repeat of the Three Mile Island incident. Westinghouse officials says

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accident from human error

The peninsula’s fishing industry accounts for two- thirds of Morong’s municipal income. ;

Fishermen said the. fish began to leave in 1977 when American and Filipino teams leveled a 195-foot high mountain of coconut trees and rice fields where a huge cylindrical building for a pressurized water reactor now stands.

. Earth from the leveled mountain was dumped into the sea and streams. Oil spills from trucks completed the pollution job.

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Morong residents fear the

fish won't return because of the hot waste water the plant -

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They also are concerned “about disposal of nuclear

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water discharge. will be tolerable for aquatic life, and low-grade wastes will be mixed with cement and kept.

. in steel drums until burial

sites are found.

After Marcos last month

, ordered public hearings on. " the plant’s safety, criticism

of the project snowbalied.

One criticism is that a nuclear reactor would in- crease: Philippine depen- dence on the United’ States and .other Western coun- tries.

Critics also argue that the

Philippines, already saddled

with an $8 billion foreign debt, will be futher at the mercy of foreign countries - a situation that haunts the Third World.

Even without the con-

troversies, construction is nearly a year behind schedule. -

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