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“Los “ANGELES (UP]) - : Montreal. native ‘Ken ‘Carter ‘has been ‘preparing: ‘for four “years™ to" make this jump:. And i it: ‘should be a dilly.

He’ plans to. shatter the

world record for a jump in, an- automobile by trayeling

ore. than a mile in the air over . the. St: Lawrence Seaway from Canada to the United States.

Carter, de cribing ‘the Labor Day event at a news conference last week said he will be travelling in a

$200,000 auto fueled’ by |

hydrogen peroxide rockets atid specially! designed to

withstand collisions at mote _.than 300 mph, the speed he

intends to travel.

The fiberglass outerbody will shatter on impact, he said, but the inner shell will -

Conservatives pressed to i promises

remain intact. Airbags will “inflate, cushioning Carter. A

harness will keep him from "being thrown. from the car.

. He plans on leaping from

an 80-foot high ramp from a point on the Ontario shore_to

an island near, Opdensberg,

N.Y.

He hopes to break the record of a. 424-foot automobile leap set during filming of the “Hooper”, a film about stunt men starring Burt Reynolds.

“T’ve made 601 jumps over as many as 13. chuck wagons,” Carter said. “I’ve averaged over $35,000 a jump_and I guess I could_-

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SAN ANDAI, IRAN: A government firing: squad executes nine Kurdish rebels and two former: police officersof the.

keep on going until I leaped over 50 chuck wagons, but I'd rather-make one great leap int history.”

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OTTAWA (UPC) - In the.

midst of the election campaign Joe Clark carried his attack. on the Liberal -government to the affluent Empire Club with the advice that: now was the time to raise expectations, not lower them.

An "American: ‘journalist growing. cynicism about politicians in:

conscious of

the United States looked ‘on in wonder, unable to un- derstand why a man cam- paigning to replace ‘a government with a _ big- spending reputation would ask his audience to expect more.

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minister, must wonder the same.

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Clark, ‘now er the

(Canadians expecting” the new government to deliver on a multitude of election promises made during the two-month campaign have watched as one pledge after another has been discarded in the name of restraint.

The one that many believe contributed the most to the

said he did not ‘feet bound-by. - any of the costly promises, - said the plan to allow deduction of up to $5,000 in mortgage interest and $1,000

‘in property tax may not take

effect immediately.

The hedging on that 7

promise, following advice from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to delay implementation, caused an outcry from both the Liberal and New Democratic op- position - parties that had opposed the proposal throughout the election.

The credibility of the three-month old government must be suffering - and again that must cause pain in Liberal ranks. It was largely lack of credibility because of reversals by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau that set voters firmly against the former government.

At the Royal York Hotel meeting where Clark called for higher expectations, he talked extensively about the contents of the first budget. It was a speech delivered

with minor variations for two_

Shah after summery trials, on Tuesday. Another 21. military deserters and Kurdish rebels were. also executed the same day. Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini has rejected talks with Kurdish leaders aimed ata cease-fire in. the fight between rebels and government troops. (UPI wirephoto)

-interest and-property taxes...

“Clark went on listing promises of less -money for the federal treasury.

Crosbie, who will bring in

his first budget soon after. -Parliament reopens Oct. 9,°

has looked at the balance sheet and concluded exactly what the Liberals said all

through the campaign - thdre-

is just not enough money to pay for the promises.

Crosbie and several other cabinet ministers believe the massive deficit that developed during the rule of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and which he desperately grappled with during the last year of his tenure, has to be reduced.

“The prime minister, for reasons J don’t understand, has been suggesting that this is a time when Canadians have to lower our. ex- pectations,” Clark told the Empire Club. “But he is dead wrong... this is a time for Canadians to raise our expectations.”

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