| Grain delays —

West coast

marine meet with ~grain and Vancouver port officials to resolve grain export delays said to be caused

partly by lack of longshore manpower..

outside...

_ upset officials —

employers have agreed to. Maritime

‘complained. earlier this

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been set for the meeting

with the British Columbia Employers’

Association. — -

- Port of Vancouver and grain terminal officials _

week’ of a backlog of

_just

-“It is the Olympics of - ocean racing and the crew —

had been training for some while,” he said. ;

“To be denied a finish by two miles was an agonizing decision but-I-had to think in terms of “the safety of my crew and we

quit ‘and, in retrospect, I -

hope it was the _ right. decision. And: yet, we failed.” —

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“h - : a At the time of pulling. out, the crew was optimistic they might be placed well out of the 309-_boats in the race.

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“When the wind gets over about 70 knots yow have this mist all over the water and it reduces visibility down to a very short-distance and you can’t see anybody.

“We could only see one or. two boats .at any one tyme and we didn’t see any in

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a special port-grain of-

discuss the problem, said Thursday no’ date had

. BISHOP ABEL MUZOREWA

TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) - An F-4 Phantom jet of the Iranian air force has crashed and another has

. been hit by bullets during a reconnaisance flight over Kurdestan, scene of fighting between Kurdish insurgents and govern- ment forces, reports from the area said Friday.

The jet hit by bullets got back to its base but there was no word on the

“~ fi

In. the Kurdish town of Paveh where heavy

VANCOUVER (UPC) - More than seven times as many cases of measles have been reported here in .the first six months of

1979 than occurred during all of 1978, the city’s medical health

officer has reported.

In British Columbia, there have been 1,292

John Slos, chairman of...

ficials committee that. met earlier this week to’

| Muzorewa admits

troops fired first

“

- government forces with

Tranian jet shot down by Kurds

ntgm that —

Measles outbreak hits Vancouver

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grain cars waiting to be unloaded while some longshoremen have refused to work the. day. shift, preferring night- shift work for time and half pay.

SALISBURY, Rhodes- ia (UPI) - Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa § said Friday that. government troops opened fire first in clashes that-killed at least . 183 _counter-insurgeticy auxiliary forces loyal to his chief internal rival, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole.

In a_ statement to Parliament, Muzorewa, described the incidents in late July as a “regrettable affair’ but. said the mutinous behavior of the militiamen left regular

no option.

fighting has been going on since Wednesday one nurse was killed and the only doctor in the hospital injured during the fighting, the sources said. ;

The official death toll has been given as three but informed sources put the figure as high as 13 to 1S dead.

A large number of

“Kurdish” insurgents in and around the western town, sources said.

cases compared tv 68 last year, while Vancouver has had 148 cases compared to 20 last year.

Dr. David Kinloch said almost all = infected youngsters could have avoided the sickness if they had been immunized as soon as they were a yoar old.

The wind had hit them

about 20 miles away from Fastmnet Rock and they were directly downwind of the

south-westerly. “

“Once around the rock it would have been straight- forward sailing, according to

couldn’t get any further because there were records of the wind being 100 knots and the seas were about 40 feet high.”

*, Even at that time, the crew was unaware that boats

‘were sinking and -people

were dying.

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got into Cork we realized there had been a terrible tragedy. :

“When we arrived in Cork

--Newton:--“But: --we-=—just- there -was-a thick-crowd of

people, all anxious about the ‘safety of their relatives.”

__ Newton isn’t sure whether he will enter the race again:

“The effect of that one

race isn’t going to affect my.

decision one way or another,” he said: “T’ve been racing all my life and know

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distress. It wasn’t until. we.

YACHTSMAN Newton talks of the storm.

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English Channel

ed

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decision’ saved crew

disaster is | the.quest for faster _

storms are expected and if I .

want to go I will go anyway.” ©

The Irish Sea is known for violent breaking out, although years

‘had seen favorable weather

for Admiral’s Cup races.

people a false. sense of

. security so they might have said

been unprepared,”

“I am satisfied the safety

regulations are.adequate but .

it’s still up to the individual skipper to enforce the regulations.

“We were organized and we tock a conservative view. and quit the race. I think the sea is cruel and must be respected.” ~

Another factor he feels may have ‘contributed to the

(start)

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storms: suddenly —

-weather. . .

boats, . with yachts” being built lighter and lighter, and __

as - durable _ against _ such

os -He feels the: -facts.._will. “This may have given —

emerge. from the various investigations _ that. .-will-

--he wonders if light- boats are-— -

.

inevitibly result and’ “con- siders the race will pose a

serious---problem—-for—_the: —~<=-—~~

entire yachting industry.” _

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