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.

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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

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

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“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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