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.World View_ International Rioting closes offices POINTE-A-PITRE. Guade loupe (AP) Police clashed with several hundred demon strators Thursday in the north const town of Port Ijiuis over the arrests of seven pro-mde pendente activists in this French Caribbean island The demonstrators set up huge roadblocks across the main roads leading to and from the town. Although the violent clashes had ceased by noon, banks, schools, stores and all government offic es remained closed The political unrest began following the arrests Tuesday of seven pro-independence at tivists or supporters of the tinv Popular Union lor the l ibera tion of Guadeloupe The seven are < barged with bomb attacks in januarv 1088 on a bank and the homes of five French European residents, in cluding .1 lawyer, a doctor and an army officer 72 arrested in raids SAN SALVADOR. FI Salva dor (AP) Soldiers and police arrested more than 1(H) people in raids Wednesday and Thurs day on a leftist union federa tion. a refugee organization and a women's association, group leaders said. Military authorities said /2 people were arrested and 20 of these later were released. Defense Minister Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova met with lawmakers Thursday to discuss drafting legislation to curb organizations that the mil itary considers guerrilla fronts. Francisco Martinez, a direc tor of the National Union of Salvadoran Workers, said the raids formed part of "an escala tion of repression by the armed forces and Arena." Arena stands for the rightist Republican Nationalist Alli ance, which defeated the in cumbent Christian Democratic Party in the March 19 presiden tial election. The raids came hours after Attorney General Roberto Gar cia Alvarado was assassinated by a bomb [nit on the roof of his Jeep Cherokee while it was stopped at a traffic light. President-elect Alfredo Cristiani of Arena and U S, Ambassador William Walker both have accused the rebels of launching an assassination and bombing campaign to try to provoke human rights abuses by the military and incoming Arena government Canada cries 'foul' LONDON (API — Canada on MOVING OVKRSK \S TO S I l l)V? or RKTl RNING HOME? or SENDING (ilFI S TO FRIENDS? I.et Airport Brokers sase you on the transportation cosl. We ofler air and ocean rales on ou-rseas shipments. Before you ship call us for a rate! AIRPORT BRORKR.S CORPORATION (503) 249-0031 Thursday act used four commu nist countries of violating a new Kast West accord on press freedom and said their propa ganda techniques and state controlled media resemble those of Nazi Germany Canadian Ambassador Wil liam Hauer, addressing a :)5-na turn conference monitoring compliance with the accord, said some of the signatory states remained "locked in a dark age of information where the only 'correct' facts are those put out by tilt' ruling party "It is particularly poignant to observe th.it today on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hitler the let hnitpies ol press and information control whit h i harai terized his regime are still living applied by some European governments." he added Hauer, head of the Canadian delegation, said later he yyas re furring to Romania. Hast Ger many. Hulgaria and Czechoslo vakia He described Romania which yyas reluctant to sign the accord in January as a "sort ot joke" as a signatory to an at: i ord of press freedom and fiee speech Romania's t hief delegate lan Mitaan. accused Western i ritii s of "deplorable attempts at fla grant interferem e in the inter nal affairs other countries National $3 map turns profit INDIANAPOLIS (API A man who bought a ;i()0-year-old map of Paris in a junk shop for $;t in.iv sot' Ins investment re turn as much as $10 million. A prospective buyer from Denver sent word Thursday that he would pav Kdward Jones of Indianapolis whatever price is set by Christie's the New York auction house, and Frederick I.. Hem. geography department chairman at Indi ana University-Purdue Univer sity here. The buyer originally offered $10 million lor the map, one of several copies believed com missioned by king Louis XIV in 1671. Hein said he would lie will ing to explain its historical sig nificance to Christie's, but couldn't place a value on the nine-piece, 4-by-f>-toot map "What it's worth is whatever a buyer is willing to pav for it said Hein, who lias researched the map "I have no idea what it's worth. I'm not an art deal er; I’m a professor New TV signal aired PRINCETON, N.|. (AP) A New York television station broadcast a wide screen ad Great Wall Restaurant SfHK iali/ing in S/et huan • ( antonese • American Vegetarian • low Calorie Cch ktails Orders To Go (>pen 7 (Jav% \ Week Hbi Wain Springfield 726-9133 sy I ill' • mi l to M> • vi. ' li) hi vuneed television signal to a news-hour audience Thursday on tlu> 50th anniversary of tele vision's debut at the 10.01 New York World's Fair. Viewers with regular televi sions saw little or no different e in the signal, hut it showed up •is a bright w ide pit lure on pro totype sets at a research tenter in Princeton, about 50 miles southwest of Manhattan The hroadt ast bv NIK's New York affiliate WNBC w was another milestone on the mat! toward a new generation of tel evisions for the t’tOOs that w ill have nearly the brightness anti sharpness of magazine pit tures t he system developed at the David Sarnoff Research ('enter here, tails short of lull Hedged high-definition television be i ause it has to fit into the same narrow portion ol the broadcast spectrum its the regular letevi sion signal does Those sets mav not arm e tin til loot or per. anil initially could cost St ood to $1,000 saitl lames 1 ietjen, president ol the Sarnoff research t enter. Connection found MIAMI (AP) A lii'ln opter pilot m i used of Irving to llv a cum ii led drug tratfu ker out ol a federal prison oni e worked with .1 m.in .111 used ol being .1 member of the smuggler's m.iri juana ring, authorities said A plane owned by the pilot, Charles Clayton Stevens, and adapted with extra fuel tanks for a range of about 1,000 miles is in storage at the Crvs tal River Airport on blonde's (lulf Coast said airport opera lions manager Tom Mavis Stevens, M. remained hospi talized Thursday recovering from two broken legs he sut fered Mondav when his heli copter crashed after its tail ru tor caught a tern e at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Cen ter Stevens fai es federal 1 barges of aiding 111 the escape attempt of convicted trafficker Itenja mill "Harry Kramer, who also broke a leg 111 the 1 rash and is hospitalized Federal authorities initially did not know what cornier lion Stevens, who was a sea uri bin diver in Cold Hear h. Ore . had with Kramer. .1 former champi onship power boat timer based in Miami But David show.liter presi dent of the Oregon ..company where Stevens worked, said that in 1087 and 19KH Stevens pilot worked dor si\ months with |ohn lames Marred. ,n 1 used by tetlei.il .111 tin 11 ities 1 ri Illinois of being .1 link in K1.1 mer's drug distribution opera tillll RECORDS > S <; Z58 e 15th 54i 7975 i 1I College Radio Releases Open t il Six Days a WeeK Regional Boats searched IUNKAU, Alaska (AP) The Coast Guard said it found no fish Thursday after boarding one nf six Taiwanese boats mis l>ei teil of fishing illegally on the high seas oil the Aleutian Islands A Coast Guard party that hoarded the Cyi Nang No 1 found the vessel's cargo holds empty, saiii Petty Offii er Greg Robinson, a spokesman for the servile _Correction_ The story in Thursday's Oregon Dally Kmerald in correctly listed the dead line for transfer applica tions as May 1 The cor rect deadline is Aug 15. In the Page 1 feature pho to. two people were tnis identified. Karen Martinka was the voter and Mike Holingnr was the pollworker. The Km erald apologizes for the error CWo Daily I—4U 1— LUy»rtgT7 Py'r gnnm Bub TICKETS $8.00 AND $7.00 Performances at Seymour s Greenery Restaurant Fridas and Saturdas HSunday 7:00 i I ickets at Ml Midi ( enter Outlets and Seymour's | CALL 687-5000 } April 21 22. 2 V 2». 2l>, M) and May 5. & ft I '?r PRICE COUPON i Present this ad at the door 1 April 21, 22. 23 l and receive tickets at halt price Divine Decadence _s. i m__ A A I H A New Order Weekend: Win Free NEW ORDER CONCERT TICKETS DANCE/SPIRITS VIDEO/MUSIC ML 959 Pearl (downstairs) Eugene 683-2360 We are an alternative llte style club and all are welcome II alternative litestyles ollend you we suggest another club
