18 THE CITIZEN Wednesday Apnf 14 1971 LARGEST OIL TIRE KILLED WITH HOSES NEW ORLEANS AP The largest offshore oil fire in history which burned on a Shell Oil Co drill ing platform since Dec 1 was extinguished by high pressure hoses Monday but oil continued to flow into the Gulf of Mexico officials said A Shell spokesman said attempts to clog the well from beneath the sea had failed and the com pany would try instead to plug the well from the surface Meanwhile he said workmen began a new effort to undermine the well by drilling another well beside it the tedious method which had been used successfully to snuff out 10 other wells on the plat form some 60 miles south of New Orleans The fire started when one well blew out and killed four men on the platform where 22 working wells were clustered together Estimates of loss from the fire have ranged from 36 million to 47 million including the 53 000 a day from lost production and the 210 000 a day in pollution control and fire fighting The platform located in 55 feet of water was producing 15 000 barrels of oil a day and 40 mil lion cubic feet of natural gas a day when the blow out occurred Chile concerned by food shortage TEMUCO AP Chile faces a serious drop In food produc production ¬ tion next year because of gov government ¬ ernment exportatlons and Ille Illegal ¬ gal peasant takeovers of private farms say agricultural sources Here In Cautln province Chiles biggest wheat producer farmers should be preparing their lands for the planting of winter wheat in April and May the seasons are reversed here Instead many of the fields He fallow Fertilizer sales are re reported ¬ ported off by 50 per cent Some farmers hoping to stave off government intervention are tilling their fields but purchas purchasing ¬ ing a minimum of fertilizer The situation is reported to be similar in other agricultural areas of Chile Insucop a farm farmers ¬ ers cc operatlve has reported Protest press in Soviet MOSCOW AP The Rus slan pulled a slightly crumpled sheaf of flimsy typewritten pages from his pocket His friend took It carefully and the two parted Thus a piece of Samlzdat the Soviet underground press circu lated to a new reader It might have been an open letter of protest a proposal by a distinguished scientist for more liberty in the Soviet Union a Jewish petition for permission to emigrate a poem a story or novel that could not pass the runsnrs or a codv of the dissi dent periodical the Chronicle of Current Events Samlzdat means self pub llsh in Russian and the device works like a chain letter The nHiHnntnrs Dass on a few type written copies to friends who In turn type out copies and pass them on to other interested per sons who again make copies and distribute them Onlv in Samlzdat can Soviet citizens read charges of cruel conditions in labor camps of trampled rights of Tatar eva evacuees ¬ cuees or the commitment of dissidents to mental Institutions Technically Samlzdat has nothing to do with a press Its notable characteristic Is that it is typewritten usually on thin paper often of Inferior quality It gets around the tight con trol and censorship that applies to the operation of printing presses In the Soviet Union Prl vate citizens have no access to printing presses or even mimeo mimeograph ¬ graph machines Production and distribution of Samlzdat material In the Soviet Union can be a criminal off ence In one case a man was sontpnred to three vears In a labor camp for typing Samlzdat material that it Is selling only 10 tractors a month compared with about 100 a month before last Septem September ¬ ber At that time Marxist Salvador AUende was elected president Since his November Inaugura tion his leftist popular unity coalition has accelerated an ex existing ¬ isting agrarian reform program to bring large farms unler con control ¬ trol of the government Under the agrarian reform law properly run farms below a median of 80 Irrigated hectares about 200 acres are exempt from government expropriation But Illegal occupations of pri private ¬ vate farms many organized by radical Marxist groups have caused many exempt farms to fall into government hands When a farm has been taken over by peasants the govern government ¬ ment has the authority to ap appoint ¬ point an lnterventor who moves in and supervises day-to-day op BBC controversy eration while the takeover is being investigated I rrm numorc nrfrnnt nations have comDlained that the inter- ventors make arbitrary deci decisions ¬ sions such as drastically in increasing ¬ creasing workers wages so the fnrmpr eoes bankrupt and is forced to sell out to Cora the agrarian reform agency There have been more than 300 Uleeal takeovers of farms some 100 of them in Cautin The government has also expropri expropriated ¬ ated 105 of the largest farms in the province for conversion into state -owned co operatives Across the countrv the Eovern- m e n t has expropriated J5U farms Cautln has about 25000 farms Agriculture Minister Jacques Chronchol has said the take takeovers ¬ overs and expropriations have had little effect on production Yes 200 out oi Z5uuu is not much says a bitter Cautln farmer whose 1500 acre farm has been expropriated But he hasnt realized the effect they have had on all farmers They just wait and wonder who will be expropriated or taken over next Some cattle and dairy farm farmers ¬ ers are reported to be liquidat liquidating ¬ ing their herds before tneir farms are taken over or expro expropriated ¬ priated The Allende government as asserts ¬ serts these farmers are sabo taging food production to make his administration look bad Because onlv 17 Der cent of its land is arable Chile spends 100 million annuallj to Import food Chile is the worlds largest ex porter of copper and copper prices have been high in recent years As a result It has had large foreign exchange reserves to buy food However the International Monetary Tund recently re reported ¬ ported a sizable drop in Chiles foreign exchange reserves The figure was 405 million when Al lende took office As of Jan 31 it was 345 million the IMr re reported ¬ ported World newspaper that some disc jockeys and program prod ucers received bribes and sex ual favors for promoting certain songs It appeared last week that Miss Uflands death had thrown a startling new development into the BBC situation when her adoptive mother Mrs Vera McAlplne charged publicly that her daughters diary described shocking and Illegal events Involving BBC personnel The girl who liked to be known by her stage name ol Samantha Claire was a regular audience dancer on the BBCs popular Top of the Pops televi AEC nuclear test set for Amchitka WASHINGTON Reuter The United States Is planning to conduct its largest weaponsre lated nuclear test on Amchitka island in Alaska this fall the Atomic Energy Commission said Tuesday The AEC would not confirm a report in the Washington Post that the yield of the new test would be about five megatons the equivalent of five million tons of TNT or that it was de signed to test an anti balllstlc missile The Soviet Union Is thought to have tested weapons In the flvemeeaton ranee The AEC said the autumn test about 1400 miles southwest of Anchorage would be some what larger tnan a iuuy test on Amchitka of 12 megatons but close enough In size to the ear Her test to predict there would be no adverse after effects In advance of the 1969 test codenamed M 1 1 r o w concern was expressed by Canada and Japan Japan called It a threat tn its Pacific flshlnc waters and Canada expressed worry about effects on the environment slon show The lmrlicatlon was that she had become Involved with BBC people connected with the program Mrs McAlplne Indicated that the diary named names sin gllng out at least two prominent men for attention However police have now made It clear that nothing the Ufland girl wrote down before she died is being taken serl ously It would be ridiculous to con nect anyone or anything men tloned in her dlarywlth real ity one officer said And to suggest that she died because of her Involvement with any per ALMOST re ma Shell rig The AEC said the Mllrow test caused no damage but concern has already been expressed about the new test codenamed Cannikin Canada sent a note to the state department conveying its concern about underground test inn- rn Amchitka a reeion par tlcularly prone to earthquakes The deDartment told the Ca nadian government that all pos slble environmental effects would be given a thorough re view before a go aneaa was given The AEC said Tuesday the Cannikin test had not yet been elven final approval lhat ap proval It said would come from President Nixon The Mllrow test was designed to determine whether larger blasts could be set off In the region without any adverse sldeeffects such as secondary earthquakes or undersea tidal waves The AEC said It could not be more specific about the purpose of the fall tests except that It would be weapons related TRUDEAU MARRIAGE CALLED OUTRAGEOUS TORONTO CP Helen Gurley Brown author of Sex and the Single Girl and editor of Cosmopolitan magazine says Prlm Minister Tru deaus marriage to a girl 33 jears younger than himself is outrageous Mrs Brown made the com comment ¬ ment on the CBC television program Tront Page Chal lenge broadcast Monday night What I think youi prime minister has done Is set back the cause of a certain kind of equality for a long long time she said 1 know everyone is In love with the Idea that this 54 55 jearold man married a 22 jear old woman I think thats outrageous Mr Trudeau 51 married 22yearold Margaret Sinclair in Vancouver last month I think 55yearold men should marry 40 y e a r -o 1 d women or 45yearold women or even their own contempo raries Mrs Brown said I think the Idea that jou must go and pick someone nu bile who Is 33 years younger than you is not any example to set for the rest of the men In the world 1 can say that because I am not Canadian I would have to be more careful about criticizing my own president Scandal speculation squashed LONDON The BBC breathed a sigh of relief this week when Scotland Yarddetec tlves decided there was no truth to reports that a 15yearold sul cide victim had been Involved In Illicit relationships with enter talners After a thorough investiga tion police have concluded that the red diary of Claire Ufland who died from an overdose of barbiturates describes a n tasy world that never really ex Isted However Scotland Yard j M Is continuing other investigations Into charges levelled against the BBC by the Isews of the son mentioned In the diary or was a victim In any way Is ludicrous and irresponsible Disc Jockey Jimmy Savllle vihn has been on Tod of the Pops since Its Inception firmly denied there was any Illicit rela tlonshlps between the cast of the show and the audience aan cers poppets as they are called I can tell jou that It is re markably free from that sort ol thing he said Dozen species A dozen species of club moss are native to Canada OUT One oil well ins burning on in Gulf of Mexico mmm TOST Til Robbery outlook changed LONDON CP The dtath of a 07 ycar old man beaten as he grappled with a bandit lias renewed the controversy over whither robbery witnesses should have a go at the crim criminals ¬ inals responsible for the rising number of holdups In Britain Tlve years ago the head of crime investigation at Scotland Yard was quoted as recom recommending ¬ mending that bystanders pitch in and help prevent robberies But police trainees In crime prevention now are being told to advise bank employees and other members of the public not to interfere In such cases Behind the apparent switch In police emphasis Is the fact that In recent months armed bandits have given the impression of In Interpreting ¬ terpreting the slightest unusual act among witnesses as a move against them The result can be a resort to shooting by the ban bandits ¬ dits Involved Police say most weapon carrying robbers tend to be mentally unstable and may thus be quick to see an insult or a threat In sudden movements unnecessary talk laughter or sneering among witnesses to their crime Consequently the bystanders should do everything an armed bandit orders them to do au authorities ¬ thorities say The most recent event to dramatize the issue is the death of old age pensioner William Gaze from head Injuries suf suffered ¬ fered during a weekend holdup Gaze tried to help the assist assistant ¬ ant -manager of an Essex butcher shop who had been at attacked ¬ tacked by a man demanding money and brandishing an Iron bar But the pensioners skuU was fractured In an ensuing struggle and the robber escaped with 67 about 161 Gaze who had a married son and four daughters died In hos hospital ¬ pital Sunday Nabobs flavor message comes on strong tells you why Nabob Western Canada outsells all other ground coffees combined Its famous qua ity blend never varies And freshness is sealed in by an airtight poly liner Buy Nabob