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Show Page 4 1 S STILL OUT THERE INTERNATIONAL United Nations Canada is asking the Soviet Union for more than $1 million for recovering radioactive materials from the Russian nuclear satellite which crashed in the Canadian tundra, Canada's foreign minister said Monday. Canadian and U.S. scientific teams have been searching a 500,000-square mile area since Cosmos 954 fell from orbit on January 24. Several pieces of the satellite were found near Great Slave Lake and a few radioactive chunks were discovered Sunday near an Indian village. ; Donald Jamieson, Canada's foreign affairs secretary, also said his country will demand the United Nations take strong action to prevent similar accidents in the future. Paris Treasury Secretary Michael Blumen-thal Blumen-thal Sunday met in secret with four key Western ministers in an attempt to avoid a decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar and the French franc, according to diplomatic sources. The meeting between Blumenthal and his counterparts from France, Britain, West Germany Ger-many and Japan was confirmed by French government officials but they said the participants par-ticipants have agreed not to disclose any decisions which are made. The dollar has been sinking slowly on the world market for weeks and a renewed decline was feared after Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab : Emirates decided to stop using the dollar as the reference for their oil prices. Cranbrook , British Columbia Investigators believe the pilot of a jetliner was trying to avoid a snowplow parked on the runway when his plane crashed in a snowstorm Saturday, killing 41 per- sons. . ' , i The Pacific Western Boeing 737 overshot the runway and broke apart after it rammed into a snowbank. Six passengers and a flight attendant I survived the crash. Investigators said they did I not know why the snowplow was left on the run way. i Nairobi, Kenya Government news sources reported Sunday that 20 children died last week after drinking contaminated water in the western Kenya town of Busia. Busia, located about 200 miles west of Nairobi, is suffering a severe water shortage. Moscow Thirteen Soviet diplomats were expelled ex-pelled by Canada Thursday for trying to in- filtrate the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. External Ex-ternal Affairs Minister Donald Jamieson said his government had "irrefutable evidence" that the 13 diplomats had been involved in a plot to recruit a member of the RCMP. "This case proved to be a classic example of an intelligence operation involving complex signaling system," coded passwords, secret concealed con-cealed devices," Jamison said. "On different occasions oc-casions filmed instructions were passed to the RCMP member in a hollowed-out stick and a specially prepared package of cigarettes." Bangkok, Thailand Cambodia claimed Sunday Sun-day its forces killed 35 Vietnamese troops and captured 57 during frontier clashes south of Phnom Penh. It said Vietnamese forces attacked the village of Kampon Kransang on Saturday and several other Cambodian villages earlier in the week. NATIONAL Washington The bargaining council of the United Mine Workers union Sunday overwhelmingly over-whelmingly rejected a proposed settlement of the nationwide coal strike. The council ordered union President Arnold Miller to initiate new negotiations with the soft coal industry. With the strike now more than 70 days old, President Carter has begun formulating plans for emergency movements of coal to areas critically short of the fuel for electrical power. The coal strike is the longest in the nation's history and some Midwestern and Applachian states are faced with the prospect of power cutbacks. cut-backs. On Saturday, Miller, who supported ratification of the new contract, said he fears for his life. Los Angeles Storm-battered Los Angeles was hit by more rain Sunday and a state of emergency emergen-cy in the city was declared by Mayor Tom Bradley. Bradley said a storm which struck Friday Fri-day caused an estimated $22.6 million damage, destroyed five homes and severely damaged 120 others. Eleven deaths were attributed to the Friday storm and 12 other persons are reported missing in the Tujunga Canyon foothills, an area particularly par-ticularly hard hit by flash floods. Washington The bald eagle has been declared an endangered species in 43 states, the Interior Department said Saturday. The national symbol since 1782, the bald eagle is holding its own only in Alaska, which contains an estimated 7,000 to 7,500 nesting pairs. By contrast, tracks to authorities estimate there are only 700 active bald eagle nests in the contiguous 48 states. The bird will be classified as "threatened" in five states. Washington The Senate will hold a secret session on Tuesday, February 21 to hear allegations from Panama Canal treaty opponents opponen-ts that the family of Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos is involved in drug smuggling. Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan, a leading opponent of the treaties, has posed the drug accusations often of-ten the last several weeks. "The drug charges deserved to be explored and explained," Dole said Friday. He said his information on the alleged drug sales comes from an anonymous source. Los Angeles An unemployed actor was released Friday as a suspect in the 12 strangler murders and afterwards he told reporters he had been taking a hallucinatory drug when he tried to confess to the murders last Wednesday. Ned York, 37, was released by police after Wednesday, February 15, 1978 being questioned about incoherent statements he made Wednesday which police said appeared to implicate him in the killings. 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