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National and international news
from the Reuter News Report
Canadian police hold
U.S. citizen .without bail
MONTREAL A 65-year-old American was ordered held
without bail Tuesday by officials investigating the deaths of
three people in a bomb blast at Montreal's main railroad sta
tion yesterday. No charges have been brought against the man,
identified as Thomas Jo Brigham, originally of Rochester, N.Y.
Pierre Poupart, Brigham's lawyer, said Quebec coroners could
order potential witnesses held to assure their presence at
subsequent hearings.
The man is not an accused. He's a simple vitness," Poupart
said. The coroner called a Sept 12 hearing to set a date for a
formal inquiry into the explosion, in which at least 25 people
were injured. As Brigham entered the coroner's court Tuesday,
he was mobbed by reporters, demanding to know if he had
planted the bomb.
"No, no. I didn't," he said. Earlier, Montreal Homicide Squad
detective Andre Menard said Brigham had been under surveil
lance by the U.S. Secret Service until last year because he had
followed President Reagan. Brigham told a reporter for the
Canadian Press news agency that he had written a letter which
apparently warned of the blast and seemed to threaten Pope
John Paul II, who is to visit Montreal next week. Police said the
letter was similar to other notes distributed to local media
which included more threats. A spokesman for the groups
organizing the papal visit to Montreal said, he hopes that "this
tragedy will not create a psychosis for the pope's visit."
The explosion occurred at 10:20 a.m. End hurled people and
debris up to 200 feet, witnesses said. The Montreal train station
was closed again today after an anonymous bomb threat.
Conservatives predicted to win
OTTAWA Canada's opposition Progressive Conservatives
will win a landslide victory in Wednesday's general election,
according to television computer predictions Tuesday night.
Television forecasts were based on early results from Cana
da's Atlantic provinces which pointed to a rout of the Liberals,
who have run this country for 20 of the last 21 years. Voter
turnout was heavy across Canada, where 16.5 million people
are eligible to vote.
Early results followed opinion poll forecasts that had con
sistently shown the Conservatives under Brian Mulroney easily
defeated the Liberals under newly installed Prime Minister
John Turner. Judging by these first returns, the 45-year-old
Mulroney could be heading for the biggest election victory in
Canada since his fellow Conservative John Diefenbaker in
1958. The results came as a stunning contrast to the last
election in 1 980 which produced a majority for Pierre Trudeau,
who retired this summer. The government-owned Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation predicted that the Conservatives
would win at least 190 of the 282 seats in the House of Com
mons with the Liberals trailing with only 61. The rest were
expected to go to the left-leaning New Democratic Party.
An equally sweeping victory for the Conservatives was pre
dicted by the privately owned Canadian Televison Network.
Two-day rioting lolls 29
SHARPEVILLE, South Africa Homes were burned and
stores looted in South African black townships Tuesday as the
death toll from two days of rioting rose to 29. Police headquar
ters in Pretoria said the number of dead had risen with the
discovery of more victims of the rioting in Sharpeville and
nearby townships, 30 miles south of Johannesburg. Officials
put the number of injured at 46, including eight policemen. But
press reports said up to 300 people had been hurt after rent
increases sparked the explosion of violence.
This week's rioting coincides with the introduction of a new
South African constitution which gives a limited say in
government to Indians and people of mixed race but continues
to exclude the country's majority, the 23 million blacks. Police
officers, who fired live ammunition at rioters Monday, Tuesday
used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse mote throwing
stones, looting and setting fire to buildings. Sharpeville was the
center of an international outcry in 1960 when police shot and
killed 69 blacks protesting having to carry special identifica
tion papers, a cornerstone of South Africa's apartheid system.
There was confusion today over whether troops had been
sent into the area, with conflicting reports from several
government sources and journalists who toured the town
ships. There were also conflicting versions of the number of people
injured in the rioting. A police spokesman in Pretoria put the
figure at 46, but press reports said the number was nearer 300,
Sugar protects spineless animals
WASHINGTON Biologists Tuesday announced the discov
ery of a sugar which enables small spineless animals to survive
indefinitely .without water, but they ruled out the survival
technique being extended to humans. Dr. Bruce Umminger of
the National Science Foundation said a California team had
discovered that small invertebrates and many plants survived
total dehydration by producing a preservative sugar called 4
trehalose. He said the discovery could be used to preserve food
and drugs for human consumption and might be extended
to the long-term storage of human cells, tissue and even
organs. But asked if it could be extended to preserving humans
in a dehydrated state, he said, "I don think it could go that
far."
