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Oshawa Times (1958-), 29 Nov 1966, p. 12

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UN meron ps errant $5 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tussdey, November 29, 1966 Eanadians Set Records For Visits To Russia _ By JOHN BEST SCOW (CP) -- Increasing ' : of Canadians are, com- to the Soviet Union as: tour- says 'the Soviet state travel pney Intourist. eonid Khodorkov, vice-presi- "of the big travel monop- , is quoted as saying Cana: wn tourists in the U.S.S.R. this ir were "an all-time record." intourist says about 4,000 Ca- fians visited the Soviet Union f year and about 3,000 the before. Final figures for year' won't be available un- February or March. How- ir, the Soviet embassy' in Ot- ya says it.issued more than bo visas to Canadians by id-November. : mere new pas: r.steamship vice between Montreal and hingrad looms large in Soviet to boost tourist. trade from Canada and North Amer- ica in general. - In its first. season, however, the new Soviet - owned liner Alexandr Pushkin' carried 'only a little more than 3,000 passen- gers on six round-trips. This works out to a bit more "than 250 a sailing, and many pas- sengers didn't go all the way but left the ship at Helsinki, Copenhagen, London or Quebec City. The .19,000-ton Pushkin's ca- pacity is. 668 passengers. 'THERE'S BEEN NO LOSS' "In my opinion this- is not such a bad result,' says Capt. Nikolai Malakhov, head of the passenger. fleet department of the Soviet merchant marine ministry. '(Remember it was our first year of service." Asked about the final results lice Nab Two Suspects s Pair Slain In Detroit DETROIT (AP) -- Two men wrested in a flat described by fice as "an opium den kind place" were being held today ion with the gangland- e slaying of two other men iy Sunday. Police said they would seek a ist - degree 'murder warrant nst one of the men, but said hey were uncertain what rges would be brought) inst the second. ) . victims were Allen J. ter, 21, and his brother-in- , Douglas Ward, 20, shot Bht or 10 times in the head i chest. ETS MISSING Both men's wallets were miss- g@ and their pants pockets) re turned inside out, police id. lice Inspector Albert Harrison of the detective divi- sion of the Windsor police de- partment said Windsor police held warrants for Forster's ar- rest on three charges and for Ward's arrest on one charge. a of the season's operations, Capt. Malakhoy said they haven't been precisely calculated yet "but there's no loss." Noting that many lines oper- ating in the fiercely competi- tive North Atlantic market are in dire financial straits, he said "we are in better condition." Malakhov was not being whimsical. 'Profit-and-loss con- siderations of the 'kind that make or break an enterprise under capitalism have little ap- plication 'to similar Communist enterprises. Politics and economics are inextricably interwoven' in any venture such as the Pushkin so that it could be a flop finan- cially by Western accounting methods and still be a success in the eyes of its Soviet spon- sors. It probably enjoys unlim- ited state subsidies, Malakhav predicted that bus- iness will -be better next year when the Pushkin again makes six . round-trips. It will encounter new compe- tition, however. Air Canada and Aeroflot have just inaugurated ja Montreal-Moscow service in | which each airline makes one} round-trip a week. | Soviet efforts to attract more} Canadian tourists are part of a wider program to expand its |tourist business generally. A government official estimates He said Forster was wanted|that the country will receive in connection with causing &|1 509,000 tourists this year, most| for the theft of a sweater TS brie rae J eigen tance meats disturbance Feb. 18, 1965, and 19. Ward and Forster were both wanted for a break-in at a Wind- | sor home Feb, 13 of the same} year, Insp. Harrison said the two men lived in Windsor for a pe-| riod of time. SET SEE-SAW FIGHT CORSHAM, England (CP)-- Two youths claim to have set up a British see-sawing record | of Tables - Chairs ~Chine - Cutlery - Glasses Punch Bowls - Coffee Urns > Buffet Pieces ~ Trays Wedding Cakes. Sargeants | Canadian Tree Rests N.Y. Centre NEW YORK (CP)--A 'crane Monday 'installed a giant Cana- dian Christmas tree in Man- hattan's. Rockefeller-Centre where during the last 34 years a decorated tree has been the city's -best. known symbol of Christmas. The 64 - foot white spruce, weighing 2% tons, was trucked 550 miles from the Petawawa forest. preserve in the upper Ottawa Valley, 120 miles north of Ottawa. The tree was. presented to Rockefeller Centre on behalf of the people of Canada by John Fisher, commissioner - general of the. Canadian centennial commission. Traditional tree-lighting cere- monies will be held Dec. 9 with Canadians providing the enter- tainment. Les: petits chanteurs du Mont- Royal, famed boys choir of St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, will sing carols; Karen Magnus- sen, 14 - year - old free skater', from Vancouver, and Otto and Maria Jelinek, Canadian, North Indonesia Wants Red Chinese To Get United Nations Seat. Peking-Jakarta relations, which sou nesian government put down an UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- Despite ms strained relations with Communist China, Indo- nesia today urged the seating of the Peking government in tne United inations. to strengthen the world organization's ability to cope with problems of peace. Indonesian delegate Rosslan Abdulgani told the UN General Assembly the Peking govern- ment "derives its power from the consent of the governed" and therefore 'should be repre- sented here." "This is. not only in accord- ance with the realities of the time, but also lawful," he said. This was Indonesia's first pro- nouricement on the China prob- lem since its return to. the world organization last September af- ter an absence of 18 months. Abdulgani took note of the American. and. world _. pairs champions, will give exhibitions in the open-air Rockefeller Cen- tre rinks, The tree nas a branch spread of 27 feet and is estimated to be 75 years old. It will take un- til Dec. 9 for electricians to put up 1,200 red, gold and blue plas- tic bells. ; ; DAVIDSON SHOES IN DOWNTOWN ff OSHAWA 'TIL 9:00 P.M. | OPEN FRIDAY | SNOWBOOTS in 1965 after the Indo- attempted Communist coup. In-| donesia siiii mainiains dipis- matic relations with Peking, but has only a 'charge d'af- faires in the Chinese Commu- nist capital. Japan opened today's debate by opposing the proposal to seat Communist China in-place of Nationlist 'China. 'Japanese Gold Fi Ambassador Akira Matsui praised a proposal for scek#™ a solution of the problem based on "political realities." 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