European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday August 31. 1986canada rejects . Bid to discuss sea Boundary world today Toronto Al Canada has rejected a . Proposal to renegotiate a sea Boundary Between South Ern Alaska and British Columbia an area of dispute fishing grounds officials said Friday. External affairs minister Joe Clark sent a letter to Secretary of state George Shultz 10 Days ago saying Canada did not think it is an opportune Lime to Dis cuss the Issue of the West coast Boundary said ministry spokesman Denys Tessier. Clark told Shultz Canada would continue to review the situation and left open the possibility of future negotiations Tessier added. We think that the Boundary like it is is the inter National Boundary Tessier told the associated press. Shultz proposed talks Between appointed emissaries six months ago. Clark s response was reported Friday by the Toronto Globe and mail. Dick Smith a state department official in washing ton confirmed the Exchange. I m not disappointed. I understand Canada has to be the judge of when it can engage on this said Smith who is the principal Deputy assistant Secretary in the Bureau of oceans and International Environ mental and scientific affairs. At Issue is a narrow Boundary Between Alaska s southernmost Prince of Wales islands and British co Lumbia s Queen Charlotte islands which Are separated by a waterway known As the Dixon Entrance. The dispute has its i oots in 1844 when the United states wanted to extend its Border North through Brit ish Columbia to the Edge of Alaska then owned by the russians. The United states wanted to set the new Border at 54 degrees 40 minutes latitude known As the 54 40 line that runs just South of the Prince of Wales islands. President James Polk won the election that year on the slogan "54 40 or  the dispute was settled when the Border of Western Canada was set at the 49th parallel with Alaska remaining North of the 54 40 line. Border arguments flared up again when the two nations extended their territorial Waters from 12 mics to 200 Miles to protect their fishing industries. Canada did so on june 3, 1976, and the United states on March i 1977. The United Stales argues that the 54 40 line is Inex act. It contends that the Border should be equidistant Between the Prince of Wales islands and the Queen Charlotte islands and that the Border therefore should be moved several Miles South. This would Cost Canada about 200 Square Miles of fishing grounds and potential Ocean bed resources Andis opposed by local fishermen. A . Fishing trawler was halted by Canada in the disputed area on july i and its Captain fined. S. Africa reports 3 arrests in town where 21 were killed lost week Johannesburg. South Africa a the government saturday said three Blacks were arrested during a Stone throwing attack on a Soweto House but no serious disturbances were reported in the township where 21 people were killed earlier last week. The Bureau for information gave no other details about Friday night s incident except to say that the three Blacks arrested were among about 40 youths throwing stones at the House. The Bureau reported one unrest death in the 24 hours ending at Daybreak saturday a Black Man killed by a South african railways policeman in Dave ton a Black township cast of Johannesburg. About 280 people almost All of them Blacks have been killed since a stale of emergency was declared june 12. The government has said the violence late tues Day and Early wednesday in Soweto in which a town councilor was hacked to death by youths and 20 Blacks were shot dead by police was linked to an orchestrated Campaign by militants to cause trouble in the township. Anti apartheid leaders say the violence started with unprovoked police gunfire at Blacks emerging from meetings where they discussed the i9wn coun cil s plans to evict families participating in a wide spread rent Boycott. The government says it will conduct an inquest into the deaths but some of its opponents have called for a broader Independent judicial inquiry into the violence. By Law and custom apartheid establishes a racially segregated society in which the Black majority of 24 million has no vote in National affairs. The 5 million White minority controls the Economy and maintains separate districts schools and health services. David Kaisch of Soweto South Africa stands in a lavatory where he fled to escape police gunfire Friday. Bolivian Leader claims threat to government la Paz Bolivia a president Victor i a Eston Storp said in a National speech Friday night that Bolivia s labor and political groups arc trying to topple his government and do not care about the country s economic crisis. They arc not interested in the fact that the tin we produce for $10 a Pound is sold in the International Market at $2.48," Paz Eston Usoro said in his first Public comments since he declared a state of siege on thursday. What guides them is a defined objective to liquidate the actual  government owned mines were shut Down Friday when workers walked out in a one Day strike to protest the detention of 162 political labor and Church leaders under state of siege Powers. Briton Dies of rabies she contracted in Zambia Portsmouth England a a 45-year old British woman who was bitten by a rapid dog in Zambia two months ago died Friday after being taken off a life support machine a health official said. The woman whom officials declined to identify was visiting relatives in Southern England when she developed symptoms of rabies. She was admitted to Portsmouth s Queen Alexandra Hospital. A Wessex county health authority spokesman said the woman contracted the virus when she was bitten by an infected dog near her Home in Lusaka the zambian capital. Another rabies victim Ann Ven come 28, of Prescot in Northwest England died during a vacation in Hamburg three months after she was bitten by a dog in India. Belgrade Airport to close for repairs to runways Belgrade Yugoslavia a Surcina air port the country s main International air Hub will be closed to All flights during the week of sept. 19-25 for runway repairs Airport authorities announced Friday. Yugoslav carriers will use a nearby military Airfield for Domestic and International  airlines will have to suspend flights to Belgrade during the period the announcement said. Buses will take passengers from the military Airport to Surcina about six Miles away for Check in and customs the announcement said. Both airfields arc about 10 Miles from Belgrade. China to change spelling of minority group s name peking a China has decided to change the chinese characters used for one of it National minorities because the traditional name is derogatory the official communist party newspaper said Friday. The Maonan minority one of several in Southern China s Guangqi Zhuang autonomous Region will continue to be known As Maonan but the chinese character for the second syllable Nan will be changed the people s daily said. The character previously meant trouble or calamity while the new character Means South the newspaper said. Mitterrand knew of plan to sink ship authors say Paris a president Francois Mitterrand knew in Advance of the French secret service plan to sink the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior according to a Book scheduled for publication in september. Excerpts from inquiry into three state secrets by Jacques Derogy and Jean Marie pontaut were published in the current edition of the newsweekly l express for which they Are staff re porters. President Francois Mitterrand was indeed informed. He was t exposed to All the details of the affair but he was shown the general lines the final objective according to authors. The Rainbow Warrior was on a mis Sion to Monitor French nuclear testing in the South Pacific for the environmental is group. It was sunk by French agents july 10, 1985, in the Auckland n.z., Harbor and a Greenpeace photographer was killed. Two agents convicted in the Case were released from prison in new zealand last month and sent to the French military base at Hao in the South Pacific. The arrange ment was worked out by . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar. The authors say about 20 French secret service personnel participated directly in operation Rainbow which began to take form in March 1985. They said Limpet mines were planted on the ship s Hull by two men who arrived inner zealand three Days before the sink ing. Mitterrand was assured by adm. Pierre Lacostic then head of the secret service Agency called the general direction for external Security that no one would be killed and France would never be implicated the authors said