Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 8, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 i Winnipeg free press finial edition vol. 75 no. 113 Price Loc 15c Winnipeg thursday february 8, 1968 Sun rises 7 54 a m Moon rises 11 37 a m Sun sets 5 33 Moon sets 4 01 a m forecast Cloudy -15 and 10 Khe Sanh air strip threatened major assault believed imminent on key . Marine outpost Saigon a the Long expected North Viet namese offensive to drive . Forces from the two northernmost provinces of South Vietnam May have started. North vietnamese troops made a heavy artillery and ground attack on the . Marine combat base at the Khe Sanh today after taking the nearby Lang Vei special forces Camp. During the attack on Lang Vei wednesday the North Viet namese troops ringing Khe Sanh moved in closer to the Ameri can lines. Marine officers at the base believed a major assault was imminent on the Marine base and the air strip which is its chief Avenue of Supply and reinforcement the last american South vietnamese and montagnard forces were driven from the Lang Vei Camp three Miles West of Khe Sanh after an 18-hour siege in which the defenders suffered heavy casualties. Fourteen of 24 americans escaped and eight of them were wounded some critically. The other 10 Are dead Capo ired or trying to make it to Khe Sanh please see Khe Sanh Page 24 strikers defy order new York a new York City s striking Sani tation men defied Kan order to return to work today and mayor John v. Lindsay asked Gover nor Nelson a. Rockefeller for state assistance to Cope with growing five foot garbage piles. The state assistance included possible use of the National guard Lindsay also issued an executive order authorizing the temporary Transfer of City employees chiefly labourers and truck Drivers to emergency sanitation duty. The mayor vowing to fight lawlessness with every lawful had ordered the striking sanitation men to re turn to work by 6 am Cost today. A spokesman for the department of sanitation said tersely the men did not re port for work Lindsay declared that a health emergency existed in the City. More than tons of in collected garbage has accumulated during the w e e k -1 o n g strike. Lindsay announced at City Hall grave emergency i said in a letter to the governor i respectfully re quest that you provide whatever assistance May be available under the Law including use of please see . Union Page 12 .1 Brand new Constitution in works pm Pearson premiers Hammer out consensus on language rights i by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Canada has embarked on a sweeping revision of the British North America act which prime minister Pearson expects will Lead to a Brand new Constitution hopefully within three years. He indicated at wednesday s close of the Federal provincial constitutional conference tha Canada was going to get a new Constitution and not a series o amendments to the existing Constitution the ban act tinkering with the existing Constitution will not be enough he said. The three Day conference ended with a declaration of language Equality for French and English and a decision that there be a continuing constitutional conference in Canada until the Federal government and provinces have reached agreement on the new form of confederation. The did not succeed in obtaining agree ment immediately to extend French language and education rights from coast to coast please see ban act Page 25 path of jetliner can be traced from runway at top of photo International Airport building. Investigation into . Plane t added and slowed toward the Ain passenger terminal and faculties of Vancouver in National Airport. F we were Lucky on this Aid Bob de Arment spokesman. It could ave been a hell of a we had some miracles killed was Mart us 37 of Vancouver the purse jct Board Haw air and Elmer at Vanc a transport department a employee. The 18 by prime m Jim s t Pear fashioned consensus out of confusion As he wheeled and dealer his Way thorough the dying Johnson s tactics Jolt conference by Stan Mcdowell Ottawa 43 t a f f the strongest opposition to the efforts of prime minister Pearson and Justice minister Pierre Trudeau in favor of a constitutional guarantee for the French i language outside Quebec came Erom. Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson wednesday. _ or. Johnson with the assist Ance of premiers e. C Manning of Alberta Andis. A. C. Bennett of British Columbia succeeded in getting a Call for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing language rights removed from the final statement of the Federal provincial constitutional conference or Johnson s stand and his unlikely Alliance with or. Man Ning and or. Bennett on the urgent. It should not be kept waiting until after a new method of amending the constr please see Johnson Page 24 policy subject startled ence participants Many Confer it also led to a Calm second rounds in the bout Between or. Johnson and Justice minister Pierre Trudeau which had be gun tuesday morning Over or. Johnson s insistence that que must have special Powers. Or Trudeau said that after 100 years of promises French canadians were entitled to some More substantial guarantee for Weir the Federal government s position on National Medica health insurance is about As. Permanent As Snow Premier Walter Weir told newsmen thursday morning. What their position will be after april 4, 5 or 6 Liberal leadership convention dates is anybody s the Premier said. Retaining from the Ottawa constitutional conference with pockets bulging with optimism _ the rights of their language in for the future of Canada i provinces other than Quebec said the problem-.1 please see policy Page 25. Stages the constitutional conference. As chairman of the con Ference As Well As prime minister or Pearson had the delicate Job of protect ing the Federal position As much As possible without allowing any Premier to go Home in a Huff his biggest test was on the Issue of linguistic lights As outlined in the Bilm Gual ism and com Mission report and the Pio posed charter for human rights Ottawa wanted both of these put in the1 Constitution but recognized last week it would have a fight on its hands. At one Point in wednes Day s meeting it seemed As though the whole plan was flying out the window. 1 in the end a consensus was reached with Compro Mise on All sides. They used to Call him Pearson the peacemaker at the United nations and his diplomatic sleight of hand was sometimes faster than the. Eye wednesday. He j e d cajoled wheeled and bulldozed. This is How the Story went just before the luncheon break or Pearson jovially announced he had a five Point plan entitled possible consensus on language rights which he thought the conference could Breeze through in five minutes not so said Premier Ernest Manning of Alberta a Cool Veteran of some 25 years of Mucial conferences and rarely the loser on a soft sell or. Manning did t agree with one Point the idea of entrenching language and sex bribery scandal meged by Robert l. Jackson Washington special tons an alleged sex and bribery scandal has erupted in the United states Aid program for Europe and Vietnam. It has brought separate investigations by the Senate and the Justice department. Reported gratuities provided to american officials by a belgian contractor including after7hours entertainment by women prompted a Crim Inal investigation at the Justice department and broadened a Senate had already been underway. Five employees of the Agency for International development Aid have resigned in the last month including a former aide t o vice president Humphrey when he was a senator. Ever no reportedly is identified by name in a key document under study a five Page classified report prepared by Aid on the activities on an Antwerp Belgium equipment dealer. The Case charge wednesday from senator John Williams Republican Delaware that the Johnson administration was trying to Brush it under the proverbial political Rug until after the november election. At least four Aid esp Lorees sen Williams told the Senate Weie allowed to quit lants in and walked off their jobs wednesday night Ibex Ween the l workers appeared the walkout in at 8 500 at the truck Plant walked protest slow in a sons with pm. _ a by p.m., during ahem it sub period another in the car . Parts and service joined the All Are at local 222 Steve Nim please see 4it Lea Fer resigns Fredericton Cpl c. Van .of-.new, Brunswicker progressive conservative tendered his of the. Provincial Bon. X letter took George e. Mclnerney la far Saint John Centre or said he had made it Clear from Thetje ginning that he intended to re sign the party after the last in the election last oct. 23 Premier Louis j., Robichaud s v Sis please see a ;