Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Centennial 1970 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 77 no. 198 Price 10 cents 1j cd jets monday. May 18, 1970 Moon let pin. Sunset . Moonset . Sunny 70 and 35 mail workers Here support strike action clerks Ami carriers Casl unanimous vote for walkout coup rumours spread Santo Domingo Reuters soldiers and police manned checkpoints around this capital today amid rumours of an Immi nent coup in the dominican re Public to overthrow newly re i elected president Bala-1 guar. The rumours followed a solid Victory by Balaguer in general elections saturday and there was speculation that the verdict of the voters might not be accepted by one of the unsuccessful challengers for president Gen. Elias Westbin y Wessin. Wessin who Lead the Anli Rehel forces in the 1965 civil War ran third in the balloting and conceded Victory to Balaguer hut he claimed to have More than sufficient proof that tie elections were fraudulent. Wessin accused Balaguer of using Strong Arm methods against his opposition then added but it is not worthwhile More than protest abm site 26 Miles from Manitoba Border. Clash goes Dkl protest warns of que. Crisis missile site demonstrators Plant wheat government plants Abms by Dudley Magnus Edmonton Stafl More Ihan area postal clerks and letter carriers voiced an emphatic yes pledge for strike action to Hack up their demands at a mass rally sunday night in the Marlborough hold. In a Telephone interview after _ the rally d. ,1. Mowat a Tiona officer of the letter car hers1 Union of said the decision was a unanimous yes vote in favor of a he said the meeting was at tended by about 800 members of Winnipeg locals and the bal a i is was made up of members from the Thunder Bay and sur rounding Rural locals. J he indicated there would de final Civ be mail service tucs a s. Vietnam troops fight in Laos move increases possibility of chinese intervention by William Jakarta Indonesia special tons South Vio namese ground troops have crossed the Border into Laos to strike at the to Chi Minn Trail South Vietnam Ese foreign minister Trail Van Lam revealed in an in Israel to keep occupied lands but he was t specific on when a strike could he expected. The affirmative Vole of the to question the elections As everything will continue tie same. Balaguer will continue ruling As he has ruled during the last four is murdering Bis fellow please see coup Page 6 by Ron Kustra n Keoma . Staff wearing into Hie wheat Fields planted kernels of wheal Here saturday in a Field half a mile from the place where the United Stales government for he past week has been engaged in planting a nuclear missile Sile. The Arm anti ballistic Finissi. Be system is designed so that it i missile system. The other is in Montana. I can Send nuclear missiles 400 Miles into the stratosphere Over Canada where they would explode to destroy incoming enemy icbms. . Military officials say the explosion would be relatively Small because the 1cbm would not explode. The abm program but if it did. Said the demonstrators the fallout from such an explosion would sterilize every one in the Northern hemisphere. I the nuclear missile site is one of two under construction As the i first phase of an anti ballistic i received congressional approval last year. The demonstrators Here sat urday were hoping action can still be taken to prevent the finality of an arms system that will Cost Between s12 billion and s25 billion. The majority of the were Between 16 Anil 20 years old and were College students. Many had attended a rally Friday please Sec missile Page i clash Between French and English Canada goes deeper than language and culture labor delegates were told Here monday by Donald Macdonald. I air. Macdonald. In his own Iti 4 address to the Congress s eighth biennial constitutional convention in the sported build ing at the City s exhibition grounds Dweller on be urgency for understanding by canadians of he differences by to can French speaking Canad ,.esl of Canada s group follows the Lead of Simi quire during the six Day War Lar rallies sunday in Vancouver Anil Toronto. Another rally was held in Quebec City but no immediate reaction from that group was available sunday night. I lease see workers Page 4 Montreal up israeli foreign minister Abba Eban said sunday night Israel will not withdraw from territories it a of june. 1907. But he added in a speech to persons at the forum we Are prepared to redraw out cons firc lines into new boundaries for our or. Eban said Israel Lias no desire to Rule Over 1.500.001 population which to said had reached crisis proportions. The convention of about delegates represents approx mainly lb.fi50.000 members throughout Canada of which More than two thirds arc affiliated to United Stales unions. Francophone or. Macdonald said have right to seek to Reserve Ottawa s proposal derided As joke arabs hut the country will in Sist on having new secure territorial boundaries before peace can be considered in the Middle East. The foreign minister was speaking at celebrations for is Rael s 22nd anniversary As an autonomous state. The bulk of his 45-Minule speech dealt with the six Days of resistance in i Flat. Or. Eban under heavy Secu Rity guard As he entered and left the forum said peace in the Middle East would require an emotional transformation by the Arab people. In View Here sunday. News of the escalation of the War into Laos was expected by diplomatic observers Here to have severe political repercussions in the United states and to increase the threat of military intervention by China. Or. Lam said operations of the army of the Republic of Vietnam Arvn forces in Laos have been under Way for some time and were continuing. The americans have been striking at the Trail in Laos from the air and we have been hitting it on the or. Lam said. He said the ground assaults were designed to inter dict the Trail but that the Saigon forces were not remaining on laotian territory. The South vietnamese foreign minister was vague As to whether . Advisers accompanied the Arvn troops into and said the question of . Artillery support was a technical question which the generals would have to an he said tie raids were being conducted from both the i Core the Arab states now say is. Rael s refusal to die is an act of areas Northi of the by Tuk Canadian press postal workers at mass ral lies in Toronto and Vancouver the Job until called out by their negotiating committee. The negotiating committee of strike action to contract demands. Hollies also Soldier killed Man Hurt in Auto motorcycle crash sunday pledged to Vole in favor i1u1s weapon to Hack their or. Findlay said. I but let them Call the in j Vancouver about 800 i language and culture and Quebec City and Winnipeg workers attended a rally there was immediate Indica Ilo inc government s Lii test lion whether workers there also in and gave their negotiating committee Permis Sion to Call a strike at any Lime Llic Sec fit. He said to loud i cheers. National suicide is not an m i Ter National or. Eban Drew loud and sustained applause when he blasted the soviet Union for providing Egypt with fighter pills in its military action against Israel. The soviet Union is hereby disqualified from any capacity Tri Border Junction of Cambodia Laos and South Vietnam. Or. Lam s report Means that Arvn forces now Are actively engaged against North Viet namese troops in both Cam Bodia and Laos As Well As South Vietnam i what can Only appear As a further Escala Tion of the War in Indochina. By Rick Baker an Auto motorcycle crash in suburban East St. Paul Satur Day has left one Manitoban dead and another hospitalized. Dead is Wayne Reid Anderson 22, of the Canadian armed forces base in Winnipeg formerly of the Pas. He was reported dead on arrival at St. Boniface Hospi Tal. Or. Anderson was the oper Ator of the motorcycle. The passenger on the motor Cycle Thomas couture 21, of 189 Robin Dale Road is listed in Good condition at Grace Hospi Tal. He sustained several culs and bruises and a broken leg. Police said isl a car driven by Clemens Sereda 32, of 416 k i 1 d a r c Avenue Transcona was headed South on Highway 59, turned left onto Street and came into collision Wilh the South bound motor Cycle. The fuel Lank on inc motor Cycle Hurst into flames and the car later ignited As Well. An Allen Dant for the a lending Riverview ambulance service said Ihal or. Couture was thrown Clear of the Accident upon Impact but that or. An Derson was caught on the Burn ing motorcycle. Or. Screda was treated Al is. Boniface general for culs and bruises and was released Sun Trudeau tries life night Sydney Australia Reuters prime minister Trudeau sampled Sydney s night life Sun Day night As he visited a night club Wilh Bobo Faulkner a late night television hostess. The daily Telegraph today printed a front Page photo of the two dancing and sharing a joke. Burlier Trudeau had dined aboard a m a r i 1.1 m c service launch in Sydney Harbor. Sec French used effectively i gauges of but there i was More to the Issue than Lan Guage and culture the clash he said was due to the existence of deep economic roots that b a d Quebec workers generally earn ing less than people engaged in comparable occupations in or. Macdonald charged Dole Gates with the responsibility to help find a remedy to what he described As an intolerable condition in Quebec. Fortunately a significant proportion of the membership of the Congress is in Quebec and is thus linked with the Trade Union movement of Canada As a whole. We the Csc Are therefore equipped or please Sec warns Page i for a Complete itinerary of the july Royal tour of Winnipeg and Mani Toba please see Page 41. Were taking a militant stand. A total of 27.000 members of the Canadian Union of postal workers and the letter car hers Union of Canada Are to. Lake a formal strike vote tucs plan ice study Day and wednesday. I in Crew Ninny in Olius the sunday rallies were held la Oscam Kub in discuss tic Federal govern a scientists plan to use laser meal s Lac so offer on wages beams to determine the Fate of and Job Security. Ussatis Falcioni movement of the Antarctic ice Wilh the offer resulted in a forthcoming expedition to the continent. Of International j please see s. Vietnam Page 4 i please see Israel Page 4 if if if communists attack near phenom penh lion of mail services Friday Aew Ress Washington Al vice he discounted the possibility president Spiro t a guck said i that there is deep seated student 1__i t Ali a t tin incl Al Flonc these arc the Remini of vehicles involved in an Auto motorcycle crash in East St. Paul saturday. The Driver of the motorcycle was killed and his passenger taken to Hospital. The Driver of the car was taken to Hospital but liter discharged after treatment. Toronto Montreal Ottawa Windsor out., and Sarnia in Toronto More than 2.000 postal employees roared their approval As Union leaders do a scribed As a joke the Orcas jury Board offer of a 41-Ccnls-j ail hour increase Over 42 i months. J but Bill Findlay a Vicc Percsi a Deal of the letter Union asked the workers to re i member that Job Security was the main Issue and More import Union leaders urged the men Isu nday if there is any rhetoric hostility to the United slates to vote in favor of a strike but Cooling to be done it should be j military thrust Mlo Cambodia also asked them to remain by the newspapers. And Agnew said he thinks it would to. Desirable to have some Cool ing of the rhetoric on today s is sues and the first place it should begin is on the editorial pages of some of he Eastern i think it would be Good if we could have a negotiated settlement of accelerated rhetoric hut i unilaterally do Mil intend to the Viec pics Ideiil was inter viewed on the metro in c d i a Licadio news program profile taped in Advance for radio and to broadcast sunday. He said thai in criticizing what he termed a certain Seg ment in society who will persist in anti social conduct my purpose is not to rationalize accept or condone their illegal action Bill to separate them effectively from the society that can work together and go ahead in the interests of the United asked if he feels he has at tempted with Liis words to build a Fence around those lie opposes Agnew replied you mean the criminal insane and those people yes i think Thill s ague w asserted president Nixon has absolutely not asked him to speak More softly and i will continue to speak asked to assess week s a n t i a a r demonstration in i Washington the vice president said i think a lot of those Stu i Lenso Sec a new 1 flee i penh Reuters j on the strategic route one higher o m m u n i s t forces today i Way which stretches to the Viet launched their closest offensive Inam Border to the cambodian capital since reports reaching Here said being routed from Oncak Luong j fighting was taking place a track hear a town about 30 i Miles South of phenom penh on a Road leading to the coast. Sources said it was the closest fighting to the capital since i South vietnamese forces Cap j lured from the vice Cong Early this month the strategic ferry re crossing of Neak Luong. 25 j Miles Southeast of Phil Oppenh i on the Mekong River. I the town of Kampong Cham 50 Miles Northeast of phenom penh was still in government bands today after two Days of j fierce Viet Cong attacks. I communist forces Laid Down a mortar barrage during the night but failed to dislodge the government troops. Kampong Cham Cambodia s third largest town which is linked by ferry to the Village of tone Bel was reported to have suffered relatively lilt a damage apart from its Western fringes where g a v e r n m e n t planes bombed Viet Cong positions around a University. 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