Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 15, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Con men jailed see Page 3 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 79 no. Wednesday december 15, 1971 on air Canada ground staff balks Toronto up air Canada officials said today no major disruptions of passenger service Are expected during the Christ Mas holidays because of threatened work to Rule Campaign by ground personnel. The Canadian air line employees association represent ing ticket agents Airport workers and reservations clerks said a work to Rule Campaign would Start across the at 3 . Local times today. The association s announce ment followed a breakdown in contract talks in Montreal Mon Day where air Canada and Union negotiators had been try ing to work out a package under the auspices of a three Man Federal conciliation Board since dec. 7. Air Canada president j. R. Baldwin said tuesday night he was surprised and disappointed that the association had re talk of disruptive tactics against the airline. A n association spokesman said Here that the work to Rule tactic will certainly slow things Down during the Holiday travelling Peak dec. 21 to Jan. 3. Under the Campaign ticket Sunrise Sunset . . Moonset . . Forecast sunny periods 0 and 5 above please see g10und Page 31 paddling around in Grenadier Pond in Toronto s High Park wintering ducks ignore the warning that the non existent ice is unsafe. And it s Likely to remain non existent for the next few Days As Toronto weather is expected to be miserable with wet Snow or rain and temperatures around 45 degrees. Pakistan commander in Dacca appeals to India for truce from a Reuter the Indian government said tonight the commander of pakistani Force in East Pakistan had appealed directly to the in . Tells soviets to restrain India Washington special tons the Nixon administration warned the soviet Union that the president May recon Sider his forthcoming trip to Moscow unless the soviet Union exercises a restraining influx Pakistan walks out by Tim United nations staff Pakistan government representatives wednesday walked out of the Security Council in a move which could Block United nations intervention in the Worsen ing indo pakistani crisis. The pakistani Deputy prime minister Zulfikar All Bhutto delivered a passionate denunciation of the Council then declared he would not waste time ill go Back and or. Bhutto said. He charged that the Security Council was preparing to Lega Lize occupation and Daggres this referred to an Effort to work out a Resolution calling for less than a reciprocal withdrawal of Indian and pakistani forces from each other s Territo under the proposed Resolution Indian forces which Nave overrun East Pakistan would not be caned non directly to depart. The Resolution sponsored by France and Britain would also acknowledge that effective con see Pakistan Page 27 ence in the War Between India and Pakistan. The warning was contained in a background briefing Given by presidential adviser Henry a. Kissinger to a Pool of reporters that accompanied or. Nixon on his return from two Days of talks with French president Georges Pompidou in the azores. Or. Kissinger indicated that the president will observe soviet behaviour in the South asian crisis Over the next few Days in order to determine whether the russians intend to use their in fluence to curb the indians. In the event that the soviet Union fails to urge restraint on India and continues to encourage Indian military action or. Kissinger suggested plans for the president s trip to Moscow might be changed such a development or. Kis Singer went on could Lead to a reassessment of the entire relationship Between the United states and the soviet Union. The administration s warning was reportedly conveyed to the soviet Union through diplomatic channels before it was made known Here. Although administration officials declined to disclose de tails it is known that the . Ambassador to Moscow Jacob Dian army chief of staff for a ceasefire in the War torn prov Ince. An Indian spokesman Jit new Delhi said the Indian military chief. Gen. Sam Manekshaw sent an immediate reply to the pakistani commander . A. A. K. Niazi that he would order a cease fire As soon As the pakistanis confirm they will surrender to advancing Indian troops. The message was received in new Delhi through the Ameri can embassy in new the spokesman added. Manekshaw in a reply sent to Niazi said As the Token of my Good Faith he had ordered a bombing pause Over Dacca from 5 . . Cost to Day. I assure you i have no de sire to inflict unnecessary casualties on your troops As i abhor loss of human Manekshaw s message As re leased by the Indian govern fent added. Should however you not comply with what i had stated you will leave me with no other alternative but to resume my offensive with the utmost vigor at 9 . Dec. 16 the Indian government put a news blackout today on its forces closing in on Dacca but Indian ground forces were re ported within four Miles of Chittagong East Pakistan s largest port. Radio Pakistan conceded that Indian troops were putting pressure on Dacca the East pakistani capital which the advancing Indian artillery began shelling tuesday. The official All India radio said it had received no news from Dacca since reports tues Day night that new Delhi s Dacca dominates debates in in by Tim Traynor United nations staff the United nations was dominate tuesday by one word Dacca. All too aware that Dacca could come to spell horror mini Ero us countries including groped for a Way to put the United nations in the picture. Dacca was the end of the Road for Many of the pakistani government forces before the endian army push into East Bengal. Within the City there Are some troops Loyal to to j t beam explained or. Nixon s the Distant government m West please see . Page 27 Pakistan. There has also been an influx of people mostly members of groups not native to East Ben Gal who sided with the West Ern authorities against the Ben g a 1 i nationalism movement which is now Riding High with the backing of the the pakistani forces and their supporters faced encircling Indian troops and beyond that a hostile Bengali population. The pakistani government Structure in Dacca appeared to be disintegrating tuesday but the troops did net seem to have any Clear signal o f cv7 troops had begun bombarding military targets in the City. Journalists in Dacca reported that the first barrages set gov please see appeals Page 27 . To toward d solution to monetary difficulties May come As Early As this week angry do heroism azores special tons president Nixon promised tuesday to work for a devaluation of the Dollar in a major agreement with French president Georges Pompidou looking toward Early settlement of the International monetary crisis. Calling the two Day meeting Here very or. Nixon said we have made significant it was believed that a Resolution of the difficulties that have plagued the world monetary markets since mid summer could come As Early As this week s meeting of leading Industrial nations finance ministers in Washington. Significantly the French president said nothing about a revaluation of the franc but he did agree to move ahead to Ward a settlement on Trade issues affecting the United states and the european com Mon Market in a joint communique issued at the end of their lengthy meetings on the sunny Island in the Atlantic the two presidents said they had reached a Broad area of agreement on measures necessary to achieve a Settle ment at. The earliest possible Date of the immediate problems of the International monetary in co operation with other nations concerned the communique added the two leaders agreed to work toward a prompt realignment of Exchange rates through a devaluation of the Dollar and Reva please see Dollar Page 4 Mackasey employer groups hit diplomatic logjam broken at azores by Hobart Rowen Wasoff Langton special tons the azores agree ment promising a realignment of major world currencies including a direct devaluation of the United states Dollar is a momentous event in International monetary history. A diplomatic log Jam was broken a top source revealed when French president Georges Pompidou heard president Nixon himself say that he was willing to take the step on the Dollar hitherto resisted by a succession of . Governments presumably by a Small in crease in the official Price of Gold. In return president Pompidou withdrew the French objection to Start talks on Trade conces Sions by the common Market before an actual realignment on parties had been worked out. Foreshadowed by the under standing Between or. Nixon and or. Pompidou Are significant Short term and longer term developments. In the immediate future ., through congressional action will propose an increase in the Price of Gold by six or seven per cent or fran the present official Price citation of about 11 per cent against the Dollar. There is at least a Good Chance that a specific set of new currency relationships will be decided upon and announced at the meeting in Washington this weekend of the group of ten finance ministers. See diplomatic Page 4 Montreal up labor minister Bryce Mackasey staked his political future on the Issue of technological change tuesday As he launched a stinging attack on two Cana Dian employer groups. In an impassioned off the cuff defence of proposed labor legis Latke before about 250 manage ment labor and government Industrial relations experts or. Mackasey called for a end to fixed positions opposed to his Bill c-253. He said he was fed up with thick Glossy briefs and piles of form letters which show that knowledge of the labor Field by the Canadian manufacturers association and the Canadian chamber of Commerce leaves a hell of a lot to be if reaction from the labor movement had been As irresponsible As some of the letters i got from management people would have got up and said i told you the labor minister stressed he had invited and continues to Welcome discussion of the Bill Benson believes Canada May gain must miss school party children can t Trade gifts the s. Be Eldrea wont be at 1 gifts is something the s. Family tending school next then Day 1 just cannot afford. To surrender were the pakistani govern ment forces to attempt continued resistance the indians could be expected to go smash ing into the City very probably with widespread bloodshed and destruction. Alternatively the City might fall easily to the indians and their East Bengali associates. But either Way Many to fou an ounce to to i co Itic dentally. Other of la f Ottawa up when the smoke clears after the coming Shakedown of the International currency system Canada prob ably will retain its present Trad ing terms with the United states says finance minister Benson. It could even improve its Selling position in the rest of the world. He told reporters tuesday in response to president Nixon s announced readiness to devalue the . Theoretically at least we should move Down with them. Others disagree. J in or. Benson s forecast major currencies will be Reva please see Dacca Page 27 c a n a d i a n dollars would be ined upward with the intention j Worth As Many . 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