Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. 79 no. 191 Price to cents comics 15 cents tuesday May 9, 1972 Sutt . To Ertme . Forecast mainly sunny 35 and 69 Nixon gambles . Starts Minim in. Vietnam ports budget help goes to three groups decision risks hash with fruit a Keuter Washington up president Nixon risked a direct naval dash with the russians and the collapse of his planned Moscow Summit with his. Drastic decision monday to mine North vietnamese ports and choke off soviet War supplies to Hanoi he intensified bombing of the North Nixon announced his. Far reaching moves the most serious of the Long and bloody Vietnam War in a monday right Only two weeks before his scheduled trip to mos cosy to Confer with the russian leaders. V Nixon embarked on the most hazardous Gamble of his political career appealing to the russians to co operate in the cause of peace and understand Why he was taking Mea sum involving the use of Force Louis Lawerce Marcel Pepin Yves Charbonneau to prevent their tanks and Armor reaching North Vietnam. The associated press said Nixon delivered what amounted to an ultimatum for the soviet Union to quit supplying arms and Materiel to what he called the International outlaws of North Vietnam within three Days or face destruction of so Viet ships. The mines dropped by . Navy planes were set to activate automatically in three Days thursday. They were planted monday. The associated press used the term sea quarantine to please see uj5. Page 4 from mate Ute Saigon up the biggest . Air and naval Force Ever alternated in Vietnam began mining the in t r a n c e of Haiphong and other North Viet namese ports today and heavily bombarded railways and High ways in North Vietnam. The . Command reported one North vietnamese Mig Jet shot Down during the mining operation the 19th Mig reported downed in four Days. The command said the initial phases of the blockade announced by president Nixon monday night have been successfully accomplished and the Navy planes that dropped the delayed action mines to Seal off vietnamese harbours had ill returned safely to their carriers but the commander of a Cruiser destroyed flotilla in the Tonkin Gulf rear Admiral a b r and t Robinson was please see planes Page 2 details 2 and 5 welfare recipients wa1ined offer of Job who Are receiving welfare and refuse to work when jobs Are offered to them will be taken off welfare social development minister Rene Toupin said monday. Or. Toupin made the state ment in the Manitoba Legisla Ture in answer to a question from. Joe Borowski nip _ t or. Borowski said the inter National Nickel company has 100 available at Thompson and no one to fill them. He asked what would happen if men living in Winnipeg and receiving we 1 f a r e assistance were offered these jobs and turned them Down. Jean Ahard ind. Ruperts land asked or. Toupin if in View of we jobs t h o m p s o a his department would be tightening up the welfare system in Northern Manitoba. 1 or. To Upin replied that those in need of social allowance welfare anywhere in the prov Ince Are Given assistance. Those that Are Able bodied citizens of this province and Are offered work and Are accept Able to employers Are taken off welfare. We want to tighten up and Cut Down abuse across the Tass accuses . From a renter Moscow up Tass accused president Nixon today of naked aggressive acts and violating International Law in la s actions against North Viet Nam conceivably against soviet shipping. At the same time North Viet Nam and. The Viet Cong spoke defiantly of what they called an ultimatum. The soviet news Agency Tass please see Tass Page 5 jail terms protested Quebec up a protest movement gathered momentum across Quebec today As three labor leaders prepared to give themselves up at the courthouse Here to face one year jail terms for contempt of court. The ports of Montreal and Turbis rivieras were closed Down As dockworkers walked off their risks by Murrey Marder Washington s p e c i a j j tons president Nixon Gam bled massively monday night that he could end the Vietnam Ese War by an audacious use of military Force that risked a confrontation with the soviet. Union after a decade of work to reduce East West tension. No president except president John f. Kennedy in the 1962 cuban missile crisis has wagered higher stakes in the nuclear age. There Are direct parallels but also profound differences in these two so vie t . Crises. The threat of Immi nent nuclear War dangled Over the 1962 crisis. In the crisis that emerged 1 monday night with breathtaking swiftness or. Nixon is gambling that the soviet Union will not construe his actions As a direct Challenge to its vital interests. The president s actions How Ever and the main thrust of his remarks were directed squarely at the soviet Union. From the opening sentence of his grim address he held the Kremlin primarily responsible for supplying North Vietnam with the weapons of offensive War. His orders to mine the har Bors of North Vietnam with just three Daylight periods Al Lowed to remove All shipping before the timed mines Are activated confronts the soviet Union with a supreme National Choice. The distinction Between min ing the harbours of North Viet Nam and imposing a quarantine line of . Warships around Cuba As president Kennedy did in differs Only in degree. Please see Nixon Pago 7 Tel Aviv a israeli army troops today killed three Arab hijackers captured an other and released 97 Passen Gers and Crew who1 had been held hostage for 21 hours aboard a belgian Airliner at Israel s International Airport. First unofficial reports from the Sabena Airliner said two passengers aboard had been wounded when the israeli Para troops in to take Over the plane but All aboard except hijackers were alive. The state radio said however no passenger was even injured. The military command announced that an israeli de Fence Force unit control of the it s ail Over said an army spokesman at the Airport. The a s s in r s. Leaped climbed arid Slid from the big Boeing which was reported to have been packed with explosives by four Arab guerrilla hijackers thex israeli paratroops apparently disguised themselves As aircraft mechanics in White Over alls to Force their Way into the plane where 87 passengers and 10 Crew had been Field hos Tage since monday night t w o of the paratroopers climbed onto the Wing of the plane evidently pretending to be repairing or refuelling the Jet and the Airliner s Emer gency doors were forced open minutes later the passengers b e g a n sliding Down escape chutes to the ground and run Ning frantically to the hijackers armed with guns grenades and explosives had threatened to blow up the Airliner and everyone aboard unless Israel released 100 to 300 Arab guerrillas held in israeli prisons. One of the dead guerrilla s was a Young woman the Cap tured Hijacker was also a woman. Troops pulled her from the aircraft with a Blindfold Over her eyes and loaded her into an ambulance. The Airliner was splashed please see three Page 4 jobs in an apparent show of Soli Darity with cavalcade of Union members heading to the Provin Cial capital for a mid afternoon protest demonstration. Or. Justice Pierre Cote of Quebec Superior court said in rendering judgment that the Laberge president of the Quebec federation of labor Marcel Pepin president of the confederation of National Trade unions and Hyvori Char Morineau president of the que Bec teachers deliberately incited workers to disobey court or. Justice Cote then issued warrants for the three who head a common front of Public service workers who last month held an 11-Day strike to Back demands in contract negotiations with the provincial government. Meanwhile or. Pepin issued a plea to Cantu members to go to Quebec City today to Demon Strate outside the Orsainville provincial jail he said buses would be provided to take workers from Montreal to the provincial capital where the please see Quebec Page 4 t7 t j fail in bid to debate shutdown Paul pih1chyn free press legislative reporter the progressive conservative opposition made an unsuccessful attempt to introduce an emergency debate monday in the Manitoba legislature on the shutdown of operation of the Columbia Forest products Plant at Sprague Man. The Plant which involves a chipboard manufacturing opera Tion and a Sawmill ceased operations monday morning in the face of a million court action brought against it by the Manitoba development Corpora Tion. _ the shutdown left Between. 60 and 200 employees out of who Rit. Gabriel Girard pc Emer son attempted to introduce a motion calling for the Emer gency debate but was ruled out of order by speaker Peter Fox who said the matter was not of an urgent nature. During debate on the advis ability of accepting the motion premiered Schreyer said there was no real urgency involved and that the government has the matter in he said the development corporation would be moving to secure the assets of the company in order to guarantee the million loan Columbia Forest products received from the corporation. Or. Girard contended the matter was urgent because it affected the livelihood of the employees of the operation in Sprague and surrounding area Premier Schreyer said in answer to a. Question from or. Girard that he would be willing to meet with the people of Spra at the earliest possible of the Premier said that in the meantime everyone can rest assured that All possible action that can be taken by the Crown to s secure its loan will be acted on business., aged students get Relief in Turner s first account by Bud Jorgensen Ottawa up tax cuts for Many corporations and Aid for the elderly and Post secondary students highlighted a. Pre election budget presented to the commons by finance minister John Turner monday night. Businessmen were understandably pleased while opposition leaders criticized the government for not reducing personal income tax rates. Corporations both Large and Small will have real and potential benefits from the first budget presented by or. Turner As finance minister. About 1.8 million pensioners will have a Cost of living escalator built into old age Security. They will get increases retroactive to Jan. J. Veterans also will get Cost of living increases for pensions and allowances. Students beginning with the big bet personal tax unchanged by the Canadian press corporation income tax reduced in 1973 to 40 per cent from 49 per. Cent for manufacturing and processing in can Ada. Old age pensions adjusted annually to reflect Cost of living increases in the consumer Price Index. Toronto today business report 11 to 18 around world with Bryant. 25 will 63 classified 35 to 44, 45 to 52 comics 30, 31 deaths 7 finance 15 to 1" Jumble 38 movies. 33 sports 53 to 58 television 32 women 22 to 24 nearly everyone reads the free press City legislature highlights near Toronto up supervisory staff has started to sur vey Toronto s piles of purefied garbage in preparation for a Mammoth cleanup Campaign that could Start later today. If the civic outside workers ratify a proposed strike settlement today. Metro Politan Toronto spokesmen say the garbage trucks can Roll to night. The settlement based on a document presented monday to both Union and management by labor minister Fernand Guin d o n gives the strikers an eight per cent increase this year and leaves the figure for the second year up to an Arbi Trator. The bitter 29-Day strike has left Parks and other open areas throughout the City clogged with an estimated tons of decomposing garbage. The garbage infested with flies and rats was described As a health Hazard by the labor minister and a medical health officer. In one Park the carcass of a sheep was left to rot and at tract vermin. In another near a school barrels of rancid olives were left to decompose in the Spring Sun. The Gui Ridon formula for end ing the four week strike oped by a mediation team led h. Dickie assistant Dep Uty minister labor was accepted by the negotiating com Mittee of the Canadian Union of Public employees As an alter native to the inevitability of compulsory arbitration. The 11-Man metro team was split after or. Guindon refused to consider a management re quest for a modification of his proposal that have set the raise at seven per cent the first year. The Issue was finally approved at a closed meeting of metro Council. Russell Doyle president of local 43 of the striking Union said the settlement was a Choice of suicide by hanging or a fast death by maximum monthly payment combined old age pen Sion and guaranteed income supplement to be increased to from for single per son and to from for married couple. No personal income tax rate changes. Machinery and equipment purchased for use in manufacturing or processing goods in Canada May be depreciated Over two years. Students to be allowed a exemption for in come tax purposes for each month in school. Corporate income tax rate on manufacturing and proc Essing profits eligible for Small businesses deduction to be Cut to 20 per cent from 25. Legislation to be introduced lowering tariffs on imports from developing countries. Please see personal Page 4 strike rights backed the Manitoba government is toward a Raissez Faire labor policy with less govern ment interference in the collective bargaining process and full strike rights for All organized labor groups labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley indicated monday. Speaking to an inter Utility labor relations conference at the International inn or. Paul Ley said a number of the amendments to be incorporated please see strike Page 2 tax year will get a 550 a month tax deduction against income. This was the Only major item in the budget that will Benefit a Large segment of the Middle class. Finance department officials estimate about 2.7 million canadians will get direct benefits from the budget. The top corporation income tax rate will be reduced to 40. Per cent from 49 per cent in 1973 for profits from manufacturing and processing in Cana d a finance department officials estimate the Cut will apply to Between 40 and 45 per cent of total corporation in comes please see budget Page 4 Well by the Canadian press generally the business Community appeared Well pleased. With finance minister John Turner s budget monday night but labor leaders opposition politicians and a few business men were critical. Both Praise and blame centred mainly on the corporate tax cuts and other incentives to the manufacturing and process ing industries. This is a real Shol in the Arm said Gerard i lion president of the Canadian manufacturers association hailing the reduction in corporate income tax As the Best news manufacturers have had in a Long but opposition Leader Robert Stanfield thought concessions to business were not enough. The government should have Given the Economy a further boost by r e do c g personal income taxes he said. David Lewis Leader of the please see business Page 4 More details pages 20 and 21 left election talk s t r Eizig tie died tories lose bid on Sprague Plant debate Page 1 Toupin says welfare system being tightened i age 1 three More Bills introduced Page 28 symbiont its correspondence to be tabled age 28 Bill will Hurt Small businessmen Spivak 27 speaker adjourns House Early i , 28 allure May introduce no strike Bill Page 28 Cha Dingley phone rates not that High Burtniak Page 30 looking for a stove this want and under miscellaneous articles for Sale 59 . White 30 Inch in excellent condition. Asking 837-6073. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. By Victor Mackie j free press staff correspondent i 0 t t a w a an election j budget was the Label attached by parliamentarians to finance minister John Turner s Maiden Huc get s Peech monday strengthening speculation of a summer election. It was far from a Sunshine such As governments like to bring Down prior to a general election. But the budget described As a responsible by the finance minister was drafted in such a Way that it left All options open for prime minister Pierre try ideas in the calling of the next general election. There Are no tax increases1 which All voters will Welcome. Directly from the budget s provisions will be an estimated voters. There arc approximately voters in the country. The budget provided immedi ate financial Relief for old age Security pensioners and Veter ans on pension. There Are special tax exemptions for trainees and students. There was something for the old and the Young. But there was Little for the average taxpayers struggling to make ends meet oily the promises that unemployment will decline Ami the Economy will expand. The businessman h p. N e f i i s through corporate lax cuts on and processing income effective next Jan. 1. There Are other concessions for the businessman aimed at stirring the Economy. Please sop. Election Page 4 ;