Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba To act i muh Liay May 7, Europe anxious by Don Cook Paris special tons How is the watergate scan dal affecting the United states image abroad and president Nixon s conduct of foreign relations the dominant feeling of the moment among govern ment officials and intellectual opinion makers in four different european capitals in the past week is one of real anxiety summarized by this comment in the London sunday newspaper the observer the Prospect is that the United states will be saddled for the next three and a half years with a pres ident who has lost authority both with the americans and with foreign govern ments. Since the world s precarious stability depends on the stability of the ., the Outlook May Well fill the rest of us with at the same time there is a certain unease that be cause of watergate or. Nixon will be pressing hard for Quick accomplishment in foreign policy As a restorative to his own image and Morale. Some of the watergate fallout for this reason has already affected the reception which Europe has Given to the major speech by Henry a. Kissinger two weeks ago on the year of Europe and the Atlantic Alliance. The Paris newspaper los Echos which is gaullist and always suspicious of Policy moves nevertheless reflected this aspect of the affair when it commented the watergate affair has now become a National scandal. It is per haps not accidental that president Nixon chose this very moment to make known his vast project to revitalize the Atlantic Alli Ance. In so doing he is re calling that his real Domain is that of major policies in which he won unquestionable Success in peking and Moscow pending what he himself Calls the years of if the Nixon administration had hoped that Europe would Greet the Kissinger speech with the same enthusiasm it showed for the Marshall plan speech at Harvard University a Quarter Century ago then it must already be adding to the bitterness of the water Gate mess. There has been some pro forma applause from the predictable quarters such As nato Secretary general Joseph lims but in the main the european reaction Lias been one of reservations caution and scepticism with the French of course the most Sec Lical of All. This is not by a Long shot mainly due to watergate but the fact that it relates at All to watergate is a pretty Good example of How All pervading the business had become. In Stockholm last week there was yet another aspect of the watergate fal lout which quickly became apparent in social conversations. President Nixon s political scandal is a matter of malicious Joy. To plenty of swedes including its ruling political leaders who see in All this a confirmation of their worst criticisms and accusations and suspicions about the president in particular and tie Politi Cal scene in general. On the More practical and mundane level of the conduct of foreign policy How is the decimated White House going to Deal with the backlog of diplomatic appointments still unfilled by All accounts this was a Haldeman Ehrlichman operation tightly inter twined with the Republican party fund raising. The slow decimation of the.. Foreign service under the Nixon system will be an other of those blots for the future. But in the meantime in this year of Europe there has been no Ambas Sador to the organization for economic co operation and development for nine the ambassador to nato has been summoned Home to help Shore up Hie White House and there has been no ambassador to Moscow for four months. Ambassadors ought to be As much a part of the Machin Ery of foreign policy As or. Kissinger speeches and Fly ing missions. But watergate touches Here As every where else these Days. Charity children san Emo Italy a four children were abandoned their parents and ate raw potatoes and turnips from i Armor s Field until police Dis them. The children vere turned Over to a Charity organization. Arab tension eases Beirut a tension be tween the lebanese government and the palestinian guerrillas was reported casing today de spite a guerrilla attack on a Border Post in the Northern part of the country. Mediators from other Arab governments met sunday with lebanese and palestinian officials in efforts to maintain the ceasefire agreed to last week after two Days of hard fighting. The Secretary general of the Arab league Mahmoud Riad met with president Suleiman Franjieh and later said the situation was envoys from Egypt Syria Algeria and other Arab coun tries had contacts with Yasir Arafat the Leader of the Al Fatah guerrillas and he with Drew a threat to break off talks and leave the country. The mediators were said to have suggested amending hit Cairo agreement which ended heavy fighting then be tween the lebanese army ant the guerrillas and Laid Down ground rules for guerrilla activity in Lebanon. The army forced the guerrillas out of Southern Border areas last september after Israel raids. Most of the guerrillas moved into the 15 palc Stinia refugee Camps scattered Abou the country and control them As agreement to remove this state within a As pics ident Franjieh Calls it. But Tiv guerrillas maintain there should not be any tampering with Thi Accord. The attack on the Border pos 69 Miles North of Beirut was Tiv Only ceasefire violation reported sunday. The defence min Isery said guerrillas attack i with rockets and machine gun and took 11 policemen captive army reinforcements drove the palestinians off and the police men were released unharmed Short time later the minister said. Take up a cause. Boycott Quebec hotel fire kills two Terrebonne quo. Up police said sunday night they had recovered two bodies and were searching for a third in he ruins of a Small hotel destroyed by fire Here saturday. The bodies were not identified. Police have listed As missing Georges Therrien 43, and Claudel on Taine 35, both employees of the hotel Des Mille lies and Gilles Duhanel 35, a guest. One body was found saturday and another Sui iday. Police said three explosions proceeded the fire which broke out shortly before 4 . The Quebec provincial police arson squad is investigating. Nine persons were evacuated from the 12- building. Terrebonne firemen had the Blaze under control within two hours. Terrebonne is 15 Miles North of Montreal. Anglicans reaffirm abortion stand by Joe a Regina up Canada s anglicans their stand on Abor Ion reaffirmed have turned heir attention to Quebec s con Roverial James Bay Hydro project and to the question of iries Hood for women. In weekend sessions the 26th general Synod of the anglican Church of Canada endorsed the policy it has held since 1067 hat abortions Are morally acceptable under certain Condi ions and elected the Church s Lew National executive Council which included 22 new members. Resolution groups discussed Priesthood for women sunday Light and the question will come to a vote before a plenary session at any time said most lev. Edward Scott of Toronto primate of the Church. A report on the James Bay project was to be irese riled to delegates today by Lynn Ross appointed by archbishop Scott to look into the Issue. A majority of the a Ives who will be affected by the project Are anglicans. The general Synod saturday approved overwhelmingly two resolutions one reaffirming tic Church s policy on abortions As a 1967 Brief to the Louse of commons and one to study the ques Ion of human life and related problems and report its findings n november. The first Resolution in produced by or. Douglas j. Broadwell a Windsor out., physician commended the fed eral government for its present aws on abortions. It said the Laws Are acceptable to the Church but should be enforced More rigidly to ensure Abor ions will not be available on demand. It also called for wide distribution of the 1967 Brief As Many of Canada s 1.5 million anglicans Are not familiar with it. The 1967 Brief said contraception is the preferred method to prevent unwanted pregnancies and recognized the right of the fetus to live but added thai Liis right May be superseded by another right with greater claim to it also said abortions Are acceptable to the Church when pregnancies result from rape or incest or seriously threaten the life or health of mothers and when diagnosis indicates there is substantial risk of fetal a the Brief objects to abortions As a Means to solve social prob lems and says no doctor nurse Hospital employee nor we make to afford the sup a Belt now original equipment on 1973 cars tires Tonc of m stores in other person should be re tired to participate in any duration to which they have Sci envious at one Point during the two our debate on abortions Peter a Lay Delegate of Halifax moved that the use stand up for one minute silent prayer for those killed later withdrew the motion archbishop Scott s request. Archbishop Scott said he sited or. Andrewes to with Rachis motion because be eral Bishops told me they con dered it a blackmail to the lurch s position on Kidnap charge Laid new York a Ted Paick who has led efforts to reprogram Young persons aught up in religious move cuts and return them to their Arenas was charged saturday i t h kidnapping a woman member of a new York Lun a mentalist group. Patrick 43, and Robert by Quattro were arrested near Phi Delphia after they allegedly Liri cd Dequatro s estranged if Esther 28, off a new York reel and drove with her to Pennsylvania for a program police said. The two Ere being held in Bristol pa., s fugitives from new York Poce. Charges of kidnapping. The incident was the latest in series of encounters involving members of the new testament missionary Fellowship which ays it has 40 members. Two weeks ago or. Dequatro s two mates Elizabeth and Margaret Rogow fought off n attempt by their father and Iree other men to carry them of and take them to their Arents Home in Connecticut he Rogow Sisters also belong o the religious group. Police said the car used in carrying off mrs. Diquattro Vas registered in the name of Juwer Cnoc Rogow of Hamden father of the Rogow stars. Police said they wanted talk to Rogow had not eco Able to Contact him. Airs. Diquattro was seized and driven off in front of. The Wilding where she and the Togo Sisters shared an apart ment. It was the same area there the Rogow Sisters had ruffled with their assailants police said. In saturday s incident wit Nesses told police four men and a woman arrived in a car with Connecticut licence plates screaming woman my left there were about a dozen witnesses but none tried to interfere police said. Mrs. I quallo summoned police during the incident involving the Rogow Sisters. Police said mrs. Diquattro is Secretary at Columbia University teachers College. Members of the new testament missionary Fellowship say their group meets once a Day for prayer preaches the gospel and stresses the experience of conversion to a per Sonal relationship with god. Notes example United nations . A noting that about half of United states College delegates to a Model United nations were women Secre tary general Kurt a Waldheim said that should be an example to member nations of the real organization. Once is enough Lima Peru a a Brake mail who assisted a 19-year-old woman in giving birth to a boy aboard a train in Peru s Andes sad later it s the first and last time i la get involved in such shop ail departments compare the prices see what you can save on your favorite brands i continue at econ Marf in these Days of High food prices it makes More sense than Ever to shop at no frills Low Cost warehouse food Market. We have Low food prices every Day not just on weekends. 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