Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winn Pic Frh press wed Rudat May 9. 1973 wiretap Bill will get study a police state. They say t Sec Tion citing espionage and Sabo Tage and any other subversive activity s justification for police wiretaps leaves it up to the solicitor general to determine what is subversive activity John Diefenbaker pc Prince Albert asked Justice minister Otto Lang tuesday to withdraw a clause permitting police bugging for 36 hours be fore getting a court order. What an Opportunity for a snooper to the former prime minister told the com Mons. If lie gets what he wants Good if he does to Well nobody has to know about or. Lang said Law or not organized crime will continue to use electronic eavesdropping. Police needed Access to the same devices if they were to match the efforts o criminals. He said he is willing to Dis continued cuss improvements to the Bill. In committee. Controls on bugging were be fore parliament in 1970 and 1972, but were not passed. The watergate scandal in the United states has added interest this time and or. Lang has urged Quick approval of the Bill. Solicitor general Warren All Mand said in the House a Royal commission inquiry into the prison system May be Neces sary. Earlier during a Justice com Mittee meeting or. Allmand said Over population is a Factor in sagging morale and tension in the prison system. The question period started off As a noisy affair As the opposition ripped into the govern ment Over the zooming Cost of living. Statistics Canada reported tuesday the consumer Price Index Rose 1.1 per cent Between March and april pushed by a 2.6-per-cent increase in the Price of food. Explosions Rock Beirut continued now a Little support costs less. Off phantom hug me tights may9tomay19. Phantom 40th. Birthday Sale. Wounded in the Savage fighting j around Beirut monday night and tuesday that shattered a previous truce. The newspaper an Nahar says still incomplete govern Merit casualty reports listed ight soldiers and five civilians tilled and 21 soldiers wounded. A round the clock curfew was lifted for two hours this morn ing but a state of emergency remained in effect with the army responsible for internal Security and censorship in Force. Parliament was to meet in emergency session later in the Day and an army guerrilla ceasefire commission was meeting without recess. Beirut Airport Centre of much of the fighting remained closed. A spokesman said 12 in coming airliners were diverted to Cyprus tuesday and Severa that had been trapped by the fighting took off empty during lulls. President Suleiman Franjieh has not decided whether to accept the resignation of Premier Amin Hafez submitted tuesday during the fighting. The fighting this week was a sequel to two Days of fighting last week Between the army and the guerrillas in and around Beirut in which More than 100 persons were Kille and nearly 300 wounded. The army has been taking a harder line toward terrorists caught with arms and explosives to reduce the likelihood o retaliatory israeli raids into Lebanon and the guerrillas Are fighting to preserve the free hand they have maintained ii the 15 refugee Camps in the country. A ceasefire agreed to Friday kept tilings quiet during Thi weekend. But it appeared Thi established guerrilla leadership headed by Yasir Arafat of Al Fatah organization was unable to enforce the truce Amoni such Radical splinter groups a the maoist popular front. Jas is estimated at billion which is less than half the Cost icing put on pipelines from the Arctic. This Craft is feet in a nth and has a Span of 838 act. Its unique construction Vith 18 Rotor engines placed on to three wings would give it a Ift capacity of from five to 10 Imes that of a conventional winged aircraft. In this configuration the deliverable cargo Over a Range of Miles is of six million pounds with a total cargo transportation Cost of less giant planes discussed continued than a Penny per ton mile. The plane is also built to make super soft landings which it is said would make Ess indentation on the Landing surface than a Man s footprint. It also creates very Little noise. The induction aircraft development phases Are scheduled to Ake place Over a period of 3v4 years. Addressing the corridor con Terence on the subject aircraft development in the a. V. Mauro president of Trail Sair strongly favored the use of available aircraft such As the Boeing 747f, at least for the movement of Ore concentrate rom the North. He estimated that 24 such planes operating around the clock could move 420 tons daily or More than a Quarter of a million tons annually. If the shipping was containerized he said 80 contain ers flown South to Churchil daily would mean that 40 rail cars would be loaded for ship ment to the South. Personally or. Mauro said it an interview i Don t see the resource plane As a Means o moving Ore concentrate. Ii would also be hazardous As a Means to transport liquified speaking of the great Plains project with the super resource air Carrier or. Mauro re marked it seems to me tha great Plains gave birth to a child and they Don t want to up it up for he said that uie disappointing element in the present Confer once was that it did not seem to be moving in the direction of really positive i Don t have great Confidence in conferences. It seems to be that we have been Over conference especially in re Gard to the North. Honestly i believe that sufficient data exists that requires action rather than custodians to vote on contract about 150 st. James Assiniboia school custodians who ave already rejected one Sala y proposal arc expected to Fote on a new contract Satur a. Trustee Ron Johnson told the Ward tuesday that negotiating earns from the Board and j o c a 1 730 of the Canadian Union of Public employees ame to terms monday. Trustee Johnson said in an interview the school Board would probably meet next week to ratify the contract if it is accepted by the Union Mem Pership saturday. Trustee Johnson said he could t reveal the terms of the agreement. We did reach agreement and we Are hopeful everything will go the custodians have threat ened to strike unless they get wage parity with their Winnipeg division counterparts. Skylab countdown begins Cape Kennedy Fla Reuler the countdown Fin he two giant Saturn rockets at the Cape Kennedy space Centre began today for the Mission next week. The countdown for the skylab space station and its Saturn v rocket began at 1 . Cd. The countdown for the Apollo spaceship which will carry three astronauts into orbit an the Saturn 1-b rocket was to Start at 7 . Cd. The space station will b launched next monday a Day before the astronauts. Concert raises continued so far Winni Eggers have contributed about toward he Leopard fund. The fund s objective is it is estimated will be needed to buy new Snow Leop. Ird As a mate. For the Assiniboine Park zoo s remaining now Leopard Shadow. Shadow s mule Suki died this Pring. Winnipeg school Chil Ren then latched on to the idea f raising Money to replace Uki. In a recent free press poll the Argest number of votes for a ame for Shadow s potential mate chose the name Simba. Donations to the school Chil Ren s save the Leopard fund May be made at any Branch of extortion try gets 23 months Edmonton up Chuen Shing Ken Chow 22, of Edmonton was sentenced tuesday o 23 months in jail Tor attempt ing to Cort from an Edmonton doctor. Provincial judge j. C. Cough Lin also placed Chow on two years probation. Judge cough in said he considered this t our year sentence during which show would be under Constan ii revision. Crown prosecutor Harry Pichard told the court Chow sent to letters to or. D. A Margo us april 10 demanding Money Chow who pleaded guilty threatened to kill or. Margolus f the Money was not paid. Chow a native of Hong Kong was in Canada on a student visa and was enrolled in Thi second year of a science Coursi at the University of Alberta. Defence counsel Richan Fraser said Chow worked 2 hours a week As a Kitchen Helper for an hour at Ai Edmonton Motel. Or. Margolus was interim manager of the Motel. Or. Fraser said Chow decided to extort the Money from in doctor because he was the on Rich person he knew. Or. Margolus called police who staked out the pickup poin in the Kitchen of the hotel an arrested Chow when he appeared to collect the Money. Big Island the Island continent of Australia with an area of 2.3 Mil lion Square Miles is nearly As Large As uie Continental United states. Optimist meeting the Broadway Optimist Community Centre will meet at . Tuesday in the clubhouse 175 Young Street. The Toronto Dominion Bank or any Branch of the City s credit unions. Contribution by mail May be sent to the Manitoba teachers credit Union postal Box 97, Winnipeg. Dietetic meeting the dietetic association of Manitoba will hold its annual meeting at 6 . Thursday in the Centennial concert Hall. The no Oil dressing supreme Winnipeg to Dauphin the Pas Thompson Gillam Churchill 6.70 14.20 19.00 20-00 25.00 one Way red coach fares Call in or your travel agent 2 01. Limited Stock. 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