Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 11, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Peruvians plunder ancient artefacts Chancay i Cru a limn to that hundreds of i hey mister want to buy old i columbian articles still Lea pots cloth shouts the country annually a few Winnipeg free press. Wednesday 11, 1973 the crowd of children sales men for one of Peru s oldest in plundered artefacts. Come to my urges a Lille girl elbowing her companions aside to Point to a inn of Woven Cane material one of several in a poor farming com manily 44 Miles North of Lima tie capital. Inside a smiling Indian woman Ushers Hie prospective buyer into a Liny room its Dirl floor crowded with Dusty Ceramic objects textiles Stone carvings and worm oaten wooden images of Long forgotten Dic tics. Although some Are Well made forgeries the majority of the articles on Sale Are Genu Ine collected and sold by grave robbers who pillage the tombs of Indian cultures Hal flourished Long before the a r i v a 1 of the Spanish con queers. Sale of pre columbian artefacts mainly pottery vessels or is a profitable business in Peru. Pre Colum Bian objects Are those dating from before the discovery of the now world by Columbus. The goods come from hundreds of archaeological Sites mainly along the arid coast. Many arc known Only to the grave Rob hers. Authorities complain that in discriminate digging i h i e v c s Ania cur archaeologists and curiosity seekers deprives National museums of priceless objects and causes irreparable damage to archaeological Sites. Small time traders concen Fralc on sales to tourists and foreign residents. Large scale operations however arc aimed at the lucrative and illegal Export Market. Private collectors Art galleries and museums in the United states and Europe Are the principal buyers. Although trading in antiquities is not illegal in Peru their excavation and Export is strictly prohibited by a Law stating that such articles belong to he stale. Enforcement of he Laws is difficult and expensive because Mohe Large number of a iliac o o g i c a 1 Silas. Officials is the suitcases of tourists Ai diplomats and Many More crates and disguised As me Chandise. Sheet Metal men Okay wage pact the Sheet Metal worker Union Afl-c10, Csc Vole unanimously tuesday Nigel i accept a wage agreement i ing a 15-cent an hour pay ii crease starting next week. The settlement completes n g o i i a i e s by eight building unions which have been a gaining since Early May for Multi trades contract with i Winnipeg builders Exchange. All the other trades Union have agreed to the terms a Rived at by negotiation com Mitless and the Exchange. A meeting will be held nex week with the Exchange to Sig a master agreement an in formed source said tuesday. Still on strike Are two Union lot part of the group. They a plumbers and operating Congi indians to Honor ramp chief let h Bridge up ramp commissioner w. L Higgitt and journalist Pierre Burlon Are among six men who will become honorary chiefs of the blood Indian tribe during a pow wow july 15 at standoff alia., 25 Miles Southwest of lore. The other four to receive tin highest Honor a blood India can give a non Indian arc c. Ii. Sopp Cla of Edmonton assistant commissioner of the ramp former Canadian Pacific railway president n. R. Ump of Calgary and two Lelh Bricle men Alex John Ston of the department of Agri culture research station and Loe Balla managing editor of he Lethbridge Herald. Sunbeam appliance service company 948 st. James Street Winnipeg 21, Man. Phone 774-1859 products service Complete service for Sunbeam Filatro Oster visit our showroom monday to Friday 9 saturday 9 noon a division of Sunbeam corp. Canada limited . W. John Mckeag met a group of 13 jamaican students tuesday morning at his of fice in the legislative building. Douglas Powell reads the scroll Given to the group by or. Mckeag. Japanese govt. Relieved by vote Tokyo special tons rime minister Kakuei Tana a s Liberal democratic party a collective sigh o f Eliof this week after emerging rom one of the most Inlet sly ought local elections in a in s history with its position s the no. 1 party in the a on s capital still intact. The conservatives who Rule be nation but lost control of munits helped stiffen our party for the "1 feel very grateful for your or. Tanaka told Japa Nese newsmen with a wry smile. Voters apparently responded at least in part to appeals by or. T a n a k a who himself s t u m p e d in the streets of Tokyo for eight straight Days to rally to the Liberal demo Tokyo Assembly in 19g5, mils against the Mimi Shin. Dropped two seals from their lowing of four ago. Cir 53 winners including two dependents expected to join 10 party shortly fell 10 shy of majority in the 125-Man As ably. But As or. Tanaka himself it it nobody predicted that e had a Chance to win even Many As 40 speaking in a nationally telc cd news conference the ear old prime minister said a ale of newspaper predictions at the Liberal democrats communists. The communists who a Carlo tripled their holdings in the powerful lower House of the National diet parliament ii a general election last de com her did pick up six stats Over their 1069 showing. They also registered a 48.1 per cent gain in Voles compared with 1069. For the first Lime in recen elections however the communists fell Short of pre elec lion predictions. They had Beer expected to exceed 30 seats jwniui.1 Ulm la exc ecu fall below the com but bad to Settle for 2-1 Brezhnev cautions Hanoi Moscow a soviet j communist chief Leonid Brezhnev cautioned two North Viet namese leaders tuesday there must be Complete Ami strict fulfilment o f Vietnam peace agreement. Implying Hal Moscow s word was Al slake Brezhnev Lold the visitors that total adherence to the peace Accord by All sides is precisely what is meant by the signature of Hie soviet Union agreement. T h c Kremlin speaking at an to the Paris Leader official Lun Cheon Here for Hanoi s communist parly Leader to dual and Premier Phani Van Dong. Brezhnev mentioned no names but his declaration was clearly directed As much at North Vietnam As at South Vietnam and the United Stales. In his first Public address since he returned from his Washington Summit meetings last month Brezhnev made Iio reference to the american role in the War during his discus Sion of the North vietnamese lie Lold be Duan and Dong the striving to impose its own rules on anyone is alien to the socialist countries. Revolutions arc not to be since continued fighting in Cambodia represents a major obstacle to peace in Indochina Brezhnev May have been re Fen ing indirectly to North vietnamese irn Ops in Cam Bodia. I we invite you to come and hear a thought provoking prese Dialion where do we go from Here a color slide illustrated lecture the Kremlin Leader lied the 1 n d o c h i n a situation to the Kremlin s peace program and efforts for positive changes in world the soviet Union deems it necessary gradually to press for practical slops nol Only to wards political Bill also Mili tary Brezhnev said. To build the edifice of be added full normalization of the situation in suit Casl Asia on the asian continent As a whole would be of great tragedy needless Higgitt Calgary up _ the tra Gic Northern flight of Pilot m a r t e n Hartwell in which three passengers died last no v c m b c r never would have happened if the i temp had been called to do the Job says commissioner William Leonard Liggitt of the a clip. Or. In Artwill s plane crashed nov. 6, on a flight from Cam Bridge Bay . The flight was carrying a nurse and iwo patients to Yellowknife the j territorial capital. The Pilot was rescued after Days in the Bush. There is no ii cation that we could have had those three people safely out and commissioner Ili gelt said an interview. I Don t want to discuss the details of the he said but lie noted the rc1ip is Well equipped with aircraft in the North and the incident need never have Little More fighting space to the big losers were the marxist imbued socialists who sunk to a 22-year Low in seals 120 and polled a paltry 20.5 per cent of the Voles. Nationally Hie socialists rank to. 2, the big Gisl of the four opposition parties. The socialist losses appeared to reconfirm a downward trend that began Aboul six years ago and was interrupted Only in last december s general elec Tion. In Hal election icy gained Back 27 of the 50 seats they loss in without in creasing their Vole locals mainly by slashing Lac number of their candidates to avoid internecine strife in Japan s mul but at Icli seat districts. Inc. Beaded to seat districts. The socialist decline was a particularly encouraging sign to or. Tanaka s Liberal democrats who next july will be absorb expected communist gains next year. Or. Tanaka however refrained from lolling Lac nol As bad As Tokyo s bowing Send ruling party spirits soaring. We look Al this from the standpoint of a majority party. Nol Only did we fail to win a majority but we did t even Malch our showing of 55 scats after one Independent Winner joined the party in the last As Sembly he said. No one was predicting Hal the Liberal democrats had but at least to firms sue unions s i x Winnipeg construction companies have instituted action through the courts seeking an injunction and special dam Ages of More than half a Mil lion dollars from the International Union of operating Engi neers local 901. The statement of claim filed i court of Queen s Bench tuesday alleges that the strike some of the engineers have been on strike since May 28 is illegal and that there have been approximately 25 Sepa rate cases of violence intimidation and threats against non striking employees and staff members of the contractors. The motion for an injunction scheduled to be heard at 2 . July 19. George Akins director of labor relations for the Winnipeg builders Exchange said in a statement the contractors were reluctant to file the claim. However he said there was no Oiler recourse when strikers resort to illegal acts of this sort employers Are forced to seek Relief under the Law to restore Hie appeals have been made to the Manitoba government but the Cabinet and the Premier have failed to intervene or. Akins stated. The six contractors and the amounts of special damages claimed in the stated claim arc Simmons cons Ruc lion Ltd., Crane Ali Ltd., Prairie climb ing Crane Ltd., do minion Bridge company Ltd. Poole cons Duclion and Bird construe lion lid., for Hie convention Centre and Foi the Hoseman project in bran Don. The total is sorry no contest Rome renter Gin Carlo Buie Vigia called off his topless Beauty contest because so Many hundreds of girls showed up to enter he could not View them All before the contest. Big continent new York Asia contains 30 per a Cal of the area of the world and one half the world s population. The great store for indicate that next year s Battle was not already lost. The most encouraging sign for or. Taua a s party came in a 4.5 per cent gain in Tokyo votes com Fin Gam m Tokyo votes com a _ Wilh last december s Highl Seal majority in an elec Tion for the upper House of the National diet. The socialist vote return in an upper House election in 3971, it repeated the 1974 election bad been con corals Side red sufficient in itself deprive the Liberal democrats general election returns in the capital. Soaring prices and pollution had been expected to claim a heavy toll on the Liberal dam the fact that losses to a minimum was Altri Fulcd by political Emmen choir m i Amin Ouick by political come ouse us cd Salors to what Lac a car desire by voters to avoid now Wilh Iho socialists Back even when we re not having a Sale our prices for bet Ter teak and Rosewood furniture for every contemporary Interior Are very we carry All five major teak lines As Well As imports and show a variety of dinettes bedrooms sofas chairs occasional tables and Wall groups As Well As accessories to add that finishing touch. Shop is and compare free parking for your convenience tree parking has been arranged at the Canada wide parking lot behind the st. Charles hotel. We will validate your ticket. 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