Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ageiew quits Secretary free press final edition Washington a vice president Spiro t. Agnew resigned weeping Secretary announced Agnew then pleaded no contest in Federal court in Baltimore to one count of income tax evasion. Agnew was placed on probation for three years and fined has been under i Federal investigation in connection with alleged Jdc backs in Maryland where he served As governor before becoming vice president mrs. Lisa Brown the Agnew Secretary told the associated press of his resignation she said she was speaking on be half of a Marsh Thom son press Secretary to Agnew. She was in teams vol 81 no. 10 20 cents with comics Price 15 cents wednesday of Tom 10, 1973 forecast mainly Clear 30 and 55 Damascus bombed jets Jura Eli Pound arabs abandon line but still Cost Rise slows by Neil Gilbride Ottawa up living costs slowed their Rise in sep tember but still continued to Chip away at the value of the Dollar in the steepest inflation since 1951, the government re ported today. Consumer prices Rose six tenths of one per cent last month with food costs continuing to Lead the Price Parade statistics Canada said the increase in living costs was less than half of August s 22-year record jump of 13 per cent out the Price spread Over a year ago continued to Rise it was 85 per cent above sep tember 1972, compared with 8 3 per cent from August 1972 to August 1973. The latest increase brought the government s consumer Price Index up to 153.9 from its 1961 base of 100 the figure Means that every 10 Worth of typical family purchases 12 years ago now costs of that Rise Over a dozen years 22 per cent or of it of cured in the past year alone food prices which have been largely responsible for re cent Sharp increases in living costs Rose nine tenths of one per cent in september Statis tics Canada said. This included a five tenths Rise for groceries and 31 per cent for restaurant meals the Rise in supermarket i ices came despite a greater than usual decline fit More than 36 per cent Foi flesh fruits and vegetables the Impact of higher wheat quotations was reflected in be Tail outlets by a Sharp one1 month increase of 89 per cent in the level of prices for Cereal and bakery Statis tics Canada said. Prices up 17 per cent in september it added. Flour was up 10 per cent and Macaroni 6 2 Pei cent. Prices of meats poultry and fish Rose 4 7 per cent the re port said pork prices the playing coaches of the Vancouver Bla Zers and the Winni Peg jets Light a Torch at Vancouver to Mark the i opening of the world hockey association season. John Mckenzie left and Bobby Hull touch off the Blaze. The Van Couver club plans to Light the Torch at the beginning of every Home game this year advanced 61 please see Cost Page 4 new poll pcs now level Toronto the Federal progressive conservative party has gained enough support to tie the liberals in the popular vote according to the results of a poll released today by the Canadian Institute of Public opinion the poll was conducted Early ast month shortly after parliament was recalled to Deal with the railway strike. Not since Early in 1968, in the aftermath of Robert Stan Field s election As Leader has the conservative party attracted As Many voters As the lib it v forces get 5-year plan by Paul Jackson free press staff correspondent Ottawa defence my ister James Richardson announced wednesday morning Cabinet approval for a five year modernization program which he said will push Canada s armed forces into a new Ramr Richardson my for Winnipeg South said the govern ment has approved a seven per cent yearly increase in the defence budget for each of the reals. After a summer featuring alarming Price rises along with labor strife a concerned electorate appear to be reassessing their loyalties the undecided group dropped from 35 per cent in the August study to 2s per cent currently Liberal support has declined and conservative support has risen i All regions of the country the conservatives with 35 per cent of the decided voters have regained their 1972 elec Tion standing while . Are Down four percentage Points from the october vote the new democratic party Al 20 per cent is two percentage p b i n t s above their election standing with gains coming primarily in please see pcs Page 4 next five years the budget now stands at million. The defence minister said that for several years the department has been operating under stuck financial con strains and that the new plan will enable the armed forces to become both More efficient and up to Date at. The same time or. Richardson announced a phasing Outi of what he said was aging and obsolete equipment he said the phasing out program had been agreed to after ton siltation with Canada s allies in nato and Norad. Under the phasing out pro Gram the armed forces will abandon of Jef destroyers okie training submarine 38 cf400 Jet fighters three Ontario Ladar Sites the scrapping of Ami submarine equipment from the tracker aircraft Fleet and reduction of the Fleet 33 units and reduction by half of the civil emerge Ricy measures financial assistance program to in China pm reaches peking by Stewart Macleod peking up Pierre Trudeau a today became the Fust Cana Dian prime minister to visit China when he was swept into peking with a blazing Welcome which tended to overshadow the talks he began a Short time later with Premier Chou in Lai. The two men met in the great Hall of the people to plot the course of their talks Over the next Thiee Days Anc the cheers of thousands o chinese children v still please see pm Page .4 warplanes attack on two fronts in Mideast map Reuter from a Reuter Israel said its planes bombed Damascus air port today brought Down 17 syrian planes in air Battles and bombed other strategic and military targets in Syria and Egypt. The syrians charged that the Isiah jets were hitting civil Ian targets. Meanwhile Iraq announced that it has thrown its air and ground forces into the Arab War against Israel now in its fifth Day the israeli military com Mand said its planes inflicted considerable damage on the Damascus Airport where it claimed soviet built fighter bombers were located. Israel had bombed the City of Damascus tuesday heavy air Battles raged Over Syria Egypt and the Sinai desert and by Early afternoon the arabs claimed to have downed 33 israeli planes wringing to 231 the number of israeli aircraft the arabs say they have downed since the Wai began saturday before in outbreak of hostilities the israeli an Force was be posted to have 488 warplanes meanwhile a senior. Israeli officer said the 1967 ceasefire line on the Golan Heights has been crossed by Israel forces who Are fighting within syrian territory. But Field reports and communiques indicated ground action had tapered off in the Sinai Penu Ibula where Israel admitted backing off from its main line of defence against he egyptians Egypt claimed it had Ca used 15 israeli tanks in to Sulci after their Tiews fled please see jets Page 5 on Suez canal Lilac line on Gola n Heights restored syrian forces dealt heavy blow t l Tel Aviv special tons the israeli High command tuesday night acknowledged that it has abandoned most of its bar lev defence line on the Suez canal and the country that it faces a Long War. In a remarkably grim statement for a nation accustomed to Swift military Success . Aha rom Yariv declared that israeli forces still face a great disparity in numbers against egyptian tanks and infantry. Gen. Yariv assistant to the chief of staff spoke to correspondents in a Brief hands off u of m the provinces. Or. Richardson said by the end of the 1970s some 20 per cent of the defence department budget will go on new. Equip ment compared to 11 per cent now. Last year some Mil Ion was spent by the armed orces on capital equipment. By the end of the five year program this expenditure will Lave been boosted to More half a billion dollars a Al -. Expenditures Ive Yea period equipment announced today Ywit i in trouble 13 Kilt Street 16 classified 42 to 57 comics. 40, 41 deaths 1 finance. 31 to 34 Jumble. 45 movies 36 sports. To 65 television 35 women. 21 to 24 nearly everyone reads the free press ctr Lone Tettl by. Ron Campbell free press staff writer the University of Manitoba Senate served notice of the provincial government tuesday that it does t want further government interference in the University s academic affairs. By a vote of 35 to the Senate passed a Resolution thai it oppose such interference in principle an d specifically named former universities affairs minister Saul Miller in this regard. What the Resolution Deall with was or. Miller s insistence that an arbitration Boan be created to decide the tenure or prof. W. N. R. Stevens of the physics department. He Hod three times asked the Board of governors for tenure a permanent position at the each time had been refused. His contract with the University expired in june and has t been renewed. Please see hands Page 4 ban ear. Ing carried live on television and i Adio. Troops confident by William Tuohy with israeli a Moredia the Young tank Driver forces near Kantara Sinai desert special tons the big israeli Centurion tank lumbers in from the Battle just up ahead. Tank Driver his face blackened with desert dust lakes a swig from a can teen and says proudly our tank just hit five egyptian t-55 tanks up there five of them1 i think we knocked them All out j Mordecai Odanah a 23-year old Soldier from Tel Aviv adds we have Good tanks our centurions Are better than their tanks. But that s not what counts what counts is that the men inside our tanks ate bet trog missile adds to War s horror Harry Trimborn i Valley in North Central Israel Kibbutz vat israeli the. Past-few1 Days. 1 substantial portion of Capi during the will go on programs already these include a Lew maritime Long Range a r o 1 aircraft modernization of the defence communications system a sur Ace to air self-defence1 missile system for Canada s forces in Europe eight Boeing Vrtol please see forces Page 4 Gas rates up 2% the Public utilities Board of Manitoba Lias approved an application by greater Winnipeg Gas co for a two per cent rate increase effective immediately in an order handed Down tuesday five Days after a hearing the Board granted the company All of the changes it was seeking in its application. Primarily t h e new rate Structure will add to the average residential Gas Bill be tween october and december and Between next Jan uary and the following de please see Cas Page 5 special tons a soviet made ground to ground missile which caused heavy damage to this Community tuesday has added a new and ominous dimension to the Middle East conflict. The missile called was fired from syrian held territory at least 28 Miles away an Kwas among the first of its Type to be used by either Side in the fighting according. To Isiah army spokesmen the missile Ca Pable of carrying either a conventional or nuclear warhead poses an extreme danger to civilian centres and1 for that reason the United states has refused to Supply Israel with such according to various foreign sources. The soviet Union too had reportedly at one time refused its Arab client states Avith such missiles for the same but. Later changed its mind. The israeli army. Monday re ported that _ 20 Inis Siles each capable of a Range of More than 40 had been fired at targets in the Hulah the seriousness with which Israel viewed the Frog at tacks was indicated by its retaliatory raid tuesday on Damascus. Besides Kibbutz vat the continued please see Frog Page 4 War Wou i Slop them Tel Aviv apy. A a a r t y of 250 Canadian t o u r i s from Montreal breezed into Tel Aviv s Lod Airport today to Start a tour of Israel. Don t you know there s a War one of the hundreds of israeli Security men guarding the Airport. One Canadian replied we re not giving a this vacation because of a the general former chief of israeli intelligence said that israeli forces have established a new line i the Sinai three to six Kilometres two to four Miles East of the canal. He called this a firm base for operations to Deal the enemy but Gen. Yariv agreed that 400 tanks is a fair of the number that Egypt has put across the. Canal and said the rearming hat egyptian reinforcements Are quite they Are however taking a Jou Ndang i from israeli planes in said and reinforcement is we have redressed the situation in the Sinai he said. But there is still a Way ahead of us and we still have a lot of the bar lev line named for a former chief of staff was a Chain of thinly manned bunkers on the canal s Bank. Tues Day night Gen Yariv Baid we have evacuated most of this position and the israelis were no longer claiming they had forces on the canal in. A Posi Tion to Pinch off the egyptian Bridgehead. On the Northern front in Syria the israeli military spokesman said that the Lilac line on the Golan Heights has quickly backs up the monster vehicle and Mars off toward please see. Troops Page 5 Russia sends arms Washington a the soviet Union has begun a big Airlift to resupply Syria and Egypt -. Officials said today. The officials said the rus sians using their biggest and transport planes Are Deli vering very Large tonnages of military supplies to airports in both Egypt and Syria the officials spoke Only in vague terms declining to say in what amounts or types of equipment the supplies were being delivered. They said however that so far there has been no evidence that the soviets Are replacing syrian or egyptian fighter planes knocked Down by the israeli air Force. Pentagon spokesman meanwhile Jerry would say Only no comment when asked if the United states was engaged in any extraordinary resupply measures for Israel regularly receives Mil Lions of dollars of . Aid. Of the soviet resupply the . Officials said transport planes Are flying directly from Russia across the Mediterranean to airports in Egypt and Syria. So far there have been no reported attacks by israeli planes against the russian transport aircraft though there have been some israeli attacks at airports where the russian Continua please see Russia Page 4 been almost completely res please see israelis Page 5 in debate bitter United nations special tons the Security Council heard exchanges of bitter Rhet Oric again tuesday but failed to move closer to an end to the War in the Middle East. The Only serious Effort to find a solution before the tide of Battle turns decisively came from the non aligned states. They met with the arabs and offered to submit a Resolution coupling a Call for a ceasefire with a demand for israeli withdrawal from the Arab Terri tories occupied in the 1967 War the territories where the fighting is now going on. Egyptian foreign minister Mohammed Al Zayyat declined with thanks according to in formed diplomats. He said the arabs were not interested in a ceasefire but would Welcome see in Page 4 War i piers from by Alvin Tel Aviv special tons the War of the judgment As the israelis arc calling the pc sent struggle differs in every Way from the three earlier Arab israeli conflicts. The 1948 War pitted the fled gling but army of a new born stale against the traditional armies of conserva Tive Arab regimes. It was Long it did not involve heavy equip ment but it saw Brilliant 1956 Sinai and the 1987 six Dayi War were lightning israeli attacks featuring sur prise and surprising tactics. The War of the. Day of judg ment thus far at any rate is a slugging match Between Mas Sive Arab War machines and an israeli Peoples army built upon Well trained reservists which Only now is moving ind High gear. The War s origins and Pat terns raise questions of some importance questions being asked by foreign and israeli observers. Answers Are Avail Able Here. To sonic extent they represent the views of citizens of one of the belligerent nations. But they May provide clues As to the fighting and its eventual aftermath. If the israelis knew the arabs were massing ominously Why did t they mobilize for six months before the yom kippur Battles the israe Lis had been getting intermit tent signals of an imminent egyptian and syrian attack. Each time a signal was received the government had to decide whether or not to mobilize the reserves. The israelis in peacetime an often infuriatingly individualistic people Are extremely disciplined in crisis. Jiey would beyond dispute have accepted a mobilization Call. But mobilization is costly to the israeli Economy and somewhat alarming to the w c s t e r n world. Each time Israel decided against mobilization. Given the apparent danger Why did t the israelis launch a preemptive strike As they did in the 19c7 War last thursday As a result of Large Settle egyptian and syrian troop concentrations the israeli Cabinet went on a state of Alert. Certain Security precautions but nothing dra Matic. Final word of an Iniel please see War Page 4 ;