Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 14, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Thanks to you its working Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 42 -1 k r to mtg 20c with 13 Ulm is coloured comics thursday november 14, 1974 Surle Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Sunny periods 15 and 30 by Paul wh1telaw free press staff correspondent United nations . Yasser Arafat in an impassioned address wednesday to the in general Assembly of f e r e d the world body the Choice Between an Olive Branch and a Freedom fighter s do not let the Olive Branch fall from my warned the Leader of the Palestine liberation organization or. Arafat called upon the in to help fulfil his dream of one palestinian state where Christian jew and moslem live in Justice Equality fraternity and the alternative he stated would be continued terrorism and the likelihood of a fifth Middle East War which Tor bodes nuclear destruction and cataclysmic the Plo Leader who was interrupted by applause several times during his 100-minute speech was the first speaker at the Start of a general As Sembly debate on the Issue of palestinian refugees. When the Assembly resumed debate after a recess following or. Arafat s speech the Plo Leader was denounced by israeli ambassador Yosef Tekoah As a gangster and or. Plo Tukpah Leader Toronto up Ontario s highly touted development con miracl with Krauss Maffei a has been the future of the magnetic Levi tation Urban transportation pro Gram into doubt. In a Surprise announcement transport minister thu Rhodes said the million contract with the West German has been cancelled and the government will have to Lake a Long look at the pro Gress made so far in develop ing the magnetic transport sys car. Rhodes said he got a phone Call oct. 17 from Krauss Maffei officials saying changes in the West German govern ment s financing policies might threaten funds Lor the project. He would not commit the province to pressing ahead with the development. I can t say there will even be a delivery of this i life told. Tie to have been built on the grounds canadian1 National Job lion in Toronto will be Post Job used indefinitely. V to e minister said the Wes german1 government no Long is interested in such Long Tern technology and has Cut off i the firm. Amid shouts hoots and cat Calls from a grinning Opp Psi lion or. Rhodes told the legis lature the province will not los any Money on the Fei Deal. The company was i refund the province s direct. Please see huge Page 9 photos by Gerry Cairn the Green table in its Canadian premiere by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Drew five curtain Calls wednesday night from capacity audience in the Centennial concert Hall. First performed in 1932 in Europe the anti War Ballet is sub titled a dance of death. The scene shows dancers viewing the darkened figure of death crouched before them. Please see review on Page-9, approval expected Arafat emphasizes Point said that the jul kills jewish Chil Dren and seeks to strangle the jewish state under the slogan of a dam Coralic implicit in or. Arafat s Call Lor n single palestinian state where both jews and arabs would live Side by Side is the disappearance of Israel As a Sovereign nation. The israeli ambassador reiterated his country s position that it would not negotiate with the political linking Arab terrorist Organiza would nol accept Plo authority Over any part of Palestine. Or. Tekoah of his strongest criticism for the United nations calling its decision to invite or. Arafat to speak a surrender " bloodshed and please see Arafat Page 9 Grain states Hli 4 iia Ilii happen for foot Washington a the striking United mine workers ump won a hefty package of wages and benefits from the Coal Industry in a tentative con tract settlement which might reopen the soft Coal mines in the United states within two weeks. Ump president Arnold Miller predicted his members would approve the pact. The Union s ratification process is expected to Lake about 10 Days. In the meantime the. Two Day strike that has already idled about workers in the steel and Railroad industries will continue. It s a very Good settlement one i think i can sell to the. Miller said announcing the Sci element it wednesday night. He said would eradicate some of the Gross inequities that have existed for the Union s 38-Mcmber bar gaining Council summoned from the Coal Fields meets today to consider the three year package. Its approval is needed before the proposed contract can be sent out to the member under the tentative Settle ment miners would receive please see miners Page 9 Washington a pres ident Ford s rebuke of. The Cli Auman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. George Brown has failed to Stein the . Members of Congress and jew ish groups angered by his state ment that jews control the Hanks and newspapers in the United states. While Ford said Brown s re Marks were ill advised and poorly and Brown apologized for making them several jewish organizations a n d members of Congress urged his removal from office. Brown a four Star . Air Force general made his com ments in a question and answer. Session at a Duke University Law school forum oct. 10 ii Durham . New York senator Jacob davits who is a jew asked senator John Plennis chairman of the Senate armed services committee to have the panel look into Brown s comments. The jewish War veterans group said that if Ford did not Ottawa up a govern wednesday that statistics for men report on the Secl in inc first nine months of 1074 Dusty is to be made Public in a Mailer of Days and de new democratic party parliamentary Leader expects in will contain evidence of profiteering. M r. Broadbent Sliawa Whitby said in the commons showed the three major steel companies profits Hail in creased Ovca the same period of 1973. Steel company of Canada Ltd. Selco profits were up 31 per cent Algoma steel corp. Ltd. cent and Dominion foundries and steel Ltd. Dofa so 20 per cent he said. Or. Broadbent asked what has happened to the govern ment report and Industry Mil Isler Alastair Gillespie said it should be available in a mat Ter of or. Road bunt then asked prime minister Trudeau to Brown the lop military commander Iii the ., it void launch a Campaign to Lave him removed because he Jas a key role in executing foreign policy. A Telegram o apology to the group s National commander Paul Hibner by he group s executive director or. Seymour Weisman told news conference the apology does not answer the issues Brown said in the Telegram that in a rather rambling treatment of a difficult and Complex subject the words came out very i deeply regret my re he said. They were both unfortunate and ill consid-1 ered and certainly do not represent my convictions. I deeply regret that my poorly articulated statements have offended a segment of the american pop Ford said the remarks in no see president Page 8 by Jim Hoagland Beirut special tons the voice of. One Man reverberated through this Arab capital wednesday night. In mud spattered refugee huts and in High Rise luxury apart ments palestinians clustered around radio sets to hear shortwave broadcasts of Yasser Arafat s speech to the uni led nations. It was a moment of stunning personal Triumph for the plump balding or. Arafat one of the Arab world s least Likely candidates for leadership who 10 years ago had to plead with Beirut newspaper editors to publish a communique about his newly founded Fatah guerrilla group. The 46-year-old or. Arafat an Engineer by profession has risen to International prominence on his diplomatic skills an absolute rein Sal to commit himself to any Ideo logy beyond regaining Palestine for his followers and a keen sense of seizing political opportunities wherever they lie these qualities have enabled him to coax financial and political support for the palestinian movement from Arab leaders More successfully than any other palestinian Fig ure. He shuttles easily from meetings with Algeria s Mili Tant col. Houari Bou Mcdine to saudi Arabia s deeply conservative King Faisal. Or. Arafat s ability to appear to be All things to All men is a key weakness As Well As a strength however. While acceptable across a Broad spectrum he does not command Strong personal loyalty Here. Everybody s Sec Ond Choice for leadership he would be virtually no one s first Choice it is said. But wednesday s appearance at the United nations and the endorsement of or. Arafat s Palestine liberation organization at last month s Arab Summit conference Are strengthening or. Arafat s previously shaky position among palestinians. Please see everyone Page 8 pledges Rome International Ood officials blasted Canada and other Grain exporters for ailing to pledge millions of tons at Grain to Ward off starvation n South Asia and Africa. We re still not at the Point where they Are willing ice National interests for inter National a top official at the world food conference Aid wednesday. However agriculture min ister Eugene Whelan Canada told reporters Canada is pre pared to do anything within reason to feed famine victims. He reiterated his disappointment with the All talk Little action Progress of the con Ference. He suggested that if it took As Long to Plant a crop As t does Here to talk about it ice would be no food to Dis add eke Boerma head of the United nations food and Agri culture organization a opposed last week that Canada the United states Aust a a the soviet Union Argen Ina the european common Market nations and China take eight million to 12 million tons if Grain off the commercial Market in the next eight non los to Supply of countries that can t afford to buy it. That amount of Grain would be Worth billion to Bil Lon. Most of it would go to India Bangladesh sri Lanka and the sub Sahara Region of Africa. Boerma met again wednes Day with representatives of Canada the ., China Australia Argentina Japan and India but failed to get the prom please see Grain Page 8 Washington special tons the my Lai Massa Cre in which at Lea St 175 and possibly More than 400 Viet namese civilians were murdered by United states soldiers involved a massive coverup aimed at hiding the True a lure of the atrocities according to a Long suppressed Pentagon report made Public wednesday. At every command level within the Amyrical Divi Sion actions were taken both wittingly and unwittingly which effectively suppressed information concerning the War crimes committed the report released by army Secretary Howard w. Callaway stated. Or. Callaway made Public key portions of a Long secret report containing findings and conclusions of a Spe Cial inquiry group headed by . William k. Peers. The Peers report covering four volumes was submit Ted to the Mien army Secretary Stanley it. Resor and Chiel of staff William c. Westmoreland in March 1070. Volumes two and four Are still being withhold from the Public or. Callaway said because they contained raw investigatory material that might damage the lives careers and reputations of individuals against whom accusations were made. Volume one consists of the analyses findings and conclusions. Volume Ihrcke contains other documentary Evi Dence. Please Sec my Page 5 Washington a Nel son Rockefeller has reluctantly commit the government to Roll promo Sci 0 make no gift to any Nufi Back steel prices it there i employee if Congress confirms him As vice president. I think it s going to be necessary that i do Rockefeller said wednesday after a hearing in which he was told repeatedly that his motives in making Large Cash gifts to pub 1 i c officials were open to evidence of profiteering in the or. Trudeau said inc govern ment plans to reintroduce its imposed anti profiteering Cigis action. The Bill died with Disso Lution of he last parliament. 0 u t d c the House or. Brna Henl said he has no Faith in government plans to bring speech commitments in every parliament since or. Trudeau became prime minister in 19g8. And he said the steel in continues London ont. Up Ferenc Stark 50, a Clarkson ont., contractor testified wednesday that he pursued a fellow hungarian Imrch Olejnyik who ripped Oft Peter Demeter in an abortive plot to murder Demcher s wife Only because Olejnyik owed him in o n e y on an uncompleted building contract. Stark testified previously that he arranged for Olejnyik to cause an Accident to happen in the Spring of 197h. Mrs. Demeter was found bludgeoned to death in the garage of the Demeter Homo in Mississauga ont., two months later on july 18. Serious question. The former new York Gocr dozen other witnesses face fur to Denicker s wife Christine 3 a today and.fri-1 Day about the ways he has used the Rockefeller Fortune and about his family s financing of a Campaign biography. Despite the questions Assis Tant democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said at the close of wednesday s hear Ings that Rockefeller Likely will be confirmed by Congress bar ring any new and More Damag disclosures. Inc Bill Back. The government nor earlier said he did not want had not lived up to1 throne to foreclose the possibility that his Money might be of help to any staff member or Friend in government who faced dire medical expenses or of her humanitarian needs. Please Sec steel Page n i Rockefeller and More than a in another development it was disclosed that a study by the congressional joint commit tee on internal Revenue taxation places Rockefeller s estimated net Worth at about million continued please see no Page 0 looking for a dining room suite this want and under Furni Ture 64 antique dining room suite. Phone 4b9-75d7. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Her husband accused of Hir ing some unknown person to murder his wife is charged with murder punishable by life imprisonment. The prosecution alleges Demeter s love affair with 29-year-old austrian Model Marina Hundl and million in insurance on mrs. Dec scr s life were Molivas for murder. Olejnyik is believed to be in Hungary and while the attorney general s department is at Imp Ling to have him extradited in is doubtful his appearance can be arranged before the conclusion of the trial now in its eighth week. Stark testified tuesday that on the night mrs. Demut Cribas to have been pushed Down a flight of stairs in an East. Toron to building project Olejnyik made off with a Roll of building plans containing an unspecified amount of Money As payment or the murder Wilhour carry ing out the assignment. Stark admitted pursuing Olejnyik Between the abortive Pool am mrs. Dencler s death and at one Point leaving a Nolc with a Friend of Olejnyik s that said finish the Job you contract please Sec court Page 8 Ottawa defence minister James Richardson rejected claims wednesday that armed forces morale is Low be cause of spending restraints. He told reporters that such Alk is sell defeating. He had f o u n d no evidence of Low morale in his talks with forces members. His comments were made after being peppered in the commons with opposition maps questions dealing with every thing from defence facilities in Winnipeg to the future jobs of the forces. He described As completely inaccurate a newspaper report that the government plans to spend million to million on defence facilities in his Hometown of Winnipeg. He told opposition Leader Robert Clanfield that the gov please see denies Page 5 Butcher shops Busy 82 jews 27 classified 511 to 17 comics 3-1, m deaths 19 finance 37 to 42 jul Nihls movies sports television women 81 69 to 7k 45 to 49 re ads the free press City zone total society kills 58 dogs promised Homes Cal airy up a storm of protest is building Over the decision by the Alberta society for prevention of cruelly loan imams to kill 58 dogs owned by the self proclaimed dog breeder from Didsbury Alia. George Woodward the 14 year old pensioner who was evicted from his rented farm House. Sunday said he Learned that inc dogs had been destroyed from a Calgary Man who had gone to Edmonton i try to adopt one As a Pel. Spca director Archie Bruce said the dogs never got off the i Ruck and that he would nol try to House the dogs which he described As Sheila Nelson the Toronto card Reader who flew to to take about 50 of the dogs Back in Ontario said even the mafia has More heart than the Spca in a when told that the dogs had Bacn killed. I think it is a disgraceful or. Woodward signed Over inc dogs to the Spca because he was moving from the Home following an eviction order is sued by the Alberta supreme court. The owners of the farm House wanted ill lie cause they said his estimated 100 tiny Mongrel dogs had ruined in. Mrs. Nelson said two report ers from the Calgary Herald said they overheard an Spca Constable toll or. Woodward that the dogs would he housed in the in Monlon animal shelter and that Homes would be. Found for them. Or. Bruce who ordered the destruction of the dogs when or. Woodward signed the re lease said the dogs became the property of the Spca and we were free to do with them what we they were the culls of the please see society Page 10
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