Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Actor Godfrey contingency Man please see Page 10 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 113 me with coloured comics Friday february 7, 1975 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Mainly Clear -25 and -10 Jackson tosses hat into ring by thank Rutter free press correspondent Washington senator Henry m. Jackson confirmed what everyone already knew thursday that Money t h e five minute Lele Visci documentary portrait of the Washington state senior was bought by the Jackson for president committee. The lbs announcement spot was limed carefully for prices tribunal planned profiteering by business is arabs give weapons to Lebanon target by the associated press he s been collecting is because pm Pacific time to Lake the lie Wauls to be president. Jackson who has Well Over is million in his Campaign Kitty spent a chunk of it to pay for announcing his candidacy for i on the by the democratic presidential nomination in 1976. Biggest splash in Jackson s Home stale although the text of is to another new if was released to the Eastern other Arab countries Are going to give Lebanon Milt lion Worth of soviet arms to Ottawa i strengthen its defences against Ottawa s28 million to re. In o a i s informed sources in Cairo said the arms would be supplied by Syria and Iraq govt. Program Aims to Cut Energy use Ottawa cup a five part buildings to fee schedules mixed opposition reaction Energy conservation program j would penalize excessive users greeted the plan which look 4u depend enl largely on Public acl of electricity and natural Gas. I minutes for the minister to Oul and co operation by higher taxes for inefficient i line. Appliances and automobiles Alvin Hamilton. Progressive taxi conservative Energy critic. I called the program a roaring Celance and co operation provincial municipal and Busi Ness leaders was announced i were suggested but no by the government thursday changes were announced. Night. An Extension of a 1973 n e r and said Canada is two y minister Donald j farce pro-1 Macdonald said the Long Range i years behind the United states arc armed by the lha had goal is t0 eliminate waste and in Starling. He attacked the the plan is designed to Cut a Flo encourage a conserved government for ignoring Poten Lional affairs minister Andre Ouellet l Advin destroyed by the 7 f a israelis in Southern Lebanon Kuwait Iraq e r n m e n t to Bunal this one Cairo r led unite Union and other countries. J j.1q" a tonal Energy consumption by ethic among Consumers. The sources said five Arab Al Easl two Pei. Cent this year. The Imp erasure in com o i 1 i tial alternate Energy sources i such As wind and solar Power proposals Many hinged j Mons lobbies As he spoke was Forest and agricultural waste. It was released to the Easl cry e r n m e n t to Bunal this one j press at 3 . So it could gel j Wilh authority to Rule Over on the big evening newscasts. Paces when a modified set of us Libya and thej0n amendment of provincial172 degrees four degrees higher legislative proposals to Stop the Cairo newspaper Al ask so Duclion. I Laws improvement of Indi Egypt and Morocco would pro a visual conservation practices vide the million for recon i Range from than the maximum proposed for Federal buildings in the 1973 please see Jackson Page 6 i profiteering by business is bar said the weapons would in a introduced in parliament later i elude surface to air i this year. Anti tank missiles and torpedo the latest proposals depart a the sem official Cairo paper a please see arabs Page 4 reduced Speed program. Lobby radiators were limits and belter insulated set Al 90 degrees. But t. C. Douglas his new democratic party counterpart complimented the government please see program Page 4 mines on Mekong blocking convoys phenom Pifen the use of floating mines in the g Mekong River has dramatically tipped the Battle of the g Mekong in favor of the cambodian insurgents. For the offences would be held by the moment at least the Mekong is effectively blockaded As the s existing restrictive Trade ment officials say Are Al an _ advanced Slage and Are a sub h so animal departure from the a i proach the government tried last april. J then former Corporale affairs minister Herb Gray said the government wanted Amend ments to the combines investigation act to permit it to freeze or Roll Back excessive prices. Hearings into alleged latest Convoy to attempt the run was turned Back with _ heavy losses. 1 the City of phenom penh is dependent on the River g route for More than 80 per cell of its supplies and Al s though there Are no desperate shortages now survival de g pends on eventually gelling the convoys through. G the cambodian Navy is now trying to improve its sweeping techniques before the Convoy makes another Al g tempt perhaps within the next few Days. The latest Convoy of four lugs lowing ammunition and g perhaps Rice barges As Well crossed the Border from g South Vietnam wednesday. G three were sunk and the fourth turned around and escaped Down River. The people were reportedly killed and g 16 were wounded according to reports reaching the Capi Tal. The figure includes cambodian Navy personnel As Well h As civilian crewmen. One civilian tug boat Captain report g Teddy lost his legs. S up until this week mine warfare was Seldom used g against the convoys trying to resupply the capital. S the new turn for the worse came on monday when a Tanker was sunk returning empty Down Stream along with three tugs and a number of barges. Seventeen people were g reported wounded and four missing. The tugs with their Low profile and Small size present g a Small target to the insurgent gunners along the River please see mines Page 6 practices commission under the combines act. That Bill introduced hastily at a time when the government was emphasizing its anti inflation policies and two months before a Federal election was just As hastily withdrawn when it came under opposition party fire. Or. Gray was dropped from the Cabinet in August. Please see prices Page 6 gunfire crackles in peruvian capital Buenos Aires sources said left at gunfire crackled in Lima 40 dead. Peruvian capital late the associated press Day night More than 24 hours ported in Lima that the after the army crushed a to i c n m e n t announced lice revolt and drove civilian rioters off the streets with tanks. Re of about 100" persons had been killed by military patrols in action against arsonists and looters the curfew has just started. By snipers and by shopkeepers i and there Are very frequent defending their properly bursts of said British embassy official in Lima de scribing the after male of. Wednesday s fighting which the British embassy official was in telex Contact with ulcese see gunfire Page 4 railways Cut freight rates Ottawa up the rail ways announced today they Are filing reduced freight transport commission indicated the railways could file a new 12.5 per cell rate boost increases averaging 12.5 per which would come into Force cell which would be in effect j right away. To the end of february. J the railway association of the railways have been charging a full 25-per cent in crease for general commodity Rales since Jan. 26 but were ordered to push Back the entire increase last wednesday. T42 full increase would Lake effect to. H melt no Dian National railways and up rail said in a news release that the new Tariff was being filed to clarify the situation j facing Many shippers while rate Appeal proceedings Are underway before the supreme i curl of Canada. Bui in ordering canc Lvalion j of the increase the Canadian nip talks wanted by Victor Mackie free press staff correspondent Ottawa a meeting with t h e three new democratic parly premiers from Western Canada to discuss syn Cru the and other Energy developments is being organized by nip parliamentary Leader Edward Broadbent. Time and place for the Meel ing probably in Winnipeg will b e announced shortly or. Broadbent said in a Stater Neni he issued thursday. Premiers Edward Schreyer of Manitoba Dave Barrett of British Columbia and Allan Bla Keney of Saskatchewan will be invited to attend the meeting. All provincial new democratic party leaders and Federal Leader David Lewis also will Sci invited to attend. Or. Broadbent has attacked please see nip Page 6 italian Art thieves grab masterpieces by George Armstrong Rome special the guardian in whal is the most incredible and the most highly valued Art theft Ever to Lake place in Italy if not in the world thieves thursday stole two paintings by Piero Della Francesca and one by Raphael from the Ducal Palace in Urbino. Their motives Are still unknown but the robbery can Only be explained if it is the work of rational minds As either a demonstrative act or a question of kidnapping for Ransom. In either Case the theft could be political to show How ill guarded italian Art treasures Are or to obtain a Large sum of Money for the return of the paintings in order to finance subversive political activity. The two Pieros Are the Madonna of Senigallia and the flagellation of Christ. The Rapael is the portrait of an unknown woman which has been known for centuries As la Muta the silent ail three paintings Are of average size and transport Lable. The flagellation which May be a 15th Century a Lisl s most perfect composition is in a delicate state and is in fact two pieces of film like thin paint which were patched together on wooden backings by experts some years ago. Had the thieves not removed that painting from its Frame it might stand a better Chance of survival. The three paintings represented the Best in Urbino s National gallery of the marches and the one Raphael was the Only one of that Painter on View in the town of his birth. Please see thieves Page 4 Harold Meadows is one of several Farmers near Fisherville on. Who have been drilling for Gas on their property since the local Gas company due to risen costs withdrew services from the 950 residents in the area. Please see Story on Page 4. Energy food autos cause living Cost to Rise .5% Aid Agency Branch exclusively French by Richard Jackson Maceachen in the commons free press correspondent thursday said he had t heard 0 t t a w a the latin i about it but would enquire. American division of the Cana meanwhile it has been con Dian International development firmed by director p. Tanguay Agency has been declared a in i who explains thai while the la bilingual francophone operation. I Lin american division is of 11 employs a staff of 45 and i facially a francophone unit does business for c1da in Cen-1 just As there Are anglophone trial and South America and i and bilingual units in the Feder parts of the Caribbean. I external affairs minister please see Branch Page 6 today business report 13 to 20 ski tracks 48 classified 21 to 28, 30 to 39 comics 8, 9 deaths.4 Jumble 24 movies 52, 53 sports 41 to 48 television 51 women 29 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone total North Justice flaws reported by Glenn Somerville Ottawa up even though Consumers had to pay More for cars to eat and drink i and to heat their Homes and keep the lights on in january the increase in the Cost of Liv ing was Only half the rate re corded for a month earlier. Statistics Canada reported today. The january report on the widespread dissatisfaction u recommends a new Corric i Coll Tumcl Index showed a with the criminal Justice sys lion facility in the Pas a Newi one half of one per cent gain in Lem in Northern Manitoba Par juvenile facility in Thompson Licul arly in Rumole commune and minimum so curly facile lies has been uncovered by ties in a number of other com the province s Northern unities. Tons committee. The committee headed by in a report released Friday prof. C. G. Gilford former on corrections in norther n head of the University of Mani uary level of 176.6 from 157.6 in 1974. This represents a slight moderation from the 12.4-per-cent annual rate recorded for Cost of living increases in 1974, but the rate last year was the highest Canada had expert this year ended in 26 years. Statistics Canada started publishing consumer Price Index figures in january that Are adjusted for seasonal fac tors. It now also measures How please see living Page 6 Manitoba. The commended to committee rec inc provincial tuba s school of social work the Over All Index last half the Rale Hal prices Rose in december. I for the first Lime in several months food prices showed Only a moderate gain. Most of Rogers said bomb misdirected police by David Lee free press staff writer the increase that did occur in Winnipeg detective Les was set up by the Manitoba this Index was attributable Lori Iffert thursday John Joseph id3l ulu government last july to invest i higher prices for food eaten Rogers told him the wrong Manitoba and government that of services in the North be decent 11 g a i e Northern correctional Side the Home. To realized to the Community level i services and to make on a 12-Monlh basis. And that greater Public Partick i was a 12.1-per-cent increase injured a court worker sept. Pelion be encouraged. Plasse see Northern Page i the Over All Index to ils Jan in the Law courts building. As Well a British Columbia truck Driver Lold an Assize court jury thai or. Rogers asked him to mail a parcel on which the words Man got it when a Werc Wrilen. There trapped clock exploded and in 26 hundreds believed killed in Savage fighting full scale War rages in Northern Ethiopia by David Ottaway Adi key special tons a full scale War is now underway in Ethiopia s Northern Eritrea province and government forces Are engaged in sustained heavy fighting Wilh eritrean guerrillas Over control of Southern Access routes to the provincial capital of Asmara. The evidence available from a three Day trip to the province would seem to indicate that the situation is far More serious for the ethiopian government than had heretofore been realized. The Battles now involve thousands of eritrean guerrillas and government troops and casualties although undisclosed by either Side must be run Ning into the hundreds. The government has pushed the guerrillas out of Asmara but has been unable to dislodge them from Many of their positions South of the City and is Rushing hundreds of additional reinforcements by Road and air plane into the province. Already Between 100 and 200 civil ians alone have been killed in and around Asmara during the fighting there last weekend. The current upsurge in fighting which began last week inside and around the provincial capital May Well decide the Fate of the province and perhaps Loo. Of the provisional Mili tary government which has been ruling this politically troubled Mountain King Dom since emperor Hail Selassie was deposed last september. The eritrean liberation front which has been conducting a guerrilla War for the Independence of this Stra logically located province for nearly 13 years appears determined now to stand and fight government forces in an All out Effort to drive them out of Eritrea. The military seems just As determined to hold onto the province where Ethiopia s Only two ports arc located at All costs. The War holds serious implications for the United states government As Xiv cell. For the ethiopian military is to tally dependent on Washington for its arms from rifles and bullets to tanks and aircraft. Should the fighting drag on As it seems destined now to do Ethiopia is almost certain to have to re quest additional military supplies from the United states which will then have to decide whether it wishes to become see full scale Page 6 the two witnesses were Tes i lifting during the fourth Day of i or. Rogers s trial before chief Justice a. S. Dewar in Mani j. Toba Couit of Queen s Bench. Or. Rogers is on trial on twi 1 charges of attempted Murde i and one charge of sending Ai explosive substance through the mail with intent to do Bodi in harm. Or. Rogers 51. Of Van c o u v e r was charged after Charles Gilraine chief clerk of the county court was seriously injured when he plugged in an electric clock m ailed to co worker James Symons. G or. Gilraine lost his left 1 hand Al the wrist and suffered i severe facial injuries when the clock exploded. Testifying thursday sol. De i Galski a Winnipeg police detective said he arrested or. Rogers at the Vancouver inter i National Airport oct. 1, a few hours after he had been brought there by United states i immigration authorities. The detective said he immediately asked the Man if of i wanted to make a write e i please see wrong Page 4 ;