Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Disciplinary upheld by Casa please see Page 27 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 82 no. 115 with coloured comics monday february 10, 1975 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Washington a Rich Ard Helms former director of1 the Central intelligence. Agency admits he intentional july failed to Tell United stales1 Senate committees All he knew about Cia work in Chile and withheld information about the Nixon administration s desire j to have the marxist govern m e n t of Salvador Allende overthrown. Helms admission was made in Secrel testimony Jan. 22 be fore the Senate foreign relations committee. A censored j ecology Impact studied Ottawa up Energy minister Donald Macdonald says the sync rude Oil Sands project presents the classic conundrum the Environ mental Trade off against the Oil Supply speaking on the ctr television program question period or. Maedonald said the environmental Impact of the project on the Athabasca River system is being investigated. There has been a preliminary study and there is a pro Gram to continue he said. For the moment we have decided to go on and try to perfect a technology but there is a or. Macdonald said initial environmental studies indicate that the Athabasca River sys tem will not be endangered by the sync rude project. On the other hand i would acknowledge that there is a major environmental concern please see ecology Page 6 version of his Sale meals was released sunday. Helms appeared before the committee to explain various apparent discrepancies in previously sworn statements re Garding Cia operations abroad and at Home. I fell obliged to keep some of this stuff in other words not Volunteer a Good Deal of in Helms said of his testimony in 1973 before the foreign relations panel and a Subco Millee on Multi National corporations. Helms denied he Ever knowingly lied to a congressional committee but said if 1 have been guilty in the past of not having gone the whole Way All testifying two years ago o his nomination to be Ambas Sador to Iran Helms a asked if the Cia tried to overthrow the government o Allende headed the government and died when the military staged a successful coup in 1973. A o Helms replies without elaboration. Did you have any Mone passed to the opponents of Al Helms was asked. No said Helms. So the stories you were involved in that Are wrong in Helms was asked. Yes Helms replied. He told the foreign relation panel last month he should have answered the 1973 questions in a much More Exten Sive i think i made one mistake in that testimony maybe serious mistake but i should have probably asked either to go off the record or to have asked to discuss this matter in some other forum. Helms said. He said disclosure of Cia operations against the Allende government might have further damaged relations Between the United states and Chile. As far As the earlier state ment is concerned whether the please see Helms Page 6 Jackson Humphrey Call for prove Washington a sen-1 who be raised an inference of a mostly sunny 0 and -20 Belfast a the Irish the truce. But the government Republican army Ira begins said in a statement a Genii i a new ceasefire tonight. Bui line and sustained cessation of crash kills 30 train smashes into mexican bus Are you trouble getting your new car through the Canadian Winter in one piece Norm Scott of Victoria brought his 1926 Model Chevrolet to Vancouver sunday for an auction to be held later this month. No problems driving in the Snow. It has real Good traction better than some of the cars built said or. Scott. Cult spec Mexico a a line of wooden coffins in the auditorium Between cult spec s town Hall and the itch Century Church held the bodies today of i 30 residents killed when Ai i g h t train smashed into i their bus. Twenty seven persons were injured some critically in the collision saturday night 30 Miles North Jef Mexico City. The Driver obviously tried o beat the train to the Cross no and said police at he scene. The Driver Jose Casamiro a was among the dead. Five months ago the brakes i another bus failed and it lunged into a Ravine killing 44 persons. Last june 50 tourists rom Mexico City died when heir chartered bus fell Inlo a i Iver in the Southeastern stale f Tabasco. Won t be to alive guard abducted convict escapes Vancouver up Don Oag serving a 12-year sen Aid Oag vowing he would not i Tynce for manslaughter was be recaptured alive escaped j being transferred from Mill a custody sunday after abducting Ven Penitentiary near King a prison guard at Vancouver Ston ont., to appear at a new International Airport. Westminster b.c., civil court police said Oag 25, of Lori hearing today. Police accept 17.5% Don ont., has escaped from Ontario and British Columbia prisons twice in the last four years and is considered extremely dangerous. He is one of eight prisoners seeking a court declaration that they have been deprived please see convict Page 6 . Police Chase truck Over Border actors Henry Jackson and Hubert Humphrey have called for a congressional investigation of the United states defence de Humphrey dem. In calling for an investigation of the contract said the Possi apartment s contract with a Pri Job i 1 i t y of having american vate corporation to train saudi j forces training another arabian troops to protect Oil j country s troops in the Mideast Wells in the persian Gulf. J is fraught with danger. Jackson dem. Wash said i think the armed services he would ask senator John committees of the House of Stennis dem. Chair representatives and Senate Man of the Senate armed ser a should promptly look into in vices committee to conduct land see what it hearings. Only a Short Lime i Humphrey said in a Telephone j ago the interview sunday. J p r e s i d e n t and Secretary of i the defence department s state indicated the option of contract with the . Military action might be considered under certain Cir Comstance Sinthe Middle Jackson said in a Tele phone interview sunday. He said the contract to train saudi troops was since we re the Only ones Vinnell corp. Of los Angeles was disclosed sunday by the associated press. Vinnell is hiring former . Special forces soldiers and other War veterans to Send to please see senators Page 6 explosion wrecks chemical Plant Antwerp Belgium a plants were blown an explosion and fire killed at j Down and windows were Brok least five workers and de Jen across the River in ant stroked most of the Union car Werp Dide polyethylene Plant on thei Union Carbide officials said shutting them up London renter a British judge advised his colleagues sunday on How to Stop Long winded Law yers from going on and on and on. Judge Peter Mason writ ing in the Law Magazine the magistrate recommended first look Al your watch shaking it is going too far. Second look Al but do not talk to your col leagues on the Bench. If this does not work look hard out of the window or hand bils of paper Down to your clerk. As a last resort close your eyes but do not on any account go to sleep. Fort Erie on. Up a Buffalo n.y., police Cruiser chased a truck bearing Ontario licence plates across the peace Bridge Early saturday and fought with the Driver and Pas sengers on Canadian soil a spokesman for the Niagara re Gion police said sunday. Canadian immigration officials said they tried to per Suade the Buffalo policemen to return to United Stales soil but they did so Only after the Nia Gara police arrived. The Nia-1 Gara police had been called by immigration officials. James Powless of fort Eric. Driver of the truck suffered a fractured Skull and was taken to Hospital where his condition was reported As satisfactory. Police said a lawyer representing or Powless said Sun Day his client s head injury was caused by a Bullet fired by Buffalo police during the Chase. However Niagara police said they had no evidence to sup port the claim and a Hospital spokesman said the Hospital could not confirm or deny that the wound was caused by a Bullet. Please Sec police Page 6 City study next Good atmosphere cited this year by Glen Mackenzie free press police reporter members of the Winnipeg police association have Voled overwhelmingly to accept a new Contra cd with the City for 1975, it was announced Satur Day. Staff sgt. Stanley Scarr president of the 800-member association said in an inter View saturday that the Tenta Tive agreement increasing salaries by a total 17.5 per cent had been approved at an Asso c i a t i o n meeting thursday night. The settlement has Yello be approved by Winnipeg City Council. The increase gives first class constables an annual salary of s15.876 by july 1, when the final 5.5 per cent of the in please see police Page 6 i fears thai protestant extremists would sabotage it were heightened by a machine gun attack on a crowd of Wor ship p e r s leaving a roman Catholic Church. The Ira s provisional Wing announced it would suspend i s guerrilla War at 6 . 1 . No Lime limit for the ceasefire was set but London newspapers reported an Ira spokesman in Dublin warned this is Only a peace Initia Tive. A permanent ceasefire is i still a Long Way i William Craig Leader of the extremist protestant Vanguard movement said the Ira s Catholic leaders probably were trying to gain credibility and win a breathing he demanded the Catholic guerrillas surrender of their two hours before the Ira announcement sunday night two gunmen opened fire on the crowd leaving 7 . Mass at St. Bridget s Church in Belfast killing two Young men and wounding a third and then escaped in a car stolen in a protestant area of Belfast. Police blamed protestant extremists. Twelve persons now have died since. The Ira proves ended a Christmas truce Jan. 16 after 25 Days. The official death loll from 5vi years of violence in Northern Ireland has risen to the proves gave no explanation for their new ceasefire except to say it came after discussions Wilh British officials on effective arrangements to ensure that there is no break Down of a new the Ira said it ended the Christmas truce because the British did not respond sufficiently to its demands for the release of 500 interned Ira suspects and a pledge to with draw the British troops in Northern Ireland. British sources insisted the government made no secret deals to win the resumption of violence could be the basis for a More constructive and peace Ful future for Northern ire the British have pledged that an end to violence would Lead to eventual abandonment of the system of jailing suspected guerrillas without trial the release of Many men now behind bars and a major be please see new Page 6 rescuers report no sign of life nobody notices London a a bus conductor a clerk and a handful of other rebel Cor Nishman declared Cornwall Independent of British Rule saturday. No one else seemed to notice. Cornwall was the last part of ancient celtic Bri Tain to be conquered by in please see nobody Page 6 tax debate ending Ottawa up govern ment and progressive conservative officials say that important income tax proposals Al ready debated seven Days should be approved by the commons by the end of this week. The new democrats seeking opportunities to fight the syn crude Oil Sands agreement Are not so sure. Stanley Knowles Winnipeg North nip House Leader said Friday that the tax Bill on which 1974 income tax deductions depend should get second in week. He would not say what might pen after that. He added that the sync rude agreement announced last week and strongly opposed by the nip will be debated Dur ing discussions on the Bill s re source taxation provisions. The nip has been seeking every available Means to prod please see tax Page 6 Kissinger embarks on Mideast tour by Jim Hoagland Beirut special tons United states Secretary of state Henry a. Kissinger embarked on his first Middle East tour of the year sunday Wilh prospects for negotiating an israeli withdrawal from Egypt s Sinai Peninsula that would Lead to an effective two Schelde River North of Antwerp Early today police said. The damages would total Mil Lions of dollars but they had an unknown number exact estimates. Workers were reported miss ing and firemen said they saw 350 persons dismembered bodies in the burning ruins of the Plant. Police said the exact number of victims was difficult to deter mine because the shift changed i at about the time of the expo a Sion. J police said 17 workers injured seven of them critical j by. I police sources said the sex i Losion occurred about 6 . In one of the Plant s five polyethylene units in which Gas had accumulated. The Ceplo i Sion started a fire that spread 10 storage tanks for plastic j products and hours later the fire was still raging. The Plant is spread Over area of about 25 acres but the i Force of the explosion was so Garcal that Walls of some neigh-1 the Plant employed about looking for a snowmobile this want and under Snow mobiles 69 polara 1a . 8at Tery snarl. Phone 338-9821. 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. Athens a a air Force helicopter located the wreckage of a Wisl Ger Man military transport plane in the Snow covered mountains of the Island of Crete today. All 42 men aboard were apparently killed a spokesman for the Wisl German embassy reported. A greek air Force spokes Man said Helicon Lars hovering Over the wreckage reported no sign of life. If there had been any survivors they would have Frozen to death during the night the spokesman said. The plane crashed during a storm sunday night As it was bringing 37 West German sol Diers for anti aircraft firing tests Al the North allanic treaty organization s missile base on Crete. The Pilot apparently lost his Way when he was about 15 Miles from his destination and turned into the mountains the spokes mar said. The wreckage was sighted at an Altitude of nearly feet in Snow six feet deep. The spokesman said a greek army commando unit on skis had been sent to inc wreckage. Today mayan mysteries climate changes 49 24 classified 33 to 47 comics 18, deaths 5 finance 15 to 17 Jumble. 3fi movies 21 sports 26 to .12, 48 television 20 women. 14 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone total main Arab armies and Israel. This assessment was drawn from private comments of senior officials in Egypt and Jor Dan informed syrian sources and reports reaching Here from Israel. J diplomatic analysts have concluded that or. Kissinger has assured the israelis and Jordan s King Hussein that the i question of the Palestine Liber a t i o n organization participating in serious peace talks will continue to be Frozen during a truce period. Top aides to the Plo s Lead or Yassir Arafat have drawn j the same conclusion and have j begun to pave the Way Wilh Public statements for a Possi ble reversal of or. Arafat s previous commitment to seek a palestinian role in peace negotiations. A reaction by the palestinians and their chief foreign supporter the soviet Union will be a key Factor in the durability of the interim Settle or. Kissinger is seeking diplomacy. Syria is also nervous about or. Kissinger s latest Effort fearing that it will result in taking Egypt out of a military striking position for several years. But the syrians who tried last week to put pressure on Egypt to hold out for a total settlement apparently feel they have Little Choice but to g o along with new disengagement of forces agreements on the Sinai and Golan fronts. Despite or. Kissinger s cautioning in Washington that this please see Kissinger Page g soviet spacemen return to Earth Moscow a cosmonauts Alexei Gubarev and Georgy Grechko returned safely to Earth sunday Afler spend ing 30 Days in space and is Blacks must Rule South Africa Nyerere says dares Salaam a Black Africa will insist on Black Nile in South Africa and will never agree to apartheid even if the Blacks get control of Rhodesia and South West Africa. Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere says. The majority of people in South Africa will continue de manding the rights of democracy that have been denied to them and Africa will continue supporting Nyerere said in an interview. You can t say majority Rule is All right in Rhodesia but be cause South Africa is an in dependent slate then majority Rule is not an objective of Afri Nyerere conceded that be South african government responded to the new changes and said look is there a possibility of bringing changes in Southern Africa but he warned there can t a peace until thai peace is Allach cd to free Dom. It s no use South Africa saying we will support minor Ity Rule in Rhodesia but we want or we will not Grant Independence to Namibia South West Africa but we want peace this is Ridick South Africa s White minority err. In Cut has announced minor modifications of its apartheid policy of racial be . But Nyerere. One of Black Africa s moderate Lead ers said the continent s Black majority will not be satisfied with even modified apartheid. Nyerere has played a leading role along with South african prime minister John Vorster and president Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia in trying to arrange political negotiations Between the White minority government and Black nationalist leaders in Rhodesia. He said he does t have very much optimism that rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith is going to agree to Rule by the Black majority but this has to be found lout when they he rejected proposals pulling off majority Rule for five years. He Aid that rhodesian Blacks want Independence yesterday and to talk about 1980 is to talk about however by crore said the rhodesian nationalists would have plenty of patience provided they know what the state of affairs is. If leaders Foci these talks have a Chance of delivering the goods thai will produce the necessary patience. If that feeling is not there then there will not be any asked about United states policy toward Southern Africa and whether it could help the achievement of a settlement please Sec Blacks Page 6 Tab Lishing a soviet record. Tass said they Felt Well after Landing smoothly in Stormy Wear her on the Kazakhstan Steppes and that their Mission was successfully a the two cosmonauts docked their soyuz 17 spacecraft with an orbiting salyut 4 Laboratory and conducted experiments for nearly a month. While it was a soviet space endurance record the time spent in space was far less than the 59 Days of a United states skylab 3 1 Crew and he 84-Day record by the . Skylab 4 Mission completed in february 1974. The previous soviet record was 24 Days in 1971 and was set by the three cosmonauts who established the world s first orbiting space Laboratory aboard salyut 1. The three cosmonauts died on return to Earth because of a fault in their soyuz ship ;