Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 6, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Of desc away cafe Fwy y m it. C met my Van it nt4m Taafe. Catt Auke m a Yow save a Winnipeg free press final edition vol 82 no. 262 colore9 Catt us wednesday August 6, 1975 Sunrise Sunset 06 . Mccoien Cloudy periods 14c and 26c to k7 bar is is a i a 3 s Kuala Bumpur ten japanese Guen Ilias holding hostages Here were planning to leave for Libya around . Local time . Cd today following agree ment from the Arab country h Here. A government spokesman said two malaysian officials Sinee they invaded the building monday. One or those hostages reported that the terrorists said fare Well to the 28 with Sayonara. We Are very sorry we had to do this to nine others were freed earlier four. Held would make the flight As aos building that wounded during the the raiders left the j2-Stbrey tages ram i Omar Parlia mentry Secretary to the communications ministry and 0 s m Cassim Secretary general of the Home ministry. It was not Clear How the remaining 15-hostages would be removed from the plane or whether the terrorists would try to take them along. The terrorists masked and armed with automatic revolvers and hand grenades left be Hind 28 hostages they had held in . Embassy Bassy in separate groups in control of some of the hos tages who walked to a waiting bus with their hands clasped behind their Heads. Police motorcycles flanked the bus for the 14-mile drive to the Airport where heavy Secu Rity was enforced. Among the hostages taken to the Airport were . Consul Robert Stebbins and swedish charge d affaires Fredrik Ber please see Libya Page 9 by Jeff Carruthers free press correspondent Ottawa Brace yourself. Tran Canada Pip Eunes Ltd. Of Toronto supplier of natural Gas East of Alberta has modified its Gas pipeline rate increase application upward again. This time instead of just 16 a japanese Aorist Forcet . Consul Centre and swedish c Ter Robert d affaires. Fredrik Berle Strahle to Board bus in Kuala Lum Pur. The masked and armed terrorists left be Hind 28 hostages before heading to the Airport. Per thous i Ern ment had acted to counter Mand an Alberta arbitration Board ruling setting the Well head Price for natural Gas at the local Gas company can not Peg a Price increase for the Winnipeg until the govern mint clarifies its position. The increase whatever it r Bici More Naa orm Aliy asked for 90 to lit cwt Vyril taint to ital vember 1. Rents More per the Federal govern that s More than double follows through with its t is getting now from Gas Domestic Gss pricing is in Saskatchewan which would put a Ceil Oba Ontario and on Gas increases for next but that s really not what heating season trans expects to estimates it might Only a greater Winnipeg Gas an extra 32 to 45 cents per spokesman said this november 1. There will be a significant Only an increase of increase for local More than 50 per cent jut just How great the the wholesale level of in t known the spokesman said the see would Page 1 1 us chm diversion o a year s delay in diversion of the Churchill River into the Nelson is caused by a contractor excavating the diversion Channel falling behind sched ule Len Batemen chairman of Manitoba Hydro said wednes Day. The delay has been announced at Public meetings in Thompson and Churchill this past and is not really news he said i current attempts to link the delay to an ultimatum from Federal Indian affairs minister Judd Buchanan regarding the Impact of Northern flooding Are improper As the two have no connection or. Batemen said. The contractor excavating the Channel Between South in Dian Lake and the headwaters sought by Fri up air seeks permission 9i 9f. V v w 1 to lower rates 20to 30% of the Rajt River is behind schedule and this has been town for some time he said. He indicated he had advised the Federal department of Indi an affairs about the difficulty at a meeting in Ottawa in mid june. sched ule was moved to the e fall of 1976 because of the1 contractor s difficulties he said. Earl Mills director of Public affairs for Hydro cited trouble the reason the it was slowing the five Ricile diversion Channel to Mit qui Chiu Waters to flow in Portugal Detroit a the St. Louis Post dispatch reported today that the Foster son of missing sex teamster president Jimmy Hoffa who served As Hoffa s bodyguard was seen in the company of a close associate of teamsters president Frank Fitzsimmons Hoffa s rival for Union leadership the Day after Hoffa disappeared. Hoffa a family has said it is looking for Charles o Brien Hoffa s Foster son since thurs Day the Day after Hoffa Dis appeared. And the Fri also has said they would like to question o Brien. Please see Hoffa Page 9. Police shift 5 Escapee search scum put up no resistance and left the town in armoured c a is. As the. Demonstrators wrecked furniture files and into the Nelson River. He said Hydro could afford the delay As Levels this year were supplying Nel son River generating plants Vith All the water Tiey could Landle. V Muskeg is marshy. In bum Mer Winter and can be worked on in Winter months he said. The Only expected Cost in crease from the delay would from higher salaries for Hydro delay Noil give More Elbow room to negotiate some of our the entire project is expect-1 de to Cost More than billion i when it is completed in the 1980s. The Cost was initially estimated at billion when plans were drawn up. In the the government de to respond wednesday to Lisbon Reuter anti com m u n i s t riots spread through the conservative North of Portugal As the pro communist prime minister Vasco Goncalves struggled to form a government. Angry crowds. Who had been storming communist party offices in the Northern town of a Balicao for the last r four Days broke through a cordon of t r p s tuesday night and sacked the building. The soldiers murderers and jeered As comic Junist emblems and set two cars ablaze. Tempers flared when the body of a demonstrator shot dead by soldiers during an ear Lier assault on the building failed to arrive from nearby Oporto for. A planned funeral. The focus of the anti com m uni s it violence which hag been building ii in the North for the past month Tatien switched to nearby Santo Tir so where crowds again the Cuni Monist party offices in both towns they smashed into apartments and offices be see communists Page Vancouver up up air has applied to the govern ment for permission to lower air fare rates by 20 to 30 per cent during off Peak periods Ron Keith spokesman for the privately owned airline said tuesday. Or. Keith said if the application is approved it would be effective Between sept. 8 and dec. 31 this year and would affect standby passengers for travelling youth fare dining periods such As we e Ken d s when there Are fewer passengers. The airline said up air is Fol normally use commercial air lowing air Canada a Crown corporation which said last week it intends to seek a 20 to reduction in air fares. Or. Gilmer attending the second Canadian. World Confer ence on aerospace and the Community of Man said air Canada s decision to apply for reduced fares is predicted on the Assumption that lower air fares will induce More people however he said new Pas sengers probably will not a John c. Gilmer president of serialize and passengers who Ines will adjust their flying schedules to take advantage of reduced fares. He. Said the reduction in prices probably would result in greater losses for the two companies. Air Canada announced last week it May lose As much As million this year and in Gilmer said up air expects to lose. Million to million this year Rideu the current fare Structure. He told representatives from please see up Page 7 Montreal transit Back in service North Bay ont. Up police shifted their search today for escaped prisoner Donald Kelly 36, from one Sec Tion of North Bay to another where a tracker dog was believed to have chased a person into a Small Cabin. A police helicopter took off for the new spot in the Penin or. Buchanan s request for More information on the pro act s Impact on the North. The minister sent a telex m e s s a g e to premiered Schreyer Friday saying it was imperative that he receive in the Bush. Two tracker Churchill Pagel i please see police Page 4 Sula Road area of Trout Lake a built up summer cottage District. Earlier today they had begun searching the North end of the cite after patrolling police spotted a person entering Montreal up a Tran-1 sit commission spokesman con firmed today that bus and sub Way Drivers returned to work Al 4 . Edt today without incident following a 24-hour work stoppage tuesday to Back demands for increased wages. Drivers at a meeting tues Day unanimously accepted Union recommendations to re turn to the Job while contract negotiations were to continue working the. Drivers have had the right to strike since july 12, but Union spokesmen said such action would be taken As a last resort so As not to alienate the Public. Tow walkout was the second in less than two weeks. Transit services were shut Down for 24 hours july 24. Following. Tuesday s meet men marched on Mucic Headquarters but Eaton s blacked out for half an hour there was a loud chorus of and asst throughout created a store wide blackout. A customer said there was Eaton s downtown store no panic just a great chorus wednesday morning. I of Surprise from customers at a lot of people took about a. Suddenly being plunged into half an hour to get from one j darkness. Floor to another. J those on escalators walked the reason was t a big rest Way it was a Power failure at ea-1 elevators were Frozen be ton s own Power Plant. I tween floors for the duration of about ., the Power i the Power failure that lasted Plant stopped functioning and just under a half hour. Today soil project 74 test 35 classified 40 to 56 comics. 68. Comic Page feature 18 deaths. 9 finance.63 to 73 for people 21 to 29 Jumble .-___44 29 sports 59 to 63 television .28 nearly everyone reads the free press City Zoni 107410 total the latest Montreal reported no incidents. Community transit Oramis Mosi Montre Alers drove cars Sion i Mucic which hitch hiked or walked to work would raise top wages to j during the work stoppage and from s5.05 Over two years was i downtown traffic was snarled r e j e. C t e d at the meeting. Drivers Are asking for a maximum of an hour. The commission has said the offers Are the Best it can do at this time and higher wage during tile afternoon Rush hour. Canadian National railways and up rail used extra carriages during commuter runs while taxi cabs were out in full Force company spokesmen offers would spell financial faculty for the Mucic. Meanwhile Union spokesmen a spokesman for the 3.400 for the commission s 2.100 members of the brotherhood of garage maintenance o f f i c e bus Drivers. Metro operators and cashier workers told a and Allied services said threat i news conference tuesday they of a strike is still our key were also seeking wage in bargaining creases. We will Only accept an offer garage and maintenance that is fair and said workers were seeking s2.65 in Union president Normand to top rates of Melin. Hour while office workers and Are prepared to make i Cashiers were asking for s165 a concessions but so must the commission. But we won t Back Down on our demands for for others parity with Toronto workers or j the inside workers can on our. Demands for better strike As of aug. 27. Week up from the s114 mini mum and 45 per cent increases it newlyweds Pat Bourque and Ron Cooper sit on the Steps search for Hall keys lasts 3 hours wedding party Wilts Montreal up to have been held Cabinet ministers to travel Gazette quotes a confidential Toronto. Freely throughout the country. Ramp report submitted to Soli i the Federal government. But today because of red Cit or general Warren Militancy it has be in Ottawa As saving in. To postpone the meet-jp0 Ell i1as a red Power Indian move i ing after some politicians ques Tome necessary to scrutinize ment has become the principal i toned the presence of the pal each travel project carefully threat to the country s Securi Estine liberation organization i from a Security standpoint to. In the j inform alien suggesting min the newspaper says the re i before the front de libera j Sisters May encounter violence port was prepared to Brief the lion do crisis in Jon visits is closely examined solicitor general for the inter j 1970. The Gazette quotes the report says National crime conference As saying it was possible the newspaper says the focuses entirely on making open threats of Vio j terrorism. Silence. The Fly and other a Xterm a and if their demands Are j isl Canadian groups of the j not met rapidly it is conceive i right and the left Are relatively i Able that the Indian militants tranquil and arc not considered j will try to reach their object dangerous in the near lives through recourse to Vio the Gazette quotes the As saying. I the report says however but the newspaper says the red Power militants ramp has Learned the support of Only a that certain Indian minority Canada s in Cave been collecting and Diane. The Gazette says. Ottawa up things went smoothly enough during Pat Bourque and Ron Cooper s afternoon wedding ceremony this weekend but when the wedding party arrived at St. Charles Hall for a reception the doors locked. A confused caterer was waiting on the Steps with All the food. The liquor and wedding gifts were inside the Hall. Bride Groom and 150 guests made themselves As comfortable As possible in 30 degree plus heat but Cummer bunds corsages hairdos and delicate desserts eventually began to Droop and some guests returned to their air conditioned hotel rooms. The search or the key to the Hall lasted three hours. The miffed group finally sat Clown to a dried out wedding feast when another Section of the Hall was opened for an other group. Apparently the two attendants look after the Ball had each assumed the other was taking care of the wed Ding reception ;