Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 6, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Win Nick tie kiss wednesday August 1975 imprisoned Desai remains powerful figure in Indian politics by clout Maea stews or. The civil service he served British and Indian of Sealand made this his Power to one question his failed the oppose a it is interesting to his Home state of Gujarat to play a game of As a Congress politician a Iii honesty or ideals Saiy his party. It made Little headway that he kept those to mag to the staff the Tati Tete is Sabbati Cal leave b Malaysia. He the Siu umers Art hut Obdia where he Uter viewed desal Singapore special among the Foremost opposition leaders currently detained in India is 79-year-old Mora i Desai India s former Deputy prime minister and finance minister and now a major Force in the opposition struggle against prime minister Indira j Gandhi. Or. Desai started his career in Congress party politics in 1915 when he first met Mahatma. Gandhi at a meeting in Bombay and from then on he joined the fight for Independence from the British. Joining 1936 when after a dispute Over elaborate charades. To joined the Central Indian obstinacy. His handling of a main memories were of Cabinet in new Delhi in 1962 As with Jawaharlal Nehru s to initially but had rapidly come arrest him waiting on hour and during the last a half while he bathed and and Bis apprehensions about her possible seizure of com plete Power. When he escorted me to the front door at the end problem Between hindus and boredom and of the minister. Ideath a 1964 Aad Tianen 5usd Wolf Success in does his one of our talks he Cau my Sims he resigned and since political prisoners always a Man of Strong Prin a year later or. Desai election. Ozment diminish his influence a piously peered around his Gar voted himself Fuu time Independence struggle. To the like himself were carefully graded according to a strict of Many of the Congress leaders of that time he spent considerable time in jail episodes he recalled with a cer Tain nostalgia when i inter viewed him some 40 years later. There was almost a musical comedy atmosphere about the repeated arrests and irn Filiai Hierarchy of diets de pending on their importance. The 1930s and during the second world War or. Desai became one of the main Fig ures in the Congress party and a close confidante of the Leader of the Independence movement Mahatma Gandhi prison nent of Congress leaders during the War he became in the 1930s in which both soles the chief minister of Bombay Caples he refused ouse of official world tour to be logical successor As India s in this or. Desai played has one strategy that As a e Deli bid me Quick goodbye and retired into the shadows of the prime minister but in two i important part for it was opposition Leader Cin ated for smallpox and elections he narrowly hunger strike that forced resort to is to again go j Hall. When 1 commented on a lived special and highly in lost the second time to mrs Gandhi to go Back or her a hunger strike i prison. If this to a Friend 1 was Tow i-.-. Don t be surprised she mrs. Gandhi keeps a very careful us usual exemption in a she became his Impla-1 refusal to allow state were to die As a result he renowned for his austerity and for his championing of prohibit when she Gujarat. Would be a powerful Martyr to of his finance today or. Desai is oncej1116 cause of Indian democracy Post an divorced him to resign again in prison and once again two things stand oat from Tion As a result of this and be As Deputy prime minister. Us a Force to be reckoned with toe Many hours i spent in 1972 cause of his austere economic i retiring with some bitterness in Indian politics. Measures Banning with other ousted old guard the Sale of Gold he soon c o n g r e s s leaders he soon came disliked by the Public j formed a breakaway party and 1973 talking to him in his at 79 he retains a clarity of in new Delhi mind and impressive presence j one was his considerable re prison is not a new experience i Spect for mrs. Gandhi s Power Eye of the second thing i re member most from these talks was a significant remark. Once you Are ousted in Indian politics you Are forgotten next he told me. Prisoner plunges to death Montreal up a 25 year old Man charged with the shooting death of a police i killed Here when he attempted to escape from the maximum Security Parth Enais detention Centre. Quebec provincial police App Aid Leonard Saulnier had sawed his Way through the bars on the Lith floor of the East end building which also serves As App Headquarters Here to create an opening. Saulnier who then tied to Gether 35 bedsheets and began to climb Down the outside of the building apparently slipped and fell to his death on the Concrete 200 feet below a police spokesman said. He was rushed to a Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. He had used a similar method to escape from the nearby Laval Federal training Centre March 7 police said be had Shade his Way but that time with a rope and Grannel. Saulnier along with parolee Jean Louis. Rodrigue 25, were found criminally responsible at to Coroner s inquest for the death of det. Sgt. Gilles Beau Vais who was investigating a Holdup in the. Ville veniard District june 3. The detective was shot in the chests a result of what police was a drug Deal the death of the 17 year to Veteran had brought renewed Calls for the restoration of capital punishment by police forces across the country. Saulnier faced a charge up two charges iof a tit e t fed murder four charges of conspiracy id com Mit or i min a 1 seven charges robbery one charge j of escaping lawful custody okie charge. a person against her will arid one i charge of using a mask in a crime. The wardrobe Pant suit 4 easy pieces easy care polyester and of Sqq on easy a Pant suit with 4 pieces jacket top and 2 pair of pants. Almost a Ward Robe in itself style a. Has pull on jacket sleeveless Turtleneck of pants in rust or Green sizes 8 to 16. Style sleeveless shirt jacket two pair of pants in Green or Brown sizes 12 to 18. Both Are polyester a snap to keep clean. Think of the number of ways and times you can Wear it think of the value you re getting for this Low Price dept. Women s floor a risk fim b Budusk odder Stockholm special Europe s social democratic 1 e a de r s agreed unanimously last week to oppose a third world attempt to oust Israel from the United nations and to Render soffit support of Portugal s Ern battled social democratic party. A spokesman for the senior social democratic politicians meeting Here Kwederis prime minister Olof palme said in. A joint press we Are All completely unanimous that Atte mils. To suspend or expel Israel from the United stations would violate the charter of the world Organiza Tion. Any such or. Palme said would have grave consequences for the future of the United among those who attended the press conference were prime minister Harold Wilson of Britain Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany and his predecessor Willy Brandt Francois Mitterrand the French socialist Leader pre Mier Yitzhak Rabin of. Israel Mario scares the portuguese social democratic Leader Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of Austria and the prime ministers of Norway Denmark and Holland. The social democratic Lead ers announced formation of a committee for Solidarity Friendship and support of democratic socialism in Portugal. Or. Palme who was named chairman of the group said its objectives were to work through or. Scares social democratic party for accomplishment for its objectives. M discover the opening August 13th company daily til 6 . Monday thu Day my Friday 8-40 til . Tilt buy 713-2112 ;