Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 30, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Olson repeats under pressure see Page 22 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 83 no. 80 15 cents comics tuesday december 30, 1975 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Drifting Snow so and -5c doctors reject offer by Manfred Jager free press medical reporter the Manitoba medical association announced Early tuesday it has rejected the provincial government s offer of a nine per cent fee in crease for 1976 and is countering with a proposal under which fees would Rise 11.2 per cent next year. The nine per cent offer was received by negotiators Firth association monday. Talks with the Manitoba health services commission resumed at 9 . Tuesday. The current collective bar gaming agreement covering private practitioners in Mani Toba expires wednesday night. I Doug Deegan official spokesman for the association said what we Are in effect saying to the government today is this our dec. 11 proposal was for1 13.4 per cent. You have offered nine per cent. So let s split the difference. If you want to Deal today we can Settle for 11.2 per cent.1 negotiations Between the health services commission and the medical association have taken place without the customary veil of secrecy since Early this month. Both see doctors Page 4 50 people Hurt by Glass Metal new York a an explosion that ripped through a baggage area at la guar Dia Airport and killed at least 11 persons was the City s biggest bomb blast in recent memory a police bomb expert said today. He said it had the Force of about 75 Sticks of dynamite. The explosion monday night sent a Shower of Metal and Glass through the bag Gage area crowded with holi Day travellers. More than 50 persons were injured some critically. Was no warning and no firn clue who might have planted the bomb in a Metal baggage locker police said. They said the device apparently was a time bomb and probably was dynamite but that it May have been a plastic explosive. A Reward has been offered by airlines in the United Stales for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the explosion at la Guardia air port the Reward was made Public by Paul Ignatius president of the air trans port association. See blast Page 4 Radical group denies bombing Rescue workers lift a coffin through a shattered window at new York s la Guardia Airport monday night shortly after an explosion demolished a baggage claim area. At least 11 people died. Fly ing Glass and Metal caused most injuries. Beirut renter the Radical popular front for the liberation of Palestine pulp today denied responsibility for monday night s bomb attack at new Ork s la Guardia Airport. The blast which killed 11 people occurred in the trans world airlines Twa Section of the Airport terminal. Trans world has been the target of several past pulp operations. But a pulp spokesman said today the guerrilla group had nothing to do with the la Guardia attack. Through a spokesman in new York the Palestine liberation organization the umbrella group for the various guerrilla movements vigorously denied any pales Tinian responsibility for the attack. See Radical Page 4 Cia. Predicts More jobless f strikes in 76 Toronto up Joe Morris president of the Cana Dian labor Congress says that 1976 be a bad year a bitter year for Canada s 10 million labor leaders predict that High unemployment inflation and Federal wage controls will Lead to More and longer strikes. The Federal labor depart ment reports that 42.5 per cent of major collective agreements affecting workers will be up for negotiation in 1976. A further 309. Collective agreements affecting workers Are being carried Over for settlement from 1975. Labor leaders say that. Con tracts ending Many of these disputes might have been negotiated sooner except for confusion and delays created by prime minister Trudeau s announcement of the Federal wage and Price control pro Gram. The wage controls arc going to do nothing to ease in Sec bitter Page 4 bodies All Over la Guardia eyewitness says new York a bodies were All Over. Puddles of blood on the Island be tween the building and the parking lot. It seemed like everyone was in so said Richard Siemers one of scores of persons who were at la Guardia air port on monday eight few saw the after math of the explosion a bomb in a crowded baggage room. It was the most heart sickening thing i Ever saw in my Siemers said. Women and children were scream said Sharman Barker of Brooklyn. And then a woman next to me was just dead bleeding All Over 7 the blast left at least 11 persons dead and More than 50 others injured. Police said the bomb was meant to maim and the explosion sounded like a bomb blast during the said Nick Doug Las a trans world airlines employee. Walls were shattered All Over and peo ple were running from the building screaming and when i got inside there were busted said Stewart Kubin a ground service employee who ran Lor the build ing from the runway where he was servicing a Jet. It was chaos. Dead bodies lying All Over the was the scene was out of Dante s lifer said Edwin Schwenk of Suffolk county . He stepped off a plane in time to hear the blast that he said rocked everything in there was smoke said Schwenk. It was a total and Complete like of which i be never seen Hanna marions who was waiting at a departure Gate to Columbus Ohio described the blast As an enormous explosion a Flash of Light Bright and a she said she saw a Security girl at the checkout counter go skidding Down the feet or mrs. Marlens said there was confusion caused by people walking into the build ing from arriving flights and others run Ning out trying to get to planes. That was the amazing thing i she said. I think they thought the Best Way to get out of there was to get on a plane and Fly the explosion came from behind me and i found myself buried in debris that came from the said Elaine Bassi who arrived on a flight moments before the blast. I could t get out from the said miss Bassi a teacher in a Clown conn., who was too confused in the after math to recall what flight she had been on. Someone stuck their hand in and grabbed my leg and i grabbed the hand and i pulled. It was a woman who pulled me out. I could see people dead. I thought i was dying that everything was caving in on it seemed like the world was coming to an said Sheila Robinson an other witness to the blast that killed at least 11 persons and wounded scores More. There was an explosion and then peo ple were running around screaming and crying. It was like a disaster you d see in the movies. People screaming and plead ing. It was just Patrick Lindon said he was in route to Chicago and was walking by the outside of the terminal when there was the most godawful noise and the bloody win Dows started coming he added i ducked behind a pillar and my whole life flashed in front of me. My wife always says i make jokes when i m scared. It s a hell of a. Way to Ben Martin a 41-year-old baggage room attendant said we were working and All of a i knew right away it was a bomb because i could smell powder you know gun Ontario prepared to end strikes Toronto up the on Tario government will legis late striking pulp and paper workers and Toronto teachers Back to work in Early Jan u a r y if contract disputes Aren t settled the Canadian press has Learned. Cabinet sources said the legislature is Likely to be re called if the teachers turn Down the latest contract offer from the metropolitan Toron to Board of education in a Jan. 7 Vole. The teachers have been on strike since nov. 12, leaving High school students without classes. About pulp and paper workers most of them in Northern Ontario have been on strike one Cabinet source said the government was ready to introduce legislation ending the pulp and paper strike on the Day the legislature prorogued. Thursday dec. 18. Bui it was decided to hold off labor minister see Ontario Page 4 new year s Day thursday Jan. 1 to paper we on new Day. Mam floor open 6 to pm on january to for Friday s paper. Phone 943-9331 for direct line baseness a cars see tet Ettare directory Wegori Exley. Dec. 31, the at 6 a mountie saves 8 in crash slave Lake Alta. Up an ramp officer was credited today with saving the lives of eight fellow Passen Gers in the crash monday night of a twin engine Beech Craft near this Northern Al Berta Community. Ken Labrie of slave Lake a Volunteer searcher said the unidentified ramp officer bad kicked oat the Cabin door and got the Pas sengers ont just before she blew Only about three feet of the aircraft s Tail Sec Tion recognizable among the charred and twisted wreckage tote poot and co Pilot of the aircraft operated by Bay View air services of slave Lake were missing and presumed dead. Names Hare been released. Bob an ramp . Said fee aircraft crabbed at . In Bev a s Tor 77i abort Rise the Steve Appeal court lengthens term dissenter deplores scene by Scott Edmonds free press courts reporter the Manitoba court of a peal has added three years to the sentence of a Man jailed on a charge of Man Slaughter in the death of a woman on the blood Cin in Dian Reserve. The one dissenting opinion carried with it a scathing indictment of living conditions on the Reserve. Wayne Joseph Bushie 19, of the blood vein Indian re serve who was originally charged with murder in connection with the March 1 death of Lynda Green pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter and was sentenced aug. 15 to two years in prison by judge Graeme Garson. When Bushie was sen see Appeal Page 4 Echeverria names new foreign chief Mexico City up foreign minister Emilio Rabasa has resigned in the midst of a foreign policy controversy Over Mexico s votes in the United nations against zionism. President Luis Echeverria who sets the policy named Alfonso Garcia Probles to succeed Rabasa. Garcia Robles has been Mexico s Ambas Sador to the United nations since 97l, and his delegation cast the votes in the in Gen Era Assembly that Are responsible for the controversy. Rabasa told a news Confer ence monday he was resign ing to enter Active politics. Informed sources said he will no for the Senate in the National elections nest july. He has been foreign minister since Echeverria took office five years ago. Turning sour in the cow classified.27 to 35 comics 17 deaths 5 finance. 18 to 20 for people.11 to 15 Jumble. 30 movies. 15 sports.22to26 television. See Mexico Page 4 nearly everyone reads the free press Gay Toronto hotel drops Price for new ear gala by the Canaway press in Toronto stages else Kast year s a of care for a Toroid to is the scene of the Toast expensive w year s party. 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