Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Profitable weekend in Alberta see Page 24 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 83 no. 84 to 25c with coloured comics monday january 5, 1976 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Cloudy -25 c and -15 c firemen in Washington Rescue a woman and her two children from a window in their burning apartment moments after she began screaming for help. The woman Marie ate a wife of an employee of the Republic of Ca Meroon embassy was uninjured in the Blaze. Her two children Patrice and Antoinette were in fair condition in Hospital. Fire was caused by food burning on a stove. Morris slams Trudeau Montreal cp1 Joe Morris president of the Cana Dian labor Congress described the new society Trudeau referred to in his new year s message As authoritarian and said canadians would not stand for it. If to the people on this kind of program i m sure he would t be tiie labor Leader said in an interview. The cure for inflation is creation of More jobs not government controls he said. Or. Morris said Only a mixed Economy composed of free Enterprise and state con millions of dollars damage London a More High winds battered Scandinavia and Czechoslovakia today after a weekend of rag ing storms that killed at least 52 persons in Britain and Western Europe and did hundreds of millions of Dol Lars Worth of damage. The danish weather Bureau reported another storm around Iceland heading for Scandinavia and said it should hit Denmark late tuesday. Britain reported 26 dead West Germany 12, Denmark four Belgium three the Netherlands three Sweden two and France and Swit Zerland one each. In addition 11 Crew members were missing from the East German coastal Capella and feared drowned. The ship Sank sat urday in the North sea off the dutch Island of Schier Mon Nikob. High winds with gusts reaching Over 100 Miles an hour began Friday night and continued saturday followed by heavy Rains sunday. Today s winds lashed at the dikes of Southern Denmark already badly damaged by see 52 Page 4 3 Las reported ready to move out for Lyon by Mary Ann Fitzgerald free press legislative reporter three progressive conservative Las have offered to step Down to open a seat in the Manitoba legislature for their newly elected party Leader Sterling Lyon conservative sources said Satur Day. Or. Lyon who deposed former Leader Sidney Spivak at the party s december leadership convention does t hold a seat in the legislature. There Are no present vacancies in the 57 seat House. It has been known for some time that Art Moug who represents Charleswood has offered to resign to make Way for or. Lyon. Party sources however declined to name the other two Las who have made similar offers. It is considered Likely they Are from the Winnipeg area. Caucus members contacted during the weekend were reluctant to discuss the matter. But l. R. Bud Sherman who represents. Fort Garry said although he did t know about formal offers several caucus members myself included in private conversations with him or. Lyon fave indicated that if it is his decision and caucus Deci Sion that he should be in the House they Are willing to make room for or. Lyon holidaying out of the City in t expected to re turn for another week. E a r 11 e a or. Lyon said gaining a seat in the Legisla Ture is an important priority gunmen surrender after 12 hours Manila a two Fili Pino gunmen who seized a japanese jetliner carrying 219 persons at Manila Airport in a bid for free passage out of the Philippines surren dered to authorities Early tuesday ending a nearly 12 hour siege officials said. The hijackers surrendered to tourism Secretary Jose Aspiras and the Deputy constabulary chief . Gregorio Fider who went aboard the parked aircraft 50 Yards from the terminal building for the final sur Render negotiations the officials said. Before the surrender the gunmen had freed the Passen 1 Gers then released eight stewardesses in Exchange for japanese Consul Tamotsu Furuta and the Japan air line s manager in Manila Sakae Seike military officials said. See gunmen Page 4 candidate Clark fears Ottawa hold Vancouver up Joe Clark a candidate for the Federal progressive conservative party leadership says prime minister inf Flea is the most dangerous Centra list in Canadian history. Or. Clark the conservative trolled sectors was viable in Canada adding that we had this before now he or. Trudeau wants to change the Ball who is he to or. Morris asked. Are we to be lectured by big brother Tell see Morris Page 4 today Sakharov series.7 crisis Crews 6 classified .30 to 41 comics 43 deaths.40 finance 18 to 21 for people.11 to 17 Jumble 33 movies 17 sports television nearly everyone reads the free Priess City zone total my for Rocky Mountain told a news conference Here the centralization of Power in which any Urban renewal project must be approved by Ottawa is killing local initiative across the or. Clark on a five Day tour of British Columbia said the Liberal government has been removing Power from the private sector the prov inces and local communities. Under prime minister tru Deau the Federal government now gets involved in the econ omy As a first he said. Or. Clark a former journalist and political science instructor at the University of Alberta said he believes in the decentralization of Industry and in giving More Power to the provinces and local governments. He said prime minister Trudeau apparently was frightened in his youth by the nationalism of former Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis and As a result has been try ing to undermine Canada s diversity. Five catholics killed after Ira threat Belfast a masked men shot five Young roman Catholic men to death late sunday and seriously wounded two others in separate incidents officials said. The killings followed the Irish Republican army s threat to resume guerrilla warfare to drive Britain from norther n Ireland. British authorities called the threat theatrical unreal and self the threat issued saturday by the Ira provisional Branch was underlined by four bombings that injured at least 40 persons in Northern Ireland. Three other persons two of them police officers were wounded by gunfire. Authorities blamed these at tacks on Ira provisional. Sunday evening at least three masked gunmen burst into a House in about 20 Miles Southwest of Belfast and gunned Down three Brothers in their Early is police said. A visiting Friend was shot in the Abdomen and legs. At about the same time a group of masked gunmen killed two other men aged 23 and 25 and wounded a third at a Home in Whitecross in Armagh county. Authorities said they be Lieve both attacks were car ried out by protestant extremists. Sunday s killings brought the death toll in Ulster to in 614 years of violence. Six persons have been killed since the beginning of this year. The militant provisional have loosely observed a ceasefire since last feb. 10, but the truce has been repeatedly violated by both roman Cath Olic and p r o t e s t a Tex tre mists. The Ira had hoped the ceasefire would Lead to a British declaration of intent to with draw from Northern Ireland. But such a declaration has not been forthcoming. The warning from the provisional Belfast brigade said unless announces a declaration of intent on withdrawal the full re sources of the movement will be used to Force London into meeting the wishes of the Irish people. Britain has been Given the Choice to withdraw from Irish soil in a phased and orderly manner. The Choice is Seamus Mallon a leading member of Northern ire land s predominantly Catholic social democratic and labor party said the five victims were All Selp members and totally in Nocent the Selp seeks the unification by peaceful Means of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic to the South. But at the moment motes Sencial. He did t want any one to step Down for him. We need All 23 Las we now or. Loii said immediately after his elec Tion As Leader. Party sources say no moves to get or. Lyon into the legislature Are Likely be fore the next session of the see 3 Las Page 4 Fine planned for crossing picket lines Toronto up inside postal workers who crossed picket lines in metropolitan Toronto during the recent country wide strike May be fined or each Lou Murphy president the Toronto local of the Canadian Union of postal workers said saturday. Or. Murphy said in an interview that the Type of penalty for the 300 workers who crossed the lines will be recommended by the local executive in two weeks and a Fine will probably be proposed. The Union will vote on the recommendation in three weeks he said. Union officials have told workers who crossed the picket lines in Ottawa that they must give up the Money they earned during the six week strike if they want to be reinstated in the Union. Those workers were paid an hour during the strike. And 200 workers in the Atlantic provinces who crossed the lines have had their membership in the Union suspended for j9 months. Or. Murphy said the Toronto local wants the 390 workers to keep their membership in the Union and be come involved in Union business. Yet at the same time we want to Tell them they were he said. Six or seven workers resigned from the Toronto local As a result of the strike or. Murphy said. But this figure May increase if we set a in Moncton n.b., local president Clayton Morton said 33 postal workers have been suspended from the Moncton local. He said they will have to pay their Union dues of a month but he understood donate the Money to a charitable organization if they wished. Ford Calls for ceasefire., end to interference in Angola Washington a p president Ford called today for an immediate ceasefire in Angola an end to All out Side intervention and a government of National Unity to Stop the civil War there. He also warned the soviet Union that if it continues intervention in Angola damage to our broader relations will be the president promised continued . Efforts Diplo Matic and otherwise to Stabi Lize the military situation in Angola and promote a Quick and peaceful but in a speech prepared for delivery before the american farm Bureau federation in St. Louis Ford rejected the idea of using Grain sales to persuade the soviet Union to disengage in Angola. Comments followed a soviet statement saturday urging termination of foreign armed intervention in Ford suggested an end to All outside intervene which would include financial Aid As Well. He warned the russians there cannot v a lessening of world tension if the soviet Union by military support and other Means attempts to Espanel its sphere of Iii fluence thousands of Miles from its see Ford Page 4 w. Condo heard fears Ernest sir Luck cutting carefully serious damage forecast fear grows at u of m Over effect of budget cuts although it appears the University of Manitoba s efforts to curtail spending Are working fear that budget cuts will cause irreparable damage to the University is widespread and growing. The cuts became necessary at the beginning of 1975, when the University revealed an accumulated deficit of about million. The position grew worse when the provincial govern ment approved a supplementary Grant of million for 1975-1976 but Only on Condi Tion that the supplementary Grant would t be included in budget calculations for 1976v 1977. In late summer the government ordered that 1976 1977 budget increases be limited to 15-per cent. The opponents to the cuts Don t criticize the need for budgetary control but the nature of the cuts being made. Bearing the Brunt of the criticism is or. Ernest sir Luck whose six year term As president of the University ends in july. A senior official in the University said recently the cuts would seriously damage the University. By Philip Rodgers free press education reporter it la be a balanced Bud get. But at what Cost there have already been some disastrous he said. W. J. Condo chairman of the provincial universities Grants commission said he heard of fears the cuts might create dangerous problems. He added in an inter View it in t within the commission s Power. I Don t know the details of the see a toy on Page 3 or. Sir Luck vigorously de Nied suggestions he was Only concerned with a balanced budget and was t consider ing fully the future implications of the cuts. It s True i m concerned about a balanced budget. We have no option. But i m also certainly concerned about the future he said in an interview. If you look at other universities you will find presidents not in their final year who Are also forced to implement reductions. We have been very care Ful about what each reduction will during the past year the University has lost a number of key personnel in administration and this has sad a substantial Adverse or. Sir Luck said. Earle b. Pollard a member of the Board of governors and chairman of the advisory committee to select a new president is concerned about the depletion of the administrative Structure. If you prune a tree Back too far it won t tie said in an interview. Until a year without these people has passed we can t assess the damage How the University is affected a e r e obviously Short or. Sir Luck but so far i Haven t found anything to justify refilling the or. Sir Luck is confident the University will be Able to curtail its spending but warns As he has in the past that a reduction in costs and staff will perforce mean re see fear Page 4 ;