Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday january 5, 1976 Spanish police Block demonstrators path Spain Appo lice waved nightsticks and parked vehicles in the path of about demonstrators sunday to prevent their petitioning the civil governor for amnesty for Spanish political prisoners. Police sources said no demonstrators were hit by the clubs. The demonstration followed a 16-hour sit in at san Anton Koman Catholic Church in this Basque capital by about 400 persons including rela Tives of political prisoners Dayan to serve As editor Tel Aviv eau tar former defence minister Moshe Dayan said sunday he has accepted an offer to serve As editor of a new israeli morning daily newspaper. Dayan told reporters the paper s financial backers Are private investors from Israel and abroad but did not identify them. It is still not 100-per-cent certain the paper will appear but i am reasonably sure be cause the investors Are All very serious he added. Dayan who is a Knesset parliament member said he would retain his seat de spite his new Job. He said the paper would not be associated with any political party Al though it would most certainly reflect my the controversial Eye patched former army chief of staff is a member of the majority labor party but has frequently been at Odds with it mainly because of his Haw Kish views on the palestinians and associated problems. And former prisoners. Those in the Church heard a mass in which the priest called for political amnesty then joined a group trying to carry a petition with several thousand signatures to the government building about a Miles away. Many i the crowd carried posters calling for a general amnesty. As the group approached the government building police parked vehicles across streets and brandished their clubs. A number of demonstrators were detained for questioning but later re leased the police sources said. The sources said gov. Felipe Ugarte did not receive any of the petitioners. Soon after assuming the throne King Juan Carlos i decreed an amnesty under which about prisoners were released but Only about 500 of them were political prisoners. Opposition groups say another political prisoners Are behind bars. Spanish police who did not tolerate demonstrations under the regime of the late Francisco Franco have generally allowed peaceful demonstrations to proceed since Juan Carlos became head of state. About 100 persons demand ing amnesty also began a sit in saturday at the Buen pastor Cathedral in san Sebastian another Basque provincial capital and continued it into sunday afternoon. They ended the sit in before dusk and were joined by an estimated other demonstrators in a March to the provincial government build ing. Police did not intervene and gov. Emilio Rodriguez Koman received six relatives of prisoners who handed him a letter addressed to the King demanding amnesty. The crowd then dispersed without incident. Rhodesia rejects invasion report Salisbury Beuter the government has rejected As propaganda a report that Black rhodesian guerrillas Are poised in neighbor ing Mozambique to launch a strike against Rhodesia next saturday. A government spokesman said the report in the Johan Nesburg sunday times appears to be based on propaganda by the external Wing of Rhodesia s divided Black nationalist movement. It looks like an attempt to upset the current negotiations on Rhodesia s future Between Ian Smith s White minority government and the internal nationalist movement led by Joshua Nkomo the spokes Man said. In memory of or. Morris Kaplan Osborne Auto parts will be closed on tuesday january in memory of or. Morris Kaplan Mormack distributors will be closed on tuesday Jan. 6, 1976 out of respect to the late Frank j. Mckinney founder and past president of Mckinney and company limited Mckinney jewellers 367 Portage ave. Will be closed tuesday january 6th from 12 noon s cd eak Ench by april 30 Well have you speaking French by april 30 and we can say this because of the Berlitz method of language instruction Berlitz schools of languages the Berlitz school of languages the concourse Lombard place Winnipeg Manitoba r3box4 transition and interpretation services. Spanish italian tie while recognizing that there Are terrorist groups near the Border the report is considered alarmist and grossly the spokesman added. Political circles Here doubt whether president Samora Machel of Mozambique would allow a massive guerrilla strike from his territory while constitutional negotiations Are in Progress. Committees from both sides in the talks were expected to Confer Here monday to pre pare for another plenary meeting which is Likely to Start tuesday or wednesday. The talks opened with a ple nary session dec. 15 and since then the committees have been drawing up de tailed proposals to legitimize Rhodesia s Independence 10 years after the Smith govern ment broke away from Brit ish colonial Rule but prospects for 3 negotiated settlement look slim As Skomp has said the Blacks want immediate majority Rule something Smith has ruled out. The next plenary session is expected to get Down to the hard constitutional bargain ing. Kab warns jews Moscow a soviet police told a weekly seminar of jewish scientists sunday that the meetings must Stop because of complaints from neighbors jewish sources said. It appeared to be the latest official attempt to break up the seminar held for three years by scientists who lost their jobs when they applied to emigrate to Israel. Each week the scientists present papers on subjects in their various specialities to enable them to keep some what up to Date in their Fields. Sources said two policemen confronted about 30 persons in the apartment of physicist Mark Azbel. Azbel was told he would be summoned for another conversation i another presumably Kab secret police Headquarters and that the talk would be the sources said. Israel devalues Pound Tel Aviv a Israel fighting falling production and an inflation rate of 38 per cent has announced the sixth devaluation of its currency in 14 months. The 1.9-per-cent devaluation Means the value of the israeli Pound dropped by More than 70 per cent since nov. 1974. The current rate was fixed at to the United states Dollar. The weekend adjustment in the Exchange rate brought no immediate reaction from israelis already numbed by repeated Price increases and r e d u c t i o n s in the buying Power of then pay Cheque in 1975. The government pledged the new devaluation will not affect prices of israeli products and economists predicted most importers will absorb the loss since sales were Al ready falling. 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