Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday january 7, 1976 Irish strike mooted Belfast a protes Tant leaders Are threatening a military offensive against the Irish Republican army and a general strike in retaliation for the ambush killing of 10 protestant workmen in the South Armagh area. Militant protestants1 met tuesday with Merlyn Rees the British government s Secretary for Northern Ireland but he rejected their demands that the government crack Down on the Ira in South Armagh a stronghold of. The roman Catholic guerrillas. Glen Barr of the loyalist army Council which says it has armed protestants in paramilitary organizations told reporters unless can come up with something the Paramio taoists will have to go on the Rev. Ian Paisley said the Ulster workers Council May Call a general strike the tech Nique it used in 1974 to wreck a coalition government of moderate protestants and Catho British troops move in soviet ships steam toward Angola officials poring Over the intelligence reports. At first glance it did not. Appear that there were tanks aboard the big Slu p but the possibility that it is carrying assault troops soviet marines was not excluded. The position of this tank Landing ship was described As near the Congo port of Prinle Noire. One possibility is that the ship could pick nip Armor at that port and deliver it to communist forces in Angola further South. As of tuesday night the big ship appeared to be sailing slowly toward Pointe Noire possibly waiting for the guided missile destroyer and the Oiler to up to it before entering the port itself. This naval Force appeared headed toward Angola at the moment the Ford administration is trying to continued Damp Down the crisis and is express ing Hope that the soviet leaders As they hinted in a pravda editorial sat urday had decided to withdraw from Angola. There is a Chance sources agreed that the big assault ship might have the Mission of withdrawing soviet weaponry from Angola. However the same sources said that possibility appeared slim. In Stead analysts in their initial interpretations fervid the soviet Union was intending to escalate its military involvement. The Kotlin class destroyer Dis places tons is 414 feet and carries guns As Well As missiles. Lane s fighting ships says Kotlin class destroyers carry twin batteries of anti aircraft missiles. The soviet ships did not become of great concern to . Officials until late tuesday when the intelligence hardened that they were connected with soviet support of forces in an Gola. By Nightfall the information about the ships was in the hands of top officials at the White House state department and Pentagon. There was no indication How the United Stales would react. There Are two . Aircraft Carri ers in the Mediterranean the u.3.s. Kennedy and the .s. Independence but none along the african coast where they would Shadow the soviet destroyer and assault ship. The Kennedy is in the Mediterranean and the Independence aircraft Carrier was tied up at Naples As of tues Day according to the Pentagon. Beliefs study slated continued olympic building race is clouded which ring the top of the thoroughly checked by the in properly joined gingers to make sure we uie entire lighting and com Aren t doing something which Mun cations system will not will throw the rest of the function he said. Thing off sources at the olympic site the spokesman added were reported As saying it let s face it when you have was not a problem of knowing something of tins weight up in what to do bul rather which continued solution was Best. We can either take the whole Section Down and have another one made or we can lilt in uie Section just Asil islands now and leave an in even line to the a spokesman said. Or perhaps it will prove possible to bring the Section Back Down and rebuild it on the ground. All of these things Are pos sible but they have to be the air you. Have to tread pretty in another development a radio station reported Victor Gold Loon minister in charge of the installations Board As confirming Ihal Al Leles and officials will have to make do. With temporary facilities in parking Lols near the stadium. Of of radio said Square feet of space under the islands will he filled with Earth and planned dressing rooms and offices will be re placed by the temporary facilities. The radio station said that our. Goldbloom feared the International olympic commit tee Ioc might be angered by Llie news bul Ihal the Sla Dilim could nol he finished on time if plans were not changed. Earlier m r. Goldbloom said if further cons Naclion delays arise he thinks the Ioc should give Montreal an additional several weeks to com Pele Hie stadium rather than Toronto teachers decide to stay Oil p ticket lines shifting inc olympics to an other site such As. Mexico City. Commenting on reports thai Mexico has offered to take Over the games and hold them in october or. Gold Bloom said if Mexico can hold them in october we can hold them in if anybody else is going to propose holding the games at another time we should have that extra but the minister said any talk of postponement Al this Lime is purely hypo heti the Ioc said at its head quarters ill Lausanne Swit Zerland that no proposal for a postponement has been received from Montreal. A Brief Ioc statement said Canadian organizers Are still responsible for the games and to make a re port to the Ioc prior to Hie opening of inc Winter olym pics at Innsbruck Austria feb. 4. While the games do not officially open until july 17, the installations must he ready Well in Advance of that Date and All heavy equipment must be cleared from the site by june 6. Bolh Montreal Alou ettes of the Canadian football league and Montreal expos of base Ball s National league had hoped to play games in the new facility once the games were completed. Told that a lot More work in o u 1 d still be required Louette s owner Sam Berger said i really Don t believe it. It s very important to the survival of the club Ihal we get into Toronto up the striking n. Toronto High school teachers voted overwhelmingly fan Las locally in favor of slaying without strike pay a t c h e r s negotiator said tuesday. Chief negotiator John Volpe announced the results of a Vole taken to determine tac tics teachers would employ if the latest metro school Board offer is rejected in voting today. Officials refused to reveal Hie Vole count Al a mass rally of Aboul teachers bul one Leader said the Lally was More than so per cent in favor of continuing the strike for an indefinite period and i citing the teacher negotiators decide when to Send the majority of teachers Back to the classroom. Or. Volpe said the teach ers strike fund would run out by the end of the week. The teachers voted to a Eccl Snow Lack threatens soviet crop prospects Moscow. A a Snow shortage threatens the soviet Union Wilh new crop troubles on top of ils worst Grain har Vest in a decade last year. Agriculture newspaper Rural life says that the protective Snow Mantle needed to shield seedlings from kill ing Frost is lacking in Many parts of the country. With cold weather moving in the threat of Winter kill to planted Grain increased. The newspaper says Snow cover has completely disappeared in byelorussian tiie Baltic republics and almost the whole As Well As parts of the russian federation. In some of the Snow less areas temperatures dropped the last few Days to about 20 below Zero celsius. I think they have some said one Western expert who pointed out that in Many areas the Winter Grams got off to a poor Start because of dry weather. However it was considered too Early to predict a bad 1976 Harvest. Winter kill is always a problem for soviet agriculture. On the average 15 to 17 per. Cent of the Grain planted in the fall does not survive. The soviets have conceded indirectly that they harvested Only about 137 million ions of Grain last year nearly so Mil lion tons less than the target in the five year plan and the worst Harvest since the 121.1 million metric tons harvested in 1965. The Harvest disaster rocked the Economy and forced the government to set lower tar get growth rates Lor 1976, especially for consumer goods. There also is a shortage of feed grains and some Large scale slaughtering of beef Ani Mals and a time when the soviet Union says it is trying to put More meat and meat products on ils peo ple s tables. A second option whereby 75 per cent of the strikers would return to school on a work to Rule basis and financially sup port the 25 per cent who would remain on strike. Meanwhile iwo of the mediators in the dispute said tuesday the new Board offer is uie Besl the. Strikers can Hope to achieve none of the teacher negotiators have said what a. Vic tory this offer is and nobody is saying to the teachers this is the Besl we Are going to said mediator Stan icy Hartl. The teacher negotiators Aren t giving their people a Chance to vote in any info r m e d mediator George Adams said. Why go about Selling the William Dickie the third mediator said lie would not comment on the offer before the results of today s Vole on the Board s offer Are known. The offer of an average 24.6-per-cent increase in one year includes a Cost of living allowance from january to August a Lump sum pay ment for each teacher and a higher salary schedule at the end of the year than the schedule for elementary teachers. Or. Adams said teachers won a phenomenal Victory in terms of partly for the teachers was discussed in terms of the highest teacher settlement in the province not in terms of what metro elementary teachers were Mak ing he said. It now will be assumed that metro teachers can bargain for the highest settlement in the province or. Adams said. The teachers should be pragmatic and understand they Are not going to achieve All their bargaining objectives in one year or. Hartt said. Pawley criticizes Kasser interview continued added. This kind of one sided exposure i feel is most harm viewers saw or. Kasser break Down and cry at the end of the interview As he summed up his feelings to Ward the Manitoba govern ment placing of the Chi Complex at the Pas Man., into receivership. He said i work so Many years for that Damn thing or. Kasser was interviewed in a downtown second floor apartment in inns Bruck Austria where four months ago he had been found by the free press Liv ing under the name of or. Sandor Cassa the name he had Given austrian Aulhorn lies four years ago when he applied for citizenship. He denied in the interview that he had gone into hid but he failed to explain Why he used a different spelling but the same pronunciation for Kasser when he applied for citizenship. The Manitoba government has been trying to bring or. Kasser Back to Manitoba to land irial on fraud charges since in Learned he was living in aus Ira. Or. Kasser said one reason he refused to appear before the commission of inquiry was because he had been condemned of All kinds of crimes by or. Pawley. I would gladly come Back to Canada and be tried by a Canadian court that i can Tell you or. Kasser said. However the Manitoba nip government has made a mockery of criminal Law. They publicly tried my Case and lately in this year the attorney general he has condemned me for All kinds of crimes so How can you go Back to Manitoba after ail these things and have a fair or. Pawley said Laler the Only crimes he had accused or. Kasser of committing were those relating to Chi. The attorney general added that he remains confident or. Kasser will be brought Back to Manitoba to stand trial. The Section of the labor relations acl in question deals Only will the religious beliefs of the employee and says nothing about the religious beliefs of his Church chief Justice Freedman said. Because the Hoard was apparently satisfied thai or. Funk s beliefs were sincere Ihal should have ended the matter Hie chief Justice said. Or. Paulley said it in t up to him to say whether there is a loophole in the Legisla Tion but he did t Rule out the possibility of a corrective amendment. Murdoch Mackay chair Man of the Manitoba labor Board said the Board will meet soon to consider the possibility of taking the ease to the supreme court of can Ada. Bul unless a court changes the Appeal court ruling it is the Law and the labor Board will follow it or. Mackay said. He said the Board had originally agreed to hear or. Funk s application As a sort of test Case. Because or. Funk s dismissal from my Gavin Toas Masler lid. In june 1974, occurred before he made his application the Board could have refused to hear the Case he said. Or. 1 Unk was dismissed after he refused to join the bakery and confectionery workers International Union local 389. Or. Funk look the Case to Manitoba court of Queen s Bench which ruled against him and Ihen to the Appeal court. Or. Funk s lawyer Ken Neth Wegier who used ins own Money to pursue the Case As a Mailer of Princi ple said he and his client Are prepared logo to the supreme court if the labor Board makes such a move. Then we d have an even boiler or. He Gier said tuesday. Or. Funk contacted by Telephone Al his Home in Niverville Man., said he had t decided whether to ask for his Job Back although he had asked for an application for summer employment Al the bakery. He is leaching school now Al the Brig Lsalone Hull Erile Colony Aboul 12 Miles Wesl of Lac Dubonnet. Million air Canada deficit seen Montreal up air Canada expects to have a million deficit for 1975, follow ing a sd.2-million deficit in 1974, Pierre Taschereau act ing chairman said today. The prospects for 1976 also appear glum although modest traffic growth was predicted. If inflationary trends can he slowed the economic out look for air transportation could show slight improve ment in or. Tas Chereau said. The 1975 deficit was attributed to uncertainties in the canadians and world ec-1 Ono Mies which affected the volume of travellers and commodities. Decline in both Pas Senger and cargo volume for 1975 Are anticipated. About 11 million passengers were car ried in 1974. Passenger traffic was Down on All overseas services. Stiff Competition from charter operators was blamed. 0 f f i c i a 1 s of the Federal government controlled airline had been predicting for several months the 1975 balance Sheet would be in the red Al though no Concrete figures were provided before today. The rising Price of Avia Tion fuel continues to be one of air Canada s major Finan Cial said or. Tas Chereau the temporary re placement of Yves p r a 11 a who resigned in november with icy words to the Federal government. The airline s fuel Bill Rose by 23 per cent or s32 million Over he said. While this was due in part to additional flying. 85 per cent of the increase was attributed to higher fuel prices at Home and skyrocketing fuel costs also were largely blamed for the 1974 deficit. If further fuel Price in creases materialize in 1976 there will again be severe pressures on the Price of air air Canada reduced the number of its employees by three per cent to last year but the total payroll in creased to million from million in 1974 because of higher wages and salaries. Revenue passenger Miles on scheduled services declined by two per cent in 1975 and air cargo Revenue ton Miles decreased by three per cent. Estimates predict school tax Rise continued immersion and outdoor Edu cation were regarded As priorities lie said and Given substantial increases rang ing from for Industrial arts to for the re source centres. The division will also keep about 24 Supply staff who Cost the division about a year until june or. Loewen said following the meeting. The Supply staff Are contracted As substitute teachers a leftover from Days when there was a shortage of teachers in the province. Or. Loewen estimated thai a Supply teacher Cost the division about a Day com pared to for non contracted substitutes. Excluding the property tax rebate the 1976 estimates As sume a s25.7 million Grant under the provincial foundation program the same As in 1975. In 1970, when expenditures were million the foundation program paid million or 63.9 per cent of the costs. Although the foundation Grants generally increased each year with the exception of drop in Grants did not grow As fast As expenditures. According to a Board Chart in 1976 the Grants will pay Only 42.6 per cent of the total costs further increasing the amount to be borne by properly owners. The division s final i 1976 in get will take shape in meetings in the next month and will be determined by Board voting strength of two conflicting philosophies so Cial program oriented and return to basics or As someone suggested tuesday just what each Side is pre pared to Trade off. Missing Section of diary released continued details of a communist spy ring in Canada. Excerpts from the Secrel diary were included in or. Pickersgill s edited version of the 1939-48 lung diaries the Mackenzie King record published five years ago. Or. Pickersgill said in an interview he had not looked at the diary since completing his. Book and wanted to Check on whether he had left out any sensitive material. I left Oul the hands of fhe clock and a few Oiler personal he said re Ferring to or. King s proc Eup Alion with inc position of hands of the clock which he considered Good or bad omens or. Pickersgill said he wondered Why there was so much emphasis in reports of the diaries on the 1944-45 conscription crisis and King s fear of civil War. Most of ibis information had already been made Public in the record he said. Lie also said he was sur prised at the emphasis on or. King s private interests. I never cease to wonder Why the trivia seems to be whal interests warm in Winter holidays lure record number of Manitoban Cuba caught on very fast and it was the first to be sold said or. Weigl. There has been a lot of in Terest in Cuba. People want to see what it s like 15 years after Hie however another i r a v e 1 agent John Schroeder Man Ager of Assiniboine travel service said he in t recommending Cuba to clients be cause the country is nol ready for a huge influx of tourists. It would be All right for people who Don t mind a Little inconvenience like an air conditioner that will not work one he said. But i m hesitant to suggest instead m r. Schroeder continued who estimates his firm has increased its volume by 46 per cent this year because of added staff is suggesting Colombia. A lot of people have shown great interest in South said or. Schroeder. They re looking for a Holiday with a Little Dif another different package that has jumped dramatically in popularity this year in v o 1 v e s club Aldi Terrance which provides travellers with transportation accommodation meals and sports facilities at their Choice of several private resorts. Or. M a c k i e said the number of club medi Terrance packages he has sold this Winter is at least five limes the number sold last year. Canadian airlines Partick 1 a r 1 y those providing the charter flights involved in Many of inc soul Horn holi Days Are reaping the Benc fils of the higher volume of traffic. Verne prior Public affairs director for air Canada said the airline is anticipating a 20 per cent increase in flights to its Southern Desti nations from Winnipeg tra Vellers. Meanwhile the travel agents interviewed agreed the reason More and More people Are spending Money on Winter vacations is Ihal they no longer Are As inter ested in savings and other luxuries. There seems to he a major shift in what people Are spending their Money said or. Schroeder. I n s i e a d of saving their Money for a Cadillac they seem Conlen with a smaller car and More Money for Lei a i n n i p e g g e r s have always had lots of Money for a d d e d or. O Brien. And this year they re really spending ;