Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba R 4 winning january nato too weak to resist soviet report says Washington a natos armed forces Are in such disarray and poor Condi Tion that they possibly could not withstand an attack by the Warsaw pact nations of Eastern says a new Senate in a grim report to the sen ate armed services commit senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bart Lett said soviet forces in Eastern Europe have the capability to with Little a potentially devastating attack in Central the significance of a pact capability to launch such an attack from virtually a stand ing Start cannot be exag1 said the re leased As the armed services committee prepared to open annual hearings on Mili tary posture and weapons the Senate made after a tour of nato coun called for a conference of nato political and Mili tary it said strategic plan Ning assumptions concerning the Likely warning time and duration of a european War must toe while nato forces undergo extensive overhaul and modernization to give them a quantum jump in conventional fire military policy in Europe assumes three weeks warning of any major attack and that natos Forward de by falling Back to absorb the could toe reinforced in time to halt the the Senate study said nato deficiencies would Cut the time to prepare a defence and ability to maintain it said that might mean the loss of so much West German Ter Risbry that civilian and Mili tary authority would be de and the country and it said soviet tactical nuclear forces exceed natos in Range and destructive meaning the soviet Force would be Mote effective if used after nato conventional units had been driven the Senate report included these key Points soviet forces now Are being upgraded with modern troop carriers and self propelled a on the other is equipped with fewer outmoded or inferior air forces Are us but soviet air Power has undergone a dramatic shifting away from a purely defensive role toward support of Offen Sive nato air de fences Are dangerously thin in some areas and soviet de fences might inflict severe losses on nato air forces in the Start of a Southern flank in the Mediterranean is Little Mote than a and nato governments there appear to be abdicating their responsibilities while soviet naval presence plan under which nato decisions ate collectively made is so Complex and cumbersome that it raises the catastrophic Prospect of hostilities preceding even a nato decision to to that is clearly unacceptable against the threat of unexpected Jack Frost nips Florida vegetable crops a Otis Davis slowed his Fields preparing to Plant peas to replace the vegetables killed last week by the worst Florida freeze in at least 15 the 40acre farm that Davis has near South of was one of hundreds where vegetable crops were wiped out in mid Harvest or before he had been growing peas and Beans when the temperature plunged below the As a result growers arc saying that fresh vegetables will be in Short Supply Over much of the Eastern half of the United states during the next few months and prices Are certain to Canada imports some of the in up to migrant farm labourers May have lost their there will be no More work for at least three said Rudy director of the organized migrants in Community when Florida Reubin Askew declared a state of emergency saturday because of the aide Ron Sachs said food Stamps were the Only government help readily Sachs that the governors declaration would open the Way for farm workers to get unemployment compensation they normally would not qualify Francisco and Esperanza Quijano Are among the Imi Grants who had come to Florda to pick Winter Toma toes and other and who Are suddenly without work because of the from now if we dont find work it will be impossible to pay the Quijano said As her husband and 12 children and grand children waited out the in childrens care fee going up continued third of what that Centre needs if it submits a Realis tic budget to the govern ment incorporating the kinds of programs it should be of Fering its clients this on a Bare Bones the increase provides about on half the funds she at its fall convention last the Manitoba child care association approved a Resolution urging provincial centres not to submit the required balanced budgets to the government this the association said centres instead should sub Mit reasonable and realistic budgets based on their it is Uncertain whether Many of the centres will Fol Low that suggestion As they prepare their budgets for submission to the govern ment this Korchynski the provincial government is helping finance about 165 group daycare centres in the Hikel said the vast majority Are capable of operating within the funding Gas Lack in May shut plants i continued going into Industrial production and about 30 per cent of the total Energy according to commission of most Luric Industrial employers already have the capacity to switch to alternate such As propane or expensive synthetics and Many have done they but Many smaller plants Are not pre pared to convert and May be forced to close for several no one can look you straight in the Eye and say they didst know this was said Paul special assistant to the com missions executive but they didst think it was going to be quite this not Many workers will be Laid off for More than a he after a today break in the cold the National weather service saturday is sued Winter storm watches for Southern Northern Northeast t e r n Southeastern Iowa and most of Missouri some of the Border state areas that suffered severely from earlier chills and resulting Gas the warning of at least five More weeks of Industrial Gas Supply contained in a memorandum to the commission on underscores the urgency be Hind president Jimmy Carters Appeal later in the Day to turn Down Thermo stats to 18 degrees or lower and Tor emergency Legi Slation to help Channel More Gas into the House resumes m m sitting today continued president Ca r t e Vic president Mondale and their wives enjoy a laugh during departure ceremonies sunday on the South Lawn of the White Mondale was leaving trip to Europe and for photo 10day says too Early to remove chairman Quebec will regret reducing Powers of ant inflation Pepin says by Peter Thomson free press correspondent Ottawa anti inflation Board chairman Jean Luc Pepin believes the Quebec government May Rue the Day it reduced the Powers of its ant inflation it will be More difficult for the Quebec government to keep the lid on Public service and construction Industry the same time that the provincial finance min ister Jacques Parizeau talks of the need for and Premier Levesque says que Bec is living beyond its there Are a lot of contradictions in the Quebec Pepin said on a taped interview for the Csc radio Magazine program to be aired the Aib chairman did not feel that Quebec action would make his boards work significantly More any Large increases in wages of Quebec Public servants will be looked upon As he Pepin is Adamant that it is too Carlo to remove in comes and Price Al though it is time to talk about he argues that people Are not yet fully convinced that inflation has been until they there is a danger of renewed excessive demands which would create More another year is he he admits there is a Strong argument for removing controls during a period of eco nomic Slack and that most economists predict 1977 will be such a but he says it is unlikely the Economy is suddenly going to catch fire at the end of 1978 would be an equally Good year for Decon Pepin admits he gets a Little angry when people Sug Gest it is Only because of de Clining food prices that the Board Hud such Success in reducing the inflation rate in food prices Are not con trolled at the farm but the Board controls everything it has picked up numerous cases of excessive revenues by food companies and instigated the Board has bad some he he also argues that the Board has convinced a lot of workers that they Are not As Well off with a 12 per cent raise when inflation is 10 per As they Are with a 10 per cent raise and inflation is seven per m an y businessmen have Learned from the Aib As he some have admitted they didst really realize How much they were offering in wage when All the fringe benefits were counted until they studied the Aib others have admitted they Are running a much tighter ship than was the Case before Sadat seeks new remedy Cairo Reuter pres ident Anwar Sadat has asked his government to work out new ways to remedy a Large budget deficit without raising the Cost of food and Sadat action came As re lations Between Egypt and the soviet Union appeared sunday to have worsened with egyptian and soviet news Media trading accuse following riots in egyptian cities Over government approval of Price rises in Sta ple foods and fuel last Sadat also insisted that armed forces allocations be left intact in measures to redress a budget deficit estimated at billion Egypt t i a n pounds billion raconteur Saloon keeper Toots Shor Dies at 73 new York a Ber Nard Toots a Saloon keeper who served Strong drinks and Good stories to be died sunday at age Shor died shortly before Midnight sunday cause of death was not he had been in Hospital since 13 at new York univer sity medical at the time of his Shor was running two mid Manhattan he always said he ran his watering holes for his pals and didst care that people he didst called them Crumb him somewhat an acquaintance once said Hes exactly the kind of Guy hed throw out of his the president demanded a comprehensive plan to Cor rect the country the Middle East news Agency his directives Fol Lowed two Days of discussions with his top the news Agency said Sadat has asked the govern ment not to resort to Mea sures which affect the peo Ples food and clothing in us Effort to redress the budget the rescinded Price in creases covered flour and Gas used for Cook Sadat also has directed that there will be no encroach ment on the budget for the consolidation of the egyptian armed their Price of Egypt role in the front line against never but it is reported to equal roughly the budget Defi Carters Cabinet sworn in Washington a dozen members of Jimmy Carters Cabinet took the oath of office sunday in a White House ceremony witnessed by the who called them a Superb three other Cabine level nominees have yet to be approved by pie and the president still choose a Central intelligence Agency his first Cia nominee withdrew last week in the face of Strong Senate oppose i want to thank members of Congress for their cooperation so Carter so far Treyve been a Little stronger on the advice than on the sworn in by supreme court chief Justice Warren Burger were Cyrus state Secre tary Michael Treasury Secretary Harold defence Secretary Cecil Interior Secre tary Bob agriculture Secretary Juanita Commerce Secretary Patricia Roberts Secretary of housing and Urban development Brock transportation Secretary Thomas budget director James chief Energy adviser Charles chairman of the Council of economic and v i s e r s and Zbigniew by National Security and the government has been assured by its Legal advisers that the broadcasts will have immunity provided that the broadcasters do not tamper with them to give them a a spokesman also said the government would be ready to go to court for a Broad Caster if court action was taken As a result of televising a special commons com Mittee headed by speaker James Jerome is considering this matter As Well As others arising from televising Par it is generally agreed that the to be operated from outside the commons will not Embarrass they will not sweep the chamber seeking out an my who might have fallen asleep nor will the sound system be geared to pick up remarks shouted by seated the government has made the television motion its number one but it also is anxious to have parliament finally approve in come tax changes announced in the Federal budget last these changes allow tax payers to deduct from their 1976 taxable incomes in creased amounts for Day care expenses and for registered retirement government House Leader Allan Maceachen said last week that he will impose a time limit if the new demo cratic party continues to prolong the the gov e r n m e n t argues that the changes must be approved before the end of february when most taxpayers normally fill out their tax boy hit by car police Are looking for a car involved in a i Landrun Accident Early sunday eve Ning which sent a three year old boy to Jason Abert of 278 Salter was crossing Salter Between Aberdeen and Alfred avenues about sunday when he was struck by a car which didst a police spokesman said the boy was taken to the childrens and later the spokesman Carter seeks halt to nuclear testing world weather getting More erratic tons of a slight reversal of this pattern during the past few on the other he there Are Clear indications that a period of rela Lively stable weather from the mid1950s to the Early 1970s has it was a very interesting phenom but its time for a he it appears that were returning to and that Means greater variability in the weather than were used the beginning and end Points for this period of stable weather cant be pinned Down but a study by Harold with the National climatic Centre at North Points to 1956 As the probable starting Coy Rimes looking Back Over 40 years of temperature data gathered from across the United Crutcher found that the average annual temperature varied significantly from year to year in the and Early but from 1956 to average annual temperatures ceased to fluctuate almost since temperature variability has begun picking per haps by 1972 also brought a spate of disastrous weather conditions around the things were going pretty smoothly until Mitchell you saw problems smeared All Over the sparse rainfall ruined much of the so Viet wheat crop that year and brought the first big soviet purchases of spawned by intensified across the african Sahel re shifts in tropical weather Pat terns also brought a failure of Monsoon Rains Over India and much of the asian but m the normally arid Interior of torrential Rains filled a Lake that scientists guess bad not seen sub Stantial water since the last ice and of the coast of an Al Nino a periodic shift in the great Hui Boult current combined with overfishing to cause a disastrous drop in one of the worlds largest in the United 1972 brought the first signs of midwestern while some of the heaviest Rains in a Century flooded vast areas of the Eastern sea Board and the Mississippi i dont know what it All adds up but it would seem to be something to reckon Mitchell As Lor the years of relatively stable weather that preceded these there May have been no cause in a systematic it May have been a random Fluke with no real just As when youre throwing Dice and you Roll the same number several times m succession continued matched by an expression of Confidence that a Middle East peace conference is very Likely this asked whether he would prove palestinian representation at such a the president said the matter has not been decided but that palestinian participation would probably be As part of one of the Arab Carter discussed these other topics feel quite at East about the percentage of Blacks named to High administration he but added i wish that we could get More in in the top Levels of expressed no Surprise at the reaction both for and against Bis Blanket Pardon Friday of Vietnam Era draft evaders who were not guilty of violent Carter said it is something that should have been i was very grateful to be the one to do the next week or he i will make my first report to the Ameri can people on what we have already achieved and the time schedule for additional Carter said that at Bis first National Security Council meeting members were unanimous a embracing the necessity for reducing arms sales or having very tight restraints on future commitments to deliver weapons to other i have that ail approvals of arms fur a he submitted to me directly before toe recommendations go u Congress ;