Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 16, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather report from . Wage pact unravels Page 47 4get right tells Ian Smith 20 Danes return socialists Page Ottawa mum on envoys Page 10 pm blasts capital plan 41 arts Centre resists reins some gains for Trudeau Page inside Bridge 28 classified 61-67. 74-81 comics -12 crossword 26 deaths 7. Is finance fat people 25-w Horoscope 28 Jumble 64 letters 46 movies sports 69-73, 83 television 37 tuesday scores nil los Angeles 3 by isl. 3 Minnesota 3 Washington 3 Colorado t Detroit 2 St. Louis 5 Chicago 1 wha Calgary j Winnipeg z Cincinnati 7 Edmonton 4 Houston 4 Quebec 2 Canada Brandon 9 new West i Kamloops 3 Saskatoon j Calgary 4 Victoria 3 details on Page s3 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Details Page 7 Winnipeg free press vol. 84 no. Wednesday february 16, 1977 15 cents Kyc with coloured comics final edition Royal Bank staff leaves Quebec Montreal up the Royal Bank of Canada announced tuesday it will begin transferring the greater part of three head office depart ments from Here to Toronto this april while emphatically denying that political or Lan Guage considerations Are in Vojveda. Rowland Frazee Royal s executive vice president and chief general manager told a news conference the depart ments Are investments inter National Money markets and corporate marketing and development. The move would affect about 100 of More than members of head office staff based Here most of them top and Middle management and should be Complete by next fall. "1 will Tell you now straight that this is not the Start of any gradual or co Vert move of the Royal Bank s head office from Mon Treal to or. Frazee said. Lie stressed the move was based on a purely business decision reflecting the grow ing strength of Toronto As a financial Centre and the in creasing number of corporations in Ontario. In no Way is this decision related to or the result of. Of political Environ ment language or the out come of the november elec Tion in he said. A 25-Page internal report pro posing the move made no mention of political or Lan k u a u e he added. Sec Royal Page 4 Pawley s role queried by Debbie Lyon a local landlord has questioned whether a letter from attorney general Howard Pawley of Manitoba compromised the impartiality of a decision by a rent review officer who last fall turned Down the owner s application for a rent increase at an apartment Block in the min ister s constituency. Mel Katz the officer who made the ruling on the application involving Century place a 29-suite apartment building in Selkirk denied tuesday that the minister s letter had any influence on his decision or. Pawley s office denied there was any Strong at tempt to influence that Deci Sion. However. John buckles chunk. A special assistant to or. Pawley conceded there was a poor Choice word involved in one Para see landlord Page 4 s. Africa ready to make a bomb the Washington Post Pretoria South Africa working with United states scientists and Ameri can supplied enriched uranium. South Africa has devel oped an Independent nuclear Industry that is within two to four years of manufacturing an atomic bomb. That estimate is labelled As the outside by a Well informed . Govern ment source who is con Vinced that the South Afri cans can Cut it to a matter of months if they concentrate funds and manpower in a crash version of their present program. At least one British expert feels that the South africans May have already produced an atomic weapon. Connie Mulder the information and Interior minister in the White minority govern ment that confronts increasing Black pressure on its Borders and unrest at Home refused to confirm or deny that his country was close to having the bomb. Let me just say that if we Are attacked no rules apply a i All if it comes to a ques Tion ;