Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, February 18, 1977

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today socialism and the Farmers Page 8 leaves bombers Page 57 . Drought aids research Page 11 Energy Aid flows South Page 5 where is the Winner Page 32 Chew in Atu win Tario 37162, Mio 77s92. St Fiot 95691. Serios 5 33 72 16 Page thursday Phil. 7 by Atlanta 4 ant it 3 my Mem 4 a Upington 4 Taronno i Parroit 2 wha new England 4 Phoenix z who mpg 4 2 Calgary s Victoria 2 details Paga to inside 22 13-15 Bridge. Business expert classified 3e, 31, 34-52, cd is crossword.23 deaths.5, 3i for people. 21-21 horoscope.22 movies 28, sports 5348 television 24 reads be free press weather report from Advance sunny High -6, Low -18 Sun rises set Moon rises . Sets . Details Page 5 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 84 no. 118 Friday february 18, 1977 15 cents 25c with coloured comics Tho of Portage Avenue and Sprott to to Milf cd ban from to Croe Jit Union Contra Futua on of. Maty Avonzo. In to Foro found work a tote by carry on Tho Tai Doc site n Woll Nelor Way. Soo Page 3. Food Bill up again your grocery Bill could to on jul Way up again. Froth vegetables Are expected to inmate w to u per cent Jimj Hizik Poe Osum Aad producers Are applying to the milk control Board of Manitoba Tor an a specified increase in the Price of milk. Steve Dorcy it Board of Filiai. Said thursday oat one processor has already applied for a Price Inere Aio. A from the bean buy Agency wants answers Manitoba Hydro credit rating under review by Moonly s will be published next week. Spokesmen for Silver Bod dairies Ltd. And the Mani Toba Dairy and poultry co operative Ltd. Said their forms would be applying for a Price increase. D. A. Speirs vice president of modern dairies Ltd., said his firm awaits the notice. Final figures on its financial position for the last fiscal year will determine what in crease if any it needs. Modern s subsidiaries Are Crescent Creamery Ltd., Medo land Dairy products and Standard dairies Ltd the unidentified applicant now before the Board has t specified the increase it is requesting or. Dorey said. Spokesman for the prices Sers contacted thursday said they had t arrived at final figures in addition to submissions from processors the Board will Likely receive a request for a Price increase from the Manitoba milk producers marketing Board. I think it will be made r. W. Scott the Board s Secretary manager said. The milk control Board will decide whether it should hold a Public hearing after reel i v i n g submissions or. See no Page 4 Moody s investors services of new York oae of the toughest credit rating a the United states waste to put some hard 4a Manitoba Hydro before living them a rating Enaa expected Sale of Bonds this sprint. At present. Manitoba Hydro Aad the provincial government have a double a credit rating from the firm Aad should tint they would have to pay higher in m Money homed a spokesman Tor Stoody s to vectors service of new York said thursday that the credit Agency was extremely concerned with Hydro s reason ing process and justification for its program. Manitoba Hydro already has a look term debt Load of about us Btu on 41 cents per Dollar on customer Bills and should it lose at present rating interest on . Borrowing would Rise and the higher would Likely be pasted 03 in the pfc pfc Hydro chairman. Leonard a. Bateman toil the rotary club of Winnipeg in an address wednesday of text this can Guam i criticism May undermine the Confidence of these people to whom we sell our Bonds. If this Confidence in our Bond should be lost., it would Cost us More to Bor Row Money and All our Cus would to penalised with higher he denied that Hydro s development activities have been undertaken at an Sive cat to the people of the province. Ruth Corann. Moody s Ca Nadian research Nal crr. Said Zaat her Agency s concern bom with the government and Hydro stemmed from a series of articles written Fey Winnipeg free press Jumucis reporter Dea racist charge levelled she referred specifically to Zaaka Barf see Moody s Page 4 opposition condemns speech for Lack of new thrusts by Mary Ann Fux Gerald Manitoba s progressive conservative and Liberal leaders complained thursday that the speech from the throne opening thu provincial legislature ignored Many of the problems faced by Mani to bans. It s Barren of any Hope or sense of renewal for Mani to bans facing economic and. Social problems it s p r e it y work a Day progressive conservative Leader Sterling Lyon told a p t a conference shortly after hearing the throne outlining the govern ment s intentions for the pre election session of the legis lature. During the opening Cere monies or. Lyon. Formally took Bis seat in the Legisla Ture to Lead the conserva Tives in the House for the first time since his election As party Leader in 1975. Or. Who won a seat in the nov. 2 by election in Scaris Killarney wifi the official opposition s criticism of the throne speech when he Speaks monday in the legislature. Or. Huband who still Cortia Barf see Lyon Page 4 City act changes planned but not As task Force wanted Trudeau to seek Garrison halt compiled from dispatches prime minister Trudeau in a Telegram to Manitoba lib eral Leader Charles Huband says he win personally ask . President Carter to defer any further construction on the Lonetree Reservoir por Tion of the Garrison diversion project in North Dakota. The prime minister s Telegram sent thursday says he will ask for a halt to construction until the International joint commission Hamus Down its final report of the controversial irrigation and municipal water project. This essentially is the same message that wan transmitted by the Canadian government in the form of a will now be emphasized by my the Tele Gram stated. Or. Trudeau said he is confident that or. Carter will re Gard a satisfactory solution to the Garrison controversy to be As important As i North Dakota legislators have invited Manitoba Las and maps to meet them at the International peace Garden to discuss the Garrison diversion project. The meeting at which both premiered Schreyer and governor Arthur link would be present is tentatively scheduled for March 3 at the peace Garden located on the International Border sooth of Here. By David Lee the Manitoba government has apparently rejected several key recommendations of a provincially appointed task Force that studied the City Winnipeg act last year. Premiered Schreyer said thursday the government will be proposing to change several sections of the act during the current session of the legislature but not in the manner proposed by the task Force. For example he the size of Winnipeg City Council would be reduced but Proba Bly to fewer than the 39 members suggested by the study group. As Well he said the mayor of the City would continue to be elected by the voting pub Lic not by City councillors As proposed by the task Force. The Premier was inter viewed after the Reading of the speech from the throne which formally opened the fourth session of the 30th legislature thursday after noon. At a press conference after the speech was delivered by lieutenant governor f. L. See City Page 4 Toronto up prime minister Trudeau s speech to Fth Outadi of immigrants in a tightly packed ballroom thursday night was interrupted by a Man accusing the coven agent of rads. As or. Trn Dom spoke to a silent giant crowd gathered or a Celebration to Mart the now Bill the nun Stop the prime ssi room from the platform where be was flanked by several Cabi net ministers maps and citizenship court judges. A group of people standing on a platform where a Rock and Roll band had played a few moments earlier carried a sign Reading Stop racism. Kill immigration Bill. Com Mittee against the Man who later identified himself As prof Peter Rosenthal of the University of Toronto was asked to make his Point face to face with the prime minister. Thousands of people booed when the Man stood in or. Trudeau s place a few moments later saying the1 government s proposed immigration Bill allows officials to de port immigrants if they appear Likely to commit a crime and to photograph them on the Street if they Are immigrants. I Don t like that land of re pression against immigrants and he said to loud Trudeau Speaks with a forked he said drowned out by booing or. Trudeau sat in Bis chair nearby. When he finished or. Tru Deau Rose to say the fact that the Man was allowed to make his Points against the govern ment in this style shows that Canada is a free country. It s All unplanned i accept his or. Trudeau said after noting some people May wonder if the government paid the dem Cia pay to Hussein revealed by Bob Woodward the Washington Post Washington the Cen trial intelligence Agency for 20 years has made secret an Nual payments totalling Mil Lions of dollars to King Hus Sein of Jordan it has been Learned. The payoffs were reported last year to president Ford As an impropriety by the intelligence oversight Board a three member panel set up by or. Ford to curb Cia abuses. President Ford took no Steps to Stop the Covert pay ments. Last year Hussein was paid approximately by the Cia. President Carter Learned of the payoffs earlier this week after the Post began its investigation. He ordered that the payments be stopped. The associated press said today that the . Depart ment of state declined to comment on the report in the Washington poet the secret arrangement with King Hussein had not been disclosed to or. Carter by the Cia or by any Mem Ber of the previous Adieu Tratia including president Ford former Secretary of Sute Henry a. Kissinger or former Cia director George Bush. Or. Carter was distressed that he had not been told according to Well placed sources and sees the solution to Cia abuses As Quick confirmation of his no Minee As Cia director Navy Admiral Stansfield Turner. In addition the Senate intelligence committee created last year to oversee the Cia was apparently not Given the full Story by the Ford administration. One of the most closely held and sensitive of All Cia Covert activities the pay ments to King Hussein were made under the codeword project name of no beef. They were usually delivered to King Hussein by the Cia station chief in Amman. As justification for the direct Cash payments to King Hussein the Cia claimed that the King was allowing . Intelligence agencies to operate freely in his strategically placed Middle East country. The King himself provided intelligence to the Cia and forwarded Money from the payments to other. Govern ment officials who provided intelligence or co operated with the Cia. Nonetheless some Cia officials considered the pay ments nothing More than bribes and reported the matter to president Ford s oversight panel. King Hussein according to sources considers the pay ments simply another form of . Assistance. Within the Cia the beef project has been consid ered one of its most Success see Cia Page 4 Janieson blushing for ambassador by ext Trieb free Ottawa external affairs minister Don Jamieson has dismissed As total Fabri reports that Canada s ambassador to the United states j. H. Warren was being pushed out of that Posi Tion. He told opposition Leader Joe Clark in the commons thursday that or. Warren would return to Canada in june at his own request the ambassador had said As far Back As october that he did not wish to stay on beyond the end of his two year term which expires this summer. Or. Viiu Icausi Simiu he Feit embarrassed for or. War Ren because of a fuss reports adding that the ambassador had been an extremely Good Public ser vant of or. Clark called the whole matter a comic opera say ing the timing of the announcement of or. Warren s week before prime minister Trudeau visits Canada s reputation. Or. Jamieson said be had not announced the resignation but had merely confirmed the matter to a reporter who had gotten wind of the fact that or. Warren would resign. There had been no decision taken As to who would re place or. Warrenia Washington. Amin regime accused of murder see thousands Page 4 Kampala up a ugandan claim that the anglican archbishop and two Cabinet ministers accused of an anti government plot were killed in an automobile Accident touched off an inter National outcry thursday against president Idi Amin. Church groups and politicians abroad accused his regime of murder. The government said Arch Bishop Jantani Lowum. Inter Nal affairs minister Charles Oboth Okumbe and la col. Or Inayo Ryeman minister of land and water resources taken wednesday for questioning when they tried to overpower the Driver of the vehicle closing a Colli Sion. It said the three prison ers were killed and the Driver was critically injured. Amin was described by a senior government official As shocked and stunned by the deaths. There was no foul play said the official. It was just one of those terribly sad the International commis Sion of jurists in Geneva _ termed the deaths assassination and said the pre tense that they were killed in a motor Accident will deceive no see thu Cav Page 4 v life death Battle brewing Over bugs9 Ottawa up scientists have begun the first Lap of what May become a life and death race with bacteria is More and More of the Dis ease causing bugs outwit Antibiotic drags. A Strain of Gono Rhead the most common a visa bacterial infection has recently acquired total resistance to one of the major weapons a medicines Antibiotic Arsenal. Cases of fee new Onorr Hea resistant to the new drag of last resort a Actinomycin been reported in Bri Tain says or. Alex Morrison head of the Federal health Protection Branch. He said experts in he Field fear it is just a matter of time before penicillin resistant reaches epidemic proportions in this country. Although holy one care been reported Jar. As this gonorrhoea bacteria becomes More prevalent the Odds increase it win pass its imperviousness to penicillin on to structurally similar Dis ease causing prime candidate being the bacteria which causes Amin Gytis in adults. Or. Morrison said. Pen Ciffin is among the drags of last resort for treat ing this disease which can leave its survivors Blind deaf and paralysed. Or. Morrison said As Bac Teria acquire resistance to one Antibiotic drug scientists race to create another drug. He did not know if a time would come when re searchers lose their perilous game of leapfrog. It is now ultimately a problem for the drug Industry which must increase its efforts to Syryj resize he said nothing that Many of these newer More exotic antibiotics have far More unwanted Side effects than penicillin which is eminently Safe for All but the few people who Are allergic to Antibiotic resistance will sharply drive up medical care costs experts predict because the new antibiotics Are far More expensive than Sheow ;