Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 22, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather report from a special Section lady Churchill in Pinch Page 15 children s Aid Aims at family Unity Page 17 current events quiz Page 14 protestant butchery cited Page 8 Slaughter subsidies probe urged Page 2 dancer jives on 3 poaching Bill set 1 3 Rabin on . Limb monday scores nil Montreal 3 Atlanta 2 St. Louts 4 Vancouver 0 Cai Urta Winnipeg s Regina t details Page 51 inside Bio Dex 4 Bridge 24 classified comics 33 crossword 13 deaths 5. 34 finance.25-28 focus 32 for people.17-24 Horoscope 19 Jumble 36 movies 22 sports 47-51 television. 20 the free priss sex minister sentenced Tel Aviv Reuter Asher Yadlin former israeli labor party Leader was sentenced to five years in jail today after conviction on bribery and tax evasion charges. Yadlin nominated last sep tember to head the Bank of Israel also was fined about by the District court which passed sentence. Pleading guilty to the charges last week. Yadlin said he had taken bribes and kick backs on land deals to help cover labor party deficits in the 1973 elections. His sentence today coincided with the opening of the labor Par s annual Conven Tion which is expected to see close fight for the Leader ship Between prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and defence minister Shimon Peres. I hum Advance Frap Prpic final to 1 i cd 1 Recto motion Moon rises . Sets . Details Page 5 vol. 84 no. 121 tuesday february 22, 1977 Calls Quebec secession crime against humanism Trudeau pledges Canadian Unity to . Congress prime minister Trudeau right pret nos president Jimmy Carter with a copy of the Book friends a picture Book showing areas a i o n i the United states Canadian Border Ashi. Two met monday in the White Hesse Oval office. Photo auditor still concerned about future of flyer firm provincial Tor w. K. Ziprick said play he is still concerned about the future of flyer industries but he a t i f i e d Steps Are being taken to try to keep the government controlled bus building firm viable. La an interview or. 2i prick said had been hired by the Board of the company. I think they re doing the Best they can but whether they re successful or not re Mains to be or. I prick said. He said his Job is to certify the financial statements and assets of the company. Certification is based on the pre Mise that the company is going concern. He emphasized that the provincial auditors Aren t experts in sales forecasting. He was unable to say whether a recent contract amounting to slightly More than million to provide for Edmonton and a commission from the City of Winnipeg for an a yet unspecified number of buses would be enough to keep the company a going or. Zip Ricer was comment ing on his annual report to bid in the legislature which expressed concern about the future operations of the the report however noted that the concerns were being considered by the flyer Board prior to the provincial auditor s involvement. The report noted that in 1975 no operating budgets were made available and monthly financial statements weren t beg provided current tout and Cash projections were submitted Only when additional funds were required from the Manitoba development corporation the government s lending . Or. Ziprick s report said the auditor could Only con clude at that time that responsibilities of the Board were being carried out mainly on the basis of verbal briefings. Judg e orders refund Lyon roasts nip for waste spending Lyon government exhausted by David Lee Manitoba s progressive conservatives moved their election Campaign into High gear in the legislature Mon Day while serving the nip government its worst roast ing in years. With an election expected in june conservative Leader Sterling Lyon said All the nip has left to offer Mani to bans is its Devo Tion to outdated the government or. Lyon said in a fiery 125-minute speech had become strangled by its own ineptitude and its Mammoth spending sprawling bureaucracy and its leaderless Drift. This government has acquired the habit of Power the complacency the Lack of ideas the Lack of Energy the Lack of new and capable the tory Leader said. This government is exhausted and we cannot Trust see Lyon Page 4 Levesque cleared of blame in death m o t r fat. Anta tit Nafla in Montrea Coroner Maurice Laniel announced monday that pre Mier Rene Levesque was not criminally responsible for the death of a 62-year-old Man who was struck feb. 6 by a car the Premier was driving. Consequently a Public in quest into the incident is unnecessary. Or. Laniel said in an interview after his report into the Accident was re leased. Meanwhile in Quebec City Justice minister Marc Andre Bedard said in a statement he still does t know if he will order a Public inquiry. He Yould study All the facts be fore deciding whether to Pur sue the matter further. Or. Laniel said police had acted properly in not bringing charges against the Premier there Are no Possi ble charges that could stand up in any Edgar Trottier described by police and social workers As a derelict and alcoholic died after being struck by the Premier s car in the Early hours of feb. 6. Or. Trottier had been lying in the Road. A Winnipeg doctor was awarded in repair costs monday in county court for a car he bought in from a local Dealership although the War Ranty had expired. County court judge j. W. M. Thompson instructed de f e n d a n t Pembina Dodge Chrysler Ltd. And Chrysler Canada to make restitution to or. Alan class for repairs to his car s automatic trans Mission in september 1976. Judge Thompson said there was a responsibility on the Vendor to Correct problems despite the fact that the 12 month warranty had Long since passed. Reviewing evidence presented by or. Klass on his own behalf and by defence attorney Robert Adkins the judge said there was certainly from the beginning a. Problem with the transmit the judge noted that when the car which was Pur chased new was Only six months old and had travelled Miles there was a problem with the gears which did t mesh. Or. Klass a surgeon and a professor of Anatomy at the University of Manitoba told court the car was totally in a car carries a Good reputation for Engineer ing the transmission failed at Miles and1 again at he said. Or. Klass said he initially complained about transmission problems in a letter to Chrysler Canada president in june 1971 still within the warranty period. The first Complete trans Mission failure occurred oct. 23. 1973, at about Miles. He said. He asked that the transmission unit be re placed but the Chrysler Cor see refund Page 4 by Frank butter free press correspondent Washington prime minister Trudeau today pro m i s e d the . Congress with All the certainty i Van command that Canada will not break up. Quebec separatism would be a crime against humanism causing Shock Waves around the world he said. The prime minister told a joint meeting of the . Congress that separatism would actually Hurt French Canada making it even More susceptible to submersion to the English culture of the rest of North America and would threaten other Cul Tural minorities in Canada. Or. Trudeau also denied Quebec Premier Rene Leves que s claim in a recent new York speech that . Histo. By supports the separatist goal of his parti quebecois government. Or. Trudeau quoted George Washington the father of . Independence As endorsing the immense value of National he also attacked the u Vesque governments for advocating separatism when it had not sought such a Man Date in its successful election Campaign last fall. Or. Trudeau devoted two thirds of his 25-minute speech to Canadian unit in a Strong defence of confederation and a passionate Assur Ance that americans should not fear the breakup of can Ada. He told americans that de spite differences on some specific issues Canada s Friendship with the . Is not negotiable and pledged Canadian support in the Pur suit around the world of causes in which both coun tries believe. Canadians Are not Capa ble of living in isolation from you anymore than we Are de Sirous of doing he said. Canada will always want to express its own culture and its economic Independence and will respond vigorously to any threat of pol Lution of its environment he warned. But. Calling the relationship with the . A Model admired by much of the he added it is no wonder that we Are each so interested in the continued social stability and economic Prosperity of the or. Trudeau admitted that Canada has so far failed to create conditions in which French speaking citizens Felt fully equal. And therein is the source o f our principle problem he said. That is Why a minority of the people of Quebec feel they should leave Canada and strike out in a country of their own. The newly elected govern ment of that province asserts a policy which reflects that minority View despite the fact that during the election it sought a mandate for Good government and not a Man d a t e for separation from Canada he said believes in Freedom and Equality with languages and a multitude of i am confident it can be done. I say to you with All the certainty i can command that Canada s Unity will not jobless insurance Section invalid Vancouver Federal court judge Frank Collier has ruled that a Sec Tion of the unemployment insurance act contravenes the Bill of rights by discriminating on the basis of sex and is invalid. Judge Collier an unemployment insurance commis Sion Pic Umpire said that Section 46 automatically Dis qualifies pregnant women or those who have just Given birth from receiving regular Pic benefits regardless of their availability for work. The right to Equality be fore the Law of those persons is infringed because of discrimination by reason of said judge Collier in his recent decision. It plainly denies benefits to certain claimants who might otherwise be covered by the entitlement provi s i o n seven though claimants prove themselves separated from employment capable of and available for work but unable to obtain suitable judge Collier set aside a Pic Board of referees Deci s i o n which denied Stella Bliss a member of the ser vice. Office and retail workers Union of Canada regular benefits after she failed to qualify for mater nity benefits. He said he did not find it necessary to decide whether Section 30, which sets out the criteria for awarding mater nity benefits is incompatible with the Bill of rights. Owen appointed to foreign office London a David Owen a 38-year-old doctor turned politician is Britain s new foreign Secretary and the youngest Man to hold the Post since Anthony Eden in 1935. Prime minister James Callaghan promoted Owen the no. 2 Man at the foreign of fice on monday a few hours after the funeral of his Pride c e s s o r and former chief Anthony Crosland. Crosland who was foreign Secretary for Only 10 months died Satur Day. Owen had been acting As foreign Secretary since Cros land suffered a stroke six Days before his death. Callaghan chose Owen in Stead of giving the Post to Denis Healey chancelor of the exchequer who had planned to Exchange with Crosland during the summer. The prime minister apparently decided he needed the experienced Healey to remain at the Treasury the second ranking Post in the Cabinet because of Britain s grave economic condition. See Trudeau Pace 4 fatal shot fired by Amin dares Salaam a the tanzanian government s newspaper claims that Ugan Dan president Idi Amin personally shot and killed anglican archbishop Jantani Lowum during an interrogation. In a report attributed to a special correspondent in Kampala the ugandan Capi Tal. The daily news said Amin killed the. Prelate after he repeatedly refused to sign a confession admitting he plotted with former president Milton Obote to overthrow the ugandan dictator. The newspaper said la Wum s body was dumped in Lake Victoria along with those of Cabinet ministers Eri Nayo Onyema and Charles Oboth of Umbi who also were accused of taking part in the alleged plot. Amin claims that the Arch Bishop and the two Cabinet ministers died in an Automo bile crash last wednesday after their arrest. The wide spread belief abroad that the three men were murdered prompted an announcement by radio Uganda on monday that Amin would Welcome an investigating delegation from any foreign government. The tanzanian newspaper s report said that after Arch Bishop Lowum was arrested in Kampala he was taken to Nak Asero Lodge were Amin and several officials were waiting for him. It said after the archbishop repeatedly re fused to sign confession he was stripped and pinned to the floor. Child evangelist Michael gives them what they want by Ted Allan it s probably Best to tread with the likes of Little Michael this season s child full of Grace on the Faith Healing circuit. For when All the simulated piety declamatory divin Ity and Las vegas lounge emotional choreography arc done there Are soil those people whose pain has been eased. And. They were there last night at the Winnipeg convention Centre the sick the lame the Blind and the distressed and they found re Lief however transitory in the ministry of Michael and Rev. Max Solbrekken an Edmonton based evangelical Faith healer. The absolute conviction of the people who came for the laying on of hands phys rally and metaphysically was real and tangible and sadly touching. It made the question of the integrity of child evangelism wholly irrelevant. If it feels Good Ana in t breaking the Law it must be valid is the applicable simplistic judg ment to this simplistic form. Little Michael As anyone familiar with North Ameri can Wool Worth culture knows by now is the plump Blond astonishingly precocious 10 year old cherubim out of co Lumbus Georgia who s be come a hot item on the fundamentalist tour and the television Taik show ghetto. He s been philosophically savaged by David Susskind in the name of intellectual Honor and Good Nielsen rat Ings and immortalized by Norman Lear As thinly disguised Jimmy Joe Jeter on Little Page 4 by Johnson evangelist Little Michael makes j spiritual ;