Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 4, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ito impotence off old Money Len cams in sir labor taks freight train was sabotaged 41 a Isth tie terrible airfare savings for Manitoban Ilij cant crash parties 25 inside anytime 78 91 48 97 75 Jumble weather report from Advance sunny Low High 7 Sun Malwa sets 15 Moom rises sen 85 131 March 15 cents with coloured Oom rfcs final edition ramp Hunt Cossitt Contact Ottawa up the ramp Friday night began an intensive investigation aimed at finding who leaked to secret ramp Security service documents to my Tom Cossitt meanwhile was under an ultimatum to prod uce copies of the document by monday or face arrest and prosecution under the official secrets act for an alleged offence which car Ries a penalty of up to 14 years in ramp talk ing to reporters who had seen the indicated that if Cossitt does return he will also give the ramp the source of the they also indicated that if Cossitt shredded the Docu they probably would be Able to gather enough Evi Dence against him to prose cute they had a copy of a 22 Ottawa citizen Story by Iain Hunter in which Hunter said Cossitt had showed re porters a document marked the Day before top secret and for Canadian eyes they asked Hunter and other reporters whether they had been shown this and see ramp Page 4 expel spies Nielsen by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa there Are 15 soviet spies in this country waging acts against Cana Das National Erik Nielsen said in the commons and he demanded to know when the government was going to expel Nielsen said if the govern ment was so sensitive about any threat to our National Security As to seek to intimidate Tom Cossitt pc it was time solicitor general Jeanjacques Blais took action against the 15 soviet Nielsen said the solicitor general had himself acknowledged in the commons that there were 28 see my Page 4 residents of school Fin danger a report prepared by senior administrators of the Manitoba school for Retar dates at Portage la Prairie charges the safety and Security of the 900 residents Are in extreme danger because of an acute shortage of the leaked to the Media on Friday after lying for some time on the desk of health minister Bud warns that the residents Are again in danger of fire and the school no longer meets provincial fire safety last year eight residents of the quartered in the Homes East Grove died in a fire hat a inquest conducted by judge Robert Trudel ruled could have been judge Trudel found if a proper fire alarm system and Sprinker unit had been installed and if staff Mem Bers were properly trained How to handle a fire Emer see Portage Page 4 police probing fish forgery by Dave Johnson Pariag Barcelo left and Rosina practise for their appearance in the festival of nations presentation Friday night and tonight at the playhouse the Young ladies Are members of the philippine which with 23 other groups at the show sponsored by the arts Council of the show is a preview of Folk diorama see review Page air rides doled out by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa a suggestion that air Canada tick ets might be the National Revenue depart ments crackdown on free airline passes was made in the commons Revenue minister Joe Guay said earlier his depart ment has reason to believe that airline companies and travel agents Are handing out free airline tickets to help customers avoid paying income the minister said his department is attempting to clean up the travel Industry through an investigation of every airline which does business in Canada or has travel agents in this tax investigators moved in on airline offices across Canada in simultaneous raids last in the commons Friday Dan Mckenzie Peg South Centre noted that one Revenue officer had said there Are so Many free tickets around they Are like he also recalled that Claude president of air Canada at a commons committee meeting last said that air Canada at that time still had tickets it could not account in there were about tickets which through a work slowdown at the airlines Winni Peg finance the airline was unable to match the listing of the ticket by after the labor situation was resolved the total was reduced to Taylor told the commons committee that out of the tickets a year being issued there is always a certain number of unmatched i would ask the transport minister Otto Lang if he has contacted Taylor to see if they have found the tickets or Are they part of the free tickets floating around Canada Mckenzie Lang told the House he had no reason to believe there is any relationship Between the National Revenue depart ments crackdown and the figure of air Canada he said no one had suggested that up to angry pickets boo Trudeau postal protests mount Ottawa up the Canadian Union of postal workers cup erupted into protest activity in a number of centres Friday As frustration mounted Over delays in contract on parliament prime minister tru Deau smiled and blew a kiss to several Hun dred demonstrators who marched and chanted outside the parliament buildings for half an they have been without a contract since june a Post office spokesman in said mail was beginning to pile up at a postal Plant there following a walkout thurs Day night by members of the work ers complained of harassment by super i Edmonton postmaster Les Witley said eight Darold firs class mail was still sit Ting in the main City Post he said he was unable to explain Why the mail was not cleared but added it was very in a Post office spokesman said 30 cup members left two hours Early thursday although there were no prob lems during fridays Day organizers of the parliament Hill Demon stration said postal workers from Toron Hamilton and Montreal joined Ottawa cup members in the the demonstrators booed the prime minis Ter As he emerged from the parliament buildings and climbed into his where his three Young sons were Trudeau joked with ask ing what Are you Fellows waiting for do you want me to stick up my Finger or something with a he blew a kiss to the the has launched an investigation into allegations that a rabbis initials were forged on Cartons of fish at the Freshwater fish marketing corporation Cleve officer in charge of commercial said Friday the ramp was instructed ear Lier this week by the actor Ney generals department to begin investigating the acc were into the investigation Cooper the ramp action follows a series of accounts in the free press critical of the Federal Crown Agency marketing practices and to included in the allegations were charges that a rabbis initials and a Rabbini Cal stamp were put on ship ments of fish without his knowledge or Crown attorney George Dangerfield said that the at Torne generals department decided to ask the ramp to look into the matter after Reading the the Femc is under a lot of criticism these and under the we asked the ramp to look into Dangerfield he said redid not know if the ramp would be examining other published allegations against the Federal fish marketing Manitoba and Saskatchewan officials have said they plan to ask for a meeting with Federal fisheries minis Ter Romeo Leblanc to Dis cuss a Broad Range of com plaints against the Agency marketing policies and Strat a consultants report made Public earlier this week was highly critical of the corporations marketing policy and questioned the compe tence of senior see postal Page 4 Dollar loses ground Montreal up the Canadian Dollar lost More ground on the new York Money markets Friday despite a government announcement that it plans to borrow million in the to support the sagging dealers said the Dollar was under heavy pressure during most of the on the Interbank wholesale it went As Low As cents in mid after noon before rebounding to close at this was Down slightly from thursdays closing Price of and More than a third facet below mondays Price of Market participants said news that the government will borrow Money to support the Dollar had Little effect on the currency the Money is still in the pipeline and Hast hit the Market said a dealer from the Bank of finance minister Jean Chretien said Fri Day that the government will borrow the Money publicly on new York Money markets to help defend the dollars value and to finance a growing deficit on International property tax credit plan to stay Lyon Premier Sterling Lyon said Friday the government is planning Iuo substantial changes in Manitoba million property tax credit plan this he told his regularly scheduled press conference some anomalies might be ironed out of the but he declined to last the nip government raised the property tax credit and rent rebate benefits by to a Maxi mum of and a minimum of that increase raised the total Cost of the plan to million from million in the previous late last finance minister Don Craik said Manitoba taxpayers would get an additional million in benefits under automatic increases in Manitoba Cost of living tax credit plan this year partly because of changes in tax rates and partly because of the Federal governments indexing of personal income tax in benefits under the Cost of living tax credit plan totalled african girl bought for for use As slave in Florida a a for Mer College teacher has admit Ted he and his wife bought a 10yearold african girl from her Mother and used the child for at least two years As a House she was Given one dress to a tin plate for the Rice she was fed and a broken Glass to drink this is the first classic Case of slavery in this Century the Fri knows agent Joseph sail said Syed Riaz Hussain a Horticulturist Vjio formerly taught at Miami Dade Community pleaded guilty in fed eral court thursday to a charge of holding a person in involuntary his Wishrad Majed an Anaesthesiologist at Okeechobee bad faced the same but it was dropped when she pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of lying to immigration neither of the Shah have commented on the the Rose was 10 years old in 1974 when she was brought to the United states from Sierra where the Shah paid her Mother and promised to educate in they said the girl would babysit the Shah who was then four years said civil rights lawyer John Conroy of the Justice depart the grand jury charged in the indictment that the Shah used Rose As a House slave in what the Fri described As a lavishly furnished apartment in they would not let her Wash dishes in the but made her do them by Fri agent Lathell Thomas Testi Thomas said neighbors reported that the couple kept the girl constantly scrubbing floors by the Shah finally sent Rose to school in after managing to get her expired visa changed to a students visa by claiming to be her aunt and Conroy the situation began to come to Light As teachers at Dunbar elementary school noticed roses emaciated condition and reported it to workers for the youth services division told a juvenile court judge in that Shah bad made sexual advances toward the girl when his wife was no sex charges were youth authorities continued to investigate and the girl was eventually taken from the Shah evidence sur faced that the girl was a Bouse and the couple were indicted in Rose has been placed in a Foster Home and will be allowed to remain in the United states until she completes her Educa then she must return to her Mother and 11 Brothers and Sis ters in Shah faces up to five years in prison and a and Bis wife up to six months in Pris on and both Are registered aliens from Pakistan and immigration officials say no decision has been made on whether to Deport District judge Wil Liam Hoeveler has ordered a pre sentence ;