Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday March 7, 1978 this group of croatians in Washington is protesting against Tito s visit. Yugoslavia s Tito flying to . For beginning of three Day visit Washington a president till of Yugoslavia the longest serv ing head of government in the world flew Here monday for a three Day official visit. He is the first communist Leader to be received by president Carter. State Secretary Cyrus Vance was to Greet Tito on monday evening on Bis arrival at Andrews air Force base. An official . Delegation headed by slate Secretary Cyrus Vance was on hand at nearby Andrews air Force base to Welcome Tito and his party. About 50 yugoslavs also were present and cheered Tito s arrival. Six . Presidents have come and gone since Tyllo s dramatic break Wilh inc soviet Union in 1918, and All have considered preservation of Yugoslavia s Independence and Territo rial integrity to be a vital . Inter est. Invitation in he ii i a old Leader represented a continuity of that a year . Policy. This is Tito s first visit Here since 1971 and reciprocates i rips to Belgrade made by for Mer presidents Lichard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Apparently concerned about a possible soviet Effort Lei re turn Yugoslavia to Moscow s Camp the Carter admin Strallow has been a modest expansion of . Military sales with. Yugoslav officials. Sources said Carter and Tilo in meetings tuesday and thursday probably will concent Ralp on such global issues As detente he Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Despite their common views on strategic questions the two countries have Broad differences in other areas. Yugoslavia has called at Var ious times for the decolonization of puerto Rico Guam and the Virgin islands and establishing close with Radical Arab slates and the a Cisline liberation organization. Tito s wife Jovanka has not been seen in Public for the last seven months and is Mil travelling with him on his current trip which will Lake him to great Britain later in the week. Belgrade has been Rife with rumours about a rift in the Tito household based on Yovanka s alleged political activities. In his first Public com ments on Hie subject Given last week to inc new York times Tilo acknowledged he has marital problems but said they Are not politically related. Chamber wants sales tax Cut inflation Rale by one per cent. The Only province Hal would nol Benefit under Hie plan would be Alberta. Tiie province has no sales lax. But thai province has the lowest unemployment rate in the country and the most favourable Short term economic said the Cham Ber. The chamber also recommended a one per cent annual continued reduction in the corporate lax Rale beginning Jan. I. I o that a special Issue of Canada savings Bonds be is sued this Spring. This would allow the government to defer payment of the billion in interest payments which will become due when existing Canada savings Bonds mature. That if the provinces arc unwilling to reduce la Weir re Tail sales taxes As suggested Hie Federal government should reduce manufacturers sales taxes by 2.5 per cent to per cent. The chamber said however thai Elliis was its second Choice. That Hie five per cent investment tax credit be in creased to 10 per cell and placed on a 10-year basis. The credit now islands at five pcs repeat demands for Federal tax cuts continued to reduce their sales tax. He was not con Vinced that a Federal sales tax Cut would help Consumers. Calrk and de Broadbent new democratic party Leader said the government is Cook ing unemployment and Cost of living Fig ures As a Federal election approaches. Clark said Layoff figures were being changed so they will not show the full Impact of unemployment and Broadbent said the Cost of living figures Are being made to look less damaging. Chretien said he knew nothing about any change in the statistics. But i Don t believe it is government policy to give orders to statistics Canada. If they Are making i was not aware of must be doing it for scientific reasons. Conservative finance critic Sinclair Ste Vens called the Layoff report the worst Lay off report Ever and pointed out that 87 per cent of the layoffs were in Ontario. Asked if he was aware of the severity of layoffs in Ontario Chretien said he would wait to see what provincial treasurer Darcy Mckeough would propose in his budget today. He flatly rejected an accusation from Ste Vens that his government had decided in conjunction with the United states and the european economic Community to Cut tariffs by 40 per cent. We have not decided on a final position. We Are negotiating to make sure International Trade will Chretien said the government would avoid the extremes of protectionist Ontario and the free Trade philosophy of Western Canada. cent and expires june 30, Filko. That paperwork sur rounding the newly introduced employment lax cred it plan be reduced to avoid. Each year the chamber presents its recommendations to the minister of finance in a pre budget Brief. Finance minister Jean Chretien has not announced a Dale for this year s budget but has indicated it could be introduced at the end of March. The Brief said the business Community is not looking for any Large government efforts to stimulate the econ omy. We believe that counsel Ling caution at this time is particularly appropriate. We recognize thai the govern ment May be subjected to considerable pressure to move in a massive Way to get the Economy rolling again. To adopt such a stance How Ever would in our opinion be dangerous and ultimately the chamber forecasts an unemployment rate of More than eight per cent for the year a seven per cell de Cline in investment by major corporations and a rate of inflation for the year of be tween 7.5 per cent and eight per cent. We As a country will continue to operate Well below potential and the serious eco nomic problems that plagued us during 1977 will remain very much in said the chamber. Ramp considers laying charge against Cossitt extending beyond the 4 . Deadline. Speaker James Jerome undertook to exam Ine the matter and bring in a ruling Friday. Friday he reported that Cossitt and Blais had reaches an agreement to hold the matter in abeyance until monday at 3 . Est. In the meantime Cossitt would consult his solicitors. Cossitt Rose in his place monday and read into the records of the commons a. Letter he had received from Blais last Friday which for Mally asked him to turn Over to the government a Docu ment entitled Canadian re lated activities of the rus Sian intelligence services. The document Blais wrote was dated March and was classified As top secret. It was published by the intelligence advisory commit tee of the government of Canada according to the Blais letter. The solicitor general wrote that it was his information that Cossitt had a copy of that document contrary to the official secrets act. Members of parliament on Bolh sides of the House had no idea How the delicate situation would to resolved. A they knew was that Cossitt was to Rise Ati . Monday and make statement either Liming Over he controversial document or refusing to turn it Over. No one had expected him to deny he had such a document. Specula Linn was Rife on the Hill. The government was flabbergasted when the unas suming Cossitt Rose and for Mally denied he had such a document As named in Hlais s letter. Afler he had read his Sale Mcnol a number of opposition maps made their Way to his desk to congratulate him and showed their pleasure at inc discomfiture of inc govern ment on the Oiler Side. On he government Side Blais had quickly made his Way to sit and consult with Justice minister lion Bas Ford. Cossitt could not resist gel Ling in some digs. He said he believed he id been singled nut by Lite government because of inc vindictive Ness of the prime minister. Otherwise Why he asked had not Oiler opposition maps who had said they had secret documents in their Possession received the same treatment. He noted that inc prime minister had contended the interests of the country Maxim s deleted Paris a prestigious Paris restaurant Maxim s has been deleted from the authoritative Michelin guide after 75 years at Michelin s three Star Pinna Cle. But was Maxim s too Good or not Good enough Maxim s acknowledged it had refused to admit Miche Lin inspectors last october when they came to rate the restaurant for the 1978 guide which went on Sale monday. But Maxim s denied news reports it feared losing a Star. A spokesman said it Long had sought special classification above three stars in Honor of its pre Emi nent position in the history of French cuisine. Three stars is simply in Jacqueline Boyer said. When Michelin refused year after year we finally had to bar Michelin a Michelin spokesman said we have no continued Chretien wanted Brief withheld Ottawa up the director of a business lobby group said monday he was asked by finance minister Jean Chretien to withhold from reporters a document showing benefits to the Economy if provincial sales taxes were reduced. Sam Hughes executive director of the Canadian chamber of com Merce did not release the Brief his group had presented to the minister but did reveal its contents to report ers. If retail sales taxes were reduced by three per cent in provinces with higher than average unemployment and by two per cent in provinces whose unemployment rates were below the National average the Fol lowing benefits could be expected the chamber said new jobs would be created in the next 12 months and another the following year. The rate of inflation would drop by .7 per cent this year and another .7 per cell next year. Canada s Gross National product the total value of All goods and services produced in the country in one year would grow 1.3 per cent More than it would without the lax cuts. Hughes speculated that the finance minister did not want the figures made Public because they would give opposition members new grounds for grilling the government on the Economy. Hughes added however that the figures would soon be in the hands of the progressive conserva Tives whom he had arranged to meet today. The Brief contained 68 recommendations the chamber wanted to Sec in Chretien s 1978 budget. Chretien s Only reaction after meeting with representatives from the chamber was that he would con Sider their suggestions. Asked specifically if he would try to get the provinces to agree to reductions in their retail sales taxes Chretien said he had already asked the provinces to reduce their sales taxes last fall and Only Ontario had bought the plan. It would put spending Power into the hands of Consumers there s no doubt about said Chretien. But everyone is already screaming that i m increasing government expenditures too were at stake. He suggested it would be More accurate to say the interests of the government were at stake. When asked outside the House if he had in his pos session excerpts from the document Cossitt replied he could not answer on advice of counsel. He told the commons that at no time had he acted in a manner that was prejudicial to the Security of the country nor will i Ever do he also stressed that he would at All times protect the identity of canadians who had communicated to him information which showed they believed that the government had acted wrongly. The next move is now up to the government. Co Silt has been warned that if he did not return the document his Home and office might be searched under the official secrets act. Anti terrorist tactics revealed to ramp probe continued meet with some Success. If no agents develop out of this we have noted that it has in some cases neutralized the individual. A. Disruptive tactics making use of sophisticated and Well researched plans built around existing situations such As Power struggles love affairs fraudulent use of funds information on drug use etc., to cause dissension and splintering of the separatist terrorist groups. A. . Approach known separatist terrorist and offer a Lump sum payment in return for Good information leading to the arrest and or neutralizing of terrorist groups. They would be run similar to criminal groups on a Short term basis with Cash paid on delivery for Good information. They would be aware that if they were caught commit Ting a criminal act they could expect no help from commission counsel Ross Goodwin asked if mounties had used falsified arrest War rants badges or identity cards in picking up people. Ferraris who designed and set up the Anil terrorist program said a request for false identity cards had been denied and he had t heard of false warrants. Low Cost cat neutering clinic upsets veterinarian group Winnipeg veterinarians say a sizable part of their livelihood is in jeopardy if the Manitoba cat club proceeds with plans to establish a Low Cost cat neutering ser vice. A statement from Ross Filz Patrick president of the Winnipeg Academy of voter Zuary Medicine says Small animal practitioners have been excluded from any say or input into the cat club s proposed scheme. The club plans to open a clinic on Keenleyside Avenue april i and provide neutering at about half inc Price charged by most veterinarians. Filz Patrick says he fees charged in Winnipeg for a feline spay and for male neutering Are the lowest in Western Canada. He said the veterinary Hospi Tal can in no Way compete with the production line work. The Academy has offered to charge reduced fees for neutering and spaying of pets to those people who could show by a Means test hat they could t afford the full charge Fitzpatrick said. The club says it is set Ling up the clinic in an Effort to reduce inc High number of animals put to death. Power cuts big layoffs face Ilso in Coal strike by tie associated press As president Jimmy Carter seeks to Force striking Coal miners Back to work the mid West and Appalachia face More Power Cut backs that might cause tens of thousands of layoffs by Friday. Maryland Virginia and West Virginia were jointly considering a 30-per-Ccnt Cut Back on two utilities Industrial customers. In Ohio a major Utility serving Columbus asked for a 50-per-Ccnt Industrial cutback next monday. And Indiana officials decided this was no time to lift 25-per-cent cutbacks already in effect for businesses. The Indiana order has put about workers on indefinite Layoff and another on shortened work schedules in areas served by three utilities. So far he labor department has said Power cutback related layoffs have been limited to about but sunday when it became Clear that the United mine workers would reject a tentative settlement of the three month strike administrators predicted a million might be out of work by the end of March and 3.5 million by late april. Carter set in motion monday Legal machinery to invoke Taft Hartley act provi Sions ordering miners Back to work. But Many say they won t obey. West Virginia officials had said 30-per-cent cutbacks cutbacks for Industrial customers of Monongahela Power co. And Potomac Edison co. Might cause state layoffs largely in such industries As Glass and steel. A 10-per-cent cutback and voluntary curtailments in the utilities service areas have still let Coal stockpiles shrunk to a 20-Day Supply by late last week. In Ohio the Columbus and Southern Ohio electric co., serving took the first Steps to seek a 50-per-cent Industrial curtail ment next monday. In Indiana Hoosier Energy a Lilily serv ing 17 Rural co operatives was refused a lifting of its curtailment because it has been Able to rebuild its Coal stockpiles from -10 to 17 Days. Gang helps to guard non Union Coal trucks continued won t mess with Paramount hired Martin and his Side kicks at a Day after a number of Drivers quit because of violence during the Coal strike now in its 82nd Day. The windshields of More than 30 Para mount trucks have been smashed by rocks a few Drivers have been fired upon and hundreds of tires have been slashed or punctured by spikes placed in their path. The company has also suffered one bomb ing and one bombing attempt. Brown insists the rough riders Are not armed guards but merely extra but he said he knows they re Tough and that s Why he hired them. My philosophy is that the meaner the pickets Are the meaner the extra Drivers he said. They get meaner pickets i get meaner they have been a Success. Since hiring the Figueros Brown said none of his trucks have had serious confrontations. Michael Fulllen Brown s assistant said part of their Success is their Mutual fear. I think the miners arc As afraid of us As we Are of he said. Miners Call the riders scabs and an assortment of other four letter words. Local folks Sec them As Young toughs. Actually i d like to consider ourselves hired said ., an extra Driver with a Toothy Grin and an icy Glare who preferred not to use his full name. I do it because of the Money and the sex Said he has had Only one major confrontation when a picket wielding a stick leaped onto the running Board of his truck. I pulled out my gun and stuck it in his Said. He jumped off Quck and fell into the Said he is threatened daily. Every Day we drive past the pickets they scream he said. I Don t say a word. I just look Back and Said he actually sympathizes with the miners and would like to see them get a better contract. But i would like to see last a few More he added. I can use the ;