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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Stapon regrets buying 4 Consumers rap milk Board at hearings 3 More stores to open on sundays Page 8 arses my notice rescinded 7 Gary player takes at third straight Golf win toe investor Confidence nestled for survival a ,e66 i 2 wac inside anytime .7 Ito Dix horoscope.26 business report.17-24 bridge.36 comics.13 deaths.5, 34 for people.25-33, 36 loiters.11 jumble.38 television .28 weather. 5 weather report from sunny High 10, Low -1 Sun rises sols p n Moon rises . Sets . Vol. 85 no. 171 Friday april 21, 1978 15 cents 25c with coloured comics by John Sullivan last fall s lion like propos als to revamp Winnipeg s civic Structure Wurl out like a Lamb thursday As cite Council s executive policy committee opted for Little More hum a status quo Blue print for municipal author Ity. Ignoring More than three hours of detailed re structuring proposals by critics ranging from mayor Robert Ste ii to councillor Joe Zuken labor Kle Clion com policy committee quickly endorsed a draft organization Chart with no major departures from present practice. Also shelved were the sweeping alterations to City government advocated by a consultant s report. The study commissioned from the Minneapolis based Arden management he corp., came under i barrage of criticism from ail factions on Council when it was released last fall. The new plan drawn up by committee chairman Hob rocks Lael Independent Citi Kle Clion tactic from proposals by four and hoc committees con firms a Basic political Struc Ture of four standing committees and a Cabinet like policy body set up by Council on an interim basis last no vember. The new blueprint s main is to relieve an Over worked environment com Mittee by handing Ovir con of health welfare and libraries o Parks and recce Alion committee which has had Only meagre agendas since it was added As coun cil s fourth Tumini slut last year. The Lone change tit tile and hoc committee plan came after environment chairman Jim Ernst Chc grand s Mill argued that control Over housing policy and the neighbourhood improvement program should remain with in s committee rather than be Ranf erred to mrs. Mcgoni Gal s group As Well. Policy committee backed Ernst s View that housing see committee Page i Moscow up japanese sources said the soviet Union confirmed today that a South korean Airliner missing on a flight from Paris to Seoul has landed on soviet territory. The sources said the soviet foreign ministry told the japanese embassy in Moscow that All the passengers and Crew appear to be. Safe but gave no details on the location of the aircraft. In Seoul a korean airlines spokesman said be has been informed by the United states that soviet fighters forced the plane to land. But . Military sources in Washington said they have no evidence that soviet jets used hostile action to Force the jetliner to land. Both the United states and Japan have asked the soviet Union for information about the plane which was reported to have been forced Down in the Murmansk Arctic re Gion of the soviet Union. The plane a Boeing with till persons on Board i7 passengers including five Chil Dren and 13 Crew disappeared Over the North pole thursday. Korean airlines in Paris said the Passen Gers aboard the flight included is japanese a Dill koreans. Others aboard included three French nationals one briton and one West German. Nationalities of the other Pas sengers were not known. The japanese foreign ministry in Tokyo said the United states has informed it that lie plane landed in the Murmansk Region. The ministry said it has been Given exact co ordinates for the Point where the plane had come Down by the . State department. These co ordinates would put the heavy aircraft on Lake Smandra which sprawls across the South of the strategic Kola Penin Sula in Northern Russia near the Border with Finland and is still Frozen to a depth of Sev Oral metres at this time of year. An aviation ministry spokesman at the Airport serving Murmansk the main City on the Peninsula and about Kilometres North of Lake Smandra said the aircraft has not landed there and officials in Murmansk itself said they knew nothing of the incident. The korean aircraft s planned course should not have taken it near soviet territory leading to speculation that it strayed As it left norwegian air space Over the North sea port of Bodo and headed Over the Arctic towards Anchorage Alaska. The Murmansk Region Hio Kilometres from the norwegian Frontier and 320 Kilometres from he finnish Border is one of the most heavily fortified areas in the country. West Ern military sources said the soviet Union keeps hundreds of fighters bombers ships and nuclear tipped missiles in the area. There was no official soviet comment on the incident. Queen Elizabeth ii holds her first grandchild master Peter Phillips in this official photograph made at Windsor Castle on april 5. Master Phillips son of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips was born nov. I he photograph was taken by lord Snowdon estranged husband of Princess Margaret. By Mary Ann labor minister Norma Price of Manitoba has called for a Legal investigation info left res distributed by the Manitoba government employees association to about civil ser vants saying they Are being Laid off. Bill Jackson president of the employees association admitted thurs Day the association mailed and Distri Butch letters copies of one received by an employee at the Lime of he mass Layoff of regular and term employees in mid March to stir up interest in a demonstration planned for monday at 7 . At the Legisla Tive building. Only at the Bottom of the official booking letter is there indication that in in t the real thing. There in Large Black Type it says will you be and adds a typed notice about the demonstration. It was also sent in association envelopes and dated March 13. Price said the letter was a scare tactic and caused considerable anguish to some civil servants to the Point where one woman fainted when she read it. She has asked attorney general Gerry Murcier of Manitoba to investigate he legality of the use of the official Crest and whether it was fraudulent. In the legislature Sidney Green asked Price in View of her reaction to the fake Pink slip How she Felt about the real thing Pink slip Send to to government employees in March. Price said the question was hypothetical. Written on Pink paper and bearing the official provincial or Cal the letter March 13, begins dear government employee regret to advise you that in accordance with Sec Tion 10 1 of the civil service act it is deemed necessary hat you be Laid it was unsigned but had inc signature Block of acting Deputy minister. Jackson said the reproduction of the Layoff idler was distributed to about civil servants in Winni Peg. Portage la Prairie a Linbach Selkirk and Beausejour and in the area to indicate of civil servants it could happen to corms used Sec Price Page i posts record or Hill the government owned Manitoba forestry resources Ltd. Al the Pas lost a record million last year but company officials say they expect improvements this year because of rising prices for pulp and paper products. The company s annual report tabled in the provincial legislature thursday showed a loss on 1976-77 operations of up from million the year before. The Defi Cit brought the acc muh cd pc Jling Defi Cit to million. The annual report said the company also known As Manfor. Earned a profit of on sales of million but interest and depreciation charges totalling million and various other expenses totalling Mil lion produced the year end deficit. In a Forward to the report Leifur Hall Grimson chairman of the Board of directors attributed he loss to continued weak mar Kels in the pulp and paper Industry. See Manfor Page -1 Ottawa staff election fever has faded on parliament Hill As maps concluded that voting Day will be july 10, the Date favoured by the Liberal backroom. Prime minister Trudeau old his weekly press conference thursday there Are some important items of business still to go before the House of commons. He cited the pro posed constitutional package and entering a sales lax arrangement with Quebec. I have set no Dale for he he took Strong exception to suggestions earlier this week in the commons that he should indicate in Advance when he intends to seek dissolution and Call an election. See election Page 4 Rome a Aldo Moro s wife and Chil Dren appealed to the government today to negotiate with his kidnappers but the governing Christian democratic party s chief parliamentary allies urged rejection of his captors demand for release of jailed terrorists in Exchange for the former Premier. Premier Giulio Andreotti s government which has refused so far to Deal with the kidnappers from the red brigades made no immediate comment on the plea. Meanwhile the Cabinet was meeting to. Discuss an ultimatum received from the kidnappers thurs Day. The family in a statement appealed to the government to take a realistic attitude and declare availability to ascertain terms for his release. It said Moro s wife Eleonora appealed personally thursday to leaders of the government and the Christian democratic parly of which her husband is the president. Airs. Her son and three daughters had been publicly silent since the abduction March 16. But they were reported to have urged the government privately to negotiate Moro s release. The red brigades in a communique thurs Day said Moro 61, was still alive but would be executed unless the government agreed by 9, . Est saturday to negotiate the release of communist Interior ministry sources said experts Cle Lerminez the authenticity of both the com Munique and a photo demonstrating that Moro was still alive. It showed him with a copy of a wednesday newspaper headlined Moro ii Popolo the Christian democratic parly newspaper said the picture was evidence Moro is alive and there exists no doubt about the authenticity of the message that accompanied it. Christian democratic officials said the parly Secretary general Binigno Zaccagnini also received another letter from morn thursday night but hey refused to release its contents. They said the signature appeared lube genuine. Andreotti and other leaders of the govern ment party met until 2 . Discussing the situation but there was no word of any decision. Previously they rejected repeal appeals from Moro to Exchange him for jailed terrorists contending that he was acting under duress. The communists social democrats and republicans three of the six parties Mak ing up Andreotti s parliamentary majority called on the government to continue to reject the kidnappers demands. The state cannot Compromise on Princi Ples and Laws on which the National Community and civilized living said a statement from the communists. The photo at Lett was released by the red brigades March 18, purportedly shows kidnapped Farmer italian Premier Aldo Moro alive and Well. The photo at right was received by an italian newspaper thursday purportedly showing Moro alive and holding a copy of wednesday s edition of a newspaper. Of hockey exhibition Canada a Sweden 0 wha Quebec s Houston l Quebec leads Best of seven Quarter final 2-1 Western Canada Billings 7 new West 4 Billings 1-0 to double round Robin Semi final new Westminster 1-1 baseball National league san Leoo 2 Atlanta 0 los anodes 5 Houston 1 american league bos Ion 10 Milwaukee 4 details in sports pages 61-68 looking for a motor Home this want and under motor Homes 1975 21 win Nebaon motor Home Miles sleeps 8, on Bodoc 440 condition. Phone 1-73a-k49. 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