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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Stapon regrets buying thunderbird Page rap milk Board at hearings Page stores to open on sundays Page firing inside 3fi 13 26 player takes at third straight Golf win Pnno investor Confidence needed for survival a of 5 people 25-33, 36 11 38 .32 33 .28 5 weather report from sunny High 10, Low -1 Sun rises . Sets Moon rises . Sets . Vol. 85 no. 171 Friday april 21, 15 cents 25c with coloured comics civic revamp gets by John Sullivan last fall s lion like propos als to revamp Winnipeg s civic Structure went out like a Lamb thursday As City Council s executive policy committee opted for Little More than 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 Steen to councillor Joe labor election com policy committee quickly endorsed a draft organization churl with no major departures from present practice. Also shelved were the to City government advocated by a consultant s report. The study commissioned from the Minneapolis based Ardon management to corp., came under a barrage of criticism from All factions on Council when it was released last fall. The new plan drawn up by committee chairman Bob Bockstall Independent Citi Zens election Tach 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 Over control of health welfare and libraries to Parks and recreation committee which has had Only meagre agendas since it was added As coun cil s fourth committee last year. The Lone change to the and hoc committee plan came after environment chairman Jim Ernst ice Grant s Mill argued that control Over housing policy and the neighbourhood improvement program should remain with his committee rather than be trans cried to mrs. Mcgoni Gal s group As Well. Policy committee backed Ernst s View that housing see committee Page 4 Airliner Down Safe in soviet Union 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 he 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 forced Down in the Murmansk Arctic re Gion of the soviet Union. The plane a Boeing 707 with 110 persons on. Board 17 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 48 japanese and 33 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 the 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 eral metres at this time of year. An aviation ministry spokesman at the Airport crying Murmansk the main City of the Peninsula and about 160 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 160 Kilometres from the norwegian Frontier and 320 Kilometres from the finnish Border is one of the most heavily fortified areas in he 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 official photograph made at Windsor Castle on april 5. Master Phillips son of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips was born nov. The photograph was taken by lord Snowdon estranged husband of Princess Etter by Mary Ann Fizgerald labor minister Norma Price of Manitoba has called for a Legal investigation into letters 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 buted letters copies of one received by an employee at the time of the 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 live building. Only at the Bottom of the official booking letter is there indication that it 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 Mercier of Manitoba to investigate the legality of the use of the official Crest and whether it was fraudulent. In the legislature Sidney Green asked Price in View of her reaction1 to the fake Pink slip How she Felt about the real thing Pink slip sent to 373 government employees in March. Price said the question was hypothetical. Written on Pink paper and bearing the official provincial Crest the letter dated March 13, begins dear government employee we regret to advise you that in accordance with Sec Tion 19 1 of the civil service act it is deemed necessary that you be Laid h was unsigned but had the signature Block of acting Deputy minister. Jackson said the reproduction of the Layoff letter was distributed to about civil servants in Winni Peg Portage la Prairie Steinbach Selkirk and Beausejour and in the into Rake area to indicate to civil servants it could happen to continued see Price Page 4 loss ast year the Manitoba forestry resources Ltd. At 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 it brought the accumulated operating 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 the loss to continued weak markets 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 told his press conference thursday there Are some important items of business still to go before the House of commons. He cited the pro fevers Cool posed constitutional package and entering a sales tax arrangement with Quebec. I have set no Date for the 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 and declare availability to ascertain terms for his release. It said Moro s wife Elco Nora appealed personally thursday to leaders of the government and the Christian democratic party 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 de 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 party newspaper said the picture was evidence Moro the alive and there exists no doubt about the authenticity of the message that accompanied it. Christian democratic officials said the parly Secretary general Benigno Zaccagnini also received another letter from Moro thursday night but they refused to release its. Contents. They said the signature appeared to be genuine. Andreotti and other leaders of the govern ment party met until 2 . Discussing the but there was no word of any decision. Previously they rejected repeated appeals from Moro to Exchange him for jailed terrorists contending that he was acting tender 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. Unity and civilized living said a statement from the communists. The photo at left was released by the red brigades March 18, purportedly shows kidnapped former italian Premier Aldo Moro alive and Well. 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