Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ill Winnipeg free press Friday april publishers x condemn Toronto up the Canadian daily newspaper publishers association has accused the Federal govern ment of discrimination or charging the Toronto Sun under the official secrets act. Publishers at the association s annual meeting thurs Day said the government charged Only the Sun with receiving and communicating a top secret ramp Docu ment although other Media and an my released similar information. A motion passed by the association condemns the govern ment. It asks the group s Legal counsel to examine the act As it relates to newspapers to determine what representations the group might make to government to have the act altered. The Sun its publisher j. D. Creighton and its Edi Tor in chief Peter Worthngton were charged last month in connection with documents on soviet espionage in Canada. The motion said the association does not necessarily support the action of the Sun. Publisher j. P. O Callaghan of the Edmonton journal who introduced the motion said the government s decision to prosecute the Sun was based on vindictiveness. He accused the government of attempting to silence the Sun which be described As a persistent and Proba Bly cruel critic of the Liberal Michael l. Davits publisher of the Kingston whig Stan Dard said it appeared the Sun was singled out for special treatment. It was not the Only one that released information but was the Only one he said. John d. Muir publisher of the Hamilton Spectator de scribed the government s action As discriminatory jus Tice because television broadcasters who released similar information were not charged. O Callaghan said the government ignored other Media that used information similar to that printed by the Sun and did not prosecute the my who clearly had Access to such a secret document and made political Hay out of it he was referring to Tom Cossitt conservative my for Leeds who discussed the document inside and out of the commons. Justice minister Ron Basford said Cossitt was not charged because a court might Rale his remarks were covered by the Blanket of parliamentary privilege. Worthington told the association which represents almost All daily newspapers in Canada to take a stand now and not when the trial is Over. He is to appear in court april 28 but the trial is not expected before the fall. Election fevers Cooling again As week ends continued this did not conform with the Canadian Constitution he said. The Constitution does not provide for a fixed Date for the election being announced in Advance. He was asked to comment on the suggestion of Clearing the air and thereby providing for More decorum in parliament by indicating if an election was imminent. Speaker James Jerome told maps after a Stormy question period monday that the Strain of uncertainty trader which they were operating had brought out the test iness apparent i the exchanges. Jerome made the comment after Trudeau had stalked out of the chamber saying he might go Anil get dissolution from the governor general. All this was contributed to considerably by the tension which invariably arises in the Uncertain circumstances in which we find Jerome told the House. The House would be More orderly it was suggested if Trudeau would Clear up whether an election was imminent or whether maps had More time to get Down to work. The prime minister said the press could ask when the election would be but it would not get an answer. You have the right to ask such questions. It is your Dally he acknowledged. In the Liberal caucus thursday a majority urged Trudeau to Call a june election preferably june 19 or june it at the latest. When thursday passed the members wrote off june 19 because the chief electoral officer wants 59 to so Days warning to prepare for the vote. When liberals Learned at the caucus that party election strategists favoured july began to resign themselves to three More weeks of commons sittings before dissolution in the second week in May. In caucus Trudeau gave his members the message to be ready it s coming atm Nirza me Avi March 13, 1978. Dear government employee we regret to advise you that in accordance with of the civil service act it is deemed Laid off. By neans of this letter you Are being granted notice plus four beef i separation pay to be effective Iron March 31, 197s. Too aay elect to take pay lieu for any or All of the notice period and we would request that you advise the department accordingly. A copy of this letter is being forwarded to the civil service Coro usion in order that your name nay be referred to the appropriate re employment list maintained under authority of the Serrica act. A letter advising you of your status and options will be sent to you by the civil service Cor Mission. V May i take this Opportunity to wish you every Success in your future endeavours and thank you for the service you have provided to the province of Manitoba. Ours truly acting Deputy minister. . Civil service Coua Saton will you be next demonstration april 34, Ifft Tomt place legislative buildings Layoff totter with of demonstration superimposed Tatri buted to it vat or onto by Moea. Price Calls for probe on fake Layoff letter to civil servants it s a Little unfortunate some peo ple who opened h did t read to the the Mega president said. He had received about a dozen Calls from such but once they heard the explanation Jackson said they told him they would attend the monday demonstration which is to protest against toe government s Atti tude toward layoffs and in salary negotiations. If h maket people turn out that s he said. Bob Best of the civil service com Mission Aid the commission received continued a couple of dozen Calls from employees distressed by the letter until it was explained it was t a real Layoff notice. Price called h Creel and said h took some time to reassure a number of frightened callers the letter was a. Hoax. If they the employees association have to resort to a Low tactic like this to draw a crowd monday night i think they re in trouble. It s incredible an association which claims to be so concerned about its members would do a thing like she said. Meantime i the legislature Green sought Assurance from Mercier that if any action were taken against the association similar action would be taken the provincial progressive conservative party which in last fall s election Campaign had to Stop the use of a provincial Emblem on its Campaign literature. Mercier said the Law applied equally to every resident of Manitoba. Committee gives Boot to reforms continued could not be separated from decisions on development and building standards now handled by environment com Mittee. Otherwise the new Council and administrative Structure Sticks closely to established policy and last Spring s changes to the City of Winnipeg act which gave civic politician the right to establish their own standing committee Structure for the first time. The Board of commissioners the City s management authority will remain unchanged and five City boards and commissions will remain autonomous bodies reporting directly to Council. The Ardea report had recommended absorption of the police Library Hospital and ambulance commissions by standing committees. Executive policy committee will continue to review and endorse All policy matters of submission to Council As Well As advising on development policies administration Powers and proposals budgets senior staff apply tents and Indus trial relations. Finance committee will retain control Over the buy ing and Selling of property Grants and claims against the City while works and operations committee will re main the City s traffic authority and scrutinize major building projects. The Ardon report recommended five committees Parks and Protection City planning and social services finance and works and operations reporting to a much stronger executive coordinating group. Council would be left to Deal with Broad City wide issues and More authority Over local planning and programs would be delegated to Community committees. The report criticized past councils for ignoring Over All policy in. Favor of and hoc decisions band Aid and confrontation politics. However critics said Arden ignored environment s workload problem and administrative Reform would further reduce the authority and could Divide councillors into two groups brokers and third class Manfor loses million Outlook better continued rebel officers storm Barracks North of israeli occupation lines Beirut a rebel soldiers Loyal to palestinian guerrillas stormed a lebanese Barracks North of israeli occupation lines the lebanese army command said thursday. There were no reports of casualties or on the extent of damage. A statement mid lebanese president Ellas Sarkis or dered issuance of arrest warrants for the attackers of the Hilltop Barracks overlooking the guerrilla stronghold town of a Batoyeh 4.8 North of the Litany the occupation Boundary. They All will be court Martiale on charges of Rais ing arms against Lebanon which is punishable by death facing firing the army command said. The development threatened the first head on collision Between Sarkis and Yasser Arafat s Palestine liberation organization since the end of Lebanon s civil War 17 months ago. V i it followed wednesday s resignation by lebanese Premier Salem Al Hoss a moslem and eight Cabinet officers who stepped Down to allow Sarkis a Christian to form a Chris did t know indians had interest sex councillor Stapon regrets of thunderbird Lodge Tian moslem National Union government Hoss is expected to remain As Premier. One Issue the new government must face is the re assertion of state authority in the to Square Kilometre Southern Region invaded by Israel last month to push from its Northern flank. The Barracks figuring in the latest violence Are in the zone. Israel made a total withdrawal from South Lebanon conditional in of the United nations interim Force and the Sarls government to prevent guerrillas from moving Back. Arafat has pledged a moratorium on military strikes against Israel in the South to accelerate the withdrawal. But Radical guerrilla groups have been opposed to station regrouped in the zone once israeli troops evacuate. Lebanon s right Wing Christian leaders proposed disarmament of palestinians throughout Lebanon be Given top priority. A but leftist and moderate moslem politicians who sided with guerrillas in the 19-month civil War said the first goal should be to bring a rapid total israeli withdrawal. The War left Lebanon s regular army shattered. Both sides Are to meet with Sarkis today when a new Premier is to be chosen. But despite severe disappointment in not reaching a profitable position Hallgrimson said the Board was encouraged that orders were sufficient to maintain Plant operations at full capacity. He said that since the end of the reported fiscal year last september lumber prices have risen sharply and remained High. Paper prices have also risen be said but not quite As much. If the demand for our products continues to increase we can look Forward to higher prices and a better financial be said. We expect further improvement to take place if the present demand continues As it has for the last three or four Hallgrimson also said the decline in the Canadian Dollar s value is producing a favourable Impact because h is generating increased sales from the United states which buys about half of Manfor s lumber products. Demand boosts Dollar Montreal up after dipping briefly below . Cents in Early trading the Canadian Dollar later strengthened substantially on new York Money markets thursday closing at 87.44 . Cents. Dealers in the Interbank wholesale Market attributed the Dollar s gain of More than a third of a Ceat from wednesday s Price of 87.09 . Cents mainly to com Mercial demand for the Canadian currency. The Dollar s Down As Low As it s been for years and this is bound to attract said a senior trader for the Bank of Montreal. The trader warned however that the Dollar s show of strength Short lived. _ _ Maggie Back in Ottawa Ottawa up Margaret Trudeau has been in town lately and has been seen playing with her three children at the residence of her estranged husband prime minister Trudeau. Does that mean there is some Hope that the couple May reunite a reporter asked Trudeau at a press conference thursday. I pay staff to say no comment to such questions Trudeau replied. App perturbed by auditor s dual role by Loewald the new owner of Trion Derbon Lodge Winnipeg City councillor Norm Stapon says he s now wishing he had t bought the tourist Centre for Stapon said that had the Lodge been sold for to the South East resource development Council com prising nine Indian bands they would t have Beard a not oink from me Stapon Engineer with the Manitoba Telephone system and owner of a gasoline station in the City said thursday ? had i known one month ago what i knew now i would never have been involved i did t know that the indians showed so much of an interest in it. I thought they had lout it and were out of h and were it interested i running h about air Winnipeg was built by Indian Botto Ettman Dart comme with close to half a million dollars in Grants and Loans from Federal government lending agencies. Courchene obtained the financing on the understand ing that the Lodge would be operated by indians. Stapon Sam it la highly Likely that indians will still be involved in the operation of the Lodge and that he expects to be in touch with the South East resource develop ment Council. Said be was not i conflict with the Indian adding you have to work la co operation with them not against thunderbird Lodge went into receivership last sum Mer owing fold to the Manitoba economic communal ties find and More thai to the a Manitoba court of a heat Bench judge approved us us the loaf lotto Slapni cd Muday. If he had who Rawida bid after h Wai Neomi h to us Newt he hut a Deposit the speaker of the Manitoba legislature has agreed to investigate the fact that provincial auditor w. K. Ziprick Alto serves As acting clerk of Cabinet Jim Walding nip raised the matter in the legislature thursday after he discovered a document attached to a Cabinet order was stamped with Ziprick s signature and the designation acting clerk of the executive when conservative House Leader Warner Jorgenson investigated he found Ziprick had been appointed to succeed former auditor James Grange Mcfee in the Posi Tion by the new democratic party administration in however Walding and Sidney Green nip Inkster told the Boute they still wanted the speaker to raves Ligate Ziprick s dual role regardless of what government hid appointed him to the petition. Tamim Tam outcome die House he believe. K Compro Mises Ziprick s Poi Loloa As an Independent servant of the legislature if he also holds the petition of acting clerk of Cabinet. I doa t think that s he Iam. It Emp hued be Weald aha have Raland die matter to the of k had come to it he was a Fumu inert baft Ziprick said in a Telephone interview he does t feel then is any conflict of interest Between his two jobs became As acting clerk of Cabinet he in t required to attend Cabinet meetings prepare Cabinet agendas or advise the Cabinet on policies. He said he is called on to sign certain after they have been approved by the Cabinet when the clerk of Cabinet Derek Bedson is absent if Ziprick is Alto unavailable the responsibility Falls on Deputy attorney Central Gordon Allkey. Ziprick said Mcfee had raised the question of conflict of interest Siisea die act creating the auditor s position was passed in it. When former premiered Shreyer did t object Mcfee continued to tent at a Tiff clerk of Cabinet As be had when be held the petition controller general. Ziprick added be wont have any objection if the govern ment decides to appoint someone cite at acting clerk of Cabinet he receives to pay forms extra outlet. Jorge Sor said outside the Home that he does t a conflict of interest exists. He said however the Florem ment can appoint appoint Sofi eone else to the position if speaker determines there h conflict ;