Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, April 29, 1978

Issue date: Saturday, April 29, 1978
Pages available: 231
Previous edition: Friday, April 28, 1978
Next edition: Monday, May 1, 1978

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 29, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 5 briefly Tanker runs aground intact a Tanker carrying million Gallons of gasoline ran aground Friday on the Sandy Bottom of Narragansett but the coast guard said the vessel was Texaco new York ran aground off Paw tuxes Cove this Daniel Hiley of the coast guards Marine safety office there is no pollution at this time and there does not appear to be any More troops sent to Chad France has stepped up its involve ment in the War the former French Colony of Chad is waging against Libya backed the arrival of a new contingent of French troops was announced Friday while French paratroops turned the civil Airport Here into a military stronghold to protect 10 French fighter bombers flown in the previous informed sources s ugandan ruler not Welcome Ottawa ugandan dictator Idi Amin will not be Welcome in Canada to attend the Edmonton common wealth games this says Deputy prime minister Allan Kremlin general says Italy exiled soviet dissident Pytor Gri a former red army said Friday he had been stripped of soviet citizenship because the soviet Union is frightened of its own at a news conference on the third Day of a two week conference Here on dissent in Eastern Gri Gorenko said he had been branded As a madman since becoming a dissident in the 1960s after a Long career in the business code denounced Ottawa the government announced Friday a code of conduct for Canadian businesses operating in South Africa but it was immediately branded toothless by some the announced by the external affairs depart urges equal improved fringe benefits and working conditions As Well As bargaining rights for Blacks employed by Canadian companies in South these companies have been asked to report annually on their efforts to meet the guides and an external affairs spokesman said he expects they the code is air Force plane crashes Sparrevohn air Alaska an hc130 aircraft based at Elmendorf air Force base crashed at this Remote radar station in the Alaska Range on a air Force spokesman said some Fatali ties were but rescuers Are searching for Richard Hodges said there were five Crew members and two passengers aboard the he said he cannot say How Many have building topples 13 killed Beirut at least 13 persons were killed Friday when a four Storey building Here occupied by refugees from Southern Lebanon the building had been taken Over by some of the refugees who fled their Homes last month when israeli troops invaded Southern chained picket May get visa Moscow the russian wife of an american pro Fessor who chained herself to the embassy railings during state Secretary Cyrus Vances visit last said Friday she believed her application to emigrate would be approved in a Irina was told to reapply for an exit visa to emigrate to join her Namibia chief stays in Brief United nations Sam Black nationalist Leader in postponed an appearance before the in general Assembly on Friday amid reports that he is under Strong pressure to accept Western plans for Many diplomats were reported trying to persuade president of the Southwest Africa Peoples to Compromise on swaps objections to the Western Bank hostage taker wounded Austria a police Sharpshooter shot and wounded an armed would be robber As he left a Bank late Friday with two ending a drama that began 13 hours authorities All hostages were reported although there were reports of at least eight shots fired inside the Linzer All Gemeiner spar Kasse Branch boy accused of killing sister a 16yearold boy was charged Friday with murdering and raping his seven Earold whose body was found in a Pond near her Home Here earlier this police the girl was reported missing when she failed to arrive at school last compiled from dispatches h High Fri Wrt l Low cold front worm forecast for Interlake and red River re Gions mainly sunny today brisk Northeast High 12 to Clear Low near sunny becoming Cloudy in the High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny and a Little warmer tuesday and Northern Manitoba Snow or rain mostly sunny and warmer tuesday and Northwest Ontario sunny with seasonable temperatures a Little warmer tuesday and temperatures following Are the minimum period that ended at 7 temperatures for Friday temperatures for the 12hour saturday and the maximum Victoria 14 Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Winnipeg Thompson Kenora Brandon Dauphin Thunder Bay Toronto Ottawa Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami Minneapolis 13 15 is 19 23 13 21 22 22 18 18 17 17 4 12 23 22 7 6 5 7 6 3 7 2 3 3 2 8 3 4 0 5 15 7 Rome Stockholm Tel Aviv 19 8 7 6 22 13 Winnipeg temperature comparisons mean april 28 last year Normal highest on record in 1952 lowest on record in 1958 precipitation april 1 to april 28 Millimetres Normal Millimetres May temperature comparisons in celsius degrees d a t year normals Max since 1872 year writes again Rome a kidnapped political Leader Aldo Moro has written a new letter in a shaking and desperate hand begging his Christian democratic party and Pope Paul i to bargain with his abductors to secure his free the Rome newspaper ii Messaggiero said the letter seemed to show that 61yearold presi Dent of the Christian demo cratic party kidnapped 44 Days is still alive despite a threat by his red brigades captors to kill him if the government continues refusing to release 13 jailed terror the often the Means chosen by moras kid nappers to convey said the 10page Handwritten and signed letter was found after Midnight Friday and contained no accompanying message from the in letter Moro says he has not been subjected to coercion or criticizes party leaders for their stand against bartering him for jailed terrorists and asks for the convening of a larger party Council to discuss the i die if my party so de in the fullness of Christian Faith and in the immense love for an exemplary family i the letter but this Bloodbath will not go Well for party Secretary general Benigno Premier Giu Lio the 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