Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday. May 15, 1978 letters with hidden writing soviet jailed As . Spy Moscow Reuter a soviet food Industry technician has been jailed for 13 years on charges of spying for the United states corruption and speculating the Trade Union newspaper trud reported sunday. Trud said the Man Asper a Dzhanov had made con tact with officials at the . Embassy in Belgrade while on a tourist visit to Yugoslavia and asked for help in escaping to the United states. But instead the . Diplomats told him to return to his Home City of the Caspian sea one of the main centres of the soviet , and provide information to . Intelligence the newspaper said. It gave no Date for the meeting. Trud said a Dzhanov who had worked As director of a Candy factory and later As chief Engineer in a Dairy Industry research Centre received letters with hidden writing through the mall from his intelligence controllers but the newspaper said soviet Security police foiled the carefully planned espionage operation by Rda Zharov s transatlantic trud gave no indication of what information he had been asked to collect. Before approaching the embassy in Belgrade the Trade Union Organ said the technician had been involved in several economic crimes in Baku including Selling permits to buy cars and taking bribes. Trud said a Dzhanov pleaded guilty to All charges against him but did not say when or where the trial took place. Comoro prisoners to be freed from Router a tananarive Madagascar up new rulers of the Comoro islands have decided to release All political prisoners following their seizing Power Friday co Moro radio said sunday. The radio monitored in neighbouring Madagascar broadcast a communique from the political military directorate which also said a popular National Assembly would be set up. The directorate deposed president Ali Sollish in an apparently bloodless coup on the tiny Indian Ocean Island. Stilih who came to Power in a coup in january 1976, was second head of state since the islands unilaterally declared Independence from France in july 1975. He was under House arrest the radio said. It said the new rulers intended to restore All liberties and declared today a Holiday. Stilih s administration frowned on the moslem Reli Gion of the Comoro people did away with the civil service and handed Over main administration tasks to students and youths. Popular discontent grew with food shortages and crop failures caused by drought. Thousands of com orians had fled by Canoe for Mayotte the one place in the four is land archipelago which elected to remain French. Quoting Comoro radio the Madagascar broadcast said former Cabinet minister said Atto Umani led the takeover. A 6 .-to-6 . Curfew was announced and communications temporarily suspended among the three is lands Between Madagascar and Africa s East coast the radio said quoting information from Mayo Ltd. Two Way communication Between the islands and the outside world was Cut off sat urday and the Airport has been opened Only to allow the return from Madagascar of an air Comoro dc-4 aircraft. Radio Madagascar said the new rulers appear to favor the policies of Ahmed Abdallah the first president of the Comoros. Atto Umani said to be in his 40s, was in Abdallah s Cabinet. Abdallah declared unilateral Independence from France in july 1975. Chinese dispute Moscow s response to Border clash correction to lob Laws flyer being distributed this week tropical blend suntan Oil t1w woj to Majd have matl old dutch potato chips thai tar to Koltl Road 99 and the carve of Havu have read save we apologize Lor any inconvenience caused to our valued customers. Peking Reuter China said saturday it is not satisfied with Moscow s explanation of How soviet troops crossed the sino so Viet Border last week. A Brief mildly Avo Rcd statement said the soviet Union is not telling the truth. It contained no demands and appeared to put peking s response on record before the matter was allowed to drop. The statement was issued after the soviet Union handed Over a written note expressing regret at the Inci Dent. The chinese news Media did not make a big Issue of the incident reporting Only the text of the protest note delivered to soviet Ambas Sador v. S. Tolstiko on thursday. 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Call for a free estimate today phone for o hat tsp Imatz in your own Home 452-2805 aluminium windows doors siding Awn Las continuous eaves roughing and attic insulation. Morning and shot wounded kicked and beat a number of chinese. Moscow s version put out by the news Agency Tass More than 21 hours after publication of the chinese note said Border guards searching for a dangerous armed criminal mistook the chinese Bank of the River for the soviet Kresto Skive is lands. Soviet military personnel undertook no actions in rela Tion to chinese inhabitants and having made sure that they were unintentionally on chinese territory they quickly the Tass report said. It was not immediately known when the soviet note of regret was handed Over. The incident did not halt a previously scheduled meet ing of Border negotiators Here Friday. China says War inevitable Hong Kong Reuter the chinese communist party says War with the so Viet Union is inevitable and has called on its army to intensify its training in mod Ern warfare the new China news Agency said sunday. The Agency monitored Here said the warning came in a recent statement from the military commission of the party. The commission said the soviet Union has wild ambitions of conquering China. As a result War will inevitably break out some Day. It is imperative to intensify preparations against an aggressive the commission called on the military to attach Strate Gic importance to instruction and training. It also said the ground naval and air forces As Well As special services units should direct the focus of their training according to the specific characteristics of their Mission and Loca firefighters in Mexico City Battle flames in the Astor department store one of two stores hit by fatal fires. Two department store fires in Mexico City leave 8 dead Mexico City a searchers digging through smouldering rubble at two fire gutted downtown department stores found two More bodies sunday bring ing the death count to eight. Published reports denied by government and store officials said the fires might have been started by anti government terrorists. Authorities reported four firefighters still arc missing and arc believed buried in the charred debris. More than 100 persons most of them firefighters suffered smoke inhalation or Burns from the fires at the Astor and Blanco stores. The fires erupted Early saturday within minutes of each other in the stores that Are Only a Block apart. A night watchman at one of the stores said he heard about six explosions Fol Lowed by six others around a Block away and soon after the store Here turned into a flaming the stores Are owned by different companies. Mayor Carlos Hank Gonza Lez denied unattributed published reports that army experts deactivated 16 bombs saturday in other Mexico City department stores and Bank offices. Spokesmen for the two stores said there is no indication the fires were started by terrorists. We cannot say they were Short circuits. We Don t know what it was. They will investigate and when we know the results we will let you the mayor told re porters. Antonio Guerra an insurance company representative working at the fire scene said a preliminary estimate of damage was million at the Astor and million at the Blanco store. Of the bodies found were those of firefighters and the eighth was a night watchmen at the Astor officials said. About 600 firefighters battled around the clock to control the fires that started about . Saturday. The red Cross mobilized 40 ambulances and set up first Aid units. Fire department officials said the Blanco fire had been snuffed out by 7 . Satur Day but the Blase at the Astor raged out of control until 2 . Sunday. A unit of 150 soldiers were brought in Early sunday to help search the wreckage for the missing firefighters. Office building Blaze death toll 42 in Ankara Ankara Reuter ten More bodies were recovered from the charred Shell of a Multi Storey office and shop Ping Structure Here sunday bringing the death toll from Friday s fire to 42. Workers Are still sifting through the wreckage for More possible victims of the Blaze which police said started in a leather worker s shop on the ground floor. The flames rapidly engulfed All six storeys and some victims jumped to their deaths. Many of those who died were attending classes in a Trade school in the building. About 100 people were injured 40 of them seriously. Not in my parliament Vorster rules out one Man one vote London a South african prime minister John Vorster in an interview Broda dast sunday on British television said he ruled out one Man one vote status for South Africa s Black majority. We will not be swamped make no mistake about that whatever you or anybody else has to say about Vorster said on the program weekend world. Vorster said Blacks in South Africa can Only have political Power in their own specially created Home lands. My attitude is that if he wants political Power there Are All the avenues he can express it except in my Vorster said. It is certainly not the policy of this government to accept one Man one vote Black majority Rule Over the whole of South Africa. That is not our policy and we will not accept it and if there Are countries outside or governments outside who try to Force it upon us we will reject that very very definitely and we will oppose such racially divided Rhodesia to the North of South Africa is scheduled to establish Black majority Rule by the end of this year through an agreement negotiated by prime minister Ian Smith and three Black moderate leaders. Waldheim gives debate High Billing anti Neutron bomb Campaign enters in United nations a the soviet Union brings its anti Neutron bomb Campaign to a special session of the United nations general As Sembly called to debate International disarmament. In Secretary general Kurt Wald Heim is Billing the session As the most important gathering of world leaders in 20 with 13 Heads of state or government and 19 foreign ministers listed among 121 speakers in the session. It is to run from May 23 to june 28. The last in meeting to attract that kind of roster was in i960 when then Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the soviet Union addressed the Assembly. The late soviet Leader Drew an impressive number of world leaders to the vaulted Cham Ber for a debate punctuated by his pounding his desk with a shoe to protest a speaker s remark. This time the soviets Are sending foreign minister Andrei Gromyko who is expected to hold parallel talks on a new .-soviet strategic arms limitation treaty . With . State Secretary Cyrus Vance. The meeting would follow up . Talks in Moscow last month at which both sides reported Progress. In officials Hope . President Jimmy Carton will make the third United nations speech of his 16 month presidency and tackle the disarmament Issue which was a major Plank in his election Campaign platform. The United states has requested a spot on the speak ers list but has not said who will address the forum. The soviet Union signalling the thrust of Grimy in s in Mission circulated to Assembly members copies of an april 25 speech in Moscow by president Leonid Brezhnev. He said the soviet Union Mak ing an Active Effort to prevent development of a new and most inhuman weapon the Neutron the .-developed Neutron weapon is a Small nuclear warhead in tended for placement on Lance mis Siles and artillery shells in nato countries to counter the numerical superiority of soviet led Warsaw pact forces. The Neutron weapon produces twice the deadly radiation of a conventional nuclear bomb but less than a 10th As much explosive Power heat and fallout. This Means the bomb can kill people while causing Little damage to buildings and can attack enemy tank units while sparing Friendly forces in the Vicinity. Carter announced april 7 he was deferring production of the Neutron bomb in a bid for new soviet conces Sions in the arms race. Brezhnev has promised that the soviet Union will not produce the bomb if the United states foregoes it. But . Officials say this Means Little because soviet bloc superiority in Europe makes the weapon less desirable for them. A soviet sponsored Call for the Mutual renunciation of the production of nuclear Neutron weapons is among numerous subjects listed for debate by a 54-country preparatory committee ;