Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 31, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Boy fights allergy Iii a helmet 13 6j. Turn out for soccer Homer raises Hopes for new Auto plants 71 5-4 a 16 phone system debt Load heavy police photos published i 3 journalists charged 85 Dale Evans rides into Winnipeg Bio Dex Horoscope. 28 bridge.28 comics.53 finance.54-57 for letters.49 jumble.62 movies.36 television.34 6 i weather.5 weather report from showers High 15, Low 5 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final edition vol. 85 204 wednesday May 31, 1978 15 cents 2sc with coloured comics Pilutik tap a was Las told by Mary Ann Fitzgerald an illegal wiretap was put on a trunk Telephone line in Winnipeg s Public safety building during gation in 1975 into former provincial judge Anthony Pilutik j. K. Beatty general counsel for the Manitoba Telephone system said tuesday. That did t occur with proper authority. It was improperly Beatty told the legislature s Public utilities committee which was studying the govern ment owned phone system s annual report for 1976-77. Later he told reporters we consider it an illegal however former nip attorney general Howard Pawley said later he did t consider the tap illegal but rather improper resulting from the rather general wording of the court order authorizing the tapping of telephones used by Pilutik. Beatty suggested to committee the problem was t with the court order but with internal routines used to carry it out. He said the Telephone system received the written authority to tap the private residential telephones used by Pilutik. Subsequently a Telephone system employee was told by Winnipeg police an additional Telephone was to be tapped. That was by the employee without seeing the property authority to cover the additional tap on the line in the Public safety build the authority did not cover Beatty repeated. The Lack of authority was discovered when the employee made his written report and the tap at the safety building was immediately disconnected Beatty told the committee. Pawley outside committee told reporters the tap was ordered disconnected by his department when the Crown attorney who had filed the application for the tap had reported it to him. The tap was removed Only a Day or two after it had been installed Pawley said. The period it was in place was a Long weekend plus a Day he recalled. Pilutik resigned two years ago on the eve of a. Judicial committee inquiry into complaints about his conduct and last year was the Manitoba Law society for a 30-month period. Pawley then attorney general said a year ago no grounds had been found for criminal prosecution see wiretap Page 4 nazi suspect held for questioning Sao Paulo Reuter brazilian police Are questioning an austrian suspected of being a High ranking officer at the nazi death Camps of Treblinka and so bib or during the second world War. Gustav Franz Wagner sur rendered to police monday and denied allegations by know scores baseball National Lea eoe Montreal 7 Chicano 4 Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 1 Atlanta 4 Cincinnati 3 St. Louis 8 new York 2 san Francisco 1 Houston 0 los Angeles 10 san Diego 2 american Leagy Boston 4 Toronto 0 Cleveland 5 new York l Detroit 5 Baltimore 2 Milwaukee 2 Oakland 1 cuckoo 6 California 2 Minnesota 2 Texas 0 details soom pases 71-77 nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal that he was a sub commandant at the polish Camps where millions of jews were murdered. Wagner told a news Confer ence he was a sergeant at sob ibor but never served at Treblinka. But he said he went to Bra Zil in 1950 at the suggestion of nazi War criminal Fritz Stangl. Who ran both cantus and was extradited to West Germany in 1967. Police said Wagner was not under arrest after voluntarily giving himself a at Ati Baia near Sao Paulo when he heard he was being hunted. West Germany has asked for his arrest and extradition if Wiesenthal s charges Are proved the brazilian foreign ministry said. Israel has also sought his arrest. Other european see nazi Page 4 response to soviet cuban threat Washington up French diplomatic sources say Canada will be asked to join other major Western Powers in Paris next week to discuss a possible joint Western and african response to soviet and cuban military involvement in Africa. But external affairs minister Don Jamieson attend ing the nato Summit conference Here said tuesday he was not aware of this proposal. In a television inter View he declined further comment because he said he has no details of the proposal. The French sources said participants would include the five Western members of the United nations Security Council Canada ., Britain France and West Ger Many. Italy also May participate along with the leaders of some african countries. As the nato Summit session began tuesday presi Dent Carter and other leaders expressed concern Over the growth of soviet military strength in Europe and so Viet and cuban penetration in Africa. Prime minister Trudeau agreed that the West cannot remain indifferent to excessive soviet Power though he suggested the path to peace lies More in the Field of constructive disarmament proposals than in simply piling up More arms. Nevertheless Trudeau added that we cannot wait for the _ soviet Union to develop such a preponderance of military capability that the balance will swing strongly in its favor enabling it to achieve Security on its own terms. The soviets Assurance of Complete Security cannot be bought at the Cost of our incapacity to protect our selves. That would be no basis either for Security for As the two Day meeting opened the State department announced that France has invited interested countries to Paris next week to discuss a response to the soviet cuban penetration in Africa. A state department spokesman said there is no Clear plan on How the response to the soviet cuban intervention is to be see soviet Page 4 a photo president and mrs. Carter Greet prime minister Trudeau at the White House tuesday night. Israeli Boycott Campaign Homer warns companies Ottawa up Industry minister Jack Homer warned tuesday that any company complying with the Arab Boycott of Israel Campaign will be named by the government. But the minister then re fused to name one company that the government knows did comply with the Boycott last year. Homer was giving some clarification in the govern ment s program designed to combat the Arab and any other International Commer Cial Boycott. Under government policy any company that complies with such Boycott prohibit ions As trading with Israel is denied the substantial Feder Al assistance offered to Ca Jadian foreign traders and businessmen. But up until now it has refused to name companies which have complied with the Boycott and thus lost government assistance. Now those companies will be named. Homer commented in an interview after tabling a re port on the application of the government anti Boycott pol icy covering the period aug. 1, 1977 to Jan. 31, 1978. That report mentioned a company which agreed to a general Boycott clause in a million contract and had government services with drawn last August. Later it saturation traffic patrols Cut accidents ramp saturation traffic patrols Are proving effective in reducing the number of Acci dents during Holiday Long weekends ramp spokesmen in Winnipeg say. The ramp conduct selective saturation patrol campaigns in subdivisions through out the province where they subject Large numbers of cars to routine spot checks. The last Campaign in the Winnipeg subdivision was during the Victoria Day week end when 11.561 cars were checked. During the weekend there were no fatal say car accidents although one Man died in a tractor Accident on a private Road. There were 20 accidents involving personal in jury and 54 which resulted in some property damage. The spokesman said 104 alcohol offences were detected during the checks and nine Drivers suspended. Another 278 liquor related offences were recorded. The spot checks also resulted in 15 drug related charges. Traffic related charges. 71 assorted charges. Looking for a scat this want and under boats and Marine Fiess 745 11 it Tomini urfa boat. 6 h motor. 5 is among the hundreds of j bargains in. Today s Cias j sifted Section. Matter Itiat Rovi Vita slip its free press warn ats. Tougher Laws sought in . Addicts to swamp Prairies by a Vfkes Jager informed sources in the Manitoba health Field warned to essay that he m fees Kumb pro Viding for 61 a British Prairie cities or coast later this year. Under legislation introduced in the British co can Bia legislature 7rf Victoria Mot Jay by health Mincer Bob Mccote hated Heras addicts com be arrested for is being pro posed to Mare than five per cent of Radii its have Ever responded w treatment opportunities. The the of Canada s heroin addicts live in the Vancouver area it is believed. The sources without is ceo Toffi to be identified Beca use the Poten tial controversy of the to few Ane Jet a umber a h if Erse x Civi 73 see Prairies re negotiated the contract and government services were restored. This was the Only company found by the government to have contravened Canada s Boycott policy in the period. In the Boycott report re leased last february two unnamed companies were mentioned As having com plied with unacceptable boy Cott provisions. A spokesman for the jew ish Community condemned the report. He said it is Evi Dence of the government s weak kneed approach to the troublesome Boycott ques Tion. The report was ambiguous and lacked specific commitments. Homer told reporters the decision to name individual companies which comply with Boycott provisions was made by the Cabinet last de Cember. Canada will continue to withdraw government Assis Tance from any company which agrees to suspend ail commercial dealings with one country in order to secure a contract with another foreign nation. It is primarily Arab coun tries which have demanded companies sever Commer Cial links win Israel As a condition of doing business with then. Homer said Kuwait arid Libya Are hard liners in pushing the . Saudi Arabia was showing some Urik ingress to negotiate. The decision to proceed with naming companies from which services have been withdrawn or denied s a a waste 10 is sure thai the Sanc fits of epic est is to Bear or or persons float s substitute writes real estate exam two fined by John Barr there were two reasons Why a would be Winnipeg real estate Salesman picked the wrong Man to write his qualifying examination. The first reason was that the ruse resulted in Crimi Nal convictions against both men. The second was that the examination writer was As bad at writing the test As the would be Salesman feared he himself would be. The examination writer John Zezula 30. And his Uncle Branko Marak 49, both of Winnipeg were fined each for the attempt to help the Uncle pass his qualifying examination for a Winnipeg real estate Board licence earlier this year. Marak had taken the one month course of the Mani Toba securities commission from feb. 6 to March 6 of this year. Zezula had passed his course in 1976 and used his real estate licence for Only a few months during that year. But when Zezula went to write the examination for his Uncle March 6, the Nephew was recognized in the see substitute Page 1 lawyers clash in Forest Case by Robert Willaard lawyers in the Georges Forest clashed head on tuesday in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench on the question of the province s Power to Amend the Manitoba act of 1871. Forest. 54, a St. Boniface insurance Salesman is fighting the legality of Manitoba s official language act of 1890 which bars French from legislative journals and records As Well As any provincial court pleadings or documents. Three Days have been set aside for the trial which in directly began in feb. 7. 1976. When Forest refused to pay an English Only parking ticket in St. Boniface. Since then the Case has ballooned into a question of constitutional language rights. It appears headed for the supreme court of Canada along with a recent Quebec Superior court ruling declaring a Section of that province s language charter restricting the use of English in our bar courts invalid. The Quebec government has appealed the recent ruling but no court Date has been set yet tuesday. Alain Hague. Forest s lawyer told chief Justice a. S. The 1890 language act violates his. Client s rights Imper the Manitoba act of 1s70 and the British Norfi America Bra Art of both acts the of in any a cart debates of the Prover Rucj the to be is the respective records he Arford that Fly the 3rrn3fc or Vitae re effect its ses lawyers ;