Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 31, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press wednesday May 31, 1978 West to discuss action in Africa further consultation with representatives of interested governments. With respect to More general concern about the Security and stability of Africa raised by african states which has been brought to the fore again by the invasion of Shaba province we Are also prepared to Dis cuss this broader question with interested there is no distinct state department spokesman Carter stressed. He said no Clear picture has emerged of possible International cooperation on this kind of question Carter said that As a further he wanted to emphasize that in any Case our participation will certainly not involve . Com Bat he then cited the example of . Continued action in providing air and logistics support for the French and belgian forces which parachuted into Shaba province. When asked if the constraints on future . Action will permit the United states to Send military advisers or other ground personnel to support an african defence Force the spokesman said it was too pre mature to be Able to answer those questions. I am not aware of specific conversations about specific Active he said. The Carter administration s Basic he said continues to be that africans should Deal primarily with african problems. Possible . Support which is now being explored he said should not be construed in anyway As Indi Cating that the Carter administration has now decided to make Africa a Battleground for great Power instead he said the United states now feels compelled to Deal with what unfortunately seems to be a reality in Africa referring to extensive soviet cuban military involvement in Africa. Cuba says charge false United nations a cuban vice president Rodriguez said tues iday that an allegation . President Carter that trained and equipped rebel invaders of Zaire s Shaba province was false based on impudently repeated in an hour Long speech at the in general Assembly s special session on disarmament he also said that the presence of France Belgium with . Logis tical support on the pretext of saving the lives of their in the Central Afri can country is an ominous 1 he defended cuban troops fighting in Southern Angola against South africans in and in Ethiopia s Oga Lien Region in 1977 and 1978 against a foreign invasion promoted by the Imperial his description of the somali secessionist struggle. He said the cubans were called in by those nations to fight beside them to ensure their sovereignty and inde 1 referring to president Carter s remarks at a Chica go news conference thurs Day Rodriguez said the pres ident s imputations against Cuba with reference to the recent events in Shaba Are absolutely false and the government of the United states has sufficient reasons to know that they Are based on impudently repeated during the news Confer ence Carter said the inva Sion was mounted in Angola with cuban Aid and that both countries must Bear a heavy responsibility for the killing in Zaire. The cuban vice president told the Assembly no cubans were in the invading Force which started out in Angola entered Zaire through Zam Bia and was crushed by French belgian and zairian troops. Has not participated directly or indirectly in the events in he said. Cuba did not Supply the arms for that purpose nor did it train those who attacked. Neither does Cuba have political ties with the Organiza Tion which claimed response flames and smoke Rise from the North Side of Winnipeg International Airport tuesday As Airport Crews undergo a refresher course in fire fighting. Beneath the Black smoke is a mock air plane fuselage made photo by John Mcmanus of two tank cars. It is designed to look like a Large passenger aircraft that has crashed. Crews from Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Northwest territories Are taking part in the course through june 9. Heroin addict influx feared Here coast hoping not so much to treat and cure addicts As to get rid of them through escape to other parts of can Ada. That addicts will indeed leave the province not in a trickle but in droves. That As they leave the addicts will be taking with them their entire subculture with heroin distribution systems and Contact networks. That major cities such ased Monton and particularly Winnipeg continued because of its size and location will attract fragments of the British co Lumbia heroin subculture which will then grow in their new habitats. That junkies needing their so Cial environment friends dealers and Supply lines will be firmly entrenched in their new locations with in a few months of the British co Lumbia legislation bringing with them increased supplies of heroin. That As heroin supplies in this part of the continent increase so will the number of new addicts from among the younger generation in the local population. As the number of heroin addicts in the City swells the crime rate in the City would increase by leaps and Bounds As addicts must steal and Rob to support their habits on a daily basis. It s an expensive Way of not Deal ing with the one health Agency official said tuesday. It Means you re passing the Buck to the other provinces and Hope to let them Deal with the situation you found you can t get a handle compulsory treatment has never worked anywhere the source who has worked in the narcotics Addic Tion Field for some time said. Ontario Likely to ease my restrictions Sault Ste. Marie ont. Up the president of the Algoma West medical acad Emy says he thinks the provincial government will ease restrictions on doctors in an Effort to reduce the flow of doctors to the United states. Or. David Gould said that a report by the health ministry shows that 140 Canad an doctors moved to the . This year. Knee capping spreads to Germany lawyer for suspected terrorist shot in legs on w. Berlin Street Ballet denies search for pm officials of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet denied tues Day that the company is searching for a new general manager to replace Edward Reger 30. Sources in other local arts organizations however continued to say that the Job May soon be open. Said one person everybody in town knows about it. They know about it in Ottawa. I guess Reger was the last to know. But that s been the Case for some when asked Why the Ballet Board would continue to deny the stories when they Are so widespread one arts administrator said they were forced into the position because nobody told Reger expressed anger tuesday Over a newspaper Story saying he is on the Way out. He termed it part of a Witch Hunt that has been going on for some time. John Condra president of the Board also denied that the Board was teaching for a new general manager. However an arts administrator in the . Who had heard the Job was available but did not know of any american applicants said it s been open for awhile. A lot of people Down Here in arts positions have heard about it. Bat i think people Are afraid of that Job. They re changing every two two separate sources the Ballet is considering Barry w. Thompson of Vancouver former general manager of the Vancouver opera association for the Job. I had heard via the Grapevine that there was going 16 be change Thompson said Bis had no can tent of the possibility of Feis being the general Berlin a a lawyer appointed to defend a terrorist suspect was shot in the legs on a West Berlin Street today. The knee capping emulating a tactic of the red brigades in Italy and the Irish Republican army in Northern Ireland was the second act of terrorist violence in less than a week in connection with the trial of six persons accused of murdering Berlin s chief judge in 1974 and kidnapping the head of the local Christian democratic party in 1975. Police would confirm Only that a shooting had taken place but court sources said the victim was Dietmar Hohla a lawyer for Ronald Fritsch 26. Another one of the six defendants on trial since april 1, till Meyer. Al was freed last saturday from a maximum Security prison by two armed women who got in by used fake lawyers identification cards. Three women suspects accused of taking part in the murder and Kidnap Ping escaped from another West Berlin jail on july 7, 1976. Police think they May have been involved in freeing Meyer. Hohla was reported hit by three shots fired from a passing yellow Volkswagen Sedan that was found later near the scene of the attack. The attackers changed clothes and were believed to have switched to a smaller Green Volkswagen Sedan police said. Fritsch Meyer and the other four defendants Are accused of being Mem Bers of West Berlin s june 2nd move ment a group organized to free terrorist suspects from jail. The organization had been Active Only in West Berlin but has not been blamed for any major activities since the 1975 kidnapping for which the six Are being tried. The six Are represented by a total of 21 lawyers including some hired by them and others appointed by the court. The defendants have objected to the appointed defenders and on the opening Day of the trial Fritsch and two other defendants attacked their lawyers physically during talks in their cells. No one was injured seriously and the attacks were considered an attempt to drive the court appointed lawyers from the Case. Alb okays Rise in heating fuels the anti inflation Board has cleared the Way for three Petroleum products suppliers to once More raise their prices. The Board said tuesday in Ottawa it will not inter Vene to Stop .-eontrolled Shell Canada Ltd. Of Toronto from raising its prices by two tenths of one cent a gallon on refinery sales and by four tenths of one cent for All other bulk sales. Federated cooperatives Ltd. Of Saskatoon plans to increase its prices by one tenth of one cent a gallon on its wholesale prices. Canadian fuel marketers Ltd. Of Don Mills ont., will increase its prices by six tenths of one cent a gallon for wholesale and retail prices. The Board says the increases Are justified because of higher costs for refining marketing and distribution. The higher prices take effect May 31 for Shell and on june 1 for the other two companies. A spokesman for Shell Oil in Toronto said the Price hikes will effect on the retail Price of gasoline at service stations. But Home heating oils and other Petroleum products will Rise in Price he said. The increases Are designed to cover the company s higher operating expenses and Are normally granted together with the twice yearly hikes in the Price of crude Oil he said. Wiretap on Pilutik called illegal continued seeing the property authority to cover the additional tap on the line in the Public safety 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 disbarred by 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 the tapping of the trunk line at the Public safety building became an Issue last year when two other judges using the line publicly complained. It was subsequently reported that any tapes of the two other judges conversations had been destroyed. Further Pawley ordered a tightening of regulations dealing with tapping procedures to prevent such Inci dents from recurring. Beatty assured the committee internal routines have been revised to prohibit recurrences. Those routines have been tightened and we believe it is almost impossible if not impossible for that to happen he said. Every possible Effort is made to isolate the target party to avoid As far As possible the monitoring of conversations of others he told the committee. Law enforcement agencies Are encouraged to seek orders for tapping on specific phones that can be isolated rather than on trunk lines used by several people he said. The Telephone system counsel also told the commit tee Only a limited number of supervisory staff in the system s Central office know about court orders for wiretaps. One employee must make the Cross connection Between lines. Installation of any tapping equip ment necessary is done by other authorities he said. Last year he said the Telephone system was served with 37 court orders for wiretaps involving 97 locations and 94 people. Beatty said that out of several Hundred complaints about taps investigated by the Telephone system each year that not More than two illegal devices Are found. The customer who has complained about the possibility of an illegal Bug on his phone is informed if one is found. However if a device is found during Rou Tine repairs of a Telephone and no complaint has been lodged the customer in t informed he said. The Telephone company does t inform police if an illegal Bug is found. If a customer whose phone has been illegally bugged notifies police the Telephone com Pany will furnish All the information it can Beatty said. Horner warns against Boycott Forest Case lawyers clash continued by Robert Willaard lawyers in the Georges Forest Case clashed 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 Wei As any provincial Cost pleadings or Docu ments. Three Days have bees set Aste for the trial which is rectify began in feb. When Forest refused to pay an a Itig ticket in so foce. Susce to Feu he Case has Bai 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 Quebec courts invalid. The Quebec government has appealed the recent ruling hot no court Date has been set yet tuesday. Alain Hague Forest s Law yer. Tow chief Jostle a. S. Dewar the 1899 language act violates his client s rights Snder both the mar Toba act of 3870 and the British North America ban actofi871. Baft arts flew French and of the provincial legislature and the Federal parliament and require both to be used in the respective records and journals of these Hogne said. He argued that by enacting the Lan Guage legislation in 1890, the province in effect amended its own cons Titu then 20-year-old Manitoba act something it had no right to do. Language rights Are entrenched in the ban act and Manitoba abridge those rights by enacting its official language act be said. Toe Manitoba act of j870 was included in fee in a Art of because there appeared to be Soune doubt whether the Federal had the right to the Manitoba act. Howe said. Dence of the government s weak kneed approach to the troublesome Boycott ques Tion. The report was ambiguous and lacked specific commitments. Horner 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 an commercial dealings with one country in order to secure a contract with another foreign nation. It is primarily Arab coun tries have demanded companies sever Cial links with Israel As a condition of doing business with them. Homer said Kuwait and Libya Are hard liners in pushing the Boycott saudi Arabia was showing some willingness to negotiate. The decision to proceed with naming companies from which services have been withdrawn or denied is a meaningful measure to ensure that the Sanction of pub Lic opinion is brought to Bear on companies or persons who flout the government s poli says the report. Homer said his officials have been warning compan ies abort the new naming provision for almost six iwo Fth ;