Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 31, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday May 31, 1978 wiretap on Pilutik Al Las told the tapping of the trunk line at the Public safety building became an Issue last year when two other judges Sinji the line publicly complained. It was subsequently re ported that any tapes of the iwo other judges conversations had been destroyed. Further Pawley ordered a tightening of regulations dealing with tapping proce dures to prevent such Inci dents from recurring. Beatty assured the com uni tree internal routines have continued 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 continued Tion the then 20-year-old Manitoba act something it had no right to do. Language rights Are entrenched in the ban act and Manitoba could t abridge those rights by enacting its official language act he said. The Manitoba act of 1870 was included in the ban act of 1871 because there appeared to be some doubt whether the Federal govern ment had the right to enact the Manitoba act Hogue said. The original ban act of 1867 was an Imperial statute uniting four provinces Nova Scotia new Brunswick Quebec and Ontario into a Federal system. Hogue said by adding Manitoba in 1871 and having the ban act of that year ratified by the Imperial parliament it meant Only Westminster not the province could Amend the Manitoba act. He said the Only exceptions Are found in Section 6 of the ban act of 1871 which says Manitoba s amending Powers affect Only two areas qualifications of electors and legislators and provincial election Laws. But Kerr twaddle the lawyer representing the prov Ince said Manitoba has much wider amending Powers. He pointed to Section 92 of the ban act of 1867 which says in each province the legislature May exclusively make Laws in 16 different areas or Reading from the ban act twaddle told judge Dewar one such area allows each province to enact amendments from time to time not withstanding anything in this act of the Constitution of the province except in cases where it affects the office of the lieutenant governor. The trial continues today in the Law courts building with twaddle finishing his submission. John Scollin a Federal government lawyer from Ottawa is also expected to submit arguments in support of Forest. Are encouraged to seek orders for tapping on specific phones that can be Iso lated rather than on trunk lines used by several people he said. The Telephone system counsel also told the com Mittee Only a limited number of supervisory staff in the system s Central office know about court orders for wire taps. One employee must make the Cross connection Between lines. Installation of any tapping equipment Nec Essary is done by other authorities he said. Last year he said the Tele phone system was served with 37 court orders for wire taps involving 97 locations and 94 people. Where Are our maps Ottawa up com Mons attendance dropped to four maps tuesday As debate on the government s budget legislation dragged into its third week. The highest attendance in the 264-seat commons where Ottawa s heat wave had More effect on the temperature than the debate was 11. Under commons rules a quorum is 20 maps. Even on Friday after Noons the worst attendance Day of the week there generally Are More maps in their seats than there were tues Day. Standing in the commons is Liberal 135 conservative 87 new Democrat 15 social credit 8 ind. 4 vacant 15. The legislation puts into Law the government s subsidization of provincial sales tax cuts and does such other things As provide Oil exploration and research and development incentives. As debate on second read in Princi ple dragged on Progress Ive conservative and Liberal maps spoke in support of their pet projects from solar Energy to logging Camp bunkhouses. A gives three refineries preen Light to hike prices Ottawa up the cleared the Way for three anti inflation Board has Petroleum products Supply substitute writes Ard examination continued examination room and police were told about the subsist tinn of Nephew for Uncle. Both men admitted the offence when questioned by police. Provincial court judge Lawrie Mitchell imposed the s200 fines after the two men pleaded guilty to a criminal code charge of pers nation at an Examina Tion an offence which carries a maximum penalty of a Fine. Tin judge agreed with Crown counsel Phil Schactor that the offence was a serious one. Schacter told judge i Thecil that the Fine for a similar offence under the provincial real estate Bro kers Ait ranges from to . The Crown s Proa dim in a ing the criminal code Section made the maximum Fine neither accused was represented in court by counsel. Ers to once More raise their prices. The Board said tuesday it will not intervene to Stop 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 in creases 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 compan ies. Fairies May be swamped drug addicts from . Continued , v Columbia government is sirm the lever of compulsory treat Irin As a political tool to Deal with aver the proliferation of her Ain Eddit , on the West coast. Hoping not so or and c ure addicts As to get rid of thor.-. To other parts of Canada i idiots will indeed leave the prov Ince r. To 3 trickle but in droves. To Ray leave the addicts will be v t Cir entire subculture with systems and Contact net cities such As Edmonton and i writ because of its size and a tract fragments of the British n which will then 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 or. A daily basis. It s an expensive Way of not dealing with the one health Agency official said tuesday. It Means you re parsing the Buck to the other provinces and Hope to ii them Deal with the situation 5tfq found Yon can t get a handle compulsory treatment has sover worked anywhere the source who has worked in the narcotics Fieric for some time said. Yre tar dry add a of. Bufi it first v i invt. Fri flames and smoke Rise from a mock airline fuselage tuesday North Side of Winnipeg International Airport As Airport crash Crews photo by John Mcmanus undergo a refresher course in Tuune 9. Crews from Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Northwest territories Are taking part. Carter Calls for stronger defences soviet cuban threat worries nato made but there is a general willingness among the participants to discuss the Issue. The . Is prepared to play a limited role but will not commit american combat troops to Africa he said. Carter urged nato allies to strengthen defences against the growing soviet threat and said the Alliance cannot be indifferent to russian and cuban involve ment in Africa. The activities of the so Viet Union and Cuba in Afri Ca Are preventing individual nations from charting their own Carter said. On monday nato Secre tary general Joseph Luns told reporters there is a Chance of the Alliance extending the frontiers of its responsibilities. In his speech Carter hailed the actions of such individual allies As Belgium and France in Rushing Aid to the wobbling government of Zaire after angolan based rebels invaded Shaba province. Meanwhile French Diplo Matic sources disclosed that Carter and French president Valery Giscard d Estwing have agreed to help african countries protect themselves against outside aggression if the african countries will enter into joint defence agreements. So far african leaders have shown Little enthusiasm for such pacts. Later West German officials also agreed that the West should help african countries to pursue their in dependence and sovereignty against outside aggression. Carter also stressed the need for strengthening nato military forces in the face of a soviet Challenge. The United states will play its part in meeting that Challenge across the spec Trum of conventional the atre nuclear and strategic nuclear Carter said. The sombre note struck by Carter was echoed by Luns and other speakers including British prime minister James Callaghan and Turk ish prime minister Bulent Ece Vit. Let no one be Callaghan stressed in a Pas Sage plainly addressed to the soviets the Alliance is in in addition to so Viet in Afri Ca he said. East West relations have Beer worsened by the unremitting growth in soviet military capability and the soviet attitude on human rights. Tro Deab said Canada sup ports the Alliance s pens for Long term improve ments. Cut nato s Long Soal should be a to both an Opportunity and a Challenge to find ways in which Security can be achieved at lower Levels of later external affairs minister Don Jamieson said that the prime minister Dur ing closed door discussions tuesday afternoon called for a bold new initiative in the Vienna talks on conventional Force reductions in nato and the Warsaw pact. The Alliance should make proposals on its own without waiting for the atmosphere continued to improve at the sluggish talks Jamieson said. He said Trudeau urged the nato members begin by assigning foreign ministers to the discussions. Nato leaders Are discus sing a new Long term de Fence program which Calls for improvements costing an estimated billion Over the next 10 years or so. Trudeau said in an inter View monday he is a Little uncomfortable about the expense but he noted it would be spread Over Many years. Later defence minister Barney Danson was asked about the apparent differ ence in approach by presi Dent Carter and Trudeau. It is simply a Case of sover eign states expressing their own Points of View Danson replied. He said he under stood Carter s advisor zbig Niew Brzezinski had made statements dramatizing the nature of the soviet i think it is necessary for us to understand the the Canadian minister said. I Don t think we should be panicked by it. I Don t think we Are naked so far As our defences Are it was important that the Alliance keep its fences mended. But there should not be any move to create Hys Teria Danson said. Asked about the Long term defence program Danson said it would require Canada to extend its rate of military spending beyond the current deadline of 1981. Cuba raps Carter lies on Zaire United nations a cuban vice president Carlos Rodriguez said tuesday that an allegation by . President Carter that Cuba trained and equipped rebel invaders of Zaire s Southern Shaba province was absolutely 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 military presence of France and Belgium with . Logis tical support on the pretext of saving the lives of their in the Central african country is an ominous he defended cuban troops fighting in Southern Angola against South africans in 1976 and in Ethiopia s opa Den Region in 1977 and 1978 against a foreign invasion promoted by the 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 referring to president Carter s remarks at a Chica go news conference thursday 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 arc based on impudently repeated during the news conference. Carter said the invasion was mounted in 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 Zambia and was crushed by French. Belgian and zairian troops. Cuba has not participated directly or indirectly in the events in he said. Cuba did not Supply in arms for that purpose nor did it train those who attacked. Neither does Cuba have political ties with the Organiza Tion which claimed nazi suspect held for questioning capacity a desire far cwt to offers nato countries including Poland and Austria May seek his extradition. Wiesenthal has said he re cognized Wagner from a photograph taken at a nazi rally in Brazil in april. But reporters at the news Confer ence organized by police said Wagner did not resemble the Man in the photo. Wagner appeared vague about his activities at the beginning and end of the War but old reporters he was a member of the austrian Gestapo. He served in a construction unit at sob ibor in 1943-54, he said. Wagner said he met Stangl by Chance in the Street in the austrian town of Graz after the War and agreed to join him in going to Brazil. Stangl died in 1971. He was eventually Able to make the journey after obtaining a syrian passport in Damascus. Legal sources said that under brazilian Law. West Germany or old have first claim on Wagner in extradition proceedings. Meanwhile in Chicago. Frank Wains a retired la Borer was stripped of Bis . Citizenship tuesday that he concealed Farr . Immigration As s past a a Zyzes Ges rap a been continued ing the second world War. Federal judge Julius Hoff Man ordered Walus to turn Over his certificate of naturalization to the Justice department by june 9. The . Immigration and naturalization service ins could then begin deportation proceed Ings but David Vandersall regional ins director said no decision had been made on that. Hoffman told a packed courtroom that evidence in the 17-Day civil trial in . District court was consistent horrible and generally unshakeable that Walus 55. Committed wartime atrocities. Hospital forced to terminate psychiatric care nip says government restraint policies have forced Misericordia to terminate its Day care psychiatric program opposition Las charged tuesday. Speaking during debate on the 1978-79 spending estimates of the department of health and social development Saul Miller seven Oaks said the government s fiscal policies Are forcing hospitals Back to the Point where they can care Only for bedridden patients. He quoted from a letter written by Winni Peg mayor Robert Steen. A member of the Misericordia Hospital Board. The letter said the Board would like to retain the service fart can t afford to because prov Ince has cat funds to health care institutions. Health minister Bod Sherman told the Hoase the government can t pet Hospital on a global Bodet then Fern Arrari interfere in All tace de dvrs they . Hospitals and health Are to. He 4 be maintained at All costs they would have effected an Economy in some other Larry Desjardins Xep St. Boniface suggested that by decreasing the number of patients at Brandon and Selkirk mental hospitals without improving Foster Homes group Homes and Day patient services the govern ment will eventually have to provide More Beds for mental patients. They will have to go Back into institutions and it s going to Cost this govern ment so much he said. In other debate Sherman told Howard Pawley the health services commission is studying a problem raised by the Selkirk town Council. The Council is concerned that elderly persons discharged from he Selkirk mental Hospital Are occupy ins Beds in the town s personal care Homes that Are needed by Selkirk citizens. Obj Side the Boose. Sherman said possible the problem info a in is Csc Mcfie Tysik a the ;