Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 03, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba No wedding ring 89 inside anytime comics classified.-.53-w, 95 m ftauke.--------31-31 for people.21-37 movies weather.5 sports the Call of the Carter denies freezing Salt the revolution is Only a game Leisure Jumble entry.12 winners.15 Puzzle .54 Adrienne Clarkson weekend weather report from Cloudy Low 8, High 20 Sun rises . Sels . Moon rises . Sets . Winnipeg free press vol. 85 no. Saturday june 3, 1978 15 cents with coloured comics refugees Tell of murder rape thousands of moslem fleeing Buddhist Burma a Young moslem refugee holds an empty Rice bowl As flecks of food Dot his face following a meagre lunch at a refugee Camp in Bangladesh. Tek Naf Road Bangladesh a tens of thousands of moslem refugees Are fleeing predominantly Buddhist Burma telling of beatings rape and slay Ings. More than have closed the Bor Der into Bangladesh in the last five weeks and to Are arriving daily swell ing nine squalid Camps along the Tek Naf Road. There Are fears one million or More moslem eventually will join the exodus in which officials Here say 300 refugees mostly children already have died. Burma s government says the refugees Rohin Yea moslem of the rugged North Western a akan Region Are illegal aliens. But the moslem say resentful buddhists want their and and businesses. While the accounts of the refugees can not be confirmed most Tell similar tales of burmese soldiers entering their villages beating them with Rifle Butts and Sticks raping women and killing men. One group of moslem religious leaders who fled said local toughs in a akan de filed mosques rolled cigarettes from pages of the holy Koran and banned everyone from making pilgrimages to Mecca. One refugee Saidur Rahman said Bur Mese soldiers raped his sister and pregnant wife. Another Hamad Hussein said Bur Mese soldiers raped a group of Young mos Lem women and shot 15 or 16 men in his Village. They Are among the legions fleeing Burma in Bare feet or in boats preyed upon by thugs and robbers and shoulder ing what s left of their belongings in twin baskets at the ends of Bamboo poles. Chill Monsoon Rains hunger and disease strike at the ragged refugee columns and when they get to the Tek Naf Camps they find a teeming Rural slum of Flimsy Shel ters. Thousands still live in the open under Trees. Others simply Burrow a few inches into the Earth put some Mats or card Board Over their Heads and wait. Million feared starving in ethiopian drought London Reuter up to one million people Are starving in Ethiopia s Welo Region because of a drought and special airfields Are being built to Aid Relief operations Addis Ababa radio reported. The radio monitored in London said people in the affected area Northeast of the capital of Addis Ababa were eating diseased grasses and 17 have died of poisoning. The radio estimated that be tween and one million peo ple were starving in the Western Welo Region. It said ethiopian Leader col. Mengistu Haile Mariam has set up a special committee to mount re Lief operations and three airfields were being built in affected areas to enable planes and helicopters to Fly in food. Meanwhile in Brussels Claude Chesson the european economic Community s development Aid commissioner said agricultural production in Ethiopia has in creased considerably since the country s agrarian revolution was launched in 1974. Chesson visited Ethiopia last week and met men Gist. In 1973 tens of thousands of peo ple were reported to have died in Northern and Central Ethiopia in a drought. Trouble flared and in Early 1974 the late emperor Haile Selassie who had ruled Ethiopia for 50 years was overthrown. The radio said the current Situa Tion in Welo has been aggravated by bandits of the ethiopian demo cratic Union who have destroyed health centres and schools in the area. The ethiopian government says the Edu is made up of supporters of the former emperor. In August last year. United nations officials were reporting that Ethiopia which was then fighting somali insurgents in the South and eritrean separatists in the North Oast was facing a serious food shortage because guerrilla groups had Cut off its main ports. In november the country was Given permission to use the Ken Yan port of Mombasa to secure vital supplies. Addis Ababa radio said the re Lief committee has set up numer Ous distribution centres and was supplying the starving people with food vitamins and clothes. The radio said health clinics were being set up in the Region and the people being taught not to eat poisonous grasses. Big quake o j. Predicted for . Victoria up an Earth tremor that struck Northern Vancouver Island on Friday is a prelude to a major Earth quake in the area in the next decade says or. Robin Riddix Hugh of the Pacific Geo science Centre. Riddehough said in an interview Friday that the quake was caused by a Small land plate on which Vancouver Island sits being forced under the North american continent by a and plate under the Pacific Ocean. He said the same geological formation is expected to prompt a major earthquake of about seven on the Richter scale sometime in the next 10 years. A Reading of six is considered the line Between minor and major damage he said. Friday s quake which lasted less than 30 seconds measured about 5.1 on the scale and caused a Strong feeling of ground movement pictures to Sway on Walls and plates to rattle Riddehough said. There were no reports of injuries or major damage. Riddehough said the quake s epicentre was about 20 kilo metres West of Nootka Island on the West coast of Vancouver Island although shocks were Felt in other parts of the Island. He said experts Don t expect any loss of life if there is a major quake in the area. Deaths occur he said be cause of poor building construction such As happened recently in Central America. X Riddehough said Vancouver Island sits on a tectonic plate about 200 Kilometres wide. It stretches from the Queen Charlotte islands to California and sits Between the Pacific plate and the America plate both of which measure about Kilometres wide. The Juan de Fuca plate on which Vancouver Island being forced underneath the America plate by the Pacific he said with the resulting pressure sparking the quake. The last major quake struck Eastern Vancouver is land in 1946 and measured 7.3 on the Richter scale he said. It was centred in Courtenay about 180 Kilometres North of Victoria. It caused a fair amount of damage Chimney fell through the roof of a local school and a facade fell off a store he said although no serious injuries were reported. Claim claim disputed boundaries liberals Hurt by internal strife As conservatives find cohesion map shows the four disputed maritime boundaries years of frustrated talk Lead up to fish Battle by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa a North american style fish War looms Between Canada and the United states As a result of both countries mov ing to bar the fishermen of the other nation from their fishing Waters on the Pacific and Atlantic Coats. Ottawa sets War Rales see Page 13 Canadian and the american governments Are making conciliatory statements hoping avoid anything like the fish War Between Britain and Iceland that escalated a few years ago info a Strong gee involving gunboats. Both countries been trying to reach a tons term agreement fisheries since they tarred a Zim rate of Imit january 1 w. Tucey save been in the inter Val voter interim agreement or the Pacific Oast the re faces to ferns Aster wed Waters Washington state to troll for Salmon. On the Atlantic coast the problems relate to unrestricted . Scallop and Pollock fisheries in the Gulf of main Georges Bank area. Canada also views As excessive allowable . Catch Levels for cod and had Dock. At stake is million in fish catches for both countries in a Normal year canadians fishing in . Coastal Waters catch fish valued at around million. The Ameri cans fishing off Canadian coasts in a Normal year have a catch valued at approximately million. Fishing by fishermen from both coun tries in Waters under Boundary dispute is Worth Between mall xxi to h9 million according to Canadian fisheries officials. How Ever the bulk of Tot amount is caught by canadians mostly on the East coast Canada s in barring is. Fishing res Sefc Canadian Waters at 12 Sun Day june affects the five weds of Fisher men from both countries the have retaliated teams pare Ottawa up liberals arc being Hurt by internal strife at a time when the often fractious progressive conservative party appears to have found a new cohesion. Liberal maps have been squabbling with their leaders Over everything from sales taxes to mountie mail openings rupturing the traditional Unity of a party that has held office for 37 of the last 43 years. Meanwhile conservatives have lost a number of malcontents and Are Busy burying old political hatchets. Federal proposals to compensate provinces for sales tax cuts a plan rejected by Quebec and attacked by other provinces have led to pronounced disagreements within the lib eral party caucus. Three Quebec Liberal backbench ers Serge Joyal Pierre de Bane Matane and Claude Tessier All have expressed doubts about the plan. They were noticeably absent when the commons voted on an nip motion that would have scuppered the proposal. There have been other examples of discontent within Liberal party ranks and opposition Leader Joe Clark has picked up on the conflicts with glee. I know that the Liberal caucus is full of he said in the com Mons Friday As he attacked the latest attempt by finance minister Jean Chretien to Settle the sales tax dispute. Internal disagreements tend to Blos som when party popularity slips and there Are reports that the next round of opinion polls will show the governing liberals now tied with conserva Tives trailing the opposition party. That might spark More political Brush fires in the Liberal party. This week for instance two French speaking Liberal maps unsuccessfully challenged Justice minister Ron Bas Ford to Force provincial acceptance of legislation that would give canadians trials in either French or English any where in the country. The two Jean Robert Gauthier Ottawa Vanier and Eymard Corbin Madawaska Vic were turned Down. De Bane at Odds with the party Over the sales tax Issue also voted against the government in legislation that would give police the Power to intercept and read private mail a practice that has been going on illegally for 40 years. Former Cabinet minister Herb Gray Windsor West has challenged the government on a number of fronts most recently on the question of sup port for companies who comply with the Arab led Boycott against Israel. In the past the conservative party has suffered a wide variety of internal rifts Many of them reaching Back to the 1967 ouster of then Leader John Diefenbaker. Robert Stanfield. The subsequent continued see internal Page 4 Laker now he s sir Freddie Freddie Laker the colourful British airline chief who pioneered Cut Price no frills flights across the Atlantic was among those included in Queen Elizabeth s tradition Al birthday honors. Also included were three canadians. For More details see Page 4. Read the Fine print restaurants May add surcharge this summer by Allan Wilson restaurant prices will go of an average of five to six per cent during the summer As a result of beef and liquor Price increases a restaurant spokesman said Friday. In the four weeks ended May 19. The Price of beef increased 13.5 per cent the increase was included in the anti inflation Board s food Index Winch West up per cent during the a Bact. Alse. In ported wine Fiose prices went up 21 per cent May 1 and increased by certs dozen w Spring. David Wilson president of the Manitoba restaurant and food ser vies association and area restau rant manager for Eaton a said restaurant prices could stabilize at the new level by fall As More Beec will be on the Market to bring prices Down. Wilson said the Cost of menus is one of the major Cen Sidet As folos w rising restorer Ali prices. Rep Natwig the nearly As dear an expense As what Are surcharge of five or 10 per cent on meals. Notice of the surcharge would be or acted across the Bottom of exist ing menus saving Complete reprint costs. The decision to make general Price changes win be easier for licensed restaurants than for otters since they Are facing Large in creases in two sews. Probably changes m a ceased Estabi shwets than dry lie love fee net Ift raise prices in response to Short term fluctuations. Retail lettuce prices Fer exam ple went of to More than is .30 a Bead a month ago but Are now Down to cents a head. Food prices generally fluctuate during the year but be said Are a Safiy near of top end of the in Winnipeg. To acis Efi meates the need to Wace Obj staunt Mem changes. Prices Are usually changed Ante twice a year at which tone wages taxes Are ;