Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, June 05, 1978

Issue date: Monday, June 5, 1978
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 05, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fiddling around with Cathy and Duck Newman a new role Page 19 painting from the heart 21 weather report from Advance Cloudy Low 8, High 23 Sun rises . . Moon rises . Sets . Bio Dex horoscope.22 bridge22 comics.c5 crossword.23 deaths5, 22 finance27-2s fur letters. Is jumble.38 movies28 television. 24 weather.5 final edition vol. 85 208 monday june 5, 1978 15 cents so with coloured comics Eway closing most stores photo by Wayne Glowacki Westdale and Royal Junior High students Chase the at the Eric Coy Arena grounds saturday during Charleswood in motion Days. The game was played with a weather balloon. Game fishing threatened by the Canadian press a fisheries dispute be tween the United states and Canada threatens to disrupt even game fishing in Boundary Waters. Officials on both sides suggested during the weekend that authorities May crack Down on recreational As Well As commercial fishermen who stray across invisible Borders in the great lakes and off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. But a deadline at noon sunday local times passed without incident. Both sides agreed to a 2-1-hour Grace period that effectively put off the deadline for arrests or catch seizures to noon Mon Day at the earliest. Skirmishing in the Poten tial fish War. Which opened Friday was conducted in its Early stages entirely in words. The dispute blew up be cause of differences Over Fiji inn nr3ctjccs both coasts. Canada effectively revoked a 1978 fisheries agreement Friday warning . Fishermen out of Cana Dian Waters. The United states followed suit with an added Sugges Tion by . Officials that a ban on Canadian fishing in . Waters also applies to sports fishermen in the great lakes. A Canadian external affairs spokesmen then said Canada would retaliate against . Sports fishermen caught in Canad an Waters. At the same time officials for both countries expressed Hope that a permanent Solu Tion to the problem will be found when negotiations re sume in Ottawa june 19. Both sides have indicated a willingness to increase efforts to resolve the maritime Boundary question which arose when 200-mile limits were adopted. Since then Canada and the United states have worked out interim agreements de signed to allow fishermen from one country to continue Sec Boundary Page 4 i fishing policy expected Ottawa up Exter Nal affairs minister Don Jamieson and fisheries minis Ter Romeo Leblanc will out line in the commons today Canada s official policy concerning . Recreational fishermen in the great lakes a fisheries depart ment spokesman said Sun Day. . Coast guard officials said saturday they would Board and search both recreational and commercial Canadian vessels in the american portion of the great lakes under orders from the . State depart ment. Canadian officials had originally hoped a ban on see Canadian Page i baseball american league sunday results Texas 9 Toronto 5 Detroit a Minnesota Milwaukee 12-9 Cleveland 7-j Kansas City 13 Chicago 2 California j Boston 2 Oakland 6 new York i Baltimore j Seattle 1 saturday results Toronto j Texas 3 9 Detroit 2 Cleveland 6 Milwaukee 4 Oakland 5 new York 1 Chicago 9 Kansas cite 5 Boston 5 California 4 Baltimore 2 Seattle 1 National league sunday results sen .1 2 philae Eldva 9 los Anar is 4 Sand Eoo i new York 2 chicaco6 Atlanta 4 4 Cincinnati 1 St. Loois 4 Houston 2 Saturn May results 5 san Francisco 3 Char too 8 Atlanta a Phaoe Iotus 5 los Anoe ies 1 Cincinnati 4 Pitr Burch 3 new York 3 san Diego 2 Ston 5-1 St Louis 2 2 details m snorts path 53 conservative elected president of Colombia Bogota a conservative party candidate Beli Sario Betancur claimed Vic tory by a wide margin today in the colombian presiden turns gave him a Lead of less than 10.000 votes. With 85 per cent of the votes counted election officials said Betancur had tial election but official re m9.g10 votes to 1.801.888 for looking for a a motorcycle this and under motorcycles to i the of bargains in f sifted Section 22 33. 3fi 51. 61 no matter wet of Yoc need Shioo save free press wart frustration blamed v for three shootings by Bob lower Thicket Portage. Man. One Man died and two others were wounded after All i rec deliberately shot themselves in separate liquor related incident Here this weekend. It was probably the worst weekend we be Ever had in this mayor Bob Mcclaverty said in an interview. People started to bring liquor into town from a and Thompson Friday and ii Kepi coining Cay or. Friday a Man hut himself to death in the Siim so h with a 12-gauge Shotgun and on saturday a 20-Ycar-d-d Man fired a shot into his and was in the victim has since been flown to it has been reported she foot will be at 11 . Sunday a third Man who had just celebrated his Isih birthday vhf to himself in the lower leg. He has been taken to Winnipeg and wiil lose his a a. Pc Caveny blamed the actions on a feeling of Fres traitor Mannz people Here. F a e in the have on Canada works Tho to forever. That the wages a work for a single and few Are too Low Ift five in at Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala of the Liberal party the pre election favorite. The other four candidates. An army general and three leftists were far behind. Betancur. 5g. Claimed at an Early morning news con Ference he had won by 20fl. 000 votes. His supporters roamed the streets of Bogota shouting. We won we won Turbay Ayala. K 2. Refused to concede. It was one of the closest elections in Colombia s his tory. President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. Aiso a Liberal was band by the Constitution from seeking a second four year term. Hand gun and sales were banned daring the Vot ing sunday radio and television were ordered not to broadcast a Noffie returns and 200.0c-0 men were mobilized to try to maintain order . Mainly Over rising j prices. J nine bombs exploded in. I about employees of Canada Safeway Ltd. Went on strike at 8 . Today to Back contract demands closing most of the company s Manitoba stores. More than Safeway workers met sunday to officially reject the company s last contract offer and vote by a two thirds majority to strike. A company spokesman said sunday six stores were going to be kept open despite the strike five in Winnipeg and one in Brandon. Victor Pinchin said the stores would be kept open by supervisory personnel and any employees who want to the Winnipeg stores stay ing open include those at the Grant Park shopping Centre fort Richmond Crossroads shopping Centre Leila ave nue and Mcphillips Street River East and Westwood. The Safeway in the Brandon mall will also be kept open. Bernard Christophe presi Dent of retail store employees Union local 832, said that while All stores would be picketed special attention would be paid to those stores being kept open. Although the Union represents workers at Dominion stores and West fair foods lob Laws. Econ Mart. Shop who along with Safeway workers voted sunday to reject the last offer of the Chain stores Only Safeway is affected by the walkout and the other workers Haven t taken strike votes. Christophe said More pressure would be put on Safeway to Settle if it alone was involved. More than half of the Union s Chain store members arc employed by Safeway. Stores in Dauphin car Man. Thompson and Selkirk Are expected to be closed by the strike. A final round of negotiations last week which Only officially ended saturday nil Tii failed in narrow the Gap Between company offers and Union demands. The Union s final position at the bargaining table was for a 75-cent-an-hour in crease in the first year of a two year contract while the stores offered an average of about 40 cents. In the second year of the contract the Union was asking for about 70 cents while the stores were offering an average of about 42 cents. Christophe said the stores had Only barely placed on the table the amount the anti inflation Board took away when it rolled Back wages after the last round of bar gaining. He described the Long series of meetings with the Chain stores As terrible and frustrating and said the stores had taken a totally unreasonable position and made the lowest possible this was the first time the workers had negotiated without the sword of anti inflation legislation hanging Over the bargaining table and even before talks began Christophe said there was going to have to be some sort of compensation for the Roll backs imposed during three years of controls. Pinchin however criticized the food workers Union for their stance. In my opinion the Union has not followed in any Way the program of restraint the government and Consumers have been he said. Food workers have been Well paid in past years and should have been willing to accept the increase they were offered which was in line with what other workers in other Fields have been accepting he added. Many workers Are still tied to the de controls period and bound to a maximum six per cent increase by anti inflation regulations. See Safeway Page 4 cuban role affirmed Washington Reuter . Defence Secretary Harold Brown on sunday broke the Carter administration s silence on cuban involvement in the rebel invasion of Zaire. Brown said in a television interview that based on re ports statements and witness accounts from prisoners diplomatic channels the government of Zaire and people in neighbouring african countries Washington has evidence of cuban what it says to me having looked at it is that cubans and angolans were very clearly engaged in training and equipping and supplying logistics for the. Forces that invaded Zaire not once but he said. Brown spoke As the United states began transporting by air an african Security Force in support of president Mobutu sese seko with flights to Morocco and Zaire. Eleven c-141 Star lifter transport aircraft left four . Air Force bases in the United states during the weekend to ferry a Force of moroccan troops and their supplies to Zaire and see . Page 4 soviet influence probed Harold Brown Breaks silence Paris a experts from the United states and four european countries meet Here today to discuss alleged soviet inspired destabilization in Africa and organize backing for a French sponsored pan Afri can defence Force for Zaire. The representatives fran the United states franc in depth analysis of recent events in Africa during their two Day meeting and make recommendations to their governments a spokes Man for the French foreign ministry said. In Agadir in Alan tic coast transport Phr . Roc can officials reported. The . Planes also Are scheduled to Fly out the 600 French paratroops who were dropped into Kolwe i More than two weeks ago to drive the had in s c-h1 i 111 a f.rr--trc.-. Peary their Baic i i Mulhern or Nae to ii i Sica is i 0 is who Citi fied said the capita cities a scoring Ose y is c k Bleak clays Prette is. B me 0 v s in run in the of. 3 c a Cal c disease Back with a vengeance 17.-- t have i. 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