Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 05, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june 10th anniversary of death marked gathering remembers Frk As Man who held out hope9 Robert Kennedy los Angeles a in a Church not far from where it happened celebrities and politicians gathered sunday to remember a Nightmare the assassination of senator Robert Kennedy 10 years ago this week. Among them will be witnesses and shooting victims who vividly recall each moment of the Hor ror at the ambassador hotel on june it was shortly past Midnight. There was cheering for Kennedy s most glorious political Triumph Victory la California s presiden tial primary. A walk through the hotel pantry. Smiles and hand shakes. Gunshots. Blood and screams. Only one Man present that night now says he remembers nothing. His name is Sirhan Sirhan. At Soledad prison in Northern California the convicted Assassin is called Sirhan the silent a mys Tery Man who quietly counts the months until his scheduled parole Date the Short slender jordanian now 34, tells those who ask that he has a Blank in his mind about the killing. I asked him if anyone else was involved that s the big said Kenneth Hahn los Angeles county supervisor after he interviewed Sirhan last year. Sirhan s response i Don t re member. I doa t that has fuelled speculation that Sirhan was part of a larger assassination plot but official investigations have ended in confusion. There Are no Active leads now being John Van de Kamp los Angeles county District attorney said. The Case is open in the sense that if we receive information Well look at it but we be had no new information of any depth in quite a Kennedy died on it after lingering in a coma for More than 24 hours. He was 42. Paul Schrade a former United Auto workers Union official who was seriously wounded in the Ken Nedy shooting filed suit to push further investigation of the Case. But he conceded that Many leads including a much explored second gun theory longer interest officials. I be never said i believed there was a second Schrade said. I Don t know. But i think there Are enough questions about it that we should continue the investigation the possibility of conspiracy he said he believes Sirhan is a threat to people who Don t go along with his beliefs. He should remain where he is. I would be against his Schrade was instrumental in arranging sunday s tribute which Drew such participants As actress Shirley Maclaine gov. Edmund Brown Singer Andy Williams and former athletes safer Johnson and Roosevelt Grier who seized Sirhan the night of the killing. Jess Unruh now California state treasurer was at Kennedy s Side in the ambassador pantry. Kennedy represented an in credible Devotion to government Unruh said and he Tope fee Ameri can masses than any other Politi Cian. More than anything else the assassination wiped out the Hope of a lot of people that things could be Sirhan Sirhan Boundary game fishing threatened continued fishing in the other s Waters while a permanent solution is sought. On Friday however each Side accused the other of not living up to the interim 1978 agreement and the potential fish War began. Patrol aircraft and coast guard vessels from both countries moved into place sunday to begin evicting fishermen from the disputed Waters. Warnings will be issued to those still fishing until noon today. Initial reaction from Canadian fishermen on both coasts has been supportive of the government s decision. Spokes men said the move was necessary because the 1978 interim agreement was not working to Canada s favor. Canadian policy statement expected continued Canadian fishing in . Waters imposed Friday after Canada had banned . Fishermen from Canadian Waters would apply Only to commercial fishing the spokesman said. But he said while the Canadian fisheries act deals Only with commercial fishing the . Fisheries management and conservation act does not distinguish Between com Mercial and recreational fishing he said Canada would wait and see whether . Authorities carried out their threat to take action against recreational fishermen before making a move. It s provocative to say if you do this Well do he said. We Don t want to threaten anyone. We re just waiting to see what if the americans do decide to follow the act to the letter it could Lead to some ludicrous he said. There Are one million canadians in the state of Flori x a. Does this mean they can t fish off the ports no incidents off . Breaks silence on Cuba role continued Fly a contingent of French foreign legion paratroops Back to their base on the Mediterranean Island of Corsica. Brown interviewed on the lbs program face the nation said there also is some evidence that East May have been involved in the training and logistics for the rebel invasion of Zaire s Shaba province formerly Katanga. But that is less certain. As for cuban involvement he added there is nothing like a cuban Cigar butt picked up for example in referring to increasing tensions Between the United states and the soviet Union Over strategic arms limitation treaty . Talks Brown said i would not hold of a Salt agreement to demonstrate unhappiness with soviet actions in soviet adventurism in Africa has made it More difficult to get . Congressional approval for a new treaty however. Brown said that besides Morocco two or three other african countries which he refused to identify will be involved in the african Force to replace the French legion s presence in Zaire. Meanwhile Andrew Young . Ambassador to the United nations cautioned against panic Over soviet and cuban actions in Africa. I think we ought to have concern but when concern is. Translated into panic by others i Don t think it serves the . Young said fat a published interview Wiki the weekly Magazine . News and work report soviet influence under scrutiny Halifax up no incidents have been reported off the East coast since implementation at noon sunday of a ban prohibiting . Vessels from fishing in Canadian Waters said Douglas Johnston Atlantic director general of the Federal fisheries department. For 24 hours no charges will be Laid if someone is caught Johnston said in an interview. Until noon monday . Vessels will simply be re minded that the ban has come into effect and warned to leave the area. After that they will be open to impoundment of their catches and charges carrying fines of to depending on the size of the catch. Despite the ban however the right of innocent passage will remain in effect allowing . Fishermen to remain in Canadian Waters As Long As they Are not fishing. Johnston said he did not anticipate any problems with . Fishermen. He estimated Between that Between two and six . Vessels were fishing in Canadian Waters. Into by a Tom Dow Well the 92nd annual decoration Day and Parada was Haid sunday at tha Cenotaph plot on memorial Boulevard. The Parade was organized by tha joint come Titta of vat Arans associations of greater Winnipeg. Safeway workers on strike continued i Pinchin said there had been a move on the part of the stores to help close the Gap Between food and ser vice workers one of the Union s demands. Other items on the Union s shopping list included a paid Holiday on each employees s birthday and a Dollar per continued Day Holiday Bonus. Christophe said sunday that workers would be pick eting in supermarket Park ing lots and not confining themselves to strictly pub Lic he said they would be Tak ing advantage of a Legisla Tive amendment to the Law regulating picketing which expanded the term Public to areas such As parking lots which became Public through usage. The last strike against the major Chain stores in 1973. At that time Only do minion was affected. That walkout lasted six weeks. A strike was avoided last year Only at the last minute when a settlement was reached the night before a walkout that would have closed 70 per cent of Winni Peg s food outlets. Most of the foreign legion paratroops will be replaced by midweek with moroccans and eventually in other african troops. The most Likely contributors Are Gabon Togo Senegal and possibly Ivory coast the sources said. The Force will be led by French officers and armed by France which already has troops in and around Africa the sources said. France took the Lead in convening the meeting be cause president Valery Giscard d Estwing believes Western interests throughout Africa Are threatened by soviet inspired disruption of pro Western african governments. The French sources said the main focus of the meeting will be on How to continue economic development in african countries threatened by military and political turmoil. The soviet Union criticized the Paris meeting sunday and charged that nato members Are making aggressive plans to expand their military intervention in Zaire through a pan african Force. The soviet news Agency Tass in a Moscow dispatch said the pan african Force Weald com of nato Mili tary operation a Zaire and act As a prop of the Kinshasa regime to ensure Western business interests Aad to be used of Aist National liberation movements. In report says world losing Battle for the environment Tow of the estimated Man mental hereditary birth which called for the systematic Aste and worse is ahead Mother s milk in quantities of up a major continued made in the Environ defects and Liefer in to 500 times the acceptable reports deals with the sudden Twat ire b0w to make up for the Scarcity of waste. And worse is ahead since the demand for food in the developing countries is expected to grow faster than food snep predicts. Its reports says the Long term effects of the Man made chemicals now in the Environ ment Are unknown Bat possible risks include genetic mutations and birth defects. The growing use Bat deciding effect of insecticides on malarial mosquitoes has produced a Frig tool Side effect the report warns. For instance to Guatemala were Dot has Raed for is years face chemical is food la Mother s milk in quantities of up to 500 times the acceptable daily intake set by world health organization the snep report says. It adds global Energy waste is unprecedented As the average efficiency useful output As percentage of input of Energy utilization has been estimated at 42 percent Uriel formed it fee 1372 Stockholm conference. Its re port entitled the state of the worm environment 1s78 is an interim doom est leading to a major report of the global in Rii Flemat saw taxed for Paticia to isl a major portion of the snep reports deals with the sudden and lethal comeback of malaria. In 1955 about two million died yearly of the disease. As the use of Dot Rose the disease declined but now is Back again As the parasite carrying mosquitoes Are growing immune to Dot. In India there Are about 6 Mill los cases alone compared with 1.5 million in 1972 and in 19m. The disease itself has grown resistant to and other drags ased to its treatment the snep report notes in studies have Showa Dot has been fac bed through the ecosystem and has by subs from fee desert fanese it the penguins of the Auto Arctic As Well iranian samples of human milk have Showa Dot concentrations of eight to times higher Baa the permitted level in cow s milk sold in the United states snep states. It recommends use of a Viroil is Staky safer set feeds Sass Quito control such As Raniag stagnant ate Sonito Breeding Waters to wish away a larvae Bree Fiat fisc Dot Mil of the estimated Man made chemicals in the Environ ment once chemical substances have entered the environment they undergo physical and chemical changes affecting their toxic to snep says. It is still not known what happens if Man is exposed to arsenic Aad other chemicals at very Low concentrations Over a period of 21 or 30 chemical pesticides and More a Quarter of a Raij Ioa Toas Are sold yearly. The snep report wans Fae Eueasea peaces yeah be Aad a Daft Fca Etic Avota Ioas Detri mental hereditary birth defects and Twenty chemicals Are now know to cause cancer in humans Aad 137 in animals snep says. Snep suggests by combining biological Aad chemical control methods pests can be controlled More effectively thereby via Ting possible Adverse in Tirol Metal impacts. Snep also says n the foe scarce ls7to the world wastes half Al Energy it prod accelerated Al Rea Wame Ergy a agn Caffare. Greet Revo Hottat which caned for the systematic use of Energy intensive fertilizer to make up for the Scarcity of agricultural land has avoided certain starvation for of Lions but that approach is to longer rational As it made Energy be come the limiting Factor a agricultural the snep report says while millions go hungry the world wastes record amounts of food. The Absal grata Harvest for is Trace yields Boa Toates of Straw Tad of it a wasted. Sagar Taat redact Iea Abac loaves my 1m ;