Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, October 07, 1978

Issue date: Saturday, October 7, 1978
Pages available: 294
Previous edition: Friday, October 6, 1978

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tim Mem t soon Ria 17 Nam Rummi a lire natural Way tohl1 88 weekend final High 13 sum rss Styfs ims sets october recovery could be Short As Dollar faces obstacles Montreal up after a Uphill the Canadian Dollar faces new obstacles next week which 6oura make its current recovery on International Money markets Short closed Friday at cents against its american up of a cent from Days close of it was the fourth consecutive Day that the Dollar had closed with a in a week so hectic that foreign Exchange traders had More than enough thanks for the Long Holiday weekend which Wilt close Canadian markets until next traders tempered their optimism at the recent pointing out that new inflation and unemployment statistics Are to be released next this week began with a Binge of heavy Selling As the Bank of Canada announced it had spent a record to buy unwanted dollars and support the currency during the which was Worth cents a month record Low of cents in decent sentenced to six months for arson still must lace 24 Pic fraud charges f up Independent member of parliament Gilbert Rondeau old sentenced to six months in jail Friday for arson and conspire but the trials of the former sacred Are far from he Stilt faces 24 charges related to alleged unemployment insurance the Case stems from a fire that damaged a House Rondeau owned in nearby on while he was elsewhere attending the funeral of former social credit party Leader real two men still fac trial for setting the was sentenced to six months on each count of arson and but will serve the sentences an Appeal against the conviction is expected to be launched and Rondeau could be out of the mini Muttini Security jail at nearby water Loo within a few pending a Deci Rondeau had tendered his Resigna Tion from the social credit party in the summer of 197 after he was found guilty on 17counts of tax evasion in connection with a party fundraising party officials refused at the time to accept his but in the party executive revoked his membership after 24 fur ther charges were Laid against him in another involving 10 conspiracy and 14 of defrauding the unemployment insurance Scott of Between and that trial has been set for progressive conservative mp1 Gerald Baldwin has said it is doubtful the commons will take any lion to expel Rondeau until All Appeal procedures have been photo by Dave Johnson liquor like this one at 3239 Portage were full Friday As fearing a strike by liquor outlet stored up strike expected tuesday so drinkers Stock up liquor stores look like Madhouse by Andy Blicq and Mary Ann Fitzgerald As the threat of a liquor commis Sion strike looms Over wine and spirit lovers Are taking no its a were very Busy an employee in the liquor Mart at River and Osborne Treyve pretty near wiped us out of said an employee at a Transcona its tapered off just a bit but it was pretty crazy this when asked whether he wanted to go on strike the employee nobody wants to go on strike but it definitely is and none of the employees at the store was hurrying Friday to acco Iodate the customers who lined up to buy their favorite the Guys dont feel they should be busting their the be at the Northgate shopping the commission was also weve got All the machines an employee the lineups go to the Back of the its off and not like Christ said a spokesman in the Bay liquor How do customers feel about the strike it Doest matter to i dont drink said John Mcleod in the Donald and Ellice liquor in just picking it up for people in the in More or less stocking but i usually do on the Long weekend because we get Jim Racz supervisory staff will step out from behind their desk to Man the tills it the strike gets off the ground Louis commis Sion said Friday he didst know whether there would be any liquor left following the Rush on the and one supervisory person at the Donald Street and Ellice Avenue store int too Happy about the see impending Page 4 rare unanimity in Security Council in demands a for Beirut Smith in to sell Rule plan Washington a rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith plans to Appeal to Public opinion to sup port his controversial plan for Black majority Rule arguing that the americans sold us the agreement in the fim Smith and Ndabaningi a member of Rhodesia biracial transition arrived today at the invitation of n senators for a visit expected to last a week to 10 u is one of the few foreign visits Smith has made since lags when lie Ted Rhodesia breakaway from Brit Ain to forestall Black he and Sithole plan to meet with senators and congressmen and with state Secretary Cyrus they will visit cities other than Washington and new but their exact itinerary is not Smiths government is not recognized by the United which wants Smith to include guerrilla Lead ers in a transition to Black majority the Carter administration held up Smiths visa or two weeks before granting before leaving Smith spoke of a peace initiative by former state Secretary Henry Kissinger in 1976 and said the americans sold us this agreement in the first now that we have implemented it we Are going to go Back and try to sell their agreement to it should be it we Nave done All the americans Ever asked us to All we Are going to do is say we have done it and what More do you Smith said the agreement he reached with Sithole and two other moderate Black leaders met Western see Smith Page 4 ask old us this plan United nations Reuter the Security meeting after Daylong private Friday night called for an effective ceasefire and an end of the hostilities in the councils adopted in rare also on All involved to permit units of there Cross into the area of conflict to evacuate the wounded and provide humanitarian the meeting lasted Only about four minutes before it was the Jacques Leprettre of paid tribute to the spirit of Solidarity that marked the councils syrian and Christian forces locked in a Strug Gle in Beirut launched bloody but futile attacks against each others positions Western diplomats in the lebanese speaking blamed the embassy shelling on christians seeking faster action to end the furious Battle Here Between Syri an peacekeeping trying to bring private Christian militias under their and the Chris who want the syrians out at Christian militiamen made repeated thrusts to dislodge syrian troops from two key Bridges guarding a main Supply route to Christian East Beirut from the Christian heartland in Northern but no major in ground positions were accurate casualty figures Are difficult to but police sources estimated some 400 lebanese had been killed and 600 wounded since the latest round of heavy fighting erupted Early palestinian sources said at least 150 syrians had but Damascus released no casualty the Christian Phala Gist party radio said the total toll was much putting it More than 800 dead and or More it said dwellings have been Des Holiday schedule no paper will thanks giving 9 9 the classified office will be open from 6 to to receive classified advertising for tuesdays Edi the display advertising office will remain closed All Day if you Are moving make sure Mie free press moves with by phoning w39331 after business hours consult your Telephone v night brings need of Quick escape for Street children by Ritchie g4ce its and most Ramie Are 09 their Way on Street Between City tool Avenue night it on the be constables stroll the strip is Businesslike during the Day but at night it reveals a men Park along the curbs or cruise the these seagulls As the locals Call them Savage far rut there Are people Here trying to saw these a put of iced Pastis of flasks a winks go i run a taxi Wink w ill How of Tbs que Tsadi a closed we Fig i for a is apm Wail i of Milky w its the pm Adt of the Core Taf tej Mill welfare forget Tfaye ways girls go with them social workers in the area say Girts charge to Fie Bafitis we def to j w Wop i my Wei i and Sam Aribas to fave fi6t a wow Jap 10 or Ace raced so 9 thus 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