Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba R weekend sports Field hockey bosons on Road to perfection see Page 65 merry s Jay win is first homered Victory in Downs Gold cup see Page 57 at 35 or 55 in our loneliness we struggle see Page 25 Ince Cloudy High 20, Low 5 free press tuesday october 10, 1978 final 15 cents vol. 64 no. 9 official spy for ramp by John Sullivan a High level Quebec government official was employed by the ramp in an extensive 1971 counter espionage operation involving surveillance of French diplomats and provincial civil servants suspected of aiding the separatist cause according to alleged top secret ramp documents leaked to the free press. The documents also claim that a key officer in the prime minister s office passed Federal information on parti quebecois political strength to a Quebec Liber Al minister in the former Bourassa government. The Federal information suggesting the pm had lost considerable strength in Quebec was relayed to the ramp by an informant in the minister s office the documents say in Ottawa monday my Tom Cossitt pc Leeds said his ramp sources had confirmed the existence of the counter espionage operation. The ramp reports say the information was for warded to Quebec cultural affairs minister Francois Cloutier in 1971 by Jean Pierre Mongeau described by the mounties As working with Federal Cabinet ministers Jean Pierre Goyer and Marc Lalonde. Mongeau was desk officer for Quebec in the prime minister s office in 1971. He is now executive director of the Federal Liberal party in Quebec and Heads the pre referendum committee a Para governmental umbrella group established last year to Marshall federalist forces for the pm government s Independence vote. Goyer was Canadian solicitor general in 1971 and 1972 and As such held Cabinet responsibility for the ramp. Lalonde however was not a Cabinet minister in the fall of 1971 but principal Secretary or chef do Cabi net to prime minister Trudeau. He was first elected to parliament in the october 1972 Federal election and was immediately named health and welfare minister and head of the Quebec Liberal caucus. The documents outlining the ramp operation and the government informant s role purport to be two 1971 cipher reports relayed Between ramp Security service Headquarters in Ottawa and its Montreal a Section Branch. Sensitive information collected by the informant was to be filed under the code name carte Blanche they say. Copies of the documents received b y the free press Bear coding similar to ramp Security reports on the 1973 break in at parti quebecois Headquarters in Montreal. An Eastern ramp source this week confirmed carte Blanche As a coded Security service file relating to Quebec. Another ramp source a former Security service officer in Winnipeg also confirmed the general code prefix on the carte Blanche file is accurate saying it see ramp Page 4 photo by wave Glowacki Morden Fine foods Ltd. On King Edward Street gave away about weather and absence of Frost left plenty of Corn in the Fields so it was dozens cobs of Corn on saturday. A company spokesman said Cool picked and dumped in a parking lot for Corn lovers to carry away. Gunfire imperils Lebanon ceasefire Beirut a heavy gunfire broke out today at the main crossroad Between Beirut s moslem and Chris Tian sectors Imp riling a three Day old ceasefire Between Lebanon s Christian militias and syrian peace keeping troops. All roads Between the two sectors were closed As machine guns blazed and rocket propelled grenades exploded sending vehicles and pedestrians fleeing in panic. Witnesses said other crossing Points Between the two sectors came under heavy sniper fire. Reporters near the scene described the outbreak As the worst violation of the truce since it began saturday night. Beirut s Christian radio station re ported that israeli gunboats shelled palestinian guerrilla Camps in South Ern Lebanon during the night. The voice of Lebanon said the guerrillas returned the israeli gun boat fire. No other details were Given there was no confirmation of the report and the israeli military com Mand in Tel Aviv refused to confirm or deny the report. Israeli gunboats shelled moslem West Beirut about 80 Kilometres North of the israeli lebanese Border last thursday night to warn the Syri ans to Call off their War against Israel s Christian allies in East Beirut. A ceasefire took effect in Beirut on saturday after 10 Days of fighting that left dead and wounded by lebanese police count. The Christian radio said although the truce was holding syrian snipers were still Active particularly in the Tarantina Bridge area on the North East Side of the City. The Bridge is on the Supply Highway from Jounier the Christian port 24 Kilometres North of Beirut to the Christian half of the City. The Borad cast said because of the sniping the Bridge remained closed to traffic. Score Board jobless rate climbs in Manitoba a Nitrai Cal Montreal 35 sask. 35 Calgary 23 Toronto 16 . 15 Edmonton 3 Hamilton 35 Ottawa 5 nil by jets45 Buffalo 14 Pittsburgh 31 Atlanta 17 Washington 71 Detroit 19 new England 24 Phil. 14 Green Bay 24 Chicago 14 Baltimore 30 St. Louis 17 Cleveland 24 new Orleans 16 Tampa Bay 30 Kansas City 13 Dallas j4 by giants 3 san Olego 33 Denver 0 Oakland 21 Houston 17 Seattle 29 Minnesota it los Angeles 27 san Francisco 10 Miami 21 Cincinnati 0 sports 61-70 Ottawa up the number of unemployed in september fell from a month earlier but the seasonally adjusted jobless rate which Indi Cates trends remained steady at 8.5 per cent statistics Canada reported today. As a result of this news the Canadian Dollar began sliding again on International Money markets today. By . Cd the Dollar was quoted at 84.70 cents against its american counterpart nearly a fifth of a cent lower than Friday s closing rate of 84.89 cents. In Manitoba the jobless rate in september stood at 7.3 per cent up from 6.7 per cent in the previous month. The Federal Agency said there were without jobs compared with in August. Last september there were unemployed. The actual jobless rate before changes to take into account season Al factors was 7.7 per cent com pared with 7.5 in september 1977. The labor Force in september was Down about from a month earlier reflecting the return of Many students to school after the summer Holiday. There were persons with jobs last month compared with in August. Unemployment among women 25 and Over Rose by two tenths of one per cent to 7.9 per cent and fell by continued see unemployment Page 4 inside two liquor stores open customers limited to 12 bottles each Union says wages main Issue in strike a strike by 390 employees of the Manitoba liquor control commis Sion began today but two Winnipeg liquor stores will be open for the next two Days to sell off their remaining stocks. Consumers will be limited to a maximum of 12 bottles each at the open stores. The workers members of the Manitoba government employees association voted in favor of strike action at a meeting monday night in the Winnipeg convention Centre. Liquor control commission chairman Louis Veillet said this morning the Grant Park Plaza and the main Street and Manitoba ave nue stores will be open from noon to six . Today and tomorrow. He said commission supervisory staff will probably move to other stores later in the week. What stores will be open in the future will depend on the commis Sion s ability to re Stock the Veillet said. Commission employees have been working for 10 months without a new contract and negotiations with the liquor commission Are at an impasse. Today s strike Marks the first time liquor commission workers have legally withdrawn their ser vices. They stayed off the Job on a rotating basis two years ago to protest a wage Rollback. Bill Jackson president of the Manitoba government association which bargains for the workers issued a Public statement Friday which called for strike action. The strike concerns wages and Little else. It s Crystal Clear. For the past five years we be had restraint. We be done our part. We Don t want to fall any further Jackson said monday after the meeting. The strike has closed 40 stores in the province 16 of them in the Winnipeg area. The buying was so heavy Fri Day and saturday we Don t know if any of the stores have any Veillet said. Mega president Bill Jackson Good will can end strike the commission will keep two services operating. One is liquor supplied to temporary liquor permit holders the other is Beer deliveries to hotels. Temporary permits will Only be processed one week in Advance. People will have to come to the head office to get the liquor. It May be a bit slower but Well fill the Veillet said monday. He added that hotels and restau rants bought heavily Friday and saturday with prospects of a Poss sible strike. Jackson said the announcement of the impending strike was issued Friday As a Public relations Effort. We wanted As Little Public in convenience As he said. All of the liquor that is consumed in Manitoba goes through the Manitoba liquor control commission. The government gets million a month in profits from liquor sales. Mega wants an 18-month con tract with a six per cent increase retroactive for this year and an 11.3-per-cent increase for the first six months of 1979. Anytime.7 horoscope.30 Bridge.28 jumble.40 comics.34 crossword.28 weather.5 finance.17-21 Rhodesia scrapping All race discrimination Jon rises . Sets Moon rises sets . Looking for a motorcycle this want and is under motorcycles 735 endure perfect Emailia. It is Amono hundreds of bargains in classified starting on Page 31. Salisbury Reuter Rhode Sia s biracial transitional govern ment announced today that All racial discrimination in the country will be ended. Making the announcement in front of prime minister Ian Smith s office a Black member of the government s supreme executive Council Bishop Abel Muzorewa said it is finished. All racial discrimination finished scrapped. I m so Happy i could jump on top of the he said All discrimination in residential areas hospitals and schools would be eliminated As soon As the government introduced the Neces sary legislation before parliament. He did not say when that would be. The move he said meant the scrapping of the controversial land tenure act which for years has divided White ruled Rhodesia into Black and White areas. The Bishop said the decision by the executive Council made up of him self White Premier Ian Smith chief Jeremiah Chirac and Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole had been unanimous. Smith and Sithole currently Are in the United states seeking to persuade americans that their majority Rule agreement was a True step to Black majority Rule in Rhodesia after 88 years of White minority supremacy. Bishop Muzorewa flanked by chief Chirac Black joint foreign minis Ter Elliott Gabella and White joint finance minister David Smith said he was convinced the scrapping of discrimination would help sell the agreement and could help Stop the six year old guerrilla War. Our enemies will be disappointed. But from men of Goodwill and people who Are interested in seeing democracy at work and Freedom Here i believe that it is going to be received with he said. Meanwhile prime minister Smith has blamed the United states and Britain for prolonging the conflict in his country. The american and British govern ments seem to be holding us Back from bringing in majority Rule on a democratic Smith said. He is visiting the United states in an Effort to win support for Rhode Sia s transitional government. Smith said internal settlement aimed at bringing majority Rule to Rhodesia is what the americans and British have been pressing us to do for ;