Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press wednesday october 11, 1978 atrocities mounting in Cambodia refugees say Bangkok Thailand a Many refugees fleeing Cambodia claim that 1978 is proving to be the most terror Ridden year since the communists seized Power in 1975. Even while the cambodian government dismisses charges by some Western countries of widespread human rights violations the Refu gees interviewed recently at Camps along the thai Cambodia Border re port an increase in the amount of forced labor a reduction in already meager rations and continued or stepped up executions in the North Western part of the country. There is no Way to confirm the stories told by the refugees As Cam Bodia is closed to most Western re porters. Some of the escapees said they feared cambodian leade. S eventually plan to wipe out even we who lived in areas controlled by the pro . Government during the indo China War or those among them who lived in the major cities As part of an Effort to shape a new agriculturally based Ultra revolutionary society. The stories carried out of cambo Dia by the latest wave of refugees appear to deflate earlier speculations that the phenom penh govern ment would loosen its grip on the population since it needed popular support for its War against Vietnam and the words of some Western diplomats they had run out of people to the cambodian Issue will Proba Bly be brought up before the current session of the United nations Gener Al Assembly. Canada Britain and the United states among others have already condemned the phenom penh regime before the in com Mission of human rights present ing reports that Cambodia has de scribed As lies and attempts to interfere in Domestic matters. Canadian documentation based in part on in depth interviews by Cana Dian diplomats Here with cambodian refugees this year describes an arbitrary system of Justice no Freedom of expression or opinion. Buddhist monks defrocked statues of the Buddha destroyed and Pago Das razed to the ground or used As granaries no right to individual privacy executions carried out with Hardwood Sticks hoes and axes which Are used to beat and or Dis member the Cambodia s problems in 1978 have by most accounts mounted because of the costly War with the far stronger vietnamese and continuing internal purges. Almost All the Refu gees from the Northwest detailed three changes of leadership in their areas since the april 1975, communist Victory. Kim an a brain specialist and who was trained at the University of Montreal and Man aged to escape in August said the accumulated terror nation has created a population cowed and prob ably suffering from a variety of mental problems and pent up aggressions. Kim an attached to Cambodia s Only mental institution during the War and a Rice Farmer under the communists for More than three years said the growing depression also stems from a loss of Faith by the population in the leadership s unfulfilled promises of less work More food and better times. He said he authorities Are obsessed with fear of enemies both internal and foreign and have told villagers that were these opponents on the verge of Victory there would be a mass destruction of factories Fields and people suspected of collaboration with the enemy. 7.5% welfare increase proposed continued Cost of living figures out of a hat and therefore the department s 8.6 per cent increase also lacked Credi Joe Zuken labor election com Mittee Norquay had asked the committee to accept the depart ment s recommendation. Those favouring an increase below the welfare department s advice were trying to face in both direct ions at the same the Only danger in accepting an 8.6-per-cent increase he said was if the Federal government reduced unemployment insurance assistance and those affected came in through the Back he said the setting of welfare rates has nothing to do with staff and called negotiations with the province for equalized rates a the province has t made its mind up on equalized rates health and social services Deputy minister Ron Johnstone told the committee. Johnstone said the Federal government has confused the Issue by its plans to Cut family allow ances in january and not bringing in its tax credit plan to offset the family allowance cuts until next july or August. He said the province must pick up costs of drug dental and optical assistance to native indians under new rules of the game set by the Federal government. We seem to have lost a 10-year War Over who pays the native Bill he said. Although Winnipeg has the High est rates of any municipality Only six or seven of the approximately 200 municipalities in Manitoba have adequate welfare rates Johnstone told the committee. Some municipalities Haven t re Vised rates in 10 years and others have had Only periodic reviews of welfare in their areas. Johnstone said the province is currently looking at a six or seven per cent increase in rates to Wel fare cases it oversees Handi capped and Long term unemployed. Winnipeg has raised welfare rates by 9.2 per cent. 11.3 per cent 9.5 per cent and 6.6 per cent in the years 1974-77. Danish Oil refinery rocked by explosion Copenhagen a a huge explosion rocked an Oil refinery to Day and police said there were deaths and Many persons severely injured. The Gulf Oil refinery is at ska Els Koer on the Southwest tip of the Island of Zeeland. Police said it was difficult to gauge the full extent of the disaster because of heavy smoke. Drivers were asked to keep off roads to neighbouring towns to give free passage to ambulances and fire trucks. Dressed in spotless White Chimney sweep David Stoll slips a ring onto the Finger of his Bride Dee Miller As the two were married atop the world s highest roof the Sears Tower sky deck in Chicago. The ceremony sunday marked the final Day of National Chimney sweep week. Missing document feared threat to lives of police four men described As ramp sources As Well As the identity of the Quebec government informant used in the carte Blanche operation. Contacted by the free press tues Day the former official alleged by Pelletier to be Mc-83 denied the charge calling it laughable. However All four men listed As sources confirmed that they have routine contacts with the ramp in the course of their work or in one Case had been questioned by the mounties on a Security matter. The covering letter from Pelletier also says the the Quebec government informant was used for developing contacts among Canadian Trade Union Bosses Csc personnel government executives and a of the material was sent by the mystery Man Pelletier from new York continued meanwhile the journal quotes a senior government official As saying that the document contains the names of scores of ramp undercover operatives and informants. If it was made Public the lives of some of these people might be endangered. The document was meant for Only the eyes of a select group of top Federal officials. It adds that the ramp knows that a deep cover has breached Security but his motives Are a mys Tery. Speculation centred on someone who hates the ramp or the Trudeau government and who has embarked on a vendetta. The newspaper says the mounties Are trying to locate Pelletier who they believe is no operating in the new York City area. The journal says Pelletier has been providing some Canadian news papers with copies of ramp Pri vate Telegraph messages on the carte Blanche operation dating to 1971. It says the ramp operation was started because of a French Intelli gence operation called operation Ascott a 25-year French government plan aimed at aiding Quebec separa Tion. This operation says the newspaper began with the Charles de Gaulle regime in 1958. Tuesday progressive conservative my Tom Cossitt Leeds said French undercover agents involved in Ascott left Canada in 1972, but the French government continued to finance the separatist cause. A French embassy official has angrily denied the accusations. Won t hesitate to veto tax Bill Carter warns . Congressmen Washington a president Carter said tuesday he will not Hesi Tate to veto a . Tax Cut Bill being considered by the Senate but might accept a Compromise that comes closer to the House of representatives version. Carter told a televised news Confer ence he will meet today with senator Russell Long dem. La and representative Al Ullman dem. The Heads of the tax writing committees to try to work out a Compromise he can sign. Carter said he would accept a Bill that is fair and progressive and combines the Best elements of the Senate and House measures. On other matters the president conceded it is unlikely that Congress will approve his proposal to Cre ate a new Federal education depart ment before it adjourns this week end. And he hinted that conclusion of an egyptian israeli peace treaty might depend to some extent on the Speed with which the israelis move to end their military government in the occupied West Bank and replace it with a proposed self governing authority. Carter said the egyptian israeli treaty talks which open in washing ton on thursday Are not legally interconnected with the West Bank Issue. But 1 think throughout the Camp David talks and in the minds of myself prime minister Menachem begin and president Anwar Sadat they Are Carter said there is no doubt in my mind that both issues will be discussed during the egyptian israeli treaty talks. Carter also acknowledged indirectly that the Cia has been making pay ments to soviet defector Ardaway Shevchenko but denied that the Agency is paying the full a month alleged paid to a woman companion for the russian. The payments Don t equal what the woman said were paid for her favors or Carter said. The president also said he has not decided whether he will submit a .-soviet pact on strategic arms limitation to Congress As a treaty but he would prefer to do it that Way. Why do most die in their sleep instead what happens is that those who Are grossly obese have such trouble breathing during sleep that their carotid bodies warn the brain Between 300 and 500 times a night that respiratory failure is threatened. The patient actually wakes up recovers his breathing then nods off again. The morning he is extremely tired feels As if he has not slept at All and spends the entire Day in urgent need of a Nap. The remedy in these cases could be a tracheostomy which is an Inci Sion in the Windpipe with a plastic continued Airway inserted enabling the patient to sleep normally. Kryger a native Mon Trealer who came to Winnipeg from the univer sity of Colorado in Denver a year ago says he tried for the Job Here because this medical school has the Best department of res virology in Canada and one of the Best on this continent and i wanted to work with the people Here whose work i had admired for so Many his work so far has been supported by from Ottawa s medi Cal research Council the Richard son foundation the Sellers foundation and the Canadian lung association As Well As by the st. Boniface general Hospital re search foundation which gave 000. The instrument reads blood oxygen via a Light beam shone through the patient s earlobe Dur ing sleep and eliminates the need for nurses or technicians to take blood at intervals using syringes and waking the patient. Researchers concerned with sleep related respiratory disorders in children such As the re Spirolo Gist at Toronto s Hospital for sick children and a group in Denver believe that sudden infant death syndrome crib which has bedevilled Medicine for decades May Well be due to abnormal breathing during sleep. Near miss situations in the syndrome have occasionally been caught by mothers who checked their babies seconds after they had stopped breathing and could thus prevent potential tragedy. Ottawa concealing jobless forecasts Broadbent says by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa a document exists within the Ottawa bureaucracy that indicates there will be fewer jobs in Canada As a result of the announcements made last month by Treasury Board president Robert Andras when he outlined the govern ment s restraint program. This claim was made in the com Mons tuesday by new democratic party Leader de Broadbent. He said Federal government Statis tics issued tuesday showed that unemployment remained at a danger Ous and High level in excess of one million. The statistics showed that the prov Ince of Manitoba had an astronomical increase in unemployment of 35 per cent year Over year by far the largest increase of any province said Broadbent. The nip Leader said it was no wonder that employment minister Jack Cullen had been described As being embarrassed by the release of unemployment statistics recently. Broadbent said that the policies that were implemented in Manitoba had been stolen by the Federal government from the official opposition in parliament. They were implemented by the Treasury Board presi Dent. He urged the prime minister to confirm that the documents forecast ing there would be fewer jobs was in existence. Prime minister Trudeau said the suggestion was he added that the Federal policies were not stolen from anybody. They were elaborated by All premiers sitting to Gether last february and in particular by Premier Allan Blakeney of Saskatchewan an nip Premier. 2-Storey jump frees prisoner a Man escaped custody from bran Don court House tuesday morning while being held for remand in provincial court on charges of break and enter and two charges of theft. Ramp said Orville Leslie Houie 22. Is still at Large. The Man is described As five feet nine inches 150 pounds with Long Black Brown eyes. He was wearing a Blue Denim jacket and Blue Denim pants a Light Blue Floral patterned shirt and Brown run Ning shoes with yellow stripes. Ramp said the Man was in the prisoners holding area when he kicked out a window and screen jumped two storeys to the Street and fled on foot. Anyone seeing the Man should cull the ramp or the nearest police Sta Tion. Cost of living rate drops in september in August would have Cost in september. In sop Trembl a 1977, that same Basket would have Cost with the september drop in prices Canada now has an inflation Rale below that of the United states which increased at an annual rate of 9.5 per cent for the first eight months of the year. The september Price decrease Fol lows a moderate August increase of less than one tenth of one per cent. Statistics Canada said the buying Power of a 1971 Dollar to a consumer now is 56 cents. Last year at this time it bought 61 cents Worth of goods and services. Last month s Brief respite from the inflation which has plagued the Economy this year is not expected to last. Sales tax reductions which have been in effect since last april expire this month in six provinces. The government s Centre for the study of inflation and productivity the successor to the anti inflation Board has warned the National Price level will jump by 0.4 per cent in october in response to the expiry of the sales tax cuts contained in last Spring s Federal budget. The inflation rate now stands at its lowest level since april s 8.4-per-cent annual rate. The dramatic drop in the Price of fresh fruits and vegetables in last month s Price Index reflects the com ing onto the Market of seasonally available Home grown produce. The effect of the Price decline for these products was dampened some what by increases in the Price of pork which showed the largest in crease among food items and Poul try which showed a smaller but significant increase. Chretien to present budget in november continued Ance minister has been consulting secretly with business leaders. This brought cries of protest from the Liberal Side of the House. Clark said he noted that the finance minister was not prepared to identify the business leaders with whom he had been meeting he welcomed the minister conferring with the provincial finance minis ters. He urged the minister to take the Canadian people into the picture As to just what is going on with respect to preparing the budget. He urged the minister to make available to the commons in Advance of the presenta tinn of a budget some of the information on which that budget is being based. Clark wondered if the finance min ister can say whether he stands by the forecast of the Federal government Revenue made in the april budget this year. He also enquired if the minister has any forecasts pre pared by the finance department which suggested that the revenues for the present fiscal year of the Federal government will be below the billion he forecast in april. The minister accused Clark of not understanding the budget and at tempting to create uncertainty in the minds of the people. Chretien said when he presented his april budget he forecast that the Cash requirements were to be billion. He said he has since made a revision to that figure and increased to billion. That figure had been provided by experts in the depart ment. Clark retorted that Chretien regularly blames the arabs or the weather or Premier Rene Levesque of Quebec or the opposition Leader for the economic difficulties in we Lech the country finds itself. He accused the minister of once again evading his questions ;