Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free a Ness tuesday november 21, 1978 . Secretary of state on first official maritime boundaries High on Vance Jamieson Agenda compiled from dispatches Washington a Canada-. Maritime Boundary dispute that has cast an occasional Shadow Over bilateral relations for almost two years is High on the Agenda for Ottawa talks Between . Secre tary of state Cyrus Vance and external affairs minister Don Jamie son. Washington officials say special Boundary negotiators Lloyd Cutler of the . And Canada s Marcel Cadieux will also be in Ottawa during Vance s first official visit to Ottawa which starts today. Vance is to make a Courtesy Call on the governor general and attend a dinner with Jamieson today. On wednesday the two men will hold bilateral discussions followed by lunch with prime minister Trudeau and an afternoon press Confer ence before Vance returns to Washington. Vance will not be meeting with opposition Leader Joe Clark be cause the government ruled it could be Only a Short Courtesy Call. A spokesman in Clark s office said monday the progressive conservative Leader had been informed through . Channels that Vance wanted to meet with him and hold a substantive talk. The time scheduled by the Exter Nal affairs department for the Cour Tesy Call was inconvenient to Clark. Officials Here said they did not know How deeply Vance and Jamie son would go into the maritime boundaries dispute which arose after the countries adopted 200-mile coastal limits in 1977. Cutler and Cadieux have been trying to work out a solution on overlapping Boundary claims. Some of the issues including draw ing the Boundary line on the East coast May have to go to arbitration experts believe. While the special negotiators worked on the problem the two countries entered into interim reciprocal fishing agreements to allow fishermen to continue operations. The latest agreement broke Down last Siun Mer amid accusations that each country was not living up to the agreement s terms. Another currently sensitive spot in Canada-. Relations is the 1975 Canada-. Auto pact a recent report prepared for the . State department found that Canada May suffer a total deficit of More than billion in Cross Bor Der Trade in autos and parts be tween now and 1985. One environmental Issue expected to surface is the possibility of a Canada-. Agreement on air pol Lution. Vance was directed in the state department authorization Bill passed by Congress this year to begin talks with Canada aimed at such an agreement. Soldiers searching Jungle for survivors of cultists9 Camp apr Toto the throne used by people Temple Leader Jim Jones in Jonestown is empty now. Jones is dead by his own hand and More than 400 of his followers committed suicide with cyanide and bullets saturday. Continued the mass deaths occurred about an hour or More after members of the California sect people s Temple ambushed a visiting investigative group led by Ryan. The killings and mass suicide touched off by Ryan s inspection visit apparently were the final cry of a violence hardened and paranoid group that saw the world closing in. American lawyer Mark Lane who escaped from the Jungle Camp just before the mass deaths told report ers of terrifying hours he and another lawyer Charles Garry spent in the Camp and the Rainy Jungle nearby late saturday and sunday. Lane a prominent Champion of controversial cases and a Legal coun Sel to the sect said he and Garry were placed under guard. They were barred from a mass meeting at the Camp Jonestown but that they heard residents discussing communal suicide Over a Loudspeaker. Lane said one spoke of the Beauty of death As part of our the cultists were reported to have had Long considered mass suicide if they Felt their sect threatened. Jones and the sect had been under investigation in California before he founded the Guyana Camp last year. Lane said the meeting began at about 5 . Only minutes earlier one half dozen sect members am bushed Ryan s group at the Airstrip where they were trying to Fly out some disenchanted sect members. A Pete a guyanese Man wears a Gas mask monday As he vows bodies of people s Tempto members. He and Garry persuaded the guards to release them Lane said by telling them he would write the Story of Jonestown for the outside world. Before letting them go the two guards hugged both lawyers. Lane said he and his companion fled into the Jungle and As they did thay heard Jones chanting Over the Loudspeaker Mother Mother Mother and suddenly gun fire erupted. Lane said he heard Many bursts of automatic fire and screams from the Camp. Guyanese information minister Shirley Field Ridley told reporters that most of the bodies found sunday by a company of troops who raided the Camp showed no signs of violence though some had gunshot wounds. Denying reports that As Many As nine suspects had been arrested in connection with the Ryan ambush miss Field Ridley said Only one Man has been taken into custody american Larry Layton about 32 years old. His Hometown was not immediately known and she did not reveal the charges against him. Reporter Tim Reiterman of the san Francisco examiner a member of the Ryan group and a survivor said in a copyrighted Story monday examiner that Layton was one of several supposed defectors Ryan was trying to escort away from the acre commune. The land was leased to the organization by the guyanese government. Reiterman and other survivors said they split up to take off in two Small planes at the port Kainuma Airstrip 128 Kilometres South of Jonestown but were suddenly fired on by about one half dozen or More Temple Mem Bers who Rode up in a truck and a trailer towed by a tractor. When the Blaze of gunfire finally ended Reiter Man wrote he was told by those in the other plane that Layton had pulled out a pistol and fired at them. Those lulled in the ambush were the 53-year-old Ryan who represented a san Francisco area District reporter Don Harris a and camera Man Robert Brown 36, both of Abc news and both los Angeles residents. And a woman Camp member who was trying to leave identified by Guya Nese officials As Patricia Parks 18, though some . Officials said her name was Parker. Her Hometown is not known. Ten other persons were wounded reporters including Reiterman a Ryan aide a . Diplomat and Camp members and their relatives and were brought to hospitals in puerto Rico and Washington. Three were reported in serious condition. The survivors Many of whom escaped by running into the nearby Bush spent a fearful night at the town of port Kainuma before being evacuated by guyanese authorities. The authorities then arrested Layton who apparently was the Only impostor among the would be refugees. Ryan had gone to Guyana to investigate allegations from former Mem Bers and others that Jones and the people s Temple were guilty of wide spread abuse of members. The it year old Jones who had seven children founded the sect in the 1950s in Indianapolis with the avowed purpose of breaking Down class distinctions. Jones was the off Spring of an inter racial marriage. His As dad Jones called his followers were both Black and White. Report Calls for removal of All Street fire alarm boxes report will again be before the City s Board of commissioners. A fire department spokesman said the information requested is being assembled by the fire department. After some details Are confirmed it will go Back to City Hall he said. Coulter said the task Force has recommended that the 689 Street boxes and 148 auxiliary boxes in buildings and department stores be removed. The Public would instead use 175 existing Telephone Booths located throughout Winnipeg. An additional 76 Telephone Booths would be placed in the High fire incidence area which coincides approximately with the inner City said de Burgner the department s re search and development officer. Continued locations for additional phone Booths would be a political ques Coulter said. All fire boxes currently in operation Are located in the inner City area and in St. Boniface. Anyone can report a fire by Public Telephone without a Coin by dealing 911. Statistics indicate the track record of fire alarm boxes in recent years has not been Good. The fire department receives about alarms every year and about of them Are from alarm boxes. Nearly 97 per cent of those from alarm boxes prove to be false alarms and Only .5 per cent of the Box alarms turn out to be potentially Burgener said. Only about 10 per cent of Telephone alarms Are false he said. All serious fires reported by fire Box Calls were followed up by Tele phone Calls within two minutes Bur Gener added. In times of stress individuals Don t use the Box he said. If it is really serious there is a tendency to use the Coulter said. People prefer to speak to peo greater Winnipeg Gas seeks rate hike approval continued company was restricted to arguing for increased rates on the basis of historical precedents and previous revenues Sutherland said. This will allow the Gas company to compensate itself for expected Union contract expenses and projected in creases in the Cost of pipeline ship Ping and other services he said. The Gas company s last increase in its rate of return was granted in june 1977, when the utilities Board set a level of 10.29 per cent. Sutherland said company officials Cuba feared . Attack Havana Reuter reliable government sources said monday that Cuba put its defence forces on Alert last week fearing a possible strike from the United states. The decision was made the sources said As a Large . Fleet appeared to approach cuban Waters. The sources said the . At the same time began High level recon Naissance flights Over Cuba to deter mine whether soviet supplied air Craft in the cuban Arsenal could carry nuclear weapons. The episode passed unknown to most people Here and Only eased saturday when Washington repeated announcements that its Fleet of 36 warships was taking part in planned manoeuvres. Were still in the process of preparing their submission to the utilities Board and he could t predict How High an increase would be sought. Anyone wishing to make a presen tation regarding the rate application should Contact Board solicitor Wil Liam c. Gardner the utilities Board says. Begin would now accept . Plan Jerusalem a israeli prime minister Menachem begin wants to turn Back the clock in negotiations with Egypt and is ready to accept a .-sponsored draft of the peace treaty that his government rejected four weeks ago sources said monday. The sources said begin is pre pared to accept a vaguely worded clause linking the treaty to the development of palestinian self government on the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza strip both israeli occupied Terri tories. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat said in a television interview Mon Day that he is willing to meet again in a Summit with begin to resolve the remaining problems. In the interview filmed saturday at Sadat s residence the egyptian Leader said however he would ref use to go to Jerusalem again. I have already gone there once and i m not going to Start Sadat said. But i am ready to meet or. Begin anywhere Sadat also insisted that no peace treaty would be signed that failed to Deal with the palestinian problem. If Gaza and the West Bank Are not treated in an Over All Settle ment no one should count on us to conclude he said. Sadat said he had received a per Sonal message from president Carter dealing with the status of Jerusalem which he said was quite mountie ready to shoot Archer told officer Reading from a Small Black note Book Harrison said Archer told him he took a second shot and missed. He then grabbed a .308 with his left hand and aimed with his left Eye at a shadowy figure hitting Archer is said to have blurted out the confession while giving a 30-Mi Nute disjointed account of the shoot ing incident and subsequent events while being driven to Brandon shortly after being arrested following a hos Tage taking incident at Oak Lake Man. Archer also said he was sorry one of the officers had to die Harrison testified. The evidence was heard during the sixth Day of testimony at the trial of Herbert Archer 42, and Dorothy a Cher 28. The two have pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree murder stemming from the shooting death of const. Dennis Onofrey last january at the Countryside inn in Virden. Onofrey was shot after he along with three other officers initiated an investigation of a stolen vehicle at the Motel in which Archer and his wife were staying testimony has revealed. Harrison also testified Herbert a Cher absolved Dorothy Archer from any part of the incident and that any gun he had Given her we unloaded. With the courtroom i a hush har i continued i Rison continued to quote from notes in his Book that he said he had written up after driving Archer to Brandon. Harrison testified he then went to the truck but he did t have a key so he jumped into the Cruiser car. She followed. He heard Shou and her scream she got into the car. I noticed she was bleeding. She said drive and i drove As hard As i could to a farm House. Then i took David Penny to look for medical help. We finally arrived at Oak Lake. The doctor said she would have to go to the Hospital. I told them i would get killed if i left so he asked me to stay. He did t want to see me killed. I tried to be a Tough Guy with them hostages but they got to me first. They were such Nice people Harrison also told the jury Archer said that the doctor had a heart attack and that was Why Archer released him before the other hos tages. It was the first time since the trial began that evidence concerning a Cher s Side of the Story was heard. The testimony caught almost every one by Surprise because it wig extracted through Cross examination by defence counsel rather than direct examination by Crown counsel. Near the end of the Day Eldon Malette. 37. Testified that he had married the who now called herself Dorothy Archer on May 1, 1965 and that As far As he knew they were still married. Malette said he last saw his wife the co accused six years ago in a Belleville ont. Court where he appeared charged with non support. He said he and Dorothy Malette a Cher had two daughters Judy Lillian 13, and Ann 12. Both girls live with him in Newcastle ont., he said. Under Cross examination by both defence counsel Malette said that if he had been divorced by mrs. A Cher he did t know about it. The trial continues before or. Jus Tice John hum of the Manitoba court of Queens Bench ;