Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 16, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 75 years of flight How it has altered our lives the new Superman the Camp lines Are gone As he lands with a Light touch on the pulse of contemporary americas psychological mores see Page 23 blame it the Moon researchers find facts amidst the folklore Cloudy High Low 1 Winnipeg free press december 1978 final 15 cents with Colsrud comics recognizes peking regime the los Angeles times Washington the United states and the Peoples Republic of China announced Friday that they will establish full diplomatic rela a move that May substantially alter the strategic balance Between the United states and the worlds other the soviet the Surprise development not Only terminates american diplomatic re lations with Taiwan but also unilaterally Breaks the 1954 Mutual de sense treaty with that old american the move has profound International and Domestic president Carter announced the which caused consternation in Taiwan and the soviet in a hurriedly arranged speech on nation wide television Friday the United states of America and the Peoples Republic of China reached this final historic Carter on our two govern ments will implement full normalization of diplomatic in a joint the two governments announced that they will Exchange ambassadors and establish embassies on March and the United states acknowledged the chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of Taiwan was last impasse to winds from Moscow expected to be chillier eggs hurled in protest at embassy see Page 8 the closer ties Between Washington and peking will have serious implications for Moscow because China is not Only the soviet unions bitter rival in the worldwide communist movement but also poses a potentially serious threat to soviet Security along the thousands of Miles of their com Mon for Many months Chi Nese leaders have called upon the United states and others to join with them in checking what they see As a soviet drive for world Hege in a separate the United states said that on it will Taiwan that it is terminating diplomatic relations and that the Mutual defence treaty Between the United states and the Republic of China is being terminated in accor dance with the provisions of the trea the United states continues to have an interest in the peaceful Reso Lution of the Taiwan Issue and expects that the Taiwan Issue will be settled peacefully by the chinese it president Carter that the United states will maintain cultural and other re lations without official governmental representation in Bateman defends integrity denies he deliberately lied by Cecil Rosner in an emotional speech to the Tritschler inquiry Manitoba Hydro chairman Len Bateman de fended his integrity As a professional Engineer and said he has never intentionally lied to anyone in his entire the Utility chairman said intense questioning at the inquiry this week caused him great emotional Strain which affected my Abil Ity to think clearly and gave him sleepless Hydro chairman meet behind closed doors see Page 6 i focus on some of these things As clearly As i would have liked said who has admitted making misleading state Cleveland defaults on million debt Cleveland a Cleveland was plunged into default at mid night Friday As mayor Dennis Kucinich and the City Council failed to reach agreement on a plan to Avert fiscal asked if the City was in the mayors press Secretary an Drew Juniewicz it appears As if it Cleveland owed six local Banks a total of million and the City Treasury another million but cannot obtain the it was the largest municipal default since the great there will be six months of chaos in the City to pay for this one night of Kucinich he said monday if no agreement could be he would have to Lay off on half of the cites police firefighters and maintenance Kucinich sought to forge an agree ment with the Council that would convince the Banks to extend Cleve lands credit into the politicians fought All Day about the Sale of the City owned municipal Light Plant and Hopes of a settlement disappeared at an emergency Council Kucinich plan depended on coun cil approval of a tax increase referee but the Council insisted on tying the referendum to the Sale of the earlier in the Council president George Forbes had said the cites largest Cleveland Trust would reject anything Dayan hints collapse of peace treaty talks the Washington Post Jerusalem israels Cabinet Friday bluntly rejected the ported egyptian amendments to the Compromise draft saying that responsibility for a stalemate in the Middle East peace negotiations rests squarely with Egypt by Imp Lica the government As in a distinct downturn in the peace israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan later said there definitely is a realistic possibility that there May be no peace treaty with score Board hockey wha Edmonton 5 soviet Union 3 Sweden 3 setting the stage for a confrontation with the Carter the Cabinet said it rejects the Atti tude and the interpretation of the United states government with re Gard to the egyptian prime minister Mena chem begin Israel is prepared to sign without delay the ported draft treaty As it stood on before with Secre tary of state Cyrus Vances Sanc Tion tacked on a series of proposed Side letters explicitly affirming an in see collapse Page 4 ments to Las and other govern ment officials on the history of Hydro Northern he said he was not aware that answers he provided to commission lawyer Richard Scott in the last week indicated he had been purposely unas he said he should have taken More time to think before Bateman conceded he had used careless and inadequate phrases and made statements which could be considered incomplete in his Testi Mony to legislative committees in the one of the areas i Pride myself particularly in All my relations with my fellow and throughout my whole professional is that i have never been i have not knowingly or wittingly or deliberately been untruthful to and particularly not the elected representatives of this prov Bateman said he reacted poorly under the pressure of Scotts ques just As he had done in ses Sions of the Public utilities committee of the the inquiry was told Bateman said on a number of occasions that Hydro decision to build its lake1 Winnipeg regulation project before Churchill River diversion was based on findings of a 1970 task Force he but Bateman admitted the task Force actually recommended a differ ent course for Northern and that former chairman David Cas Beggs had really made the ultimate he denied the suggestion that he deliberately misled the legislature in order to save his and pointed out that he could have gone to Compa Rable consulting jobs in private prac Tice or other Bateman said he stayed on because he believed he could make a contribution to the even the chairman frankly admitted being careless and pos Sibly misleading in his testimony to the he said any la would have the True situation about Hydro Northern development if he had done his but the Public utilities committee of the legislature often uses Hydro As a political football and he said he see Bateman Page 4 Canadian communications satellite was launched Friday night from Cape lift off of the million satellite was observed by officials from chivas space program and 35 astronaut Candi see Story Page one years notices required to terminate the Mutual defence treaty with and thus it will remain in Force legally until this apparently will mean that military supplies May continue to flow to the nationalist regime during that the Broad effect of the one years notice is Likely to be minimal the United states also announced that it will be withdrawing its remaining military now fewer than from Taiwan within four see Page 4 Taiwan bitter Over move the Washington Post Hong Kong Taiwan appeared stunned saturday by the Quick and sudden american decision to Cut off All diplomatic and most military ties with the nationalist chinese government of the islands 17 million president Chiang Chingkum issued a bitter statement saying the decision to recognize Taiwan communist foes on the Mainland has not Only seriously damaged the rights and interests of the govern ment and people of the Republic of China but also has tremendous Adverse Impact upon the entire free he said the move constitutes great setback for human free although Taiwan residents had been prepared for an eventual cutoff of formal relations with the United states since president Richard Nixon visited peking in there had been few hints that the break was officials and citizens of the who were awakened in the night by the news of Carters impending said they were i didst think it would happen so i dont believe dont ask me what the Impact will said one the suddenness of the conveyed to president Chiang at 2 and carried on the radio about 10 local seemed to wipe out at least temporarily any appreciation of the concessions Carter won from peking in order to ensure Taiwan Carters assurances that Active Trade and cultural contacts with Taiwan would continue did not appear to mollify in perhaps his strongest attack Ever on Taiwan longtime principal Chiang said the United states alone would Bear full responsibility for All the consequences that might arise As a result of this Taiwan government officials have acknowledged in the past that they anticipate no chinese attempt to invade the Island by Force in the near peking forces do not have nearly enough Landing f s h Minn 6 Wash Lipton 1 inside anytime 7 Cla titled for fm7i Wal death jul Mali entry 14 44 we own 44 0 rises Payas Couburn plan gets Rural test by Andy Blicq when fire Breaks out in your whats the one thing you should grab before making a fast exit if you live in one of three Rural Manitoba municipalities youll need your the Rural municipality of Dau Phu will begin charging property owners when fire trucks from the town Are called As of by doing the municipality will be copying the pm of Portage la which is already charging its residents a similar fee for fire residents of the pm of Cornwallis near must pay the Brandon fire department the entire Cost of fire estimated by one official to average Between and representatives of the three municipalities say the policy provides a tax break and makes residents think twice about calling out the fire department to put out minor Winnipeg fire chief Jack Coulter said he certainly would not recommend charging homeowners for fire in order to save the some residents might attempt to put the fire out themselves and in the Case of a smouldering the fire could reignite and trigger a he i Haven heard of anyone going that route in other Canadian Coulter noting that in Europe there often is a charge for the fire departments what weve found Over the years is immigrant families who want to make a payment or feel they have an obligation to pay the Winnipeg fire Coulter he said the department turns Down the offer and explains that the Cost of fire Protection is covered by civic see pay Page 4 ;