Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sport of eating a Foo fit poll shown that Eai Fig As Leisure activity is Mare Papular than Tennis or even see Page 29 safety in the mine mine workers wont leave safely control to mercy of Mph head Dick Martin tells mine safety probe see Page 1 Perrier explosion Mineral sales Are Mush they Hope to triple last years sales of 1 do million bottles see Page 47 of off sunny Low High 20 Ter grip on civic data proposed by Rick Blanchard the cites Board of commissioners is calling for a tighter grip on release of information at City in two reports touching on to be discussed thursday by councils executive policy the Board asks for new Powers of with holding documented information the while the reports do not specify the kinds of information which should be kept secret or discussion which should be held they Sug Gest existing Laws could be used to prevent premature release of info a the Board wants further directives Given to City employees not to release or discuss civic reports which Arent especially with respect to Telephone j Public documents Are described As any material which has been received by Council or any of its stand ing committees in open the Board of the cites top expressed concern in the reports Over Docu ments which have been leaked to the press prior to their consideration by the Board or the City at the same Council Mem including mayor Robert have said existing rules guiding the release of information either Are not specific enough or do not approach the matter from the right perspex a report from the cites Legal department reviews recent efforts at a Freedom of information though the Board sends no recommendation with this City councillors had called More than a year ago for a new City bylaw specifying types of information politicians and officials at City Hall should keep their request had stemmed from see tighter Page 4 cambodian Battle nearing Thailand Bangkok a the War in Cambodia moved closer to the Border with Thailand today As vietnamese forces and troops of the new cambo Dian government pursued the Defeated phenom penh holdouts thai intelligence sources gunfire was reported inside Cam Bodia at several Points along the 800kilometre and the sources said the vietnamese air Force doubled its air strikes to almost 100 daily in Popup operations both East and West of phenom penh the cambo Dian associated press reporters at the Frontier said several soldiers of the ousted government handed a letter signed by former Deputy Premier Leng sary to thai Frontier officers at 200 Kilometres West of for delivery to the thai foreign the contents of the letter Are not known but there was speculation that it May contain a request for Asylum for leaders of the regime that collapsed when vietnamese forces and a pro Hanoi cambodian front captured phenom penh on sunday after a 13day see cambodian Page 4 decides to Stop backing Shah of Iran the Washington Post Washington the Carter administration has abandoned any Hopes of restoring the Shah of Iran to full it is instead emphasizing its support for a civilian govern ment to succeed the Shah As the country effective White House and state department officials now these who work actively on the iranian do not state the administrations shift in policy focus in terms As Stark As in a series of interviews Over the past they have listed National priorities and american policy con Cerns in ways that clearly signal a major and traumatic shift in policy for the Carter that shift remains although it is apparent in both the Public pronouncements oif state department who now have to be drawn out by reporters before giving the kind of statements of sup see Page 4 january final 15 cents 254 with coloured comics 84 85 Gallup poll i liberals close Gap but pcs still ahead by 2 Points the 10point Lead the progressive conservatives held nationally Over the liberals in november dropped to Only two Points in Accord ing to the latest Gallup the conservatives now have 40 per cent of the decided votes the Liber als 38 per the nip 18 per cent and other parties 4 per cent remain virtually in about six in 10 decided voters support the Liberal party while about two in 10 choose the in other parts of can Ada the roles Are with Al most five in 10 supporting the conservatives and just under three in 10 supporting the there has been a slight increase since november the proportion of canadians who Are unable or unwilling to make a Choice up to 33 per cent from the 29 per results Are based on person Al income interviews with adults 18 years and a Sample of this size is accurate within a four percentage Point 19 in 20 times according to the Institute of Public opinion which conducts the Gallup interviewing took place Between december 1 and the question was if a Federal elec Tion were held today which party candidate do you think you would favor the table below shows the share of popular support each partying the 1974 along with selected Gallup polls conducted in 1975 through those who Are undecided 33 per cent currently have been eliminated from the the month shown represents the interviewing Liberal nip other 1974 43 35 16 6 Gallup studies january 1975 46 31 17 6 january 1976 39 37 17 7 january 1977 35 45 16 4 february 41 37 17 4 september 49 30 18 3 february 1978 43 36 17 4 july 42 34 19 5 september 41 38 17 4 october 37 17 4 november 35 45 18 2 december 38 40 18 4 note percentages May not add to exactly 100 because of world copyright reserved Allan Fotheringham says Joe Clark is going to have to gain greater control of his lip if the eager press contingent with him of his current International tour is not turn the trip into a quotes of the year collect see his report on Page kisses acquittal Rideout couple reconciled a John and Greta unhappy marriage was discussed in a court Are reconciled barely two weeks after he was found not guilty of raping the couple announced their reconciliation tuesday to the lawyer who successfully defended the reconciliation followed a meet ing sunday concerning their year old f Rideout was tried under an gon Law that was changed to Nate marriage As a defence against his six Day trial was believed to be the first criminal prosecution of a husband charged with raping his wife while they lived the hideouts were unavailable for but a Friend and counsellor said hideout was blown away by the new Hes undergone a real convert said Helen Bebelheimer of the Salem women crisis the divorce sought by Rideout was to take effect her Jean said she is aware of the reconciliation but refused to say whether the divorce petition has been with hideouts Charles said the couple into his office tuesday to announce they were Back he said they Happy and expressed a new sense of said after his 27 acquittal that he Felt both he and his wife were deeply Hurt by the asked at the time How he Felt about his 2yearold he said i dont 1 port Grain solution by Debbie Sproat a top level conference on Grain handling and transportation has decided developing adequate terminal facilities at Prince Rupert is the key the present congestion in Canadas Grain transportation sys in a meeting with reporters after the today conference concluded in Winnipeg Federal and provincial government officials said Vancouver would continue to be a major West coast port but a second port is urgently required to provide the Grain Industry with a viable alter Manitoba Premier Sterling who co chaired the conference with Federal wheat Board minister Otto also noted in the communique that full use must be made of the ports at Churchill and Thunder Bay for Canada to take advantage of All Grain exporting the meeting brought together representatives of the four Western prov the Federal the Grain companies and labor to discuss Grain transportation prob lems that Cost Canada an estimated million in Export sales last Lyon said the participants agreed Canada China to seek 1 billion wheat pact peking Reuter China has agreed to negotiate a Lon term wheat Purchase agreement with can Ada which should amount to at least billion during a three year Trade Jack Homer said Homer told a news conference in peking the chinese said they intend at least to maintain and perhaps increase purchases of Canadian wheat in the the managing director of the China National Oil and foodstuffs will Lead a Mission to Canada in late february to negotiate Long term contract with the Canadian wheat the minister he said the chinese also have sex u pressed concern Over Canadian transportation and the mis Sion will begin its tour with a visit to the Vancouver port it is expected to arrive about although the final Date has not been Horner said that China has Pur chased an average of million tons of wheat annually from Canada Dur ing the last 10 purchases in amounted to million while China has so far contracted to buy three million tons in the period from september j978 to August the minister said no specific Tjon has been agreed on for the posed but the chinese May Well be interested in a longer period than three i Canada has the ability to produce and Market 30 million metric tonnes of Grain annually by 1985 and should gear its transportation system to this last a record million tonnes was in a separate announcement after the conference Alberta pre Mier Peter Lougheed said his govern ment will provide a loan of up to million from its heritage savings Trust fund to assist in the construction of a new major Grain terminal at Prince see Grain Page 4 score Board hockey Winnipeg 4 Edmonton 3 Nhu a by j f by 7 tos Philadelphia 2 Atlanta 5 Buffalo j sport do inside anytime 7 comics crossword 58 deaths m96n want and is under miscellaneous articles for Sale 559 Tyg for Olg Complete with mattress 452 is among the hundreds of bargains in Steis Jieu starting on Page 61 ;