Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sport of eating a pall As a Leisure activity Tim Papular than Tennis a safety in the mine wen1 safety a enrol to of Mil head Martin jells mine safety probe see Page 1 Perrier explosion i Perrier Mineral water sales Are Mush they Hepe to triple last years sales of 100 million Battles sunny low34 final january 1979 cents with de comics Gallup poll 85 Gap Narrows Between pcs and liberals on a National basis the Gap be tween the progressive conservatives and the liberals has from the 10 percentage Points found in Early to Only two percent age Points in when the latest poll was the conservatives now have 40 per cent of the decided votes compared with 38 per cent for the the nip 18 per cent and other parties 4 per cent remain virtually in in about six in 10 decided voters support the Liberal party while Only about two in 10 choose the in other parts of Canada the roles Are with almost five in 10 supporting the conservatives and just under three in 10 supporting the there has been a slight increase since november in the proportion of canadians who Are unable or unwilling to make a Choice up to 33 per cent from the 29 per cent found a month 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 Placebo tween december 1 and the question was if a Federal election were held today which party candidate do you think you would favor the table below shows the share of popular support gained by each party in the 1974 along with selected Gallup polls con ducted in 1975 through those who Are undecided per cent currently have been eliminated from the the month shown represents the interviewing not the publication july 1974 election Gallup studies january 1975 january 1976 january 1977 february september february 1978 july september october november december Liberal nip 43 35 46 3d 35 41 49 43 42 41 37 35 38 31 37 37 30 36 38 45 40 17 17 16 17 18 17 19 17 17 18 18 other 6 7 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 2 4 note percentages May not add to exactly 100 because of world copyright reserved Alan Fotheringham says Joe Clark is bumbling his around the world on his current International tour with re ports of Gaffe after Gaffe from the Man who May be our next prime see Story Page Prince Rupert port 1 Al to Grain move intent wheat Board Are Albertas photo by Gerry Cairns minister Otto Lang shares joke with premiers at Grain from left to they Peter Manitoba Sterling Lyon and Saskatchewan Allan by Debbie Sproat a top level conference on Grain handling and transportation has decided developing adequate terminal facilities at Prince Rupert is the key to unlocking the present congestion ii Canadas Grain transportation in a meeting with reporters after the today Confer ence 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 to provide the Industry with a viable Manitoba Premier Sterling who co chaired the conference with Federal wheat Board minister Otto also noted 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 the Federal y the Grain companies and labor to discuss Grain transportation problems that Cost Canada an estimated million in Export sales last Lyon said the participants agreed Canada has the ability to produce and Market 30 million metric tonnes of Grain annually by 1985 and should gear their transportation system to this a record million tonnes was in a separate announcement after the conference Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed said his govern ment will provide a loan million from its see page4 emphasis shifts to civilian government officials Shah of Iran loses support the Washington Post Washington the Carter administration has Abar ironed 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 of state department who now have to be drawn out by reporters before giving the kind of statements of sup port for the Shah that the department eagerly made two months and in the deliberations of an iranian task Force at work at the state the deepening pessimism of Many officials was reportedly reflected at a subcommittee meeting of the Force where Iran desk officer Henry the official who has most closely observed the crisis on a Day today told the group that it now appears that 99 per cent of the iranian people do not sup port the according to reliable Precht said he remember making the remark at the and that if he had said those words they were not intended As a serious More senior officials said they would not be surprised to see the Shah leave Iran by the weekend if the proposed civilian government of prime minister designate Shah pour Bakhti Arcan be firmly established and begin to return Iran to normalcy after nearly a year of Vio Lent protest against the Shah these officials however that it remains highly Uncertain that Bakhtiar will be Able to form a stable government and open the Way for the Shah departure for what would be described As a vacation but could be the end of his 37year policy deliberations in Washington see Page 4 Shah of Iran loses fallout support vietnamese flying 100 bomb sorties daily v j o the los Angeles times Thailand Khmer Rouge troops Loyal to the diehard regime of Premier pol pot maintained control tuesday of sizeable areas of Western the Viet namese air flew record numbers of bombing raids against troops still resisting the inva most of the strikes were not against Khmer Rouge forces in the Western provinces but against tar gets in Eastern informed sources said that since the fall penh two Days ago the vietnamese have been flying More than 100 bombing sorties daily double their previous maximum the vietnamese Are using both Russia built and captured american they Are flying from american built bases in Bien Binh Tuy and Tan son Nhut near most of the raids were evidently against Khmer Rouge units bypassed by the rapid vietnamese there was one mysterious air strike against Thailand late an unidentified Jet warplane dropped three bombs some said they were rockets on a thai Border the raid was at a town called taper a about 175 Miles East of Bangkok where there have been frequent Crossings by cambodian refugees in the although the Flag of the Vietnam backed Peoples revolutionary coun cil flew Over almost All major Cam Bodian towns and the confused situation the country made it appear that the total Victory pro claimed in Hanoi would be neither immediate nor although much of the news concerning Cambodia continued to Origi Nate in the vietnamese persisted in attributing All the fighting to forces of the revolutionary coun despite massive evidence that vietnamese troops Are in Hanoi gives credit for All victories to the insignificant Force of ethnic in this the whereabouts of several thousand chinese advisors and technicians trapped in try remains largely one truck Convoy of 625 plus North yugoslavs and other diplomats the thai Border two Days ago but a second expected Convoy with an see evacuation Page 4 restraints threaten elderly9 by Manfred Jager financial restraint measures by governments Are posing increasing threats to the very survival of senior a Public hearing on human needs and restraint was told tues that View was expressed by almost a dozen speakers in a group of about 50 people who attended the first of two such hearings at the Winnipeg Centennial they had been called by a 10mem Ber task Force of the association which has been studying the effects particularly of provincial govern ment spending restraint on individuals since last an interim re port on findings is to be issued by this task Force member and social worker Clark Brownlee said three of the Survey group who listened to formal and Impromptu Page 4 curb sought on Public Access to civic records by Rock 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 from the while the reports do not specify the kinds of information which should be kept secret or discussion which should be held they Gest existing jaws could be used to preyed premature release of the Board wants further directives Given to City employees not to release or discuss civic reports which Arent especially with respect to Telephone Pulte documents Are described As any material which has been re a eyed by Council or any of its ing committees in open the Board of the cites top concern in the reports Over 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 Presb eco a report from the cites Legal apartment reviews recent efforts at a Freedom of information though the Board a rep no mentation with this City councillors hid 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 controversy Over repression of the former mayors private the Steve Juba the Legal department report notes there is no requirement for the City of any Manitoba municipality to set we ways the Public can gain Access to records other than what has air i ready been provided for in the Peg act or municipal at the City clerk is quire to upon assessment and tax the latest list of current monthly financial any auditors nutes and agendas of open meetings of Council or and City see curb Page ;