Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 ekes Jan uak this photo of Quebec artist Jeanpaul Lemieux painting of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip standing in a pasture with the parliament buildings in the background is hanging in the ballroom of Rideau Grain problem answer in continued Lougheed said his government was encouraged to make the proposal by support shown for development of the Prince Rupert port at the he also noted the serious bottle necks at Vancouver have Cost Al Berta Farmers approximately each in lost sales last he said negotiations for the i which will be made on Normal com Mercial Haven begun with the consortium of Grain companies planning the terminal the consortium includes the three Prairie Pioneer Grain Compa United Grain growers and Cargill Grain company i Lougheed said the loan for terminal will be treated As part of package with the million the wheat Board has proposed for new Prince Rupert Grain storage capacity because the consortium if eels both Are necessary to make the system de executive director of the development agreed development of Prince Rupert would beneficial in helping to transport Grain bound for the Pacific he said that decision have any bearing on the port of Churchill is primarily with the 40 per cent of exports which Are Europe and its Ideal capacity would 55 million bushels a Over the last few years the port has been about28 million guest said he saw some positive coming out of the added that an agreement be tween the Grain Industry and rail ways on transportation costs is need led solve problems facing All Bishop Omar chairman of the Churchill Community economic said Churchill want in any Way threatened by the development of Prince re he said he was informed the 1979 shipping season from Manitoba port iwas to be extended by 12 or 13 and that Church ills develop ment of which he is a that 60 of Grain be shipped through the port this Churchill mayor Les Osland was pleased with the Prince Rupert Deci Sion and said All available facilities will have to operate at full capacity to up with the he predicted the upgrading of the Churchill rail line would have to take place and that in the Early 1980s icebreakers would be used to keep the Churchill port open longer that before thought other decisions announced at the end of the conference included presidents of Canadian National railways and up along with will make arrangements for two railways to Exchange Grain this is considered essential to ensure an adequate flow of Grain to Prince Rupert since the port is served exclusively by Canadian National railways and most of Canadas Grain shipments originate on up rail unions and management solved in the Grain transportation Industry would undertake an Sive bilateral review of Industrial a official residence of the the Art work was commissioned by the Federal department of Public there has been Little comment on the myth of communist Monolith shattered nationalism edges out Marx has the classic Domino theory collapsed in Southeast Asia cambodian fighting nearing thai Border continued thai sources said some reports indicated former Premier pol pot has been they said there were also reports that the area around siem reap and the ancient capital in Northwestern have been but that another Northwest Ern City closer to the thai was still in the hands of the former the new provisional government in phenom penh warned which backed the toppled to stay out of its affairs and called former chief of state Prince Norodom Sihan Ouk peking Sihanouk arrived in new York tuesday night to seek United nations Aid for the ousted government and denounced the new phenom penh government As a puppet of he said he will ask in members to Cut off Aid to will seek a full debate in the Security Council and Hopes the Council will order Vietnam Ese troops out of Cambodia and let the cambodians solve their prob lems big Power clash forecast Over Indochina conflict the Washington Post new York former cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihan Ouk arrived Here tuesday night to plead his country Case before the Security Council and said the world faces a potential big Power clash Over the Indochina the vietnamese led drive that top pled the government of pol pot is a danger not Only in Asia but from Asia to the Sihanouk if you do not solve this i Media you will have a More difficult and More complicated he China May help us regain our National so the soviet Union May intervene on the Side of the Sihanouk left the cambodian Tal Only hours before the invading forces whisked from the site where he had been held under virtual House arrest by the pol pot whose Case he is now Bangkok a the Vietnam Ese invasion of Cambodia has again shattered the myth of a worldwide communist Vietnam and Cambodia onetime fraternal comrades and brother Sal Are ignoring ideology and fighting each other Over for National self interest and because of traditional it seems to be another example of old fashioned self interest Over Karl already amply demonstrated by such phenomenon As communist Mavericks Yugoslavia and Romania thumbing their noses at the the increasing Independence of communist parties in West Ern and the sin soviet and it is the sin soviet rival As Well As the emergence Region ally of a powerful Vietnam Zed indo that sends tremors into Neutral and no communist asian capitals and has prompted the United states to Call the major Powers to keep Handoff in the cambodian con it has also impelled Washington topside with a brutal Cam Bodian regime ousted by the vietnamese attack in calling for United nations action against Viet one Well informed diplomatic source Here noted Vietnam May have made its decision to shrug off the threat of chinese Retalia Tion and go for broke against cambo Dia last november once it had a soviet vietnamese Friendship treaty under its the pact contains a Mutual defence the ultimate expressed in recent editorials and by asian and other is that of a Chain tripped off by the cambo Dian War China taking military action against neighbor and until re Friend the soviet Union taking action against neigh Bor and bygone Friend peking has already said that if vietnamese aggression succeeds in and it shows every sign of doing so Southeast Asia would be faced with direct threats from Vietnam and the who in peking eyes have helped Engi Neer the Cambodia takeover to spread their Power across the South Ern tier of the regional fear is Vietnam future january 1979 Day the cambodian capital of phenom penh was captured by vietnamese and pro Hanoi cambodian rebels become a Milestone on the Road charted by deceased vietnamese Leader to Chi the father of vietnamese communism dreamed of an indochinese federation Strong ideologically unified bloc under the guiding hand of the Viet namese government in Vietnam already wields the real Power in Laos and has about troops on laotian some of whom May have taken part in the cambo Dian tighter grip on civic data proposed continued controversy Over repression of the former mayors private the Steve Juba the Legal department report notes there is no requirement for the City or any Manitoba municipality to set up ways the Public can gain Access to records other than what has Al ready been provided for in the Winni Peg act or municipal at the City clerk is required to upon assessment and tax the latest list of current monthly financial any auditors minutes and agendas of open meetings of Council or and City in a new the civic is asking that its approval be required be fore any civic documents other than those already can be shown to the Public Access to files or minutes of i camera sessions is guarded although with Council a anyone can examine on de Mand any City document in possess Ion or under control of the the Law department report notes Bills dealing with Freedom of information were introduced to the Mani Toba legislature in 1977 and 1978 but were not proceeded the if made would re quire the provincial government or any of its but not the City to release documents in its Possession to Manitoba residents under conditions involving a court cartoonist aimed at ministers neck Victoria up cartoonist Bob Bierman said tuesday that every time Bill Vander former min ister of human stuck his neck i took pot shots at Bierman was testifying in Vander Palms British Columbia supreme court libel action against the Victoria then times publisher Stuart under Bill and editor Barbara Mclintock Over a cartoon which appeared without caption in the june edition of the daily new spa the claiming fair com ment on a subject of Public rested its Case following testimony by representatives of two Community associations and Montreal Gazette cartoonist Terry Mosher who draws under the name Vander Zalm claims the which depicts him gleefully taking the wings off a implies he is a person of cruel and sadistic nature who enjoys inflicting suffering and torture on helpless people who cannot protect and that he is not a fit and proper person to be minister of human Vander Zalm became the Munici pal affairs minister in a december Cabinet Bierman said he was inspired to draw the cartoon after Vander Zalm advised Indian youngsters hanging around downtown Vancouver to re turn to their reservations because they had better opportunities he told Justice Craig Munroe he used the Fly to depict the helpless indians that were in his the minis ters words attracted to the big b what he is doing is clipping their wings so that they cant roam around any longer to be attracted to the Bright and not realizing the pain he Bierman the cartoonist said he had drawn the minister As a feeble minded per son who is thoughtless and he said the ministers actions and statements during the three years he headed the human resources portfolio had an effect on his Bierman said Vander Palms first statements As when he suggested that he would provide shovels to those who were not prepared to go out and scared the state ments reminded him of statements on forced labor made in Holland during the German Vander Palms lawyer Rodney Taylor accused Bierman of deliberately portraying Vander Zalm As a sadistic and thoughtless per and the cartoonist Mclintock said she thought the cartoon was fair comment based on the Vander Palms actions during his term As she said statements made by the minister had been and had caused much fear and uncertainty to those under his decides to Stop backing Shah of Iran continued port for the Shah that the department eagerly made two months and in the private 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 task 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 did not 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 Bakhtiar can be firmly is restraints called threat to survival of elderly Thow Kod Konn in 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 that View was expressed by 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 Hanem Ber task Force of the association which has been studying the effects particularly of provincial ment spending restraint on als since last an interim report on findings is to be issued by this task Force member and social worker Clark brownies said three of the Survey group tuesday were told that the survival of senior citizens is threatened by ment service tax in creases through which cities must make up funds they no longer re from senior and by Andrew a former Peg school trustee and now sent eng the provincial Council of senior told the meeting his group has became convinced that there is a Law for the Rich and another one for the he said that while the Canadian Pacific railway will continue to enjoy a tax Holiday Courtesy of the City of Winnipeg until the year 2004 and the Triec corporation has been Given special concessions not needed by Rich and profitable Winni Eggers must pay for such for senior citizens this Means a direct threat to continued Home which often is Only possible by virtue of i he said the combined property tax and school Levy on his foot Home has risen 360 per cent to from some 20 years property taxes for senior citizens should be regulated on an pay basis and various Levels of Erh ment should take action to protect senior citizens from the effects of inflation on food and other Essen tial household supplies which have gone up Between 200 per cent and 780 per cent since Bileski a second Public hearing it the Centennial Library is scheduled for i ;