Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba January evacuation Cut by Blitz number failed to appear authoritative sources said it was certain that setae chinese were captured it the fall of four engined loaded with chinese actually took off sunday just As vietnamese tank h column pushed into phenom Penis j Poch Entong l the appearance of the vietnamese 1 column came far sooner than expected and Many chinese f left it was reported that More chinese continued beat Convoy that headed up the Mekong River toward the big Airfield at Kampong Chang about 75 Miles the Airfield was reported taken before the Convoy reached it has been estimated that there were about chinese advisors and technicians in Cambodia when the vietnamese offensive began in a few Hundred were airlifted out As to reach the and fort May that military sources said the have departed aboard three Chi Khmer Rouge troops holding Border Nese ships that left the port of Kom areas of sue Bangle Ifasi showed Pong sort Sihanouk file just before no signs of thai officers who have Contact at the Border said the Khmer Rouge were still talking to orders from some j e s Organ eng the departure hastily embarked that on a the situation began to deteriorate and by sea of those chinese who mass the radio reports of the fighting Earrie dby Hanoi and by the insurgents news Agency have made no mention of chinese though Hanoi has complained of their presence for More than a the chinese ambassador to Cam who escaped to has refused to make any Public state he is organizing the departure local command Headquarters and appeared Calm and Well from the thai Border Post of Aranya Prather the Distant sound of artillery fire was heard throughout indicating that of fighting was taking place within 20 to 30 cuts support for Shah continued Prince Norodom Sihanouk pleading Cambodia Indochina powder Keg for big Powers Prince 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 Blash 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 said during an Airport press conference before departing for his the has said that for the time being we must put aside the question of human rights because there is a much More urgent problem to Sihanouk the problem of peace and stability of the big if you do not solve this i Media you will have a More difficult and More complicated Sihanouk China May inter Vene to help us regain our National so the soviet Union May intervene on the Side of the Vietnam who flew Here from Pek said that so far China has1 been asked Only for material assistance and not to intervene with although some chinese Mili tary advisers Are still believed to be in apparently caught up in the lightning vietnamese backed invasion that captured phenom penh this past during a Stopover in Sihan Ouk said he also hoped to meet with Secretary of state Cyrus Vance Dur ing his visit to the United in state department spokesman Hodding Carter said any request by Sihanouk to see Vance would be taken under but first a decision would have to be reached As to whether Sihanouk represented any Sihanouk asserted the vietnamese were responsible for the and that therefore the pol pot regime remains the Legal government of the pol pol adm Nistra he was the Only government supported by the one that improved the life of the poorest classes of the Sihanouk left the cambodian Capi Tal Only hours before the invading forces whisked from the site where he had been held under virtual House arrest by the pol pot have not focused on whether the ministration should advise the Shah to leave or stay in a senior official said the emphasis in discussions has been on what Iran governing Struc Ture will be if the Shah should and on the relations the United states is Likely to have with a Shah the officials the emphasis of Washington St auctions in the past week to its ambassador in William Sullivan and of sullivans discussions with the have been on the concern with continuity and stability in any turnover of Power that the Shah determines is i meanwhile the Shah turned Over the iranian Royal family multimillion Dollar personal property to a Crown sponsored foundation tuesday in an apparent bid to remove the taint of corruption from the he also ordered the release of 266 prison the actually signed by the Shah last came into Force the state radio school spending estimates up without salary increases by Noelle Boughton Winnipeg school division received a preliminary budget estimate tues Day night while holding the line on would result in a per cent increase in the special school tax the estimates will be revised How because they do not provide for yet Tobe negotiated increases in teachers the divisions administration and boards finance committee prepared the first budget estimates which say this years expenditures will increase Only per cent Over last years Board chairman Mira Spivak said that Doest accurately reflect the boards expenditures for 1979 because it Doest include any provisions for increases in which constitute about 80 per cent of the divisions Skeleton said spi therell be a lot of changes added in the budget is to go to the Public schools finance Board 28 and then to the City in at that the division must state How much it needs in special school tax levies which will be added to the civic property tax for while Spivak said the Board still Hopes to keep within the cent increase it suggested in tuesday nights meeting saw anticipated expenditures already starting to for the Board voted to increase employees car allowances from cents per Kilometre to cents per Kilometre for the first Kilometres per Spivak said this would add to the budgeted several other expenditures which May face the Board in 1979 were not reflected in the budget the child guidance clinic has re Quested eight staff members and an additional for supplies and if considered favourably by the this will further in crease anticipated funding for the divisions nutrition program is Only provided for until the end of if the Board decides to continue the program through it will have to pay another provincial funding for the Community involvement program formerly Sun and Cap programs is also now Only available so the Board another to continue the program through the the divisions income int expected to be As High As last the division Hast a surplus from last year and its expecting a drop in provincial Grants Are projected to drop to from in 1978 and other income May fall to from in the school Board is projecting a per cent increase in the special tax Levy for first estimates place this at a increase from the 1978 figure of the provincial govern ment Hast yet committed itself to paying Grants it provided the division with last in it paid 000 for declining Milf lion for special inner City projects and for it is expected that will flow through the division for shared services this major cuts suggested in the prelim Inary budget include about from provisions for caretakers which Spivak said will be handled by i about 85 per cent from special Community programs but senior citizens will have to pay fees for nonacademic recreational Community the Complete elimination of the summer enrichment swedes to ban military toys Agency franc Presse Stockholm swedish children will no longer be Able to buy toy soldiers or toy pistols after this such toys Are too the swedish parliament and swedish toy manufacturers jointly swedish Little boys will have to find new replace cops and Rob Bers and cowboys and indians maybe they will still be Able to play at As toys of historic inter est prior to the first world War will still be put on cutbacks hurting elderly speaker v a photo this Stone lion carved on a University of Kansas building in has had his Roar turned to curb sought on information Access in a new the civic Board of 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 continued 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 i presentations at the Library auditorium tuesday were told that the survival of senior citizens is threatened by government service Cut tax increases through which cities must make up funds they no longer receive from senior go year and by Andrew a former Winnipeg school trustee and now representing the provincial Council of senior Citi told the meeting his group has become convinced that there is a Law for the Rich and another one for the he told the meeting that while the Canadian Pacific railway will Cori Tine to enjoy a tax Holiday Courtesy continued 100m heritage savings Trust fund to assist in the construe ii tips of a new major Grain terminal at Prince i 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 bottlenecks at Vancouver have Cost Alberta j Farmers approximately each in lost sales last said negotiations for the which will be made on Normal commercial Haven begun consortium of Grain companies planning he terminal con the consortium includes the three Prairie pools Grain United Grain growers and Cargill Grain company Lougheed said the loan for terminal construction will be created As part of a package with the million the Canadian wheat Board has proposed for new Prince Rupert Grain storage capacity because the Tiro feels both Are necessary to make the system decisions announced at the end of the conference i presidents of Canadian National railways and up along with will arrangements for i two railways to Exchange Grain this is essential to ensure an adequate flow of Grain to Prince Rupert since the port is served exclusively by Canadian of the City of Winnipeg until the year 2004 and the Triec corporation has been Given special concessions not needed by Rich and profitable Cor Winni Eggers must pay for such for senior citizens this Means a direct threat to continued Home of which often is Only possible at the Cost of Bileski he said the combined property tax and school Levy on his foot Home has risen 360 per cent to from some 20 years this year the increase could be Between 10 per cent and 15 per and service will probably decrease at the same time As costs go Bileski told the property taxes for senior citizens should be regulated on an ability to pay basis and various Levels of gov should take action to protect senior citizens from the effects of inflation on food and other essential household supplies which have gone up Between 200 per cent and 780 per cent since Bileski a second Public hearing at the Centennial Library is scheduled for 1 pledged to build terminal continued National railways and most of Canadas Grain shipments originate on up rail unions and management involved in the Grain transportation Industry would undertake an intensive bilateral review of Industrial the Canadian labor Congress Csc will represent the unions while Federal labor Martin Ocon Nell will coordinate the selection of management repro Csc Shirley said she Hopes the committee will investigate All reasons for the slow movement of she said the Public should understand that work stoppages Arent the Only ongoing monitoring of improvements in the system would carried out by Federal government Tan Sythe Canadian wheat the senior Tion committee and the Western among the areas to be monitored Are usage of Inland varieties and number of grades of Grain wheat Board sales within the limitations of the transport Aton proposals for a special Portal in coordinator Ana the Impact of off Board grains sailed these together with up rails announcement monday that it would participate in the Federal governments Boxcar repair benchmarks in the whole Grain handling and transportation he had expected the conference to result in the formation of a committee to study the problem on an ongoing basis but said the monitoring planned will be just As the meeting resulted in a Universal reawakening arid understanding of the importance of the problem for the whole he if nothing else had been accomplished at this that would have been Manitoba acted As a catalyst in bringing the ment and Industry representatives he but Eljie initiative for future action must come from the Federal government because that where the authority f Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney noted that while Many solutions to the problem must be phas up rails decision to repair boxcars or the formation of the have immediate John president of the Manitoba pop said the meeting was useful but added he would have been More comfortable if there had been something More definite As far As a committee is Esmond Jarvis of the Canadian wheat Board said it was the first time everyone had been Able to agree Export of 30 million tonnes by 1985 was a realistic with regard to the crows nest the communique said Only that the conference had discussed the implications of railways receiving adequate ton for the movement of in the reciprocal obligations of the railways were Lang again expressed interest in a Saskatchewan proposal that the Federal government provide subsidies to the railways for Grain transported at the crows nest rate while the provinces provide subsidies for processed Grain products transported at a Crow related that while the Federal government Hast yet committed itself to cover the railways profit it has provided the railways with capital for rolling Lyon Saia a variety of opinions were voiced on a British Columbia suggestion that workers in the Grain transport Industry be paid a Bonus for years free of work pages but added that anything which would keep the Grain moving was Fine and Dandy with Carr said her answer to this proposal was an absolute we dont look for we look for Good every Day relations on the Job ;