Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, January 17, 1979

Issue date: Wednesday, January 17, 1979
Pages available: 125
Previous edition: Tuesday, January 16, 1979

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Skid Row gourmet youd think Hes a collecting trash along the but Walkin George is no bum at All Hes a Bon vivant see Page 29 keeping on track Manitoba facing the loss of rail service Batty of Branch line abandonment Chr a Bleak future see Page 12 the silent eaters has family table talk declined with the move from dining rooms to Faywood outlets see Page 45 sunny tow27 final january 1s73 is cents with coloured comics 86 the eyes but not the Lily Schreyer not in keeping with other Bud Jobin a Little Russ Doern mixed reviews for painting 0 some people Are grumbling Over de schreyers official see Page 10 report finds Little interest in Unity canadians dubbed Ottawa up canadians Are disinterested in discussing National Unity and eager to become even if other provinces says a report by the Council for Canadian the report released based on interviews with what the Council describes As 500 opinion leaders across the says inflation arid economic problems concern ans More than National As canadians worry about their economic they look at other provinces and perceive them As ceiling More benefits from conf Der says the the net effect of this is that they want a bigger piece of a pie that has ceased regardless of whose share will be diminished by what they Quebec and the Atlantic provinces View Ontario As confederations Gest even 45 per cent of Ontario residents feel their province has come out on the majority of persons in the four Western provinces see Quebec As the biggest with Ontario running All except British co said the Atlantic provinces receive the least from Qon federa British Columbia residents said their province benefits the out of All this there results a confusion and a cabbiness in Al and provincial perceptions and the report says leading to the suspicion that continuation of the current economic climate of in see let two Page 4 predicts gender of unborn my drano unclog sex Riddle Toronto up a Winnipeg doctor says a test using a commercial Drain cleaner can help predict the sex of unborn Sidney Nelko said the drano test which he heard about from a patient who heard about it from a friends Milkman correctly predicted the sex of four out of five babies he delivered last i think its just its just he it was never posed to be Butts become serious and still is a pregnant woman can find out the sex of her unborn child by mixing two Teaspoons of liquid drano with two Teaspoons of her morning Nelko if the solution turns Brown or Golden in it will be a if it turns it will be a the test works Best during the last three months of said who has no idea Why it if the color Doest show he suggests adding equal amounts of urine and Walter a chemist at Bris Tol Myers Canada makers of said the Drain cleaner is a Strong alkaline material consisting of a solution of liquid Dye and a color he could not explain Welkos Patrick a gynaecologist and obstetrician at women College said hed be pleased if the drano test drano is cheap and urine is not hard to he Viets dealt setback by Cambodia army the los Angeles times Thailand the rallying military forces of cambodian Premier pol pot have delivered a stunning setback to the invading recapturing the seaport of Kampong the country second most important authoritative sources said the pol pot troops stormed into the port monday and were still holding on tuesday against counterattacks and the heaviest air bombing of the continuing naval Battles Between Small patrol Craft of both sides raged around Kong abot 50 Miles up the this is where the pol pot forces Are attempting to maintain a Supply beachhead in order to continue a protracted guerrilla War from the Jungle mountains of Southwest informed sources reported that at least two communist chinese freighters have been in the area unloading military analysts reported it was unlikely that the pol pot troops would be Able to hold the port of Kampong som for very Long or that they planned it represented a dramatic military and psychological and demonstrated that the War was far from Kampong som previously known As Sihanouk Ville is Cambodia sole port on the Gulf of it had been captured by the vietnamese the same Day that the Capitol of phenom penh at that time most of the pol pot forces abandoned the town without a fight and evidently these units remained intact in the Hilly country just North of the they evidently moved Back Early monday and caught the vietnamese by authoritative sources said the vietnamese counterattacks were supported by unprecedented air attacks flown see pol pot Page 4 archers receive additional sentences by Brian Cole Brandon Herbert and Dorothy Archer were sentenced there tuesday to 12 and 10 years in prison respectively for a series of charges Stem Ming from a shootout with ramp at last the sentences Are to be served concurrently with the life sentences the archers received last december for the first degree murder of Dennis Onofrey in connection with the same that sentence is being the archers were each sentenced to 10 years in prison tuesday for kidnapping Dave Penny from his Home last following the shootout with ramp in which Onofrey was was also sentenced to two years concurrently on Archer cant explain shootout see Page 16 counts of unlawful confinement involving nine people and two years consecutively for one count of unlawful confinement involving two peo Archer was sentenced to two years concurrently on two counts of unlawful confinement involving six Crown counsel Jack Montgomery elected to stay 16 other counts against Archer and 11 counts against Montgomery had As a matter of to handle each incident As a count or a charge rather than file a separate charge for each individual in handing Down his Justice John of Manitoba court of Queens said he a Jeveda that the archers were sorry about the entire incident which began when four ramp officers went to the archers Mote room to investigate a stolen vehicle he said he also believed the archers were frightened following the quent particularly because Archer had been wounded eng the Brief gun see archers Page 4 Ayatollah Khomeini moment of Triumph chief foe of Shah rejoices the Washington Post France Allah Akbar god is great proclaimed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini when he heard the news of the Shah departure from Iran Over radio Tehran via a Short wave outside the Small Paris suburban Villa that has served since october As exile Headquarters for Kho the religious Leader who helped to drive the Shah from an overflowing crowd of his followers broke into Long live they tie Shah collapse see Page 80 about an hour the 76year old Ayatollah emerged to declare that the Shah departure was the first step toward Complete abdication of 50 years of Pahlavi brutal u was a moment of Triumph for which the Ayatollah had worked for his also a Jem religious was killed by the Shah father and the dynastic and Kho Mainis followers Are convinced that it was the ent Shah secret police that killed his eldest son in see Khomeini Page 4 Joe Clark has Runin with guard Golan Israel up opposition Leader Joe inspecting a 12man guard of Honor on the Golan Heights on collided with a Canadian Soldier and nearly Cut his head on a Rifle Clark explained later that he had never inspected an Honor guard in i he the master Ken Metke of took it in it had never happened he but it could happen to i the Gaffe took place As Clark arrived Here from red tape irks Canadian troops see Page 80 at Camp where 125 Canad an soldiers keep israeli and syrian forces Clark was greeted by Beret topped United nations troops lined up As an Honor after passing the sixth Clark made a Sharp left turn and ran into regaining his Clark completed his but his troubles were not yet shortly before he he was smacked by a door leading into the Camp score Boarch hockey wha Edmonton 3 Winnipeg 1 nil by islanders t Washington 2 Atlanta s Philadelphia q Montreal pm Bursh 5 Minnesota o Louis 5 Boston 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