Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Getting away v from it All turning to retreats for the pause that rejuvenates see Page 49 fun to be snowbound if you be stocked up wintertime tips on staving off starvation see Page 29 in path s Hadow 70-year-old preacher loses his daughter to the Sla see Page 44 Cloudy High -20, Low -35 Winnipeg free press final wednesday february 7, 1979 15 cents comics vol. 64 no. 109 compiled from dispatches Premier Sterling Lyon of Manitoba torpedoed a Federal provincial Accord tuesday that would have Given canadians constitutional guarantees of Basic human political and Legal rights. We do not support the concept of an entrenched Bill of the progressive conservative Premier said flatly moments after other provincial leaders told prime minister torpedoes Bill of rights conce Trudeau they would accept a propos Tely free to move unilaterally in Al to put such rights beyond the reforming areas under Federal Juris reach of Ordinary Laws. Diction the conference made modest Progress on a 14-item Agenda including agreement on a couple of minor Points and near unanimous approval of Trudeau s Long sought goal to write a charter of human rights into the Constitution. Deciding where to go from Here Afore coverage on pages w and 11 however at the conclusion of the two Day conference Trudeau said he is pleased with Progress on constitutional change and feels comple poses serious problems for the fed eral Trudeau told re porters. I will report to the Cabinet and we will decide our position from Here on he said the decision when to present Reform legislation and when to propose another conference will be governed in part by the timing of the Federal election due by june. The conference agreed to refer to a committee of Federal and provincial ministers their unfinished business along with an unpublished list of new Federal proposals to strengthen what Trudeau called the economic Union. Trudeau closed what he described As an historic conference by saying my Day is one of he said later that there was a change of mood among the premiers since last fall when they last met to discuss constitutional Reform. The premiers were also More ctr operative than after a meeting among themselves in Regina last August when they All sided with Premier Levesque in saying the feds should t do Premier Richard Hatfield of new Brunswick said the premiers gave see Lyon Page 4 in train hits truck but Driver left intact by Joe Rubin when i regained my senses a Little bit i turned around and noticed that the rest of my truck was Alphonse Dupuis said casually. He was describing How at a crossing six Kilometres South of St. Norbert tuesday morning a South bound in train split the truck he was driving in half tossing the attached Utility trailer along the track but leaving him miraculously intact. Crossing kind of slow about Miles an hour i did t see the train because the Snow was blowing so bad swirling around the tracks and my wind photo by Keith b. Smith Alphonse Dupuis came away with a sore knee after it was jammed under the dashboard in the crash. Dupuis recalled. Just when i was Over the tracks i peeked to the Side and noticed that the train was right there. What the hell is that train doing Over there i wondered so i floored the truck and tried to make it half of the pickup truck which belongs to his Girlfriend made it the other half was smashed. The tandem trailer it was pulling remained on the other Side of the see Driver Page 4 u photo by Kelly b. Smith half of the pickup truck made it across the level crossing intact but the other half and the Utility trailer was strewn about. Iran to withdraw from military pact the los Angeles times Tehran Iran foreign minister Ahmad Mir fender sky said tuesday that Iran will pull out of the Central treaty organization which was formed in 1955 to discourage communist expansion. Iran s continued membership in the organization _ known As Cento would not be compatible with Iran s new foreign policy Mir fender sky told the official news Agency pars. From now he added we shall Only consider Iran s interests in its relations with foreign countries. We shall give up the one dimension policy and we shall belong neither to the West nor the As he spoke thousands of iranians surged through Tehran s streets shouting their support for the Ayatollah Khomeini the shiite moslem religious Leader who is forming a rival government and the military put Jet lighters and helicopters in the air Over Tehran. But there was no confrontation of government forces and the demonstrators. Cento known originally As the Bagdad pact aligns Iran with tur key Pakistan and Britain. The United states is an associate member. The pact Calls for military and eco score Board hockey wha Edmonton 3 new Estand i of Mac j inside 7 Horoscope. 51 comics crossword .5 status television. A 57 finance .21-2i weather Moon looking Fob a a Jun this want and is under musical instruments Sis i ;