Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 years Castro whats in a name instinct is marketing is in for new Breed of Hollywood movie moguls titles see Page 27 Leisure go As far As you dare Snow Low High Winnipeg free press february 1979 final 15 cents 2s with coloured comics 112 Andrea cries out for help As she and Nancy Paulus sit atop their car in the mad River near after the car plunged Down a 65foot embankment into the see Rescue on Page on Jet outfit upsets sir Freddie airline undercuts Cut rates Toronto up it has one five flight Crews and an International competitor who is complaining to the Canadian Ontario world airlines also has the lowest fares for charter flights to from those fares Are upsetting sir Freddie owner of Laker airways of who has complained to the Canadian transport commission that the Toronto based airline is charging too Little for its flights to sir Freddie said the rates were too Low for the airline to break which Means they violate Federal regulations and harm his similar but Jim Vic president of marketing and customer service for Ontario world says sir Freddie is in an interview he said the airlines fares Are More than enough to cover and were not trying to beat we relying to be the airlines fares Are lower than a return charter flight to London from Toronto is on Ontario world airways and on Laker air Ward air and British airways have announced new charter fares to London of Mulrooney says his airline can offer the lower rates because it carries More passengers than Laker it has three flights a week to compared with lakers the airline also offers something else that Laker does not flights to Preswick and a lot of people in Canada have friends and relatives outside the major centres in said rather than flying to London and the having to go from we Fly directly to the other he said the airline offers one direct flight a week to the four which were chosen on the basis of Popula the 10yearold airline began offering flights to Britain three weeks since theres been a very Strong surge of Mulrooney estimated that the Jet has been about half full and said the flights to cities other than London Are the most the Jet is a Boeing 707 that can carry 185 passengers and is leased from Itel International of san reporter killed Iran army Battles dissident air cadets Tehran a soldiers battled dissident air Force cadets and armed civilian supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini today around a Mili tary base in Southeastern hospitals reported More than 300 injured and 62 including news paper correspondent Joe Alex mor hundreds of soldiers of the crack immortals division stormed the Fara habad training base late Fri Day after air Force cadets cheered a Khomeini to film and went on a window smashing they temporarily quelled the returned a Short time later and opened fire on the base from the ground and but the dissident cadets armed themselves and fought civilians then joined the cadets in building filling sandbags and reinforcing rooftop moslem preachers circulated through the rebels urging them to Lay Down their arms because the moslem Leader of yearlong Campaign that drove Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from the did not want them to but the preachers were Joe Alex Morris see his report on Page 12 of the los Angeles a Veteran foreign correspondent who had served in Beirut and was observing the action from a first floor apartment near the base when he was he was pronounced dead at the base Hospital by iranian Morteza As the bullets an air Force Cadet stood on one Street giving instructions to about 20 civilians on How to fire an automatic nearby a Young boy poured gasoline into bottles making those with out guns armed themselves with towels and rags fluttered Down from tenements to be used As the government of pre Mier Shahpour Bakhtiar deployed heavy troop concentrations along key roads on four sides of the strife torn capital As thousands of pro Khomeini demonstrators marched from Tehran University to Pahlavi Hospital chant give us guns and Long live the airmen Many of them had gathered outside Khomeini Headquarters Early today to Tell him what happened at Faraha but government soldiers showed up at the ayatollahs offices too and opened witnesses said one person was killed at Khomeini Headquarters and 11 others at Fara habad in the first round of but there was no breakdown Between cadets and one Cadet said the pro Khomeini demonstrations at Fara habad broke out while he and the others were watching a special 70minute to pro Gram reviewing the ayatollahs triumphant return from 14 years exile cadets watching Friday nights program began we want Ayatollah Khomeini and god is great and then ran through the base smashing the Cadet the Young tears Welling in his added there Are air Force Engineer ing cadets Here and we All want Khomeini very the incident represents the most serious report yet in what appears to be a slow disintegration of military a substantial number of service including air Force took part in pro Khomeini marches in Tehran this and scores of air Force technicians have been arrested at three iranian bases for Demon Strating in favor of Khomeini pro posed islamic Liberal constituency letter Schreyer photo use blasted by Mckenzie by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Ottawa commons speaker James Jerome will be asked to Rule on whether a publication designed for mass distribution by Liberal maps featuring a photo of the governor general and Schreyer a blatant misuse of Public conservative my Dan Mckenzie Winnipeg South Centre served no Tice in the commons Friday that he will formally raise the matter on monday As a question of parliamentary Mckenzie said plans for the four Page publication to be distributed by Liberal maps to voters in their i dings is also an exploitation of the governor generals samples of the publication which can be tailored to look As if its the work of an individual my been sent out to All members of the Liberal theres a Blank space on the cover just below a photo of the new vice regal couple taken during the installation ceremony last month where each my can have his name and constituency Liberal if they like the Sam can choose to Send it out As one of the constituency letters they Are Al Lowed to Send out at taxpayers expense four times a the constituency letters Are sup posed to contain helpful information of a nonpolitical nature although there is great laxity in enforcing that inside the front cover of the constituency theres another spot for a picture of the local my above a copy of a letter in which schreyers announcement of a Cross country speaking tour on National Unity is the individual maps name is to be signed to the the two Back pages on the Sample see Schreyer Page 4 coming monday forum and relax what Are your views on the Hydro Arena Snow the planned Sher Broo Mcgregor overpass what do you think of your Gas the symphony the civil the postal bus editorials in the free press starting express your views in the redesigned free press editorial called it will have space every Day for letters to the forum will be located in the first Section of the free that will enable us to double the number of opinions and perspectives we normally offer another new will appear daily opposite it will focus on important stories and matters of special provid ing insightful background in formation the kind of information you can use to help form your own our third new Page is designed to help you and that what were calling relax relax will Tell you whats on in town whats on to in de easy thread As Well As featuring columnist about town Barbara a Lively column about names making news in the rest of the world and any time a favorite column that an Swers your if you want to be better better informed and better enter youll find better value than Ever beginning Manitoba Best newspaper is getting with pages like focus and score Board judge Calls for solitary confinement inquiry Justice Osullivan of the Manitoba court of Appeal has called for an inquiry into the solitary confinement at Stony Mountain Penitentiary of Edward Keith Geddes after Geddes refused to submit to a Chest As part of a written judgment made Public Friday that quashed two theft convictions against Geddes and reduced the sentence for eight other the Appeal court Justice said it seems that solitary confinement for an extended period of time is very severe and unusual punishment for a refusal to submit to an think there might Well be an inquiry into the conduct of the authorities in the prison set other Story 14 judge Osullivan said the confinement came to Light during Geddes recent we were told this by the accused and it was confirmed by a Law student who had intervened with the director of that the Law student was made to understand that the accused would remain in solitary confinement until he submitted to an judge Osullivan there is no Indi cation the accused has tuber culo the judge said had indicated he refused to take the xray during a medical examination be cause he feels rays Are dangerous to his Justice Osullivan made his statements in a High court judgment that reduced Geddes 30 month sen tence to 20 and overturned two of three theft convictions while upholding seven additional convictions of Russ a spokesman for the said incoming inmates Are placed in solitary confinement unless prison officials Are satisfied they Arent carrying a disease which might be harmful to the rest of the prison Mcgill said prison officials had no Way of determining Geddes physical health without an Mcgill said he didst know How Long Geddes was kept in but the prisoner eventually took the phys ical and was returned to a regular cell in his judge Osullivan did not say How Long Geddes was kept in solitary except to say he was placed there ;