Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 12, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba License clog owners Reader focus Why you should worry if you pay City relax Margaret Trudeau strikes it Cloudy High -14, Low -24 Sun Hise 7 46 a m sets b 4 1 p in Moon rises 6 33 p in Sels 7 49 a in Winnipeg free press final15 monday february 12, 1979 stars shoulder blame As soviets Humble nil by Claude Adams up news service new York Gerry Cheevers a figure of dejection in a Bathrobe and Cowboy boots said it was All his fault. Meanwhile Serge Savard blamed the nil for Breeding goons instead of skaters. Down the Hall the greatest hockey team in the world fondled the Challenge cup and bellowed in rus in a hallway in the bowels of Madi son Square Garden Jean Beliveau who played hockey in an Era when chess was still the soviet National sport stood alone shaking his head. The commissars of user ice hockey were gracious in Victory after their National team clobbered the nil All stars 6-0 last night to carry off the three game Challenge cup series. It was easily the most decisive soviet Victory since the russians started playing North american professionals in 1972. The nil could gather three teams As Good As the one that played said Viacheslav Golis Hov managing director of the soviet ice hockey federation through an inter Preter. We could not have done the this does not indicate in any Way that hockey in Canada is behind him stood a smiling Blond haired kid named Vladimir Mushkin pronounced who had just made his debut in top Echelon hockey by shutting out in the soviet goal the Guy Lafleure and Bobby Clarkes of North american hockey. In a stirring 60 minutes Mushkin relegated the great Vladislav Tretyak to the status of the other Guy Over in the nil dressing room a Bunch of the highest paid athletes on the continent were wiping off the sweat and trying to be philosophical about the whole thing. Some like new York islanders Forward Clark Gillies were just in Awe. I be never seen hitting like we hit them in the first he was saying. But it never even fazed Gillies was one of several All stars who inflicted assault and Battery on the soviets in a punishing first period that was incredibly pen Alty free. And indeed the men in red just got up adjusted their helmets and skated faster. See soviets Page 4 Bakhtiar disappears revolution wins Power in Iran Tehran a Iran s new revolutionary government reported today that resistance to it by the armed forces of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi has ended but thai it is having rouble controlling its own supporters. Thousands of armed youths roamed Tehran threatening symbols of the monarchy and its foreign allies. Three generals were reported slain. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the shiite moslem Leader of the anti Shah rebellion appealed to his followers for order and the surrender of thou Sands of looted weapons. A Day of revolution see Page 11 Khomeini s 14-year fight to convert Iran from a monarchy to an islamic Republic succeeded sunday after two Days of bloody Street fighting in the capital. The turning Point came when the armed forces chief of staff or dered All troops Back to their bar Racks and declared his support for the 78-year-old Khomeini. With the army no longer behind him prime minister Shahpour Bakh Tiar was reported to have delivered his resignation to Mehdi Bazargan Khomeini s nominee to head a provisional government. Bakhtiar dropped out of sight though one highly placed a photo a soviet National hockey team member jumps for Joy after a goal during the Challenge cup series in new York. The soviets won the series sunday with a convincing 6-0 Victory. For details see pages 49, 50 and 51. Elderly facing school tax Bill by Rick Blanchard City assessors have advised owners of 12 Winnipeg senior citizen Resi Dences they will have to pay school taxes in 1979 for the first time. As a result senior citizens occupy ing about 480 apartments in seven Low rent housing projects face Possi ble monthly rent increases while five Independent nursing Homes whose charges to patients Are regulated by the province Are faced with the problem of paying the extra taxes without being Able to raise the rents of patients. Collectively the nursing Homes have Beds for More than 800 patients. An assessment department Esti mate for one Low rental Home put the possible rent increase for residents at Between and per month. Located mainly in former suburban municipalities where assessments have been under an intensive re View by the City the residences Are apparent victims of the City s computerized assessment system designed to straighten out the books. The Homes were notified of the City s decision to Start collecting the school tax Money in letters from the civic assessment office last month. A recent local improvement near the Eastern Star chalet senior Citi zen s Home in Charleswood alerted City officials to the fact that the residences were liable under Provin Cial Law for school levies. When City officials investigated claims by the Home that it could t be taxed for local improvements and school taxes they discovered such residences have been escaping the levies for years. Prior to 1966, residences operated on a non profit basis were totally exempt under the municipal assessment act. But in 1966, the prov Ince amended the act to limit the property tax exemption for such Resi see assessors Page 4 three new pages Start today three now pages designed to keep you hotter informed and bet Tor contort Ninon make their debut today in the Winnipeg free press on part six there is forum Tho of our relocated Edito rial Page in addition to our Point of View it will present daily the opinions of our readers in a Spe Ciril Section devoted to letters to the editor on Page seven there is focus. Which will take readers behind the headlines and provide informed background to the news on Page 33 is relax which will help you enjoy your self whether you want to go out or stay at Home there Are other less noticeable m today s free press among them the popular sep Arate Section we. Used to Call for people has been renamed Tempo better to reflect its commitment to keeping readers up to the mute with trends in lifes Tyle and Leisure All the changes have been made with one Overall objective in mind to make the free press More read Able than Ever Khomeini forces control Tehran source said he is under guard for his own pre Lection. There had been unconfirmed rumours that Bakhtiar had fled the country or committed Sui cide. More than 200 persons were reported killed in Tehran 150 in the North Eastern City of Tabriz and 44 in the Southern City of Shiraz. Khomeini condemned arson destruction and cruelty and said those indulging in such Savage acts Are disobeying Allah s orders and Are traitors to the islamic the provisional operational staff of the revolution in a broadcast on radio Tehran said All iranian armed forces have Laid Down their arms and declared their total Solidar Ity with the revolution. There is not the slightest resistance by the armed the announcement called on the revolution s supporters to Stop sur rounding Barracks and government centres and not to use their weapons except against the an army spokesman said Gen. Abdul Ali Badreih a former com Mander of the Imperial guard was shot and killed As he tried to talk with a group of insurgents who surrounded the guard s Barracks. Gen. Sokrat Jafarian the military governor of Khuze Stan province was reported killed when his helicopter was shot Down near Ahwaz. . Mohammed Amin Biglari Deputy commander of the immortals Divi see Tehran Page a Israel oks peace talks Jerusalem a Israel accepted a . Invitation sunday to resume peace treaty talks with Egypt at Camp David md., feb. 21. However it announced no softening of its stand on unresolved issues. Egypt accepted the invitation last week. Prime minister Menachem begin said there will be a break in the Camp David talks so israeli foreign minis Ter Moshe Dayan and egyptian prime minister Mustafa Khalil can consult with their governments an indication the talks May go beyond the three or four Days originally planned. . President Carter has suggested that unless a treaty is quickly completed . Diplomatic efforts will shift to other world trouble spots. Begin rejected criticism in the annual . State department human rights report alleging that Israel suspended human rights Protection in some Security cases. I cannot accept that criticism hut i Don t think it will have any bearing on the begin said. There is no torture in Isra the human rights report accused Israel of instances of mistreat ment of palestinian prisoners but praised Israel its conduct in Terri tory captured in the 1967 War with the arabs. Begin said Israel protested to the state department Over Points in the siege in weather gunman holds ramp at Bay in Thompson report it considers unfair. The Camp David talks Are Likely to focus on How an egyptian israeli peace treaty should relate to the palestinian Issue and How to ensure that neither Side can Retreat from its commitments if difficulties arise in subsequent talks Over the West Bank and Gaza. Egypt is demanding a target for the beginning of palestinian self government in the areas ruled by an israeli military government but is Rael says it cannot agree since there is no guarantee the palestinians will co operate. In addition Egypt opposes an israeli demand that a treaty super cede any previous egyptian defence treaties. Score Board wha sunday Cincinnati 5 new England 2 Ert Monlon 4 Birmingham 2 Challenge cup sunday soviet Union 6 team nil 0 soviets win senus 2 games to i Thompson Man. Ramp continued today in -42 c weather to wait Oul a gunman barricaded in a Home in this Northern Manitoba City. Ramp Constable Dan Caruk said 14 of the City s 6fl-member detachment have surrounded the House. Tele phone negotiations have been under Way since sunday afternoon Between the gunman and ramp sgt. Gerry Doumato Caruk said. Aside from the negotiations a deathly quiet prevails around the Searchlight covered House he said another ramp spokesman said the entered the fi8 Granite Crescent Bungalow about 1 . Sunday. The House in the heart of a residential District about a mile North of Down town Thompson belongs to Ken Bori Senko and his wife Linda. According to neighbors Bosenko or turned Home shortly afterwords ind began talking to the armed Man. While this conversation took place neighbors say. Mrs. Bosenko and her two children left the House. Ken Bosenko left shortly afterwords. 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