Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 17, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday february 17, 1979 Vittoria is real life Cinderella two year old Michael Bahr finds families come in All shapes and sizes but he was t really prepared for the one he found in a Toronto department store Friday. This mannequin was t very talkative but the Young Ster decided to make the attempt to get to know it. Ottawa considering housing tax credit continued the Clark proposal on the other hand would offer the biggest Benefit to those with the highest income and with the highest mortgages. Clark has promised to bring in Over a four year period a plan to allow up to in annual interest for a first mortgage on a principal residence to be deducted from income tax As Well As up to in municipal taxes. Since the rate of income tax in terms of percentages rises with in come a deduction of would mean a bigger tax saving for some one earning than for someone earning Hudac which represents major Home builders across the country has thrown its support behind the Clark plan saying it would stimulate the housing Industry. Officials of Hudac said thursday they had talked to Ouellet about pro posing a similar scheme but that he had not been enthusiastic. They said he had indicated the government May consider some alternatives. The sources said the shelter tax credit although not a formal elec Tion Promise yet is one of the alternatives. Ouellet refused to say what he had in mind at a news conference Friday called to unveil a new Low income housing agreement signed with on Tario. Be speaking to Hudac on Ouellet said. Ill deliver my message there to Pope to officiate at Salesgirl s wedding Vatican City a her name is Vittoria Lanni a Lovely Salesgirl in a Rome souvenir shop but her friends have been calling her the Pope s Cinderella since she asked John Paul ii to officiate at her wedding and he agreed. Vittoria popped the question Jan. 5 when the pontiff spiritual Leader of the world s 750 million roman Cath Olics went to meet a group of roman Street cleaners and see the creche they had set up for Christ Mas in a garage. Vittoria eldest of six children of Street cleaner Giuseppe Lanni said she told the Pope she was get Ting married and asked if he would celebrate the wedding mass. He smiled and said yes. I thought i was dreaming and asked him you mean and he nodded and said yes again. He moved a few Steps on then turned Back and asked but How old Are and i said 22. He looked reassured. I must have looked too Young maybe because i was dressed in a girlish Anna Lanni Vittoria s Mother says this is the Best wedding pres ent of Vittoria told me what she had in mind minutes before the Pope entered the garage. I said Mamma Mia and thought she was joking that it was something this week the Vatican formally announced that the pontiff would preside Over the wedding of Vittoria and Mario maltese 23, on sunday feb. 25. The ceremony will take place in the Pauline Chapel under Michelangelo s frescoes picturing the con version of St. Paul and the Crucifix Ion of St. Peter. About 160 relatives and friends Are expected to join the Bride and Groom. The last Pope to officiate at a wedding of commoners was John Xxiii who married three couples Between 1958 and 1963. Pope Paul i performed a mass marriage of about 30 couples during the 1975 roman Catholic holy year. The instant acclaim of a papal wedding has done Little to change the Cinderella girl. Vittoria still Sells souvenirs to tourists in a shop in the via Trasp Ontina near St. Peters and her father Giuseppe still mans his Broom in the roman streets. For their honeymoon Vittoria and Mario plan to go to the shrines of Fatima in Portugal and Lourdes in France where Vittoria says she wants to place her wedding bouquet at the altar of the St. Mary. Gillespie signs Accord to assist Energy schemes in maritime Dartmouth . Up Feder Al Energy minister Alastair Gillespie and the three maritime premiers Friday signed a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of a maritime Energy corp. Mec to undertake the marketing of Energy in the Region and the construction of major Power projects. Gillespie and the premiers of new Brunswick Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island described the agree ment As historic and complicated and declined to disclose details until it is tabled in the commons Mon Day. The document was signed following a news conference late Friday after several hours of last minute negotiations. When reporters pressed for details Premier Richard Hatfield said the provinces and Ottawa were taking a significant step and it should be made Public in a proper manner not at the last it s the first time in North Ameri Ca that a thing of this magnitude has Ever been he said. Gillespie said the corporation would require some big Money but he was not prepared to say How much or How it would be raised. He hoped the corporation would be in operation in a few months with the Federal government taking a minority equity position and the Mari time provinces a majority equity position. Financing would be on a project basis. Ottawa and the provinces agreed last year to share the million Cost of launching the corporation. Premier John Buchanan of Nova Scotia chairman of the meeting of the Council of maritime premiers Here this weekend would say Only that the Point Lepreau nuclear Plant now under construction in new Brunswick would be the corporation s first project. Buchanan had earlier indicated that he would like to have newfound land participate but Gillespie said Friday the province has its own agreement with Ottawa to develop the lower Churchill development corp. And will not become a part of the Mec. Gillespie said the signing of the document culminated a Long and difficult process and was concluded at a time when the collective Security of canadians in Energy matters is extremely important. This document is going to provide More secure Energy for the Mari times at a lower Cost than would be possible without he said. A major stumbling Block in the negotiations leading to the agreement was reported to have been the sub Stantial Cost overruns in the construction of the Lepreau Plant and How they would be covered. However Gillespie and Hatfield said Friday the overruns which have almost doubled the Plant s original projected Cost of million were not significant in comparison with the costs of other nuclear plants. The increase in costs at the construction of the Point Lepreau nuclear Plant Are comparable with the increase in costs of All other nuclear plants in Canada and better than the increase of nuclear plants in the United said Hatfield. Asked whether the proposed Gull Island Power project on the lower Churchill would come under the umbrella of the corporation Gillespie said it is already covered by Ottawa s agreement with Newfoundland and is off and however he said the Mec May want to Purchase Power from Gull Island in the future. Buchanan was asked whether Nova Scotia would get Lepreau Power at a set Price but he would Only say that the government has a pretty Good idea what the Price will be. Gillespie said he would like the Mec to undertake the next Fundy tidal Power studies. Hatfield and Buchanan agreed that the Mec is a Good umbrella for projects such As Fundy. Gas ration Bill introduced Board and in a letter to senior Energy department officials. Gillespie told the commons that Imperial president Jack Armstrong has not yet secured permission from Exxon to Deal directly with the venezuelan government in future con tracts thereby eliminating the giant multinational Parent company As a middleman. I have made it very Clear to or. Armstrong that Canada regards this As a very important he said As opposition maps roasted the government s handling of the situation. Conservative and new democratic party maps greeted Gillespie s state ments with demands for an immedi ate emergency debate about the Oil Supply situation which the minister continued has described As serious but manage Able. However commons speaker James Jerome ruled that he would await government action on the Bill before deciding whether to act on the opposition request. De Broadbent the nip Leader said while the government waited for Imperial and Exxon to Settle the corporate dispute residents of que Bec and the maritime will be held for Ransom by the Robert Stanfield former conserva Tive Leader and my for Halifax accused Gillespie of delivering very Bland assurances calculated to give the impression supplies of Oil from Venezuela would continue to flow into Eastern Canada in the Normal Man Gillespie said he Imperial Situa Tion is unique because other Canadian subsidiaries of multinationals including Gulf Shell and Texaco have direct contracts with the venezuelan government and have faced no real location of Supply from that country. The government says that ration ing is not Likely for at least six or seven months depending on How quickly iranian production resumes. Ironically Gillespie is in the Mari times this weekend to meet with the Atlantic premiers on a new maritime Energy corporation. Rhodesian planes bomb Zambia Lusaka Reuter rhodesian warplanes bombed Rural areas of Southern Zambia today near the Bor Der town of Livingstone diplomatic sources Here reported. The rhodesian attacks were aimed at areas where nationalist guerrilla Camps of Joshua Nkomo s Zimbabwe african Peoples Union Zap Are believed located the sources added. The attacks took place from about 7 . Local time 11 . Friday the sources said. No details of casual ties were immediately available and it was not known whether ground troops were also involved in the raids. In Salisbury a rhodesian military spokesman said we have no com ment at this reprisal raids against Nkomo s bases have been expected since a rhodesian Airliner was shot Down on monday by nationalist guerrillas killing All 59 aboard. Nkomo was reported by Addis Ababa radio to have boasted that our men in Zap had brought Down the plane. Zap also claimed responsibility for a miss sle attack in september which downed another air rhodesian Viscount in the same area. That attack resulted in 48 dead. The september attack led to Swift retaliatory raids by rhodesian forces against alleged guerrilla bases in Zambia and Mozambique. Policeman shot dead in gunfight Montreal up one police Man was slain and two of his com rades wounded in a fiery confrontation with two escaping burglars Friday night. Const. Rene Vallee 28, died in Hospital after emergency surgery Early this morning from four Bullet wounds sustained with the burglars opened fire on the patrol car he was pursuing them in. Another two officers const. Re Jean Bastien 29, and const. Gary Smith 27 were reported in stable condition in Hospital. An intensive manhunt for the two burglars who were robbing a suburban household of a reported in jewels continued today. We Are not going to Stop until we find the a police investigator vowed. Const. Vallee a Bachelor who celebrated his five anniversary with the Force earlier this month lived with his parents in Terrebonne just North of Montreal. It s hard to bring up children and lose them like his tearful Mother said today. Members of the Montreal Quebec provincial and autoroute police raced to donate blood at the Hospital where const. Vallee spent four hours on the operating table. Car Toto a potentially perilous pacifier cum thermometer is being mixed by Federal health after that infants swallowed Glass fragments and Mercury when it broke in their Mouths. Possibly lethal pacifiers seized Ottawa up stocks of a potentially deadly children s thermometer in the form of a rubber nipples pacifier Are being seized by the Federal health department. A statement said Friday that the department s health Protection Branch began the seizures after it received complaints that the product had broken in the Mouths of infants who then swallowed frag ments of broken Glass and Mer Cury. A Branch spokesman said about of the devices called Thermo Bee have been manufactured by so therme Ltee. Of Quebec and that most of those have been distributed in Montreal and the Lac St. Jean re Gion. Although the devices Are also patented in the United states the spokesman could not say if they Are sold there. Physicians do not recommend the use of Oral clinical thermometers for infants and persons possessing the devices Are advised to return them to the place of Purchase the statement said. Striking Oil workers return to Job in Iran compiled from dispatches almost All of Iran s vital Oil work ers heeded an Appeal by religious Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and reported Back to work today after a strike of nearly four months Oil Industry sources said. But with the safety of foreigners still in question about mostly americans and britons waited at Tehran s Mehraban Airport for Spe Cial evacuation flights. Thirty canadians were also scheduled to leave the country today leaving 80 canadians in Iran. The Ayatollah s Call for a return to Normal on the first working Day of the moslem week was seen As a major test of the government of Mehdi Bazargan who assumed office a week ago when the Shah s prime minister Shahpur Bakhtiar resigned. Industry sources said almost All the persons employed in oilfields refineries petrochemical and natural Gas plants reported to work. But the sources said there will be no Oil for Export yet and Only about barrels a Day needed domestically will be produced for the time being. Many shops offices and other businesses reopened today As the Capi Tal appeared to return to Normal after months of bloodshed and riots against the Shah s Rule. There was no immediate indication of How Many soldiers and police had obeyed the Ayatollah s orders to return to Barracks. Some troops believed to be mostly leftists have vowed not to return until the authorities establish a peo ple s revolutionary military authorities announced the disbandment of the Shah s Royal guards and the immortal brigade the Only units to resist the revolution Ary onslaught last weekend in Tehran in which the army High command remained Neutral. About 800 americans were taken by bus to Tehran Airport today As the . Government began a four Day evacuation of up to americans. But the flights were delayed by searches. The baggage of the evacuees was combed by customs officials at the Airport before the americans were allowed to begin boarding three special Rescue nights. Two jumbo jets chartered from pan american world airways were waiting to take the americans to Rome and Frankfurt West Germany. On sunday monday and tuesday three jumbos a Day will Fly out More americans. In addition an air Force c-141 transport landed in Tehran today to Aid in the evacuation ;