Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 1979 Carter to focus on Energy pro mems by Paul Whitelaw up news service Ottawa prime minister tru Deau says he expects his talks today with president Carter in Washington will focus on the Uncertain world Energy who was to Fly to the capital this morning aboard a Cana Dian government told the com Mons Friday he also intends to sound out the american Leader on a time table for building a Gas pipeline from Alaska through Canada to the Ameri can the Canadian government pushed through passage of a Bill in 1977 giving a Green Light to construction of the Alaska Highway but the project is still to receive the go ahead from the government and questions have Arisen about whether the americans Are still keen to under a barrage of questioning from the conservatives about his Trudeau said he intends to ask Carter and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger whom he also Hopes to meet about what intentions and what Strong volition they have of proceeding with the pipe line express the con Cern of the Canadian said noting that Parlia ment had acted diligently in pass ing the pipeline legislation nearly two years conservative Energy critic Allan my for the Ontario Riding of said there is real apprehension that the Alaska pipeline project is a dead Duck and that canadians have been led up the Garden Trudeau said he anticipates that most of the time during a working lunch with Carter will be spent talk ing about Energy and the International affairs related to the pm indicated that outstanding bilateral issues Between Ottawa and Washington will be put on a Back to be dealt with in detail Only if time i must inform the House that my meeting with president Carter will be a couple of hours at he Trudeau will Fly to new York in the late afternoon and will attend a performance of the Winnipeg symphony orchestra tonight at Carnegie Carter was to accompany Trudeau to the but the plan was scuttled because of the presidents talks about the Middle East situation with israeli prime minister Menachem who pledged during his Campaign for election in 1976 that relations with Canada would be accorded a higher priority by his has yet to visit Otta but Canadian officials Arent read ing any diplomatic slight into the they say Carter expressed interest in coming to Canada this but Trudeau has to deliver a polite no because of the imminent Federal Tion a Carter visit to Ottawa at this time would be viewed by the tories and nip As an attempt by Deau to bolster his image and unfairly cloak himself in the role of inter National such a aides to the pm Point could also have caused embarrassment for officials glum carte begin talks make no headway a Crane swings a on Eton Ball against a Back Wall of the Alexandria Graham Avenue and Edmonton during demolition work on photo by Dave Bonner the apartment erected in was the subject of an unsuccessful fight to have it preserved As a historic Border conflict settlement seen troops killed almost chinese soldiers in fighting thursday in the Hills around Lang and in previous two sources Here believe Vietnam re ports of chinese casualties Are exaggerated and Vietnam casualties have probably been heavier than peking has issued few re ports on the fighting and the sources said Lang son itself has not been captured by the one analyst speculated chinese com Manders May not want their troops to take Lang son because they then would be vulnerable to vietnamese attacks and it is not known How Many Vietnam Ese troops Are in and around Lang 16 Kilometres South of the Chi Nese but it has been a major staging area for units defending Viet continued Nam against the invasion which began two weeks the chinese government thursday sent an official note to the Vietnam Ese embassy in peking proposing that the two countries hold talks As soon As on Viet Nam rejected the chinese warned by Brezhnev continued not go beyond a Kremlin state ment issued the Day after the fighting began soviet journalist Victor who often reflects official Kremlin said in an article published by a West German newspaper that Moscow might be planning in the West people Are asking will the soviet Union attack militarily to help its ally Vietnam against the chinese he in my opinion there is hardly any doubt that the soviet government will not just restrict itself to Sharp words and threats if China does not end the War As quickly As the so Viet Union has always been Loyal to its later the vietnamese foreign ministry issued its own saying Vietnam would be ready to negotiate normalization of relations once chinese troops withdraw from its territory and peking respects vietnamese sovereignty and ind Epen this reported by Hanoi was said to have been sent to the chinese foreign ministry in various reports from peking indicated China May be preparing to withdraw its army from chinese Deputy Premier kudu told a japanese journalist Friday the offensive against Vietnam has been progressing smoothly and China will be Able to pull out its troops As originally japans Kyodo news service from a Reuter Washington up president Carter and israeli prime minister Menachem begin tried Friday to find a Way out of the stalemate in Middle East peace talks but there was no sign of a appearing announced cancellation of an afternoon Carter and begin plan to meet again tonight after assessing the evidently Bleak the situation is even if you have Good said a source close to the things Are difficult but while they Are talking things can he declined to be in their White House begin spent More than an hour out lining israels position on key Obsta cles to a treaty with it is understood there is no soften ing of begins there was speculation that his position May have begin made no comment on the he told reporters at the i state department after a luncheon with state Secretary Cyrus Vance were not making any political a White House mean described Carters meeting with begin As wide ranging and useful and that the talks were conducted in an atmosphere of Friendship and Carter told reporters the talks Are going about As Well As can be sex the two leaders met again socially Friday Carter and his wife Rosalynn walking hand in hand across Pennsylvania Avenue to join begin and his wife Eliza at a traditional Sabbath israeli officials said they were extremely pleased by the atmosphere at the first meeting thursday night and again at talks Friday they cautioned that so far there Are no grounds for optimism that the two leaders will be Able to break the deadlock in israels peace negotiations with officials were equally saying differences Between the two leaders Are so wide that no one can predict Carter and begin were smiling and seemed completely at ease As they ended a meeting that lasted almost three hours on they made no statements to waiting begin arrived thursday in an urn yielding declaring that the negotiations with Egypt have reached a stage of deep crisis and we cannot be pressed into signing a Sham sources said much of Friday mornings meeting was taken up by begin reciting from memory the history of the talks he held at the Camp David Summit with Carter and egyptian president Anwar Sadat in it is begins Contention that later egyptian demands violate the under takings reached at Camp David on terms for an Israel egyptian peace treaty which he and Sadat had Hope to sign by Carter and begin expressed serious disagreements this week Over the peace with the United states reported to be backing Egypt insistence on changes in a draft treaty with Ottawa scrutinizing move on the Bay client clout in the marketplace to Block the proposed Trudeau told Douglas there is a re Mote Chance the beefed up Competition legislation about to be unveiled by consumer affairs minister War Ren Allmand could be but this would require cooperation from All opposition parties in dealing with All priorities ahead of the Bill on the governments program and parliament to sit for a few More with election rumours most maps Are convinced the House will not be sitting a few More let alone several Allmand promised in the commons continued this week to present soon stronger legislation to Deal with Mon policies and unfair Market he said this would open up the Market and the resulting Competition would help bring Down rising former consumer affairs minister Herb Gray said in an interview new legislation should be brought Forward in time to do something about the Thomson takeover in a letter to Allmand he says the proposed merger can raise Seri Ous questions As to How if it took would be in the Best interest of Consumers and the Canad an Economy As a since its acquisition of Simpsons in the Winnipeg based Hudson Bay Chain has directly controlled about 35 per cent of department store if Simpsons Hal interest in Simpsons ears is included in the Bays its mar Ket share is More than 60 per after investigating the Simpsons Bay Robert director of combines investigation for the complained that he did not have enough Power under existing legislation to Deal with major take Over symphony big night grows near for the past it has been nine Oclock every morning and never finishing before one in the that includes sundays and thursday was a typical into the office at nine to talk to six people from Csc in Toronto and from agencies in new then a rehearsal with pianists Graff and Jeremy in he to the prime ministers office to see whether or not Jimmy Carter would attend the con Cert or whether Carters talks with prime minister Menachem begin of Israel would change Carters plans after Gamba thought it was a Good idea to invite begin As we Are very close to having Camp David started at Carnegie he said Early Friday Gamba boarded a chartered bus to go out to la Guardia Airport to meet 92 or Chestra lieutenant Over nor Bud Jobin and continued Premier Sterling Lyon and Manitoba tourism minister Norma Price and symphony Board members and friends All on the same at Gamba was still in the hotel lobby greeting for concertmaster Arthur the concert will be an emotional looking at the stage in Carnegie Hall looking out at All the seats and thinking of All the worlds great artists who have played in this place to it was a tremendous emotional experience it is going to be a tremendous thrill to go out on stage and perform with All the great artists we have on the Poison is not Overly concerned about the new York i am not worried about the reviews because i think for such a gala the reviewers will look at it in this Light rather than they would with a really major orchestra like the London symphony or the Berlin Phil Harmon the Friday new York times re marked that Piero Gamba is Tena to say the Gamba clearly had a Knack for getting lineups of musicians such As this to participate in and that Al though the route connected with put Ting on the Carnegie Hall concert brought Gamba to a state of fatigue 10 Days he was still Able to enthuse about the potential spleen Dor of the symph Nicum eur Pae orchestra if All went the Friday new York Post says that Gamba is richly consumed by the idea of the creation of an International it de scribed the appearance of Trudeau As Patron As a major coup for prestige it the pudding in photo by Bonner mime artist Ambroise in the new Portage Avenue and main Street underground it int for those confined to wheelchairs to join the see Story Page forces approach Kampala Nairobi a tanzanian in ugandan guerrillas and Muti Nous troops Are reported to be tight ening a deadly ring around ugandan president Idi the Uganda tank Zania War has reached a decisive in the ugandan Amin announced Friday he is throw ing emergency reserves of prison officials and former service men into the Independent observers said the Fate of his Rule might be decided within eyewitnesses said anti amm forces appear to have won control of the Eastern ugandan town of Torero in a Battle involving Jet fighter planes and control of 120 kilo metres East of Means the attackers have Cut the Road and rail links from Kenya which carry almost All of Uganda military and civilian a tanzanian invasion Force pushed 32 Kilometres beyond the provincial Centre of Masaka to within 96 kilo metres of ugandan exile sources residents of Kampala said by Tele phone Friday that life is going on normally diplomats in the capital said there is no evacuation under Way of the foreigners in 130 of them most Are reported to be safely outside the current War the official Uganda radio quoted Amin As telling thousands of police and prison officials to defend the country and As saying the enemy is suffering from a Lack of ;