Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, March 07, 1979

Issue date: Wednesday, March 7, 1979
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Previous edition: Tuesday, March 6, 1979

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free March Arab opposition grows to Carter peace Mission Damascus a Arab opposition to president Carters mid East peace Mission grew today with the Call for the punishment of egyptian president Anwar Sadat if he signs a peace treaty with and France cautioned that Only a settlement that takes a palestinian Homeland into account will bring a lasting president Carters trip to Egypt and Israel this week is aimed at forging an Alliance in the area against the Arab said the Damascus newspaper Al official Organ of Syrias governing socialist baath iraqi foreign minister Saadoun Hamadi said in an interview that the foreign and finance ministers of the Arab league should meet to decide on firm action if Sadat signs a separate peace with Hamadi and Syrias foreign minis Abdul Halim were interviewed by Kuwait array Alaam both said the decisions made at the Arab Summit conference in Baghdad last november called to denounce the Camp David peace Accord accepted by Sadat and israeli prime minister Menachem begin should be one of the secret Baghdad Summit decisions is reported to envisage sanctions against Egypt such As the cutoff of All financial assistance from Oil Rich Arab states or a Panaras economic in another newspaper named Al thaw a called for the beginning of the punishment of since he is continuing his cooperation in imperialist zionist the the official Organ of the baath party which governs did not spell out the form of proposed the saudi arabian news Media stressed the official approach that the Camp David agreement is insufficient for a comprehensive Mideast a photo Prince Philip makes a Point in discussions with his soviet hosts tuesday 1930 olympic the Prince is the chairman of the International during a visit to the site where equestrian events Are to be held in the equestrian million budget in 79 would raise Home tax it Doest Howe for increased school according to a civic the proposed in expenditures is covered by in available requiring an additional million to be raised through Taxa after bookkeeping the real increase in spending would be offset by an increase in Revenue of million of the spending Mil lion comes from a transit deficit formerly paid directly by the prov Ince instead of through Block million reflects a change in accounting for financing and sinking fund earnings of million applied to the departmental budgets on the whole continued held the As Council had instructed last to do the administration has proposed cuts in service ranging from closing of the Garry Street Comfort station to recreation facilities maintenance and closing of the City incinerator on Maude included in the proposed budget is million for anticipated employee salary increases in and funds from an Overall surplus from last year of also proposed by the administration but not calculated into the pro posed Are transit fare in creases of five cents effective May bringing adult fares to 40 cents and fares for children and senior citizens to 15 the while rejecting a Call for free senior citizen bus has suggested 10 tickets be available to senior students and children for monthly passes would go from the current rate of to a new High of the proposed bus fare if implemented May would raise an additional to reduce the 1979 transit deficit to an estimated councils executive committee is expected to make its final recommendation on the proposed Mil lion budget March Council will Convene a special budget session Dur ing the afternoon of March liberals tories 38 Atlantic the tories hold a but not a majority of the about on third of eligible voters 33 per cent Are currently unable to state a preference up from the per cent found in Early Jan today results Are based on 026 income interviews with eligible voters aged 18 years and this Sample size is accurate within a mar Gin 19 in 20 according to the Canadian Institute of Public opinion which conducts the Gallup continued the following table shows the share of popular support gained by each party in the along with selected Gallup polls conducted since those who Are unde Cid per cent currently have been eliminated from the the month shown represents the inter viewing not the publication note percentages May not add to exactly 100 because of world copyright reserved 1974 election Gallup studies 1975 1976 1977 1978 March july september october november december 1979 february pc nip other 43 35 16 8 47 30 38 37 41 37 43 36 45 34 42 34 41 38 37 42 35 43 38 40 39 40 39 38 17 6 19 17 17 17 19 17 17 18 18 16 19 Kasser Mastermind Kasser appeals fraud charges Austria Reuter Alexander assert a former business Man in has appealed against fraud charges in connection with losses incurred by a Canadian forestry Canadian officials said they said who has become an austrian citizen in appealed against the Public prosecutors in a court would study his Appeal but would not announce judg ment for several Kasser was described by a Manitoba commission of inquiry in 1974 As the Mastermind behind a scheme to defraud the provincial government which made heavy Loans to the Chur chill forestry Complex in the Forest industries Complex had incurred heavy debts by the time the Manitoba government took Over in cancer society disapproves of drug or than a of approval for the states have changed their Laws so a patient has the right to choose the kind of treatment he he everyone is completely in formed and is in Complete Possession of All the then that is Freedom of Choice but we also have a responsibility to protect people against being defrauded and Harvey cancer specialist at Boniface is also concerned that some cancer victims will drop out of conventional therapy programs to try i know of a Young girl who has a continued tumor and was responding to treat ment the tumor was getting smaller and the pain was going away and quite she decided to drop the treatment and go Back to taking it didst make Murray director of the Manitoba cancer said tuesday we Are opposed to laetrile in View of the findings and research of the National cancer we have seen nothing to change our minds that laetrile is not a cancer executive director of the National cancer Institute of said in a statement on laetrile in promoting laetrile it is usual to imply that even if it does no it at least does no this is far from the truth taken by laetrile May then be broken Down by enzymes contained in other and produced by and result in cyanide Mcbeth added one can Only Hope that we in Canada will be Able to resist the but at the same time pressures to legalize a useless and a potentially harmful unproven cancer laetrile was discovered by Acci Dent in 1920 by Ernest a California while he was to improve the flavor of Boot leg whiskey by adding Apricot his Ernest Krebs claimed to have purified it in 1952 and then began promoting it As a wonder since millions of dollars have been spent investigating the claims of the animal clinical Examina Tion and chemical analysis have All shown laetrile to be neither effective nor particularly researchers even if Carter succeeds in bring ing about a treaty Between Israel and the Region will remain tense As Long As Israel occupies Jerusalem and the Golan said an editorial in the saudi what the Arab states want is a comprehensive peace that would Lead to unconditional israeli withdrawal from All occupied in the first official statement since the announcement of Carters Mideast Mission was released after a regular Cabinet meeting presided Over by president Valery Giscard without directly referring to the statement said the government recalls its position that Only an Overall associating All the interested and taking into account the legitimate rights of the palestinian people to dispose of a can bring Back peace and stability in this Sensi Tive Region of the bombs injure twelve on israeli tour bus Tel Israel a terrorists planted bombs on three tourist buses in Israel and the explosion of one injured 12 including two authorities said the tourists were not seriously but two work ers were in serious the tourists names and nationalities were not the injuries occurred when a bomb the second that exploded went off aboard a bus carrying tourists from Jerusalem across the Al let by Bridge Between Jordan and the Israel occupied West the first explosion was in an empty bus on the mount of olives in Arab East at a spot where buses Park while tourists walk to the Church of the there were no casualties but the bus went up in one source said All three bombs were placed on buses that had been parked in the same place in Jerusa Lem and were planted before the buses left for different alerted by the two expo looked for other buses that had been parked in the same and a grenade was found on a tour bus that had reached Fula in route to a this time bomb was defused before it could do any tour buses and places frequented by tourists Are favorite targets of palestinian in guerrillas often try to have their bombings coincide with Mideast peace president Carters trip to Egypt and Israel this week has been com damned by the palestinians As ignoring their inmate gouges own eyes to set up escape attempt up a Penitentiary prisoner gouged out his eyes with his thumbs in an escape attempt police and his charged with conspiring to help the Man has been remanded in custody for a bail hearing police said surgeons had to re move one Eye from Dennis Dale of the other was returned to its socket but vision has been reduced to about two per Samantha Hunter appeared tuesday in provincial court in nearby Napanee and was remanded to Quinte detention police said serving sentences totalling More than 20 years for armed robberies in Vancouver and Winnipeg and for escaping Cus Tody in had planned to escape from the ambulance that took him to police said other arrests May be made within the next few Patterson invites f enemy to help labor Harvey Winnipeg labor councils executive said tuesday he didst invite a local labor representative to teach a Public speaking course because he find one he thought there Arent Many people in the labor movement who have Good ability with Public i find anyone he told a Council meeting instructor for the today course March 17 and 18 will be Hugh Delan immediate past president of the Winnipeg chamber of How could this happen asked Paul Canadian Union of postal workers cup who referred to the Choice of Delaney As having the enemy speak to another Delegate called Patter sons statement that few labor people Are Good Public speakers a vicious another said someone in the new democratic party opposition in the Manitoba legislature could have taught the other delegates supported Patter sons Allan Denton of the International association of machinists and aerospace workers said picking people on the basis of Politi Cal beliefs would be putting blinders Lew a cup said Public speaking is a technical sub As is we got a technician for we dont like his we can learn from maybe we can use it against him in the he in other business Council approved notice of a motion raising dues from 10 cents a Union member a month to 12 the motion is to be voted on next an auditors report said Council now has a vietnamese claim splendid Victory Thailand a Viet Nam claimed a splendid Victory against China today and said it would allow the chinese invasion Force to withdraw from its territory in but if the chinese while pulling continue acts of they will be duly said an Edito rial in the vietnamese communist party Hanoi nhan the editorial appeared to confirm that the withdrawal announced by China on monday was under saying the chinese have been forced to but intelligence sources in Bangkok said they have no Evi Dence yet of a major chinese with Margaret tells Why she left Trudeau continued of scandal continues unabated for a third the British morning which claims a circulation of four Bills the series As the intriguing revelations of the pre Miers wife who joined the Jet set at among these revelations Are i fall in love with each Man in involved i love the wild feel ing of i Only have Nice thoughts about anyone who rubs my the series is under the byline of Alan described As a re Porter who has known Margaret in various parts of the in today Markfield quotes Margaret in always trying to find some one better than but i keep i like sleeping in mens silk but just the i like wearing Garter belts and stockings because there i wonder All the time if a Man wants to go out with me because in me or because in Margaret ill never leave ;