Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, March 08, 1979

Issue date: Thursday, March 8, 1979
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March up photo you could say Gerry Dorscheid week old Heifer has something to sniff about two Complete despite her Odd the Newborn calf is healthy and growing Carter receives warm Welcome egyptians continued officials Here Are optimistic that the trip will result in a settlement of generation old differences Between the two meanwhile in external affairs minister Don Jamieson said Canada has been sounded out about contributing to a new Middle East peace the Federal government is sympathetic to the Jamieson told the the House accepted a motion by former prime minister John Diefenbaker commending Carter for his courageous initiative in going Perso Nally to Egypt and Israel in his continuing Endeavor to bring peace Between these two the House said it supports Carters objectives and Hopes the presidents trip will Lead to a just and lasting tens of thousands of spectators began gathering Early along the route of Carters 13kilometre motorcade from the Airport to Kebbeh after trying to convince president Anwar Sadat to Settle remaining differences with Carter will go to Jerusalem on he will try to convince prime minister Menachem begin to sit Down with Sadat and sign a treaty Between the two signs of optimism Sadat Cabinet studied suggestions for the egyptian officials called Carters visit the final sprint to and begin i am while officials said too Many details remain for Carter to Complete a treaty for they did not Rule out initial Ling Carter told about 40 members of Congress who met with him at the White House shortly before he left that he was not sure of Suc he said he had no said representative Edward Derwinski Carter said his Hopes Are tempered by sober he told reporters that negotiations must address the legitimate needs of All who Are affected by the con that was a reference to palestinians living in Israel occupied Ter real peace will not come with a single treaty important As that would Carter but a treaty Between Egypt and Israel is an indispensable step toward the broader comprehensive peace we All the president ended on a note of for the first time in a he peace in the Middle East has come within chinese pulling attacking Vietnam claims Thailand a Viet Nam announced today that the Chi Nese Are withdrawing troops from some areas of Vietnam very slowly and in very Small numbers but also have staged new attacks and occupied More land in other parts of the Frontier in the first official admission from Vietnam that some form of pullout was Hanoi radio accused the chinese of looting property and burning Homes in their the broadcast also said chinese artillery fired hundreds of shells wednesday into the capital of Lang son in response to a peking report that chinese troops love the vietnamese the official broadcast re plied instead of Loving our they love our clothes and other reliable sources in Bangkok said there Are definite signs of a cautious chinese these analysts said some infantry and armoured units have pulled out of the Long son perhaps the most contested in the it was not known in Bangkok whether any chinese units actually have returned to but the yugoslav news Agency Tan Jug reported from peking that the first chinese troops have arrived and that other units will follow shortly to facilitate the Start of negotiations Between China and Vietnam on Possession of islands in the South China the islands were not named but presumably Oil is believed to be in the surrounding the japanese news reported from peking that chinese sources there estimated the withdrawal will take two More weeks because pulling out is More difficult militarily than the sources said the vietnamese Are expected to make Small scale attacks on the departing units but Are not capable of a major the chinese invaded Vietnam on 17 after months of clashes be tween vietnamese and chinese Bor Der forces and the vietnamese inva Sion of Cambodia 25 which drove a communist government Allied with peking from phenom the chinese said their aim was to punish their Southern communist neighbor for Border provocations and to teach them a peking announced monday it was withdrawing its troops after achieving its on Vietnam said the chinese had been Defeated and would be allowed to pull out but Hanoi said the chinese would be duly punished if they renewed the the latest Battle report from Hanoi said fighting was continuing around Lang 130 Kilometres Northeast of which the chinese were re ported to have and the chinese were still shelling Cao 120 Kilometres Northwest of Lang son and 32 Kilometres from the Hanoi also said the invaders were still digging trenches and attacking civilians in other nhan Dan said that after the Viet namese forces withdrew from Lang the chinese set to Many blew up Bridges and looted property which they shipped Back to China on trucks and the official Vietnam news Agency said a Hanoi correspondent for japans communist party newspaper Okahata was killed by chinese snipers wednesday in Lang objection Likely to fall on deaf ears airline seat Sale prompts up protest Montreal up up air Doest like air Canadas much bal a shooed seat but its will probably fall on deaf ears and that just May be for the says up president Ian up air protested to the Canadian transport commission about the seat which offers discounts of 48 to 68 per cent on North american trips starting Between March 27 and May Gray says the discounts Are unfair Competition and predatory but up air Doest expect much to come of the which is Why it is offering the same he told reporters in an election i doubt that anybody would deny these fares to the people and i would Hope we dont even have a he weve made our we think air Canadas prices Are below Cost and but were ready to match the protest was filed largely to make a he up air feels it is at a competitive disadvantage in the current situation because it is allowed Only 28 per cent of transcontinental air travel flights Between major Points from Toronto and Van air Canada gets the bal that Means up air cant offer the kind of competitive service it needs in order to prevent customers from switching to air Gray he recalled that chair has been pressing the commission for years for a greater share of transcontinental As Well As Access to Halifax and other Eastern spokesmen at the transport com Mission say they expect several United states carriers to apply for per Mission to match the Low fares on routes they share with the two big Ca Nadian american airlines has already done Cost of fuel pushes airfares up new York a two citing soaring fuel sought fare increases on the same Day Mexico which supplies about two per cent of the crude Oil used daily in the United states said it almost certainly will boost Mexico cautioned on wednesday that it cant assist some so hard pressed they have cancelled hundreds of american airlines has asked per Mission to increase All its fares four per cent As of May 15 while United airlines sought a along with trans world and Delta have curtailed hundreds of Pierre and sons or her Freedom Maggie must decide next month new York a april is the deadline for Margaret at the end of a two year separation agreement with her Hus the prime she must decide which is More important her marriage and her three Chil Dren or her the Jet setting Trudeau says she left her 29 years her in a quest for Equality and Independence and she Hopes to reestablish their relation though not necessarily their her and her description of the written separation agree appear in articles in wednes Days daily Mirror of London and aprils ladies Home both articles were written by Alan described As a journalist who has followed the 30yearold Trudeau on her world trav Pierre and i Are Ever hopeful of working things out and getting Back Trudeau says in the ladies Home journal ill never leave she i never whatever relationship we Are Able to succeed in having will be Good and right for us whether it is marriage or just the closest two people can be in helping each other survive a life that int who has visited her family regularly during the says she be happier but it want always that before the i was at the Edge of not being Able to sur because there was no room in the marriage for Trudeau has since written an autobiography and is filming her third the article in the mass circulation daily Mirror offers a different Side of Trudeau the Side that has seen her linked Romanti Cally with rolling stones Lead Singer Mick an affair she denies o k 4 i air Canada and up air Are flying opposite routes when it comes to citrate but they Are heading for the same liberals women rights plan called Public relations diversion Ottawa up in a reelection pitch to women 51 per cent of the voters the government wednesday unveiled a five year plan for sexual Equality in the family and the work called towards Equality for the plan was introduced in the commons by Justice minister Marc Lalonde Only a Short time before an election is to be David pc women rights termed the plan Basi Cally a Public relations Lalonde had planned to announce the Deal International women but jumped the gun when progressive conservatives launched a on Day debate centred on Macdonald charge that the Liber als Are blaming women for High in exploiting immigrant women and failing to acknowledge women need and right to work As much As the government plan restates plans to improve unemployment insurance maternity overhaul sexual criminal offence press for a modern divorce act and improve pensions for elderly it says the government plans to increase trades training for it will find ways to end sexual harass ment in the work increase language and other services for immigrant women and get equal Opportunity managers cracking in the Public the plan proposes a series of Stu Dies on women in the social service programs and elderly violence and the safety of it is crammed with proposals to study wide ranging possible Legisla Tive changes in the future rang ing from tax Breaks for unmarried couples to joint child custody of Chil Dren at divorce and a form of paternity leave for provincial premiers or ministers also Are committed in the plan to discuss at a conference this year problems women Are facing in the work Stanley new democratic party scoffed at Lalonde de Fence of the governments saying the minister has a lot of Gall to make claims to if the minister is going to make Public that coloured document that he tabled which is obviously a Public relations he should also table the document which tells the real Story on what the Cabinet does not intend to do for the women of this rough fish new exotic dish or reason for diners to Carp make diners so they at tempt to avoid the word on their More than a year ago the Lake Manitoba commercial Fisherman association received Federal Assis Tance to test the products accept a program of catering to banquets and social events As Well As setting up tasting Booths was developed across the Over an eight month More than people in Brandon and Winnipeg sampled the fish and a Large major Ity gave it a stamp of the fishermen went to the fresh water Institute at the University of where new methods of de boning and processing the fish were the end product is a Type of minced fish which restau rants Are using for appetizer although Lake fresh will Start its marketing Campaign in the company eventually Hopes to sell the fish across the fresh fillets Are being sold to retail ers for about 90 cents a so the ultimate retail Price will be continued about per John son smoked fillets Are More expend but still cheaper than the More glamorous Freshwater the company must pay a com Mission to the Freshwater fish marketing corporation for the right to process and sell their Johnson said increasing the catch of Carp May also alleviate other problems facing Lake Manitoba the Carp have multiplied tremendously in the last few years and Are posing a danger to other Fine food since they feed on the spawn of the other fewer Carp May mean More White fish and other Britain oldest daily newspaper to resume publishing april 17 London Reuter the Britain oldest and most influential daily plans to resume publication on april 17 after being shut Down by a labor dispute since a spokesman for the newspaper said management of the times newspaper group and labor unions agreed Early after 11 hours of Over night talks with employment minis Ter Albert Booth As to hold negotiations to end the which has closed the the sunday times and sister publications for than three times newspapers suspended publication after failing to win agree ment from the unions on computerized typesetting outlawing of Wildcat strikes which resulted in the loss of More than 13 million copies last year and an end to ;