Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Friday Warch a Twat my eff vat offers Carter counter proposals it i continued a television news Crew left films flood damage in the tiny Community of North As two residents View the remains of their Mobile More than 100 families were forced to evacuate their Homes when the ice jammed and swollen Connecticut River poured Over its emergency Energy supplies Bill passed by commons committee seven per cent below the present earlier thursday citing the need to express Blunt delivered a stinging criticism of fed eral Energy policy in general in re cent in a Brief to the commit also ridiculed the Bill As setting up a Federal dictatorship Over Energy matters by authorizing Powers that went far beyond the needs of any potential Energy Gillespie acknowledged to the com Mittee that the proposed Energy sup plies allocation Board would hold sub Stantial Power in the event of an continued emergency Energy the boards Powers would override any existing commercial contracts and would authorize the allocation of supplies for Domestic use on the basis of All stocks available in Lawrence Northumberland Dur Ham pressed Gillespie to include in the Bill a provision allowing compensation to be paid to companies and individuals ordered to make economic new Democrat Cyril Symes Sault Marie successfully moved an amendment ordering that a member of the government owned Oil be appointed to a senior position of the allocation Gillespie said the Board chairman and its six other members would also include representatives of the producing and consuming the Bill replaces a similar one passed following the 1973 world Energy crisis that automatically expired three years the new Board would exist for one year and then require annual approval from parliament to remain in issues that any real solution will be difficult for both Egypt and Israel to reporters were told that Vance is prepared to stay behind in the Middle East for some shuttling Between Cairo and Jerusalem if More negotiation is heeded after Carters visit to the two capitals and if enough Progress is an emerging Factor in the talks Here and in Israel is the growing awareness by Carter and his aides that persuasion in the form of arms supplies and economic Aid May be necessary before the Deal is wrapped for this Secretary of defense Harold who late last month toured the Region discussing arms sales and Security has been added to the official in his Exchange with report ers after thursdays Cabinet meet stressed the egyptian belief that the americans Are Here to hot press and that the propos als that Israel accepted monday will have to be they do not represent final american Khalil it is a kind of negotiable proposal that has been presented to us and that can be modified according to our we Are not expecting any pressure from the american Khalil we have to say very clearly the american Side never exerted any pressure on Khalil declined to discuss specifics of the which concerned the key issues of linking the treaty to the palestinian Issue and of defining the relationship Between the treaty and Egypt defense agree ments with other Arab but he stressed that Egypt insistence on a target Date for future talks on the palestinian Issue is alluded in his statement to the persistent egyptian concern that the treaty with Israel not be branded a separate peace by other arbs and in particular by the palestinians and those who support you will find the egyptian people firm in their dedication to a just and comprehensive peace in the Sadat we Are determined to enable our palestinian Brothers to re Alize their National rights and regain their Carter likewise spoke of the need to look to a comprehensive rather than a vietnamese accused of harassing troops withdrawing to China Tokyo a the first Contin gent of chinese troops returned Home thursday from fighting in the official chinese news Agency Xin Hua Hsinhua China accused the Viet namese of shelling the withdrawing the first of whom were Given a heroes Welcome at Friendship pass just North of the sin vietnamese Xinhua did not say How Many troops had returned or to what units they it said Vietnam Ese troops have time and again bombarded and harassed withdrawing chinese Frontier forces Over the last few it was the first official announce ment by peking that chinese troops have returned Home following its proposal for ceasefire talks at the ministerial Vietnam has said it will be pre pared to negotiate once a total withdrawal of chinese troops has taken Japan said thursday it is acting As a mediator in the Chin Vietnam As the columns of returning Mili tary trucks passed through the City of Jinxiang pin firecrackers exploded and the ancient City re sounded with the beating of Drums and and cheers of the Welcom ing Xinhua vietnamese artillery forces entrenched on a Mountaintop shelled chinese troops withdrawing North Ward tuesday morning toward the Dong Dang area near Lang and the chinese struck it similar incidents occurred wednes Day and thursday in the area of the Xinhua chinese sources earlier indicated the withdrawal would be difficult and possibly taking two weeks or Vietnam said the withdrawal was very slow and in very Small Hanoi latest Battle report said the chinese aggression forces today continued their nibbling at vietnamese territory and burning and looting property in vietnamese Border Vietnam has said it would be pre pared to negotiate once a total withdrawal of chinese troops took analysts in Bangkok reported skirmishing in some of the Frontier prov inces and this was expected to Contin but despite firmer evidence of a pullout some Indochina watchers still cautioned the situation remained tense and larger scale fighting could japanese foreign minister Sunao Sonoda told a parliamentary commit tee in Tokyo that Japan was asking China to pull out and Vietnam to allow u smooth chinese both sides have their but they have begun to show their conditions As meetings Sonoda a photo Hanoi digs ditches for Protection in Case invasion partial but he refrained from repeating Sadat evocation of pales Tinian National a formula Tion israelis rejected As foreshadow ing a palestinian an Egypt Israel Carter would be a not an end that would bring within reach a real a comprehensive a peace that Wold reflect the legitimate needs of All those who have suffered so deeply during the last 30 years of conflict departing from his prepared text Carter alluded to the welcoming crowds on the streets and balconies mining his route and declared that Sadat and in the car rep edged ourselves not to disappoint those in among the who Dev Pend on invasion forces nearing Kampala Nairobi a invading Tanza Nian soldiers and ugandan exiles Are closing in on the town of less than 40 Kilometres from Uganda capital of the official ugandan radio said the sources said the advancing troops were meeting no the Kampala broadcast was the first confirmation by Uganda beleaguered president Idi Amin that the invasion Force is virtually at the Doorstep of his capital there was no sign of amins promised although of pkg Mats said daily arms flights from Libya were unconfirmed reports said the shipments included about a dozen Mig and Mirage Jet planes and tanks and since Uganda started the War four months Tanzania has claimed to have destroyed a major part of amins Mig strike observers also believe at least a third of Ugan Das amed forces have refused to diplomats and informed Independent observers said the invaders approaching Kampala included exiles and a larger number of tanza4 Nian perhaps men Iri Amin was believed to have about an equal number of plus an estimated libyan and Palestin Ian diplomats say amins pressed army is receiving a crucial infusion from Libya of fighter heavy artillery and in fair try these sources said libyan troops also had been flown to but both Libya and Amin denied opposition attacks Pha Macare increase continued i Sherman also stressed that the deductible will stay at for All those aged 65 and while the full Cost of prescription drugs will be paid for those in personal care Homes and on social nip critics in the legislature immediately attacked the move As Cal claiming it represented a million cutback in Pha Macare fund ing and a reduction in the amount of Money available to people who Are ill and in need of opposition Leader Howard Pawley suggested the human rights commis Sion should examine the legality of Sherman action in discriminating on the basis of other Las demanded that Sherman justify the i can justify it in the same Way the previous government justified the minister the principle of Pha Macare was never to provide free drugs for it was to assist those who have heavy drug Sherman denied any reduction in saying Only the projected government payout had been if the deductible haunt been the programs Cost to taxpayers would have More than doubled from the million paid out in he Oil supplies juggled to get More Money by the associated press several Oil exporting states appear to be juggling supplies to get More Industry sources said thurs the who asked not to be said the countries Are using the excuse of production problems to Enns says convictions not reported continued during study of the spending estimates for the Branch by a committee of the i believe were not getting the majority of the the motor vehicle Branch is unfairly criticized when a rather serious Accident involving a juvenile occurs and then it is disclosed at a hearing or that he has a driving record that is Cut Back Oil they sell under Lon term the Oil involved is being diverted to the no contract Market where prices Are higher be cause of the squeeze caused by thai iranian Energy Secretary James Schlesinger warned on thursday that the fuel Supply situation next Winter could Range from a tight Ket to very severe pending on events in Iran and the Middle the possibility that producing states Are juggling Oil was raised after Libya told its contract custom ers that it would Cut Supply by 12 to 18 per cent due to technical Libya supplies about five per cent of the no communist worlds one analyst said there doing it to get More Oil to sell on the spot the spot Market is where Oil not covered under Lon term contracts is1 the spot Market Price of Oil is about a while the open base Price is the Price disparity May also explain recent actions by other Mem Bers of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries which have told customers they will be getting less Oil than Why want turncoat walk televised die asks Ottawa up former prime minister John Diefenbaker protested thursday the fact that viewers of televised commons proceedings were unable to watch Liberal turn coat Ralph Stewart Cross the floor wednesday to take his seat As a speaking Over Liberal catcalls and booing during a Rowdy and somewhat Happy Lucky question Diefenbaker asked Why commons cameramen had been instructed not to follow stewarts walk across the commons speaker James Jerome interjected that he had made the decision in keeping with the Basic rules Laid Down by an Al party com Mons committee for television coverage of there should be no Diefenbaker sputtered As conserva Tives applauded and liberals the former conservative prime minister described stewarts defection As an interesting and revealing and historic Jerome later told reporters that television in the commons was to serve As an electronic Hansard official record of proceedings rather than to be entertainment or news the cameras remained on Stewart wednesday As he read a Short but when he left the Liberal benches to be greeted by cheering the camera remained on do you expect to see in printed Hansard that when he Stewart got to the other he Shook hands with the Leader of the opposition Jerome if you dont find it reported in the printed Hansard it be in the electronic the Only evidence of the walk across the floor by the my for Cochrane in Northern Ontario re corded in the printed Hansard is the text of his followed by some members hear hear Jerome said this was the first time a member had crossed the floor to actually take a seat with an opposing party since television was introduced in the he said it was an Accident that the cameras recorded in its entirety for Mer defence minister James Richardson walk out of the chamber when he left the Liberal party ear Lier this from returned the next Day to sit As an he happened to head straight to wards a and Jerome said he was not pleased with the when he heard wednesday morning that Stewart planned to Cross the floor he issued instructions to avoid a repeat of the Richardson cover ;