Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free March boards making unnecessary budget teachers claim by Noelle Boughton some school divisions Are cutting Bach their budgets More than that required by declining enrolments the president of the Manitoba teachers society said Al Valentine said at a press conference that some school boards Are practising restraint simply for restraints without naming school he cited cases in which one Board decided it would Only increase the Mill rate by a certain number of another decided to Cut from its proposed 1971 budget and a third plans a 10 per cent teaching staff Valentine said school boards set such arbitrary limits for budget cuts without first assessing the Quality of education of teaching staff should not be he if that Means a number of grades in one More than one program taught in a class at one time or services and resources for students with special needs being reduced or school boards should Only begin carrying out cutbacks when there satisfied All these factors will be said in the he parents should realize that such cuts will seriously harm the Quality of the educational program and jeopardize the Quality of education programs being offered to today and its not the fault of the sters today that there Are not More of to make trustees even More aware of Valentine parents should approach their school boards to protest cuts in 1979 Bud though Many boards have now either completed budget deliberations or Are in the last stages of doing school boards should also ask the province to maintain funding at steady Levels by keeping up with the seven to nine per cent inflation he after acknowledging that provincial portion of education funding has been declining since Valentine said there Are As Many taxpayers As Ever and they have a responsibility to provide education for Chil Manitoba universities raising fees to by Manfred Jager a senior provincial government source said tuesday Manitoba three universities will Likely raise tuition fees this year for major under graduate programs to the move would mean a hike for five credit courses in undergraduate science and education pro Grams at the universities of Manitoba and Brandon and a hike in fees at the University of it would be the first time that courses would Cost the same at Manitoba three although University officials would neither confirm nor deny the across the province Standard University of Manitoba president Ralph Campbell said tuesday that his schools administration is recommending an increase somewhere in the neighbourhood of six per which would bring total tuition for next year into the Vicinity of Campbell said final tuition fees for next year will be announced following a Board of governors meeting March presidents Harry Duckworth of the University of Winnipeg and Jack Perkins of Brandon University could not be reached for comment on the fee increase reports Campbell said the which would affect roughly half of the students at the u of is not Likely to pose a Barrier to students wishing pursue higher severe quake darkens Mexico City Mexico City a a severe earthquake damaged buildings and sprayed broken Glass Over the streets of downtown Mexico City before Dawn the red Cross indicated there were but there were no immediate reports of the seismological Institute in mex Ico City reported the quake measured 7 on the Richter scale and the epicentre was about 315 Kilometres Southwest of the capital the geological Survey in Gold called it a major quake with a Richter Reading of and the epicentre 160 Kilometres Northwest of on the Pacific coast or a Short distance at scientists there said that Reading would make it the strongest quake in the world this no damage was reported in Aca a popular but the High Way to it from Mexico City was blocked by lights were out in several sections of the capital of 13 million people when a Strong aftershock hit Al most exactly an hour after the main Shock rolled through the capital shortly after 5 the facade fell from a Bank build ing on Juarez Street in the heart of the it appeared at least one upper Storey of the building collapsed into the ground tourists gathered in Small fright ened knots in front of the towering hotels on pase de la Reforma Boule Glass from broken windows littered the electricity was Cut in Many parts of Mexico the subway system stopped and firemen reported serious damage to some buildings at inter american University in the Southern part of the Florida of said the locked door of her hotel room flew i went outside and part of the inside of the Hall fell she you stand Dale of said i got up and saw my clothes swaying in the i went to the door and the Wall i went into the Hall and saw the fire extinguisher Hose Fly radio broadcasts said the quake was Felt in 160 Kilometres from the and in about 400 Kilometres South of Mexico there were no reports of dam age in those the Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on Seis every increase of one number Means a tenfold increase in an earthquake of 7 on the scale is considered a major capable of widespread heavy dam age 8 is a great capable of tremendous evacuated Man submits Bill at Mountain resort Edmonton up one of the nearly South Edmonton Resi dents who were evacuated March 2 after a liquid Gas pipeline rupture left the area and didst Stop for 384 Kilometres in Alberta disaster service director Ernie Tyler said monday the Man submitted his Bill at the Mountain resort As one of 420 expense claims presented to the provincial govern ment As a result of the Tyler did not identify the Man or the amount of his he said claims ranged from to but most were Between and As Many As claims had been Jet fans not crying in Beer Over nil continued Ster motor some of the Guys who regularly order Canadian Are asking for Lavatts Tony who tends bar at the canadians motor hotels beverage said a few people have asked him for anything else except Mol Mol sons is one of the Best sell ing brands we used to sell As much Canadian As old Vienna and Blue put said we have two shelves of Mol sons which we refill at six every tonight we didst have employees at the liquor commis Sion outlet at Ellice Avenue and Margrave Street said Mol sons sales Haven been As Chipper As it usually Sells pretty said one As far As i can Tell we Only sold one Case Many Barmen noted that a perceptible suds sales slump was still weve noticed some of our customers but its really too Early to said Arnold manager of the River Crest motor 7fm x x c 4 x r photo by Dave Banner a grader clears Snow and ice away from Street catch basins tuesday to the which led to a 12lnchdeep was reported at allow water from a break at the Polo Park shopping Centre to Drain and was under control three hours first prisoner Exchange israeli traded for 60 palestinians Geneva a an israeli sol Dier was traded for 66 palestinians at Geneva Airport today in the first prisoner Exchange Between the jew ish state and the Avraham captured 11 months ago during israels invasion of Southern was swapped for 60 palestinian men and six women who were arrested in Israel occupied the names of the palestinians could not be Learned negotiations for the Trade were con ducted during the last several the Exchange announcement was made by the International committee of the red which said initially it acted As a letter Box Between the israelis and the it said Amram arrived from a on a bulgarian air ways that the palestinians arrived from Israel on a chartered plane five minutes later and parked at opposite ends of the half the palestinians were re put on a Large Airport bus and driven toward the bulgarian stopping some distance then Amram was released from the bulgarian put on a smaller bus and driven toward the israeli the remaining palestinians were then a 33yearold army Reserve will go to Tel Aviv in the israeli aircraft As soon As formalities have been and the palestinians will be taken to in the bulgarian the red Cross it said the prisoner selection was made by the two sides and the red Cross proposed Geneva for the Swap because it would have been difficult to find a place agreeable to both parties in the Middle East israeli reports say Amram was the Only israeli taken prisoner during the three month occupation of Southern they said he was captured april 4 he and six other israelis made an unauthorized trip to an Orchard in a guerrilla controlled zone to pick they said a palestinian patrol saw them and opened killing four and wounding Amram while two of the israelis the Exchange was deliberately timed to coincide with president Carters visit to the Middle East prove that nobody can step on the palestinian Fadel shroud of of the popular front for the libera Tion of Palestine told a news Confer ence in Damascus we have accepted the prisoner Exchange to show that guerrilla raids inside the occupied Homeland aim at releasing our prisoners from israeli Carter gets heros Welcome Carter announced that Sadat had agreed to the main ingredients of a peace treaty and that final israeli agreement awaited Only Cabinet and Knesset within two hours of Carters state begin signalled a Likely Cabi net agreement when he told a television interviewer that if the Knesset failed to approve the agreements Carter won from both his government would have to asked if a treaty signing could take place within a he a he told israeli state radio the signing would take place in Cairo and in Sadat and his prime min ister and foreign Mustapha remained but when asked if he agreed with begins Deputy foreign minister continued Butros Butros Ghali was quoted As i can answer i Hope the peace treaty will be concluded this White House press Secretary Jody Powell told reporters in Cairo pending the approval by the israeli Cabinet and the entire treaty package including the Basic treaty text and a number of Side Docu ments Are ready for Carters announcement of the stun Ning turnaround in his peace efforts came after a meeting with Sadat in the letters residential reception building at Cairo International Airport a meeting Many observers believed had been convened Only As a diplomatic gesture in which Carter would explain the failure his according to sources close to the negotiations the sudden breakthrough emerged from a lat night negotiating session in Jerusalem monday Between Secretary of state Cyrus Vance and israeli foreign minister Moshe based on that new american proposals de signed to resolve what Carter called the few remaining were framed and presented by Carter to begin at a breakfast meeting tues during the Carter begin agreed to present these proposals to his Cabinet for consideration at the earliest opportune the same proposals were presented to Sadat during the Cairo Airport Stopover later in the Jones tapes reveal death Call t him Vii Imp Gonna there Gonna shoot that Pilot and Down comes the plane into the and we had better not have any of our children left when its Over cause Parachute in Here on my opinion is that wed be kind to children and be kind to seniors and take the like they used to take in ancient Greece and step Over because we Are not committing suicide its a revolutionary woman identified As Christine Miller i feel like that As Long As theres theres theres that my Jones Well someday everybody someplace that Hope runs out cause everybody crowd noise that that right Christine i said in afraid to Jones i dont think you i dont think you Christine Miller i look at All the babies and i think they deserve to i Christine Milter continued Jones but also they deserve much they deserve noises of approval can be heard from crowd unidentified Over its weve made that we made a Beautiful and lets make it a Beautiful crowd snouts approval unidentified woman sobbing were All ready to if you Tell us we have to give our lives were crowd shouts approval another unidentified woman so we might As Well end it because i dont Jones interrupting keeping the congressman has been murdered the congressman please get us some its its theres no convulsions with its just just please get it before its too the guyanese army will be i Tell get get get moving How Many Are dead god god its too the con Gressmann the congressman aides Many of our traitors Are there All Layin out there nurse you have to and the people that Are standing there in the go stay in the radio room so everybody get behind the table and Back this of theres nothing to worry so everybody keep and try to keep your Chil Dren and the older children Are to help Lead the Little children and reassure they Arent cry ing from its just a Little bitter tasting but that there not crying out of any Jones for gods lets get on with weve just be done with lets be done with the agony of confusion and applause get lets get screams in background i dont know who fired the i dont know who killed the con but As far Asim con i killed you understand what in saying i killed he had no business i told him not to die with die with a degree of Lay Down your life with dont Lay Down with tears and Stop this this is not the Way for people who Are socialistic communists to no Way for us to we must die with some if youll quit telling them there if you adults will Stop this i Call on you to quit exciting your children when All there doing is going to a quiet All there doing is taking a drink they take to go to that what death take our life from we Laid it we got we didst commit we committed an act of revolutionary suicide pro testing the conditions of an inhuman no More talking on just noise of music from speakers at going on for another several minutes ;