Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Can Richardson be beaten at the stress its the drummer inside arabs buying Prince Snow High Low 5 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg free press final 15 86 1 44 March province to assist symphony officials of the Manitoba arts the provinces cultural fund ing Are to meet shortly with the Winnipeg symphony orchestra to seek a fair and reasonable solution to the groups Money act ing cultural affairs minister Bob Banman said we Are through the arts to meet with these peo ple and try to establish a proper and equitable formula for Banman told the he told reporters the government would not try to alter or get involved in the groups management Struc members of the civic finance who will be asked today to endorse an Grant request to the were divided monday As to whether the orches tra should receive special consider a confidential symphony report unveiled in the free press saturday said the organization has a Revenue shortfall of to Date and will have an accumulated deficit of at least by May the report said unless the symphony receives an Grant from the City the organization would be unable to meet this weeks even with the bankruptcy could Only be staved off until april 20 unless other funding arrangements Are the Treasur ers report in addition to requesting from the City More than has been recommended by a subcommittee on Grants the symphony is also asking finance committee to Send their funding request to Council on bypassing the executive policy three committee members contacted monday councillors Alan Ric Nordman and Don Ger Rie said they could see Little reason see arts Page 4 Alberta Hospital minister racked by Lougheed Edmonton up Premier Peter Lougheed fired Alberta Hospi tals minister Gordon miniely on Mon Day for his unauthorized signing of an agreement purporting to absolve an Edmonton doctor of claims by the Alberta health care insurance attorney general Jim Foster said he will investigate the under which miniely gave cardio Logist Talip Alibi immunity from claims that the Alberta health care insurance commission overpaid him by about in a period of More than a Foster said the figure May be High or i believe what i did to be right and that All i have to say in the a 39yearold chartered a said in an interview after the announcement from the pre Miers he added he believes the agreement is consistent with his commitment to Good care for heart Foster said the agreement was signed after health care insurance plan lawyers demanded restitution from Alibi for alleged overpay ments under the medical care insurance he said it was Irreg unacceptable and and miniely had exceeded his authority in making the agreement was signed March five Days before the March 14 provincial election which the progressive conservative govern ment won by a miniely had chosen not to seek reelection in his Edmonton Centre Foster said the stating Alibi is absolved of All claims and obligations to the Alberta health care insurance was the Type of significant agreement which normally would have been written by his departments lawyers but was apparently drawn up by lawyers from outside the it was signed against the advice of Deputy health see miniely Page 4 begin pledges never to Divide Jerusalem again photo by Wayne Glowacky while pedestrians in downtown Winnipeg Are having their problems navigating or circumventing puddles created by the current warm spell and mondays annoyed homeowners Are flooding City Hall with complaining that they Are unable to drive through slush covered see Story on Page officials of orchestra confirm Money bind j j j 1 j i it j it Al o c amid speculation that key person Nel of the Winnipeg symphony or Chestra so Are about to be symphony officials monday would Only confirm the orchestra is deeply in at a press conference so president John Buckworth would not reveal the precise financial status of the he said he was not prepared to provide the free press with headline material by confirming that financial difficulties outlined in a treasurers re port indicate the symphony could be headed for Buckworth also denied so staff changes Are a meeting of so directors and management will be held later this week and there has been speculation that staff issues May be on the Buckworth admitted that should All funding sources fail to come then we have Only one he said he Doest believe provincial or Federal govern ments would refuse the so funding following the recognition it has re with All these positives Are they going to let us Down i dont think he see orchestra Page 4 Jerusalem a prime minis Ter Menachem begin opened the israeli parliaments ratification debate on the Israel egyptian peace treaty today with a vow never to allow a palestinian state in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River or the Gaza strip or to give East Jeru Salem Back to the it will not begin told the we wont agree to we wont allow we wont make it begin said he was replying to a statement by egyptian Premier mus Tafa Khalil that Israel would have to withdraw to its Borders before the 1967 Ara israeli surrender Arab Jerusalem and accept Palestin Ian my honorable said write this Down Jerusa the one is israels eternal it will never be divided As the debate righting opponents of the pact set up a make shift settlement in the Northern Sinai and a shouting communist member was expelled from the Knes set after accusing begin Israel to the but observe see Israel Page 4 exotic show held near maos Tomb Radical Chic arrives in China via Cardin by John Fraser the Globe and Toronto peking Radical Chic hit peking monday in the form of a Pierre Cardin fashion show held in a revolutionary Hall just a few blocks from the mausoleum of chairman Mao in front of an audience of More than 300 chinese textile workers and sell the pied Piper of Paris fashion flaunted some of his most outrageous designs for men and in people measure clothing by the number of Cotton coupons they can get from the state every which Doest leave much room for see through dresses with generous slashes Down gentle men in thigh tight space age shoulder pads this and More was displayed to the the show was the most exotic sight in peking since disco music blared in the Hall of the nationalities the White stage was adorned with carding name in chinese characters and the master himself was there to handle nearly Cardin came to China last year at the invitation of several chinese state textile impressed by the Quality of his firm decided to import Large also impressed by cheap labor car Din has arranged to have some of his lines produced in China for earlier Cardin had unleashed some of his Wilder designs on the models were sent into the streets where the people of peking provided a bizarre backdrop for mag Azine fashion foreign residents were suitably outraged at seeing the simple and honestly dressed chinese in the streets confronted by Western mate but the chinese we rent Many Are not quite so enamoured of their clothing As Western friends might Young women made the distinction Between carding head line grabbing costumes and pleasant looking clothing that is his main they liked the Plain dresses and found the rest pure it was an extraordinary Occa there have been some wild sights in China during the past As this country reaches out to the but it will be hard to beat the front Row of comrades of both sexes in their Cotton pants and jackets on top of two layers of Long underwear watching a Slinky Model from Paris swishy in the flimsiest Little number this Side of Radical Chic Mamm peking debut Hsc Only backing swerhon says Grant not offered to clinic by John Sullivan the health sciences Centre has not agreed to Grant any Money for a new birth control and abortion clinic in downtown Hospital president Peter swerhon said Mon although reports last week said the Hospital Board of directors had agreed to contribute toward the swerhon said the decision was limited to a loan the Money would be repaid by the clinic and its John head of obstetrics and at the and a Winnipeg gyn Ecol planned parenthood of America has offered toward the to be named the Centre for re productive despite doubts on the clinics Legal Ity voiced by health minister Bud swerhon said the clinic would be associated with the health sciences Centre to the degree that it must to conform with the criminal the Law stipulates that Only accredited hospitals and facilities approved by a provincial health minis Ter May perform therapeutic the clinic would be a subsidiary of the Hospital but have a separate Board of directors and a therapeutic abortion committee to Rule on As required by the the Hospital would have to have some input on policy matters How swerhon we dont think that accreditation would be a he approval of new Hospital facilities is now performed on a voluntary basis by the Canadian Council on Hospital swerhon also disagreed with the health ministers fear that such a freestanding clinic associated with the Hospital could undermine a full scale redevelopment plan for the health sciences Centre now under study by the Manitoba health ser vices commission Sherman told reporters the govern ment is not ready to make final decisions on a freestanding see abortion Page 4 Canada Active in meeting score Board seeking Namibia solution nil Boston 4 Toronto 3 5s40 United nations up for the first All the parties involved in the search for an acceptable plan for Independence in Namibia South West Africa have been brought to Canadas external affairs Don state Secretary Cyrus Vance and British foreign Secretary David Owen Are leading the Western two ministers of Stirn Oliviere of France and Guenther Van Well of West also taking the ministers Are running a kind of Short distance shuttle diplomacy from the Mission at the meeting one faction after another in their efforts to secure agreement see Multi sided Page 4 inside do tits forum 32 13 35 m my vow 31 Cut Virtey 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