Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 0 Winnipeg March 1979 ism i kurd resume fighting in Iran Tehran a fighting resumed in Northwest Iran today be tween kurdish rebels and the revolutionary forces of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after a and the government rushed reinforcements to the there was no immediate word of casualties in the new Battle in Sanan the capital of the Kurdistan re Gion 400 Kilometres West of at least 170 were reported killed in fighting sunday and monday before the but Deputy Premier Abbas Amir Entezam today put the official toll at 86 dead and 200 Entezam said the truce was broken when kurd surrounding a military Barracks opened fire on soldiers in Side the unconfirmed reports said the fight ing erupted when the rebels fired on four army helicopters dropping food supplies to the besieged press reports said the rebels were holding the cites radio to station and the state police it said Khomeini islamic revolution Ary committees in the area threw a cordon around attempts to Telephone Sanandaji were unsuccessful because the towns Central Telephone Exchange apparently was the kurd Are a sunni moslem minority in predominantly shiite moslem there Are about four million in Western Iran and about seven million in neighbouring areas of Iraq and and they have dreamed of a kurdish state of their own for the provisional government has already agreed to some specific de such As letting the kurdish language be taught in Public schools in army soldiers and police units March behind Gigantic Banner of in Tehran the March was in support of the revolution a photo Khomeini in Israel wont split Jerusalem ers predicted at least 100 of the 120 members will endorse the pact wednesday at the end of the today begin planned to leave Friday for Washington to sign the and Ai the sem official egyptian said egyptian president Anwar Sadat will leave the signing at the White House is expected Al ashram said Sadat will spend five Days in the United then return to Egypt to submit the treaty to the continued 360member National Assembly for in defence ministers Ezer Weizman of Israel and Kamal Hasan Ali of Egypt were unable to agree on when Israel will give up the offshore Sinai Oil the last Issue in their negotiation of a timetable for israels withdrawal from the but both said they Are confident the dispute can be resolved before Mon Multi sided tangle of talks at in seek Namibia plan continued on their proposal to hold elections in the african territory under in us they began by meeting with the so called frontline the Black african countries closest to the prob Lem area Zambia and Nigeria was also the next delegation was from the Southwest Africa Peoples Organiza Tion led by president Sam the in recognizes Swap As the legitimate representative of the namibian the Western group also met with members of other political parties in the Terri the final figure in the Multi sided tangle is South foreign min ister Pik Botha was to give the ministers his country View of the at stake is a painstakingly re pared plan worked out by Western diplomats Over More than two years of it would see a in Force move into the territory to Over see the elections and the transition to Independence from South african but the parties have fallen to squabbling Over differing interpretations of the in Swap wants the right to establish bases inside Namibia once the in has arranged a ceasefire in the War Between Swap and South the South africans say they favor the in principle but object to Swap being Given South Africa is demanding in monitors watch Over Swap Camps in neigh Boring the dispute is a stupid 60 Days or 90 not very said Weizman before returning to Israel for the Knesset maybe i can do More from he told Israel wants to hold the Oil Field for the full nine months that its military forces Are pulling Back after the treaty is Egypt wants to take Over the Wells in the Gulf of Suez two or three months before the rest of the withdrawal is Weizman brought Home word from defence Secretary Harold Brown that the Carter administration will ask Congress for about billion to help Israel with the most of the Money would go for construction of two new air bases in israels Negev desert to replace two bases the israelis had in Israel asked for billion and the United states offered Weizman said the Compromise would include billion in Loans and million in he also agreed to begin delivery next year of 75 f16 fighter planes promised to Israel for Ali is still negotiating with Brown for the additional military Aid Egypt will get for agreeing to the Sadat wants Hawk antiaircraft submarines and sur plus Navy frigates which Ali said is needed for defence against Ethiopia and South about 120 right wingers opposed to the peace treaty set up a jewish settlement in Northern Sinai today to protest the treaty provision returning the Peninsula to civil action possible miniely act improper continued care and without the approval of Treasury Board or the a statement is sued by the premiers office the statement added miniely conduct was completely contrary to understood and accepted practice and procedures of members of the executive Council the agreement was clearly the kind of agreement that should involve approval by the executive Council or a committee said its the kind of agreement that should be prepared by the attorney generals there were Circum stances surrounding the preparation and execution of the agreement which were highly Foster said an investigation is under Way for a possible civil action and further investigation will follow if it apparent anyone involved in the agreement May have broken a but in not suggesting at this stage that theres illegal conduct on the part of anybody at this said the attorney general was drawn into the affair when he was approached on the eve of last wednes Days election by acting Premier Don Macleod said he first saw the agreement March 12 and forwarded his information to the premiers of fice the following the Premier was unavailable Mon Day for comment Gordon miniely exceeded his authority orchestra debts confirmed the symphony press conference was called after a Story in saturdays free press revealed details of a confidential financial report to the orchestras Board of the report among other that the symphony would be unable to meet its payroll Friday if it did not receive a City Grant by and would need another heavy infusion of funds within a month to meet its april the report states that if an annual amounting to this year from the is not received by March it will have to cease at the news said he is confident our financial backers will stay in place this week and the payroll will be in order to continue operations beyond the fiscal year ending May a fundraising goal of must be the report Buckworth said the financial report obtained by the free press was dated 31 and written by the sym phony treasurer in deliberately dra Matic terms to Alert the Board of directors to the financial crisis facing the Buckworth said the free press article was accurate As far As it the report says the orchestra will have an accumulated deficit of 673 by May in order to end the fiscal year without adding to the a total of must be Buckworth said after approaching 800 corporations and i Dividu the symphony has raised he also said single ticket sales were lower than expected while subscription tickets remained about the same during the current budget Over attendance is marginally off from last he the symphony Board of directors met sunday to approve new policies to generate revenues of to a year to Ward off future financial the directors decided to ask the City to immediately provide the 000 operating ask the province to Cement a deficit Relief negotiate immediate agreement with the Csc for funding next and bolster Public support and awareness of so financial continued Buckworth said the musicians were not fully aware of the financial crisis facing the but he intended to meet with them later some symphony staff and musicians expressed Shock and disbelief when asked during the weekend How they Felt about the symphony the so is asking the Csc to drop its local orchestra and Forward 000 to the symphony so musicians would then work for the Bob a senior Csc music department said so musicians would suffer a loss of income if the Csc orchestra is most of the Csc orchestras Mem Bers Are also so musicians and derive additional income from the the agreement needs the approval of the american federation of Musi the Csc and he were prepared if the other two parties Sunter arts Council to help end symphony crisis continued for extending support to the orchestra beyond Wade Dame said he even recommend the unless the or Chestra could show that attempts were being made to eliminate the Frank Johnson said that in Light of the financial bind the symphony now the commit tee May have to Bend the guidelines and give More than we and Don although annoyed at learning about the sym phones financial problems through the newspaper and not from symphony said he would attempt to find funds in addition to the if it was shown to be although none of the five Council lors polled finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky is out of town this week would firmly com Mit themselves in Advance of the orchestras request coming before most expressed willingness to have their recommendation go directly to Council the following in the acting for cultural affairs minister Norma denied a suggestion from nip la Russ Doern that the province May be partly responsible for the dire Straits of the he said efforts would be made to solve the immediate cashflow problem and arrive at a formula for deficit Doern demanded the government reevaluate its arts which he said had been Frozen for sever Al this years Grant through the arts Council covers Only five per cent of the groups operating he Banman said the symphony Finan Cial problems extend far beyond the question of provincial involving shortfalls in ticket corporate and private donations and inadequate he said the government had Al ready eliminated a yearly delay in payment of operating Grants this year by providing special catchup funds to most cultural the symphony Grant was Banman also rejected doers claim the province had eliminated the concert in the Park costing the symphony in reve nue last the program want he it was somewhat but there were other groups in the City of Winnipeg who were Given the Opportunity to the funds for that particular program were taken from lottery funds and the groups were advised that it was on an year year abortion clinic plans to be Analysed i dont see Why it would interfere at swerhon tic abortion is Only a Small Compo nent of Bur operation the clinic would just be an adjunct to our development the is that we cant Cope with the volume of abortions Misc executive director Edwards said the hospitals clinic proposal has been referred to the com missions planning division for at continued least two weeks of after were through with the government will get it for their con Edwards there will certainly have to be some Politi Cal direction because of the sensitivity of this whole although the proposal will probably not arrive on Sherman desk for several antiabortion activists tried to nip it in the Bud the three member Dele gation from the Manitoba league for life failed to get a government commitment to quash the spokeswoman Pat Soenen said Only that Sherman heard their concerns graciously and told them he haunt seen the proposal and said the matter was still Gies tales May Hurt pms chances Ottawa up new questions Are being raised about the political futures of prime minister Trudeau and senator Edward Kennedy following allegations monday that Trudeau estranged wife Margaret had a Brief affair with Kennedy be fore her marriage Mac leans Magazine broke the Story of the describing it As one of the factors behind the separation by the through an Dis missed the report As absolute rub Trudeau office refused but the Story rekindled Specula Tion about the effect Trudeau May have on the prime ministers capacity to carry on in politics and on his reelection attempt later this Spring or and it cast yet another Shadow Over Kennedy touted As a potential presidential candidate who has Laboured under the Cloud of Chappaquiddick since the 1969 car Accident involving him and Secre tary Mary to she was found dead in his car at the Bottom of a tidal Channel hours after Leav ing a party with Mac leans says Trudeau de scribed her1 husband As extremely annoyed when he found put about the alleged she speculated about How traumatic it would be if Kennedy was elected president and the two men had to Deal with each other As government a spokesman for the Magazine refused to divulge How it got the saying Only that it did not come from Trudeau so onto be released autobiography beyond Trudeau Book publishers obtained a court injunction to Stop the ctr television net work from broadcasting an inter View with her in which she is said to have described a on night love affair that destroyed her mar in its Mac leans said tru Deau and his wife attempted a reconciliation last Winter and hired an architect to design a House for them in Eastern Canadas Laurentian it quotes Margaret As saying that Trudeau had agreed to quit politics before the attempt to get Back together they separated formally on May the Magazine Story is the latest chapter in a Saga that has captured world headlines since married eight years ago this from the beginning the marriage had an effect on Canadian in Federal election campaigns in 1972 and Trudeau is thought to have helped her husband with captivating references to their personal but senior liberals insist that the latest Margaret stories will not damage Trudeau politically in the election expected in May or but they add that it will not help the prime ministers governing party we wont talk about one top Campaign strategist said people will at a recent news tru Deau said the latest round of Public Ity generated by personal disclosures by Trudeau wont have any bearing on my approach to the but newspapers plan to serialize her autobiography in and Trudeau has made plans for a promotional tour that May Well coincide with the some political commentators say the latest round of gossipy Contro Versy surrounding Trudeau May Hurt the prime minister poli Ottawa Richard writing in the free said Trudeau has Hurt the prime minister by forcing canadians to realize that Trudeau has bad judgment about the prime ministers Choice for marriage reveals an ignorance of human nature unnerving in a political Charles columnist for Southam wrote recently that Trudeau activities raise the question As to How much his Trudeau attention and his energies May be diverted from the heavy tasks at asked recently for reaction to the criticisms Trudeau has made about replied i cant say i dont have any but i will say ill keep it to my ;