Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, June 06, 1979

Issue date: Wednesday, June 6, 1979
Pages available: 126
Previous edition: Tuesday, June 5, 1979

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 6, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free june 1979 61dc10 passengers stalled Here photo Robert Larson sat temporarily stranded at the Winnipeg International Airport this morning knowing that his 15yearold twin boys would soon be wandering around the Minneapolis air port looking for in trying to figure out How to make Contact with he said in an interview he had made arrange ments to Fly his sons to Minneapolis and after meeting them would drive Home with them to but Larson was one of 61 passengers forced to alter their travel plans after a Mcdonnell Douglas ruled to carry them to Paul and Chicago was grounded after new cracks were discovered in the engine mounting systems of two other dc10 jumbo Larson said he arrived at the Chicago Airport two hours after a crashed there last week killing 275 people and spurring an Federal Avia Tion administration investigation which found structural problems with engine mounts on some a Veteran airline Larson said when he arrived at Chicago Airport after the car rental firms were inundated with people who wanted to Trade their airline tickets for rented although Larson said he has no fear of Richard Perry said if i had known it was a i have flown on it like Many other passengers grounds Clos continued from Page 1 grounding if the government could show that the administration acted in the Best interests of Public safety and that his order would substantially harm other interested parties presumably the Faa administrators position is that the safety of airline passengers is adequately Lamberth told a reporter the Dallas based air passengers group appeared before Robinson after the administration announced the grounding monday night of five Clos following discovery of cracks in pylons holding engines to the wings of two similar cracks were discovered on the plane that said de Slat spokesman for the National transportation safety which is investigating the Chicano from the i4ews services ramp request rejected Toronto up a judge of the Ontario Appeal court has rejected an application by the ramp to reopen a Case in which it was ruled that the ramp must reveal the names of Doc tors who have been informers for the the ramp May now Appeal to the supreme court of the Ontario court ruled in May that the Ontario Royal commission on the confidentiality of health records should receive the names of doctors who have Given information to the ramp without the patients consent or a Legal the said the Force would lose important sources of information related to National Security if the names were who waited in line at Northwest Orient counter in the terminal this morning were booked on to later flights scheduled to leave Winnipeg at and this some with bags in were informed by the free press that the flight was in surprised they didst phone said Barbara Adams who said the flight cancellation would probably Force her to cancel her standing beside her in Pat Mooney said i think the company Mcdonnell Douglas should be investigated for their research policy on the George District sales manager for Northwest said Pas sengers marooned in Winnipeg by the cancellation will be provided meals and he said comprise 22 of the company 110 aircraft and substitute aircraft will replace the on its daily route through it would be impossible to Call All the passengers in time to announce the flight he for businessman the flight cancellation is a terrible Incon however he said i think the the airline and the manufacturer Are doing the Best they and Allan Phimister commented if there not Safe to Fly there not Safe to up photo Pope John Paul ii stands in an open car and Waves to crowds in the polish Village of Czestochowa earlier Pope demands Church rights Poland in the strongest statement of his visit Pope John Paul ii challenged the pol ish communist government yesterday to respect religious the full Range of human rights and the real needs of the if it does the Pope there can be an authentic dialogue Between the roman Catholic Church and the though the beliefs of christians Are diametrically opposed to Marx isms View of the the speech in his own theology of liberation for the roman Catholic Church in its dealings with a government with diametrically opposed views of the it was an enlargement of the views he expressed in a facet face confrontation at the beginning of his nine Day pilgrimage to his Home with Edward the communist party first a polish journalist said that party officials were divided on what the Pope had said to but that some regarded it As a declaration of the Popes speech put the govern ment on notice that the Church in Poland will continue to press for re Spect for the cause of fundamental human including religious he endorsed More explicitly than at any previous time the so called Ost poli Tik of Pope John Xxiii and Pope Paul the policy that has moved the roman Catholic Church closer to normalization of relations with the communist and he endorsed the dialogue Between Church and state in he made Clear that he is an advocate of normalization because of its relationship to human it was the fourth Day of the former Karol Cardinal Wojtylak triumphant return to his his first since assuming the papacy last he delivered the major policy address on Church state relations to a closed meeting of Poland 70 the Pope also celebrated mass for polish gave a noon Blessing to More than pilgrims massed on the Green Hillside below the Jasna Gora Poland most important religious and said a Lateafa Ter noon mass with thousands of work ers from the mining and heavy Industry areas of upper the government issued no statement on the Popes but signs of tension appeared for the first time As he pressed ahead with his defence of roman who comprise 80 to 90 per cent of Poland 35 million a polish Clergyman said publicly he had received reports that pilgrims were barred from entering this Church officials have been disappointed with the turnout of people for the smaller in number than expected in most they believe a major Factor was the psychological Barrier created by the government in announcing complicated regulations for traffic and in requiring the issuance of tickets for major from the news services Tough problems facing Cabinet continued from Page 1 from Tel Aviv is firm no timetable is at virtually the same time in Tel israeli prime minister Mena chem begin prompted cheers from political colleagues by announcing the saying he Hopes other countries will follow Canadas 1 have the great pleasure of telling this Assembly that the embassy of a great country such As Canada will be in begin was quoted As say ing at his Herat party convention in Tel this is an announcement of great importance to the jewish peo the Netherlands is the Only country which maintains a full embassy in All other countries base their embassies in Tel but have opened consulates in in the Palestine liberation organization condemned Canadas decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv As an act of aggression against the Plo spokesman Mahmoud Labbadio said that the Canadian government decision is considered an act of aggression against the palestinian people and its just at the four hour Cabinet Clark and his ministers expressed concern about the economic effect of the West coast strike started monday by the International longshoremen and warehouse mens they shut Down seven ports which handle most of the coun try Grain shipments Clark and labor minister Lincoln Alexander said officials Are watching the strike but no decision had been made on if and when government intervention would be the replacement of a Long time close Friend of was the first of a number of senior Liberal government appointees Are expected to be asked to Clark had been a severe critic of the appointment of Pitfield to the key Post of clerk of the privy Council but tues Day he voiced his appreciation for who helped him in the Transi Tion process following the Clark also defended his appointment of que Becer Robert de who was Defeated in the election but has been appointed to the Senate and named minister of economic development and Clark said when the next election is de Cotret will be expected to resign from the Senate and seek elec Tion to the in a statement that was More optimistic than one Crosbie made Clark said he plans to put All the tax cuts and business incentives pledged during the election Campaign into his minority governments first budget when parliament reassembles in sep tember or from the news services rejection by Clark has Murta fretting watches her prime minister Cut his birthday cake yesterday ramp accused of kidnapping up a Man describing himself As a former Mem Ber of the front de liberation do Quebec Fly terrorist group says he was kidnapped by ramp officers ear Lier this week and tied to a tree for nearly a full the Quebec provincial police Force it is investigating the incident monday but would not give details of the Bill head of the ramp squad in said he did not know anything about the Inci Jacques describes him self As a former member of the Fly and is the author of Retour a la vie Normale return to a Normal a Chicoutimi businessman who preferred not to give his name said in an interview that he spoke briefly monday with Pelletier beside the main Highway in the pare Des Laurentides provincial Park Between Quebec City and Chicou 200 Kilometres North of Quebec the who talked with Pelletier just before police arrived on the said he found him crouching by the Road with a Chain attached to his car was in the ditch Pelletier told him he was a lawyer who had been kidnapped and chained to a tree but he could not say How he had freed the businessman adding that he approached several men sitting in a truck nearby who said they were aware of the kidnapping situation but Pelletier did not want their Pelletier says he was arrested in 1970 and was released from prison 16 weeks Robert a lawyer who has defended several former Fly Mem said that a fellow named Pelle tier is going around the province saying he is a former Fly which is the incident described by Pelletier was similar to operations described by ramp officers before the Federal Mcdonald inquiry into illegal acts by the Federal ramp officers testified they had held terrorist suspects captive without arrest warrants in an attempt to recruit them As relations Between the Fly and the ramp currently Are being examined at close door hearings of the Quebec governments Keable inquiry into illegal police former Fly members have been testifying recently in private sessions and published reports have said wit Nesses have suggested that what the ramp has described As a resurgence of Fly activities in the Early 1970s was actually the work of undercover police known As agents Provo a the which was Active for about a decade beginning in the Early sought to promote Quebec Independence through the use of Saskatoon up Jack Murta expressed dissatisfaction publicly after being passed Over by prime minister Joe Clark for a Cabinet my for the Manitoba Riding of said in a Telephone interview from Ottawa that he was unhappy that he had not been named minister responsible for the Canadian wheat Murta said although transport min ister Don Mazankowski will make a Good minister responsible for the wheat the two portfolios Are almost a superhuman demand to make of one he said the result is too Little involve ment in either Job by the minister and excessive control by departmental and it this opinion might not mate me too popular with the Cabinet but i think the overriding concern is the National he Murta said he understands that Clark is considering placing the wheat Board under the Trade and com Merce department and operating it through its own Stuart Theisson of exec Tiv Secretary of the National Farmers said Mazankowski appoint ment was neither a suprise nor a Theisson said the wheat Board Post goes naturally with transport because a lot of the problems faced by Western Jack Murta Grain Farmers Are problems common to both Jim Wright of presi Dent of the Palliser wheat growers endorsed Mazankowski Wright said the will look to the West because he is an albertan and the joint posting is suit Able since a lot of wheat Board prob lems Are transport ;