Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free june u i j ii sessions secondary at municipal continued from Page i had apparently waned by another session on constitutional re form and other resolutions Drew four with lome Leech and Phil Rizzuto an afternoon workshop on Urban where Leech was Mak ing a presentation on behalf of saw Only keeper and Nordman staying to the Ducharme and Yanofsky were not Visi ble at a workshop on Small Community problems held at the same All councillors made it to a free Al delegates dinner and dance atop Quebec cites historic Citadel tuesday a wednesday breakfast meeting again saw perfect attendance from the councillors later termed speaker Jeanmarc Cha puts humorist dont bother bringing Beans councillor Don Smith probably have had any problems balancing his budget if he had joined fellow councillors in Quebec City this despite tourist the seven Winnipeg representatives to the 42nd an Nual conference of federation of Cana Dian municipalities were Able to keep their accommodation and food costs within their living allow Smith removed his name from the list of travellers when Council approved a new travel policy a allowance to Cove the costs of meals and incidental me said he almost turned Cannibal on his last out of because of inadequate did taxpayers want him Tox Arry a can of Beans when he travelled he councillors got plenty of free Beans in Quebec free three course luncheons were provided each Day of the fou Day con Ference As Well As two evening Din Complete with although breakfast was provided Only one Coffee and Orange juice was available throughout All since the convention was held at the Quebec most of the seven cil members booked into the the five Star hotel offers i room bars and a Swiman Sauna councillors Cyril keeper and Al Ducharme stayed at older and less expensive hotels keeper to save Money and Ducharme for the old world Atmo the travel policy approved this year by Council permits councillors a Day for the length of the conference four Days in this Case plus an extra 160 for travel the equivalent of a return Economy class air ticket is account of the school of hard knocks the highlight of the All councillors were on hand to elect the new National officer and the representatives of the provincial interest dwindled again As the Day wore with Leech and Mcgarva not at the afternoon resolutions except for who addressed delegates on nonprofit the preservation of historical constitutional Reform and capital Pun Winnipeg delegates had Little to say at the As none of the 67 resolutions discussed at the conference were raised by Winnipeg councillors agreed the conference haunt been As interesting As other a regular at past Confer termed it Dull not As Good As past everything was too Nordman said resolutions like dealing with National Unity and the Constitution come up annually yet Noth ing seems to come of Hie Winnipeg councillors mid the City continue its membership in the were pan of the nation and m cant just opt said other including Lon Windsor and hive dropped out since with a membership of 226 Mun Ideal the federation represents onry about five per cent of Canadas cities and Winnipeg councillors also seem it the minority in their evaluation of Many of the other 856 Al germanic delegates vowed they would never be Back because discussions focus on matters they never Deal such As constitutional Reform and Capi Tal punishment in not going to said Leger of who termed the convention Rita Ubriaco of Thunder Bay called on delegates to scrap All these silly conferences that have done Noth ing for Yean and sets record continued from Page 1 communications equip agricultural machinery nonferrous metals and curing the there was a travel deficit of there was a million deficit in the previous last Canadian travellers spa set billion More outside the country than foreign tourists spent in the merchandise surplus the country performance in service such As inter est and dividend was better in the latest Quarter than the previous this which always has a Large snowed a deficit of billion in the first Quarter of the in the fourth Quarter of the deficit was statistics Canada attributed the shrinking to a Sharp reduction in dividend payments flowing out of the country and an increase in interest and dividends coming the Federal Agency reported that billion in Lon term capital Money borrowed from foreign Banks entered during the the Federal government was responsible for billion of this the governments two largest which together accounted for billion were in Japan an Switzer other transactions in the country capital account included an outflow of million showing Canadian invest ment outside the this was almost balanced by a million in flow representing gains made by canadians who sold foreign holdings or earned interest and dividends on their investments in the Short term Money billion flowed into the this represents primarily the actions of the government and private sector who sold off their foreign currency this was done to support the faltering Dollar on International Money during the Dollar fell to a 50year Low of cents but by end of the first Quarter it had recovered and was trading at cents by the end of the Dollar traded for most of yester Day just below the 85cent Nicaragua rebels take 25 towns Nicaragua Minista guerrillas continued to escalate their final offensive against the so Moza family dictatorship ing control of 25 towns and villages across the shooting was accompanied by a War of words Between nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza and eight other latin american governments Over his threat to invade Costa Rica for its Aid to the sandinista fighting Cut Highway travel and communications Between Managua and much of the rest of the despite a armed Young peo ple roamed the streets of the capital last during the Day the City was paralysed by a general the sandinista National liberation front guerrillas claimed to hold centres ranging from the second largest City 85 Kilometres Northwest of to i x v so i ld1 f s v two men die in plane crash Developer Howard and an employ Al Airport when it was near Toronto five teams of Douglas died yesterday their Light plane scuba divers and the Toronto Harbor police searched for crashed Cessna the but fog hampered their debris and an Oil disappeared from the radar screen at Toronto inter nation Slick were found near the scene of the embassy move put on hold Ottawa up while Arab pressure external affairs minis Ter Flora Macdonald indicated yester Day the government has pushed to the Back Burner its plan to move the Cana Dian embassy in Israel to before meeting Arab she said in an interview there Are a lot Carter refuses to lift embargo says Rhodesia voting not free Washington president Carter yesterday refused to lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe saying that recent elections there were neither fair nor free and that they excluded significant elements of the country but the president said he would re consider his decision if the new Black led government of prime minister Abel Muzorewa takes Steps to broaden it political base and move toward More adequate majority in a statement that he read in the White House press Carter con ceded that his decision May be Over turned by Fie said his stand probably was opposed by a majority of the Senate and would face difficulty in the House As although present Law gives Carter sole discretion to lift or retain the Trade embargo and other con Gress could change the this would require a majority vote in both the Senate and Carter could veto such a but Congress then could attempt to override the a group of Senate conservatives led by Jesse Helms has indicated that it will introduce Legisla Tion to lift the sanctions at by a lopsided vote of 75 to the Senate passed a nonbinding Resolution last month urging Carter to lift the Sanc there live been no similar tests of sentiment in the the los Angeles times of other things because of their Are of higher priority on the government Agenda than Transfer ring the embassy to Jerusalem from representatives of nine Arab states had Little More to say following a meeting with miss Macdonald than was contained in a joint statement issued wednesday condemning the proposal and calling for its moroccan ambassador Noureddine Hannaoui said the Arab countries will obviously not sever Diplo Matic links with Canada before Ottawa actually moves the embassy to Jeru we Hope that everything will be said saudi arabian ambassador sheikh Mohammed Abdul Kadir muh he indicated there will be other meetings with the new progressive conservative government on the mat the Council of Muslim communities of Canada said 200300 people will demonstrate tomorrow outside the parliament buildings and prime minis Ter Joe Clarks residence to protest the government while former prime minister Pierre Trudeau has criticized the conserva Tive Liberal my Herb a said the government should not give in to threats of Arab states and the Palestine libera Tion organization have attacked the some Arab spokesmen have said there will be perhaps a group of exporting companies Are so concerned about the proposed they have sought an urgent meeting with Clark to ask him to reconsider external affairs officials said embassies Are empowered to take additional Security measures when they but there were no immediate plans to step up Security at Middle East except perhaps in War torn the is also opposed to the Cana Dian plan though american and Canad an officials say Washington has not formally approached Ottawa on the free press Sunshine fund donations to Date continued from Page 1 receipts will be issued and names of donors published parents can sign up their children by writing to the Manitoba camping Asso 1483 Pembina Winni r3t or by calling them on the special Sunshine fund Telephone line at donations Slavik 753 Selkirk Melville 221163 Mckenzie Portage la Ernest 300 e in total to emerges As Winner in european vote Brussels As the polls closed yesterday in Ireland and the Netherlands apathy emerged As a Winner in the first round of the european voting figures in All four countries appeared Low with the dutch set to Register the highest turnout at per of the nine million ii some observers said they thought the turnout could have been less then 50 per cent compared with 76 per cent in the election that swept prime minister Margaret Thatcher to Power last Greenland which recently gained Home Rule but is part of Denmark for purposes of the election votes Satur West Italy and Luxembourg vote counting begins late planes blast Plo bases Aviv israeli planes wasted palestinian guerrilla bases in Southern Lebanon Early today for the first time in 16 the israeli military com Mand news Roundup in Yasser Arafat Palestine liberation organization said israeli artillery also attacked palestinian to the israeli command said All its planes returned safely after hitting palestinian targets 15 Kilometres North of the the israeli announce ment made no mention of an artillery plane search reduced the civil air patrol is to reduce its role in the search for four missing Canadian Rodeo cow an air patrol official said yester but organizers of a search fund say the pot has continued to swell and volunteers will continue combing the ground for the missing the searchers Are looking for a Light plane that went missing on a flight Over a mountainous area Between and the California on Board were Pilot Brian Claypool of Lee Coleman of Calvin Bunney of and Gary Logan of convictions overturned in a unanimous a state appeals court yester Day overturned the murder convictions of Anthony Tony pro Proyenzano and Harold Boom Boom in its two Page the appellate division of state supreme court or dered a new trial for Provenzano and the two were de last year by an Ulster county jury of murdering a teamsters Union rival of Anthony three Fin Gers in both were sentenced to 25 years to life in found on Mars evidence of two giant oases on otherwise Boedry Mars has been discovered by four astronomers at the University of Massa the Robert Sullivan and announced their findings this week at the 10th annual planetary geology principal investigators meet ing at Brown associate professor of physics and said data from an Earth based Telescope and water detection devices aboard the two Vik ing orbiters have shown water to be evaporating from two Sites near Marss Canadian climbers lost Lima two canadians who disappeared nearly two weeks ago on Perus Alp Amayo Mountain were last seen May 25 near the Kenneth Harley of the Canadian embassy Here identified the missing men yesterday As Alan Pierre and William both from the Calgary Harley said Porritt was connected with Canadian Mountain holidays nazi toys to end firm new York the largest toy manufacturer has agreed to Stop producing toys with nazi the american jewish Congress announced the Congress had threatened to raise the Issue at next weeks annual meeting of of said Julius director of the commission on jewish life and sub Docking protested a flotilla of 12 rubber canoes and other Small Craft challenged the nuclear submarine Flasher yesterday but failed to keep the 79metre vessel from Docking the Small boats carried about 30 persons representing the Greenpeace organization and two antinuclear groups whose signs and chants pro claimed no More nukes and no Raore protesters tried to Block the Flasher from Docking at a local shipyard but the coast forewarned of the used Small boats to shield the submarine from the protesters huge tumor removed san Francisco a huge ovarian tumor weighing More than 200 pounds has been removed successfully from a 30yearold woman by team of doctors at the University of California medical the teams chief surgeon said the benign estimated at one metre in had been growing inside her for about 15 said Russell head of the seven Mem ber team which performed the hour operation May h he described the tumor As one of the largest in medical the who weighed 380 pounds when she was admitted to Moffitt hos Pital complaining of abdominal was released tuesday weighing about 180 Uros from the hews eth Tif 9 i 4 ;