Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 11, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Europeans take step toward another Brussels a voters in the european common Market completed balloting yesterday in the election of 410 legislators to the new Europe an parliament a historic step that might someday Lead to a United states of computer projections showed Centre right Christian Democrat candidates gaining 110 seats and edging ahead of left leaning Socia lists with conservatives made substantial gains and were in third place with 64 computer predictions election workers were still counting ballots and no official results were earlier projections had shown the socialist bloc taking a but that changed As More figures were fed to the there were More than Candi dates and an electorate of 180 Mil but the turnout ranged from More than 60 per cent in some coun tries to Only per cent in West see voting Page 4 Popes visit so ukrainian dissident Valentyn Moroz said yesterday Pope John Paul its historic visit to Poland will encourage dissidents to speak out against communist regimes in Eastern the Pope is shaking the he behaves As if the communists do not speaking in ukrainian to an enthusiastic crowd of More than at the Winnipeg convention the re cent freed dissident predicted great social upheaval in the soviet bloc in the Moroz said the overwhelming recep Tion the Pope received from the Large a Catholic polish people indicated the depth of opposition against soviet re Gimes in Strong dissent is growing in the and it will be your duty to help the Ukraine in deciding its who spent 14 years in prison Camps and psychiatric institutions after he was charged with circulating ant soviet propaganda and agitating against soviet was sent to new York on april 27 in Exchange for two soviet he cautioned the largely ukrainian audience about becoming passive to Ward International he said pressure from Canada can help bring about the Independence of the and the goal of All ukrainians should be their homelands Moroz urged the audience to become Active politically to ensure the survival of ukrainian culture both in Canada and in Eastern we cannot keep our children ukrainian Only with embroidered shirts and easter he the 43yearold dissident was welcomed at the beginning of the evening with the traditional meal of bread and dignitaries from the City and provincial governments As Well As Community and Church leaders praised his religious guides and veterans organizations also lauded the ukrainian Moroz had been greeted by a crowd estimated at about on his arrival earlier sunday at the Winnipeg inter National besides meetings with local ukrainian groups and the Media Moroz was to be honoured by Premier Sterling Lyon during a visit to the Manitoba Winnipeg Deputy mayor Bill Norrie said Moroz was a reminder that free Dom does not exist and the see dissident Page 4 sunny today Clear tonight High 25 Low 10 june 1979 be no 213 final 15e Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Wayne Winnipeg tilt Presb Hydro chief says tory rate freeze unnecessary a Tough Day to be a bomber fan Winnipeg Blue bomber fans didst get a lot of chances to exercise their vocal chords As the bombers opened the exhibition season on a Low losing to he Calgary while bomber fans found Little to cheer during those rare moments they could offer their they were Story on Page longshoremen to vote on pact Vancouver up intensive bar gaining to end the British Columbia longshoremen strike bore fruit Ter Day As negotiators reached a Tenta Tive contract settlement with the help of a Federal the crippling strike begun last Mon Day by longshoremen at seven ports had stalled vital Export shipments from Western Canada and raised the possibility that parliament would have to legislate an end to the Norm president of the maritime employers said he was not Happy with the Settle ment but could live with details of the pact were being with held until Union members could see Bob Canadian head of the International longshoremen and warehousemen said a ratification vote by the Union members will be held Early this week and the workers could be Back on their jobs by thurs the tentative settlement came after 20 hours of Tough mediation by the Federal governments top Deputy labor minister Bill Slick from Oil fire spreads cu1dad Del Mexico a a blazing Oil Well in the Gulf of Mexico belched tons of Oil into sea a huge Slick floating Over Rich shrimp reports by the mexican Media on the length of the Slick varied Between 75 and 125 they said the More than Kilometres was Drifting West toward about Kilometres the has been spewing natural Gas and barrels of Oil into the Gulf each Day since it caught fire june mexican officials from a the Well area is a bubbling cauldron of fire and smoke surging out of the the Slick has not approached the shores of Ciudad Del a shrimp port so Kilometres to the fishing Industry sources have expressed fear the Slick might severely damage the areas valuable shrimp Luciano Flores regional chief of Mexico stat owned Petroleum said he has received no complaints from engineers aboard the a pipe laying ship being used As a base for diving said it May be two Days before it is known if control valves Are working on the Brownout klan de Vries of the superintendent of the said if the valves work the flow May be shut but such attempts frequently if the flow cant be stopped that another Well will have to be drilled into the seabed to intersect Intoc 1 and Seal off the he Lemex officials had said flotation beams were being Laid to Corral the Oil but none were sighted during a flight Over the area Toltec Crew members said Oil recovery boats sucked up some of the escaping Oil last week but that they were withdrawn because they Are designed for Harbor use and not the open More Oil recovery equipment and Dis persion chemicals were unloaded at the Airstrip in Ciudad Del Carmen on the last new labor minister Lincoln Alexander dispatched Kelly to try to head off the the Media Tor met with the two sides for three hours Friday and began a continuous negotiating session saturday at 9 the Accord was reached about 1 All three previous tentative agree ments reached in negotiations were rejected by either Union negotiators or the the last to be turned Down was rejected by Only one the last offer on the table called for increases of 90 cents an hour in each year of a three year the current base rate is an Kelly said he was pleased with the fruitful conclusion of the talks and indicated there had been some apprehension in Ottawa that parliament would have to be recalled prematurely to Deal with the the which affected Vancou new Nan Prince Chemainus and port had halted shipments of Prairie lumber and All vital to the Economy of Western most important were Grain ship already Down to 10 per cent from Levels of a year by Robert Cheshire the chairman of Manitoba Hydro says that Power rates in the province could have remained constant for the next five years without a government initiated Wedepohl made the admission during a meeting saturday of the Legislatures Public utilities committee in response to questions from opposition Hydro rates excluding bulk and contract sales were Frozen for five years last month when the Manitoba government brought Down its 197980 at the the government said As of april 1 it would absorb additional costs of Manitoba Hydro billion debt caused by the devaluation of the Canadian in an interview earlier Wedepohl had remained noncommittal on whether the Utility should hike raised its rates without despite a Bonanza of to port Power primarily to the United electricity our Oil it is probable we would have had to have a rate if the government haunt assumed he speaking later the legislative com Wedepohl reluctantly acknowledged in a speculative sense the Utility could have operated for the next five years without a rate and still been Able to handle its foreign debt payment requirements and have a million Wedepohl said Export which last year totalled million from an original million could have wiped out the need for an in this he Export sales Are expected to climb to the Board chairman said a rate in crease would have been required based on the million Export even though that figure was greatly Wedepohl said the Utility May have opted for an increase to build up its which could have shrunk to million by he estimated the reserves have now risen to More than million from million due to Export Power sales and the governments move to absorb in creases in the Utility debt caused by the sagging Canadian but Sidney Green and Saul Cherniack using five year projections prepared by Hydro just prior to the provincial Hud said with projected Export sales there was no need for the government to freeze rates Wedepohl said before the budget an Hydro had decided to set aside million to Cushion foreign currency the action of the government freed up that Money and allowed us to put it into he Wedepohl said another million was put in reserves from a million profit the Utility had at the end of its last fiscal the combination built reserves to million As of March 31 and reserves Are now probably More than he see freeze Page 4 Pope bids Poland Farewell Rome Pope John Paul ended an emotional nine Day visit to his native Poland and returned to the Vatican before leaving he kissed polish soil and saluted his historic Homecoming As an event without Farewell to Farewell to my the Pope his voice breaking with emotion As he Knelt Down to kiss the Krakow Ailport tar i wish you Luck in All your 1 say goodbye to the but it is so hard to he then boarded a polish lot air lines jetliner Lor the two hour flight to he was greeted in the italian capital by Premier Giulio in a Brief the pontiff said he brought Back a message of optimism and Hope from a trip thai brought him ineffable the head of the 700 million member roman Catholic Church celebrated the final mass of his pilgrimage to his Homeland before a crowd estimated at one million countrymen who had Gath ered since Dawn for the service yester Day in a Field on the outskirts of Kra in a hoarse and wavering the Pope urged the worshippers to be Strong with the strength that comes from we must work for peace and reconciliation Between the people and the nations of the whole he see Pope Page 4 inside today neoconservative Black dynamic capitalist sometimes known As the intellectual have found a spokesman in business magnate Conrad the articulate author and chairman of Argus Black extols the survival of capitalism and individualism in Western air Agency questioned for the second time in five a disastrous crash of a dc10 jetliner is prompting questions about How the United states government monitors the design and construction of commercial critics say the american airlines crash near Chicago has again exposed defects in the Federal aviation administrations certification of new jetliners they did the 1974 crash of a dc10 outside but some Faa engineers privately concede the Agency is Short on must rely often on company supplied must extensively use inspectors on the manufacturers payroll and May have allowed critical design flaws to get through714 not slight Beer the current rage for Light Beer supposedly Low in alcohol and calories has been orchestrated by Clever advertising hype appealing to the die conscious but tests done for Price watch show that if youre worried about getting the so called Light Beers Are neither Low in alcohol nor United unions Union leaders like to differentiate themselves from but As big business grows some labor unions also grow but the character of the trend in labor is different voluntary mergers rather than in voluntary no triple Crown spectacular bids attempt to win the triple Crown ended i gloriously in Belmont Park in new York coastal won the Belmont stakes by 34 lengths because bid did not display a semblance of the form that had earned 12 straight the Gray Colt could not even Huld second Plaj from Gulden a decisive loser to bid in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness 62 cemetery is target the sad sight of fourteen broken headstones and empty Beer bottles greeted the manager of the Boniface Cathedral cemetery saturday late vandals had caused an Unest mated amount of damage by knocking Over the headstones in one of the older sections of the cemetery at Archibald Street and Elizabeth Birdex Bridge business classified comics crossword deaths entertainment forum Horoscope 39 24 25 40 44 29 25 44 27 6 7 25 exhibition Cilery Job Winnipeg 1 league sunday Minn som 0 5 4 Chi 1 i 3 10 City 4 10 California 7 Toronto league sunday in 1 Pimble Jurri 4 10 pm Ladelphia i Roubion o York 4 Chicago 10 Ang club 3 is i san Diego 2 in inn Ali Montreal Puzzle Krueger letters movies relax Sam Ion to Lings weather 36 7 6 28 39 39 39 Page i ;