Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free june 1979 Steinbach missionaries escape turmoil eleven evangelical mennonite missionaries from Steinbach were evacuated from troubled Nicaragua by a United states air Force transport plane says an external affairs she said the missionaries were flown out of the nicaraguan Mana to the Panama canal they have made arrangements to stay in she the missionaries were being looked after by a fraternal organization apparently another religious Wayne free press Only hours before the Convoy carry ing the canadians and other foreigners set a military Convoy bound for president Anastasio Somoza private Airstrip was ambushed by the Nicaragua National guard the guard said about 23 rebels were killed and three guardsmen wounded before the Road to the Airstrip was embassy sources said some bodies were still on the ground near the ambush site As the Convoy carry ing the 70 11 three britons and five panamanians drove by in route to the air Force transport flight to the evacuees arrived in Panama several hours about 300 persons have left from Somoza private Field in four flights since tuesday and officials said More Are waiting to the external affairs department has sent a Canadian based in Costa to the canal zone to Deal with any consular problems the missionaries May there Are other canadians that have expressed a desire to leave the country and they will be evacuated in a subsequent american an external affairs official about 34 canadians still were in Nicaragua yesterday most of them Are outside the Battle zones in the principal in roving bands of looters pillaged shops in Managua As a wave of lawlessness gripped the National guard fighter planes raided the Northern City of Leon with rockets and machine gun fighting broke out in the capital last weekend As the Sand Tolsta who have vowed to end the Somoza family 40year launched their final thousands of people have been reported heavy gunfire could be heard yester Day from the Eastern and Western parts of reporters saw roving bands of looters head toward the sound of breaking Glass As people broke into stores and shops in the Eastern part of the miss Manitoba finalists go to government House miss Manitoba 1979 will be selected from among 10 finalists and crowned june 27 at this years red River the Lucky finalists had lunch at government House with Bud Jobin and his wife from left to right Are Cindy Louise 20 Leslie Diane 21 Deborah Sharon 21ingrid Lily 22 Elaine Marie 18 joins aide Bev Johnson Jobin and his wife Sherry Lynn 21 Monika Janine 18 Leslie Susan 20 Esther 19 and Anne Elizabeth old Man found ill after Pill mix up m m elderly or mentally infirm residents of guest Homes and boarding houses Are sometimes Given wrong continued from Page 1 Barbara Home finder for the health sciences said an old Man was readmitted to Hospital from a guest Home in which medication was supposed to have been but had apparently been mixed he was ill and confused when he was seen by she they found he had taken some other Michael who operates a Home for 28 patients on Spence said he never gave anybody the wrong Medica but even if you make a it would make no its All intended to do the same thing stimulate Jeannete who runs two Homes for mentally retarded said she has never confused Medica she she has had difficulty forcing mental patients to take drugs they didst mental health workers told her to Force medications on but you cant Force she if they dont want to take they Suzanne formerly with Klin in a Community health Centre now with childrens Aid described a problem in a Furby Street situation the residents these two women in particular complained they were not getting their and the medication was kept behind a Kitchen we realized the whole supervision of medication was very White said it is demoralizing for psychiatric patients to be placed in poorly run Homes it reinforces the feeling there they talk about the movement into the Community As if it was some kind of rehabilitative but theres no its just a dumping it saves lots of mental patients have been treated As chattels in Hospital for so Long it is no change for them to be bought and sold in the she the free press has identified one instance of the Sale of a mentally ill resident of a guest whole houses full of patients requiring care and supervision Are also sometimes White said she has heard of other such the people who do a Good Job have lots of the people who dont do a Good Job do that kind of the further Down you went in terms of the More common it prices would be some thing like 10 per cent of How much you got for that person Over a period of in an Thiesen said she paid another Landlady for a former mental patient last the patient had been in Selkirk mental Hospital a Long time but was still very self conscious of she the reason i did pay for him is because i wanted and not because he was going to be paying room and Board and All but because i was interested in that Ive known him since he was a Small Kama whose wife operates guest Homes at 210 Ruby Street and 475 said he searched for almost a year before buying his first Home through the classified advertisement Section of a the Home came with 11 patients and had gone through two previous he his second Home came with eight and he was not required to meet standards at the time of Chung said Board and room rates being paid by the government for the mentally infirm Are too Low to encourage people to enter the they Are also too Low to require operator he a very tight situation in which people were trying to make a living on a very limited amount of should be subsidized government should subsidize guest Homes for old people in much the same Way it does nursing he i feel that the old people and the people undergoing psychiatric treat ment and the mental Retar dates Treyve been getting the Short end of the stick for a Long Chung i feel the blame should not be Laid at the door of the people who Are providing the service or the civil ser vice the department trying to main Tain the its a political i think its not going to go anywhere unless the government puts Money where its Mouth reports from Leonid the atty was under heavy guard jets and propeller driven planes which fired rockets and foreign embassies acted swiftly to have their nationals leave moving them m some cases through parts of the City in which guardsmen and sandinista rebels were sources said further flights were de officials in the capital cannot say How Many americans still Are in couples signing contracts con Mied from Page 1 its the smart thing to do for people who dont want the ground rules Stoffman said Dur ing an he explained that when people got married several years ago they didst realize certain personal property would become the property of their spouse under future Laws such As the marital properties the prenuptial contract is one Way of avoiding these but it also takes a Tot of guts for two people to say our marriage has a Good Chance of he most of the requests for prenuptial contracts come from people who Are about to remarry or people who reject the notion that marriage is a 5050 business he Stoffman said he views the new Laws As the greatest assault on the Romance of soon marriage certificates will be filed at the corporation he Myrna another said she Hast noticed an increase in prenuptial contract re also a Winnipeg fam ily court said she was sur prised at the Lack of requests be cause originally she thought there would be a trend toward the con Stoffman also said he would like to see conformity Between separa Tion Laws and divorce Laws throughout he explained to about 25 lawyers attending the panel discussion that couples living different but separating or divorcing under the same circumstances wont necessarily receive the same approximately 100 lawyers Are at tending the which ends to bookies Are prompt taxpayers continued from Page 1 criminal Ferguson said the taxation Branch keeps tabs on the court system and moves in to audit known of the criminal gamblers and bookies Are prompt about filing he Ferguson said there Are about 100 bookies in Winnipeg but Only half of them enjoy Large they simply claim their incomes under other sources and we dont really care we just want the he said that an average person Doest need to worry about tax on race track but a race track Gam Bler betting a race had better file a proper tax tropical storm leaves 32 dead in Jamaica the seasons first major tropical disturbance caused rough seas along the Atlantic coast yesterday after leaving 32 persons dead from flooding in the which the National Hurricane Centre Here described As a poorly organized tropical depress was centred about 160 Kilometres East Southeast of it was expected to move North North East at 16 Kilometres an hour until at least noon its highest winds were 56 Kilometres an hour and no significant strengthening was expect the Centre Small boats from North Carolina to the Florida keys were advised to stay in heavy rain struck the Central Baha Mas during the in addition to the 32 deaths in Jamal police said More were missing and feared damage was estimated at More than million and the Rains left hundreds there were no immediate reports of damage or deaths in news Roundup Africa backs Down Cape town the South african government backed Down yesterday on a Law that would have restricted news reports on official but enacted another Law that sharply curtails reporting on activities of the the suprise decision to Back away from the Bill restricting reports on official corruption followed a big outcry from both the English language and the pro government afrikaans language As Well As from bar associations and the Chile recalls envoy Santiago Chiles ambassador to the Jose Miguel was recalled yesterday from Washington for talks on what president Augusto Pinochet described As the state of Chiles relations with the United relations have been strained by Chiles refusal to extradite three army accused in the 1976 murder in Washington of a former chilean Diplomat who opposed Pinochet gov crash toll Down to 273 Chicago the Cook county medi Cal examiner has revised to 273 the death toll from the crash of Ameri can airlines dc10 jetliner flight 191 at Ohare International the toll had been put at with three of the number believed victims on the Robert Stein said yesterday he has determined that no infant was aboard the dc10 that crashed May 25 shortly after despite his earlier belief there Stein also said he now believes a body discovered june under dirt and debris in a burned out hangar near the crash site had been a rather than someone killed on the concorde lands safely Washington an air France supersonic concorde with 81 Passen Gers aboard made an emergency land ing at Dulles International Airport yesterday shortly after blowing two tires and rupturing a fuel tank on the air plane is on the everything is a flight controller the runway from which the Anglo French jetliner took off was littered with debris and had to be when the plane it spread fuel Over another runway which also was closed while fire trucks covered the area with Fred spokesman for the fed eral aviation said the exploding tires May have ruptured the fuel tank in one Karpov leads tourney Netherlands so Viet world chess Champion Anatoly Karpov Drew his match in a four player grandmasters tournament his draw in 23 moves against Vlasti Mil Hort of Czechoslovakia leaves him in the Lead in the event with one and on half Points from two Eagle lady does Nestin Doris climbed into a Large Bald Eagle nest atop a 16metre Pine tree prepared to spend six Days aloft to demonstrate the plight of americas nicknamed Florida Eagle is not out to set any records or achieve but wants to Alert people to the fact that our endangered eagles Are Ever More end an she she has been nursing injured Birds of prey for 17 and is Vic president of the Florida Audubon refinery blast injures 7 at least three explosions Tore through the Pride Oil refinery touching off fires and injuring at least seven the injured included four fire fight ers and three reporters who suffered minor Burns from one of the secondary officials said they do not know what triggered the Moscow feels crunch Moscow the soviet government has ordered strict fuel saving measures indicating that the worlds biggest Oil producer is also feeling an Energy a decree published yesterday by the communist party Central committee and the soviet Council of ministers expressed concern that needed Energy supplies Are being wasted and called for very strict control Over their ratio Nal the government also ordered Large increases in heavy Oil and natural Gas output to ensure that Consumers and industries receive uninterrupted supplies next fall and from the news St vices ;