Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 16, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free june malays plan to expel All re Kuala Bumpur Malaysia announced yesterday that it intends to put the vietnamese refugees on its soil into boats and Send them out to threatening to shoot refugee boats on sight if they tried to land in malay against the background of Thailand current forcible ouster of Cam Bodian Malaysia announce ment is the most dramatic move of any of the Southeast asian countries being overwhelmed by the flood of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the inquiry pledged into use of drugs continued from Page 1 right stories on deplorable conditions in Winnipeg guest Homes and boarding houses has triggered questions in the legislature during the past three Sherman has repeatedly said the guest Home problem will be tackled by government this summer when he Hopes to take to Cabinet recommendations aimed at improving conditions in yesterday he told Elmwood new Democrat Russ Doern it was certainly an Ideal to have standards except standards create problems by forcing closure of substandard Homes residents out on the he told Doern in principle he would agree that if the City of Winnipeg took it upon itself to set its own Stan Dards the government should he in not prepared to say we feel it is entirely the responsibility of the we Are looking for the most most cooperative and least intrusive Way to Deal with this i think it will be some weeks yet before we have answers we Are work ing on civic environment committee chair Man councillor Jim Ernst has said if the government Doest act quickly the City will bring Forward its own regulations and tipsters valuable to Taxman continued from Page i Ferguson said that As part of its investigative procedure the taxation Branch is involved in surveillance activity to determine a persons spending Power or the Success of a we set up an observation Post and will Monitor pedestrian traffic at a business while the taxation Branch has wide the investigators in the special investigation Section Are the Cream of the crop and Are monitored for years prior to joining the the majority Are degree we have controlled individuals who have deep Fer Guson the tax Branch works with the but will Trade information Only about Money ramp is required to give information to the tax men on possible the tax Branch can also question friends and associates on your activities in regards to or they can request that you take a lie Detector test to prove a the polygraph has never been and we cant Force a person to take the but the department of Justice said we could make a Ferguson communist nations of informed sources expressed doubt that the malaysians would go so far As to shoot at the refugees they it is entirely possible that unless some International solution to the refugee problem is reached soon Kuala Bumpur would quickly move to expel the according to Deputy prime minister Mahavir the eviction will Start the vietnamese would be put on boats and towed to up photo International he Navy patrols would be authorized to shoot on sight any boats trying to reach malaysian we will be harsh with being humane has not paid off to us at All we Are getting is further inflow of vietnamese refugees and we have every right to expel if they try sinking their they will not be they will he Thailand to a lesser Indonesia have borne the Brunt of the refugee flood that occurred since the communist victories in Indochina in the state department said ear Lier this week that the number of per sons who have successfully made it to one of the neighbouring countries has soared jumping from an aver age of a month in 1978 to al most in it is estimated that up to half of those attempting the voyage drown before reaching the United states and Britain have a Penny a mile Fred Johnson Steps out of his electric car on parliament Hill in Johnson says it costs him Only a Penny a mile to drive his which runs on eight regular car the two seater will travel about 80 Kilometres Between Battery Videon seeks rate boost for Cablevision service Winnipeg Videon asked for a 75cent monthly rate increase at a Canadian radio television and Tele communications commission crts hearing if the company Cablevision customers in the area West of the red River would pay a the company told a Winnipeg hear ing the increase would be used to cover increased operating improve Community set up a supplementary put in new local origination improve sys tem technical Quality and increase dividends to shareholders of the the Manitoba Telephone which is involved in carrying the television intervened in the hearings but took no position on the rate in our Contention is that while the Videon rate increase being heard Here today May provide improved services for Winnipeg Cable television custom there Are 24 communities in the licenced two years still awaiting the arrival of any Cable television and we would urge the commission to reconfirm the priorities for Cable television in Gor Don its director of mar relies on increased sales the monthly fee Videon now charges Hast been raised since it was set by the crts 11 years during that time Videon has relied on increased sales to gain More in for Gross revenues in creased by per but in 1980 the increase is predicted to be three per if the increase is Videon estimated its revenues in the year ending August will go up million to operating expenses without the in crease would be million for the million with the in capital expenditures will remain the same with or without the at million for the dividends paid to shareholders will go up to with the in providing Cable television service to Rural communities has been an Issue for two its said the association of Cable operators of Manitoba with six Jias been the cause of the delay because they Haven come up with a cos sharing agreement to pro vide the Videon replied its Hast supplied an adequate rate schedule to carry the signal to the and its Hast set out its position on what equip ment the Cable operators can accused Hanoi of deliberately forcing out ethnic an official of the British Colony in Hong Kong has accused Vietnam of extorting billions of dollars from those being forced foreign minister Pochtar Kusu Maat Madja of Indonesia said in Jakarta Friday that his country would also close itself off to More he that it would continue to provide Haven for the already Malaysia action yesterday added impetus to proposals that an International conference be held on the asian refugee Japan and Britain have expressed interest in such a meet informed sources speculated that the announcement was designed to make considerable psychological Imas one source put the malay sians probably want to make it Clear to would be refugees that the risks of making a Safe journey have increased the Washington Post session ends with 58 Bills on the books continued from Page 1 spreading untruths and Distor this is the Way the session not with a bang but with a a whimper of a Sherman scraping away the partisan political the session first since Edward Schreyer stepped Down from the nip Helm to become Canadas governor general accomplished primarily what the throne speech pro finance minister Don Craik produced a budget for the 1979 80 fiscal although All the Bills from the disastrous Spring flooding have yet to come Craik is projecting a the second Defi Cit budget in a Row for the restraint oriented Sterling Lyon three major issues dominated the session the level and financing of health care a budget announced five year Hydro rate freeze and the Elimina Tion of the mining Royalty the opposition charged the tories with not keeping Pace with Federal funding of the government says it will spend More than million on health this million More than the previous As for the five year Hydro the nip rejected it As a claiming Manitoba Hydro projections show the rates would have stabilized without government the new democrats also promised to reinstate the two tier mining Royalty system if they regain Sid Green a Pinkster said the single Royalty scheme was the Only real accomplishment by the government this ses although it could amount to a Giveaway to the mining through the 58 Bills approved 35 of which were Given Royal assent immediately before the session was promo the government has cracked Down on child toughened the family maintenance Given some government auditing to private Audi will allow righthand turns on red traffic lights on one Way realigned electoral boundaries and in creased salaries for officers of the legislature a move the majority of the nip Manitoba Las also voted in favor of private members resolutions the first asking the Federal government to bring Back the death penalty for first degree murder the second asking the Provin Cial Cabinet to consider a committee to examine Freedom of information in the Bills which did not make it through the House include two education Bills to revamp and streamline the existing Public schools they will be held Over for a fall allowing the Public to react to the also held Over were proposed changes to the personal investigations changes which tighten up report ing of personal or credit investigations and limiting the use of he Detector and electronic surveillance in the fall session will Deal with the governments promised White paper on tax a move to rationalize the various Federal and Provin Cial income tax credit programs into a single cohesive site for Law meet hit by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Breezy one of Manitoba oldest practising lawyers chided his colleagues yesterday for holding the Manitoba bar associations annual convention outside Thomas Mackay said supposedly intelligent lawyers should have held their convention in by far the oldest lawyer at the moved a Resolution that the As Well As the Canadian bar not hold conventions outside of Canada when the Dollar is at a at first nobody seconded his to come surely i can get some body to Back me on he looking around the convention room for provincial judge Raj Harris seconded the saying he wanted to at least get it out the the motion was when mingle Manitoba lacked facilities outgoing association preset Dent Jack Mcjannet said the Breezy Point resort was chosen because itt had facilities that be found in in choosing the Minnesota location the association also hoped to attract More lawyers to the Manitoba tourism minister Normal Price had earlier expressed con who said he has prac used Law since after the big in said the Minnesota facility didst offer anything that be found in he said the lawyers could dually afford to travel to the exclusive so they ignored the Priorf Ciple of keeping their convention dollars in about 85 lawyers along with their families Are attending the fou Day seeks Canadian diesel fuel for Montana officials yesterday asked Canada for permission to import More than million Gallons of diesel fuel to Montana but Ottawa rejection of an earlier application for a smaller amount of fuel made prospects appear Bob director of the Energy division of the Montana department of natural said the application was sent to Canadas National Energy Board by Deputy Energy Secretary John Anderson said Oleary asked the Board to let american distributors Purchase barrels million Gallons of diesel Anderson said Montana already strained fuel situation could begin deteriorating As Early As monday unless the Canadian imports Are he confirmed that the state department has been asked to help gain Canadian an neb officer in Ottawa said prospects for such approval seem slim after the rejection last week of a 000gallon request from the Canadian Montana pipeline a wholly owned subsidiary of the Montana Power news Roundup Garner condition critical Toronto Hugh one of Canadas bes known was listed in critical condition yesterday in the intensive care Ward of Sunnybrook medical the Hospital would make no com ment on his illness except to say the writer entered Hospital june who is is the author of numerous Short Magazine Arti cles and has been ailing for the past he gained recognition in 1950 with his novel a Book about families living through the Spain to close papers Madrid the Spanish govern ment announced yesterday it is closing six state run newspapers and a news Agency inherited from the regime of Laje dictator Francisco official sources said the six dailies and the National news Agency accounted for More than half the losses by a Chain of stat owned agencies and radio the sources said the six dailies and Presa Are losing million a 24 die in flooding Jamaica at least 24 persons have died in the worst flooding in Jamaica history and 17 others Are police said in disaster relied Faruk Berkol said damage has been estimated at in a spokesman for the Canadian red Cross said in a state ment yesterday the organization will Send As Well As Contri buted by the Canadian government to the league of red Cross societies in to Jamaica for flood search for plane to end the search for a missing air plane carrying four Canad an cowboys on a flight from to the san Francisco area is scheduled to end searchers said the civil air patrol in Oregon made the recommendation yesterday to halt the said Howard one of the searchers and brother of the missing planes Brian of the plane was reported missing May 25 and was last seen refuelling May 22 in in addition to the missing Rodeo competitors included Calvin of Lee of and Gary of messages to continue Toronto the Leader of the West Ern guard said yesterday the group will continue to play Telephone Mes sages described by jewish groups As hate propaganda until authorities order a John Ross Taylor made the comment after the final Day of a fou Day hearing by a special the first of its kind set up by the Federal human rights to investigate the taped the tribunal is expected to deliver its judgment in about three David counsel for the Canad an holocaust remembrance asked for an interim injure Tion to ban the messages until the decision is the tribunal re fused the Oil Well still uncontrolled Mexico City specialists tacit Ling a runaway offshore Oil Well in the Gulf of Mexico say they have not yet stopped the flow but the Oil Slick is practically under con they also said they have been Able to keep the Oil 40 Kilometres from Shore and away from shrimp Beds along the the government Oil Mono said flotation beams surround the Slick 450 metres from the Blowout Najj the Oil is being skimmed off and pumped into a Tanker standing near at the same other Lemex teams Are disintegrating the Oil with rom certs services i ;