Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free july 1979 Carters Cabinet offers to resign Washington thirty four Mem Bers of the Carter including the entire Cabinet and White House senior offered to resign yesterday in another stunning develop ment in president Carters Effort to revive his the mass resignation which sources said had been under consideration for several were made during a series of meetings at the White House with the Cabinet and Carters White House officials said the presi Dent will act on the resignation offers in the next few one senior official said that Carter is Likely to accept some of the offers from both Gerry flee press Cabinet members and his own the White House also quickly put out word that the resignation offers of the presidents National Security team Secretary of state Cyrus defence Secretary Harold Brown and National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski would not be there was no official word on any of Only intense speculation As Carter continued the extraordinary process begun two weeks ago when he abruptly cancelled a scheduled then Ergy address and convened the Domestic Summit conference at Camp there were conflicting versions of How the resignation offers came three Cabinet officials said that Carter asked for the resignations during a meeting with his Cabinet at White the White House version was that the resignations were offered spontaneously with no prodding from the the president met yesterday morn ing with his senior staff aides and separately with the Cabinet amid rumours and speculation of a shakeup in the administration growing out of the Camp David there was no forewarning of the stunning announcement that White House press Secretary Jody Powell made to report ers in late the president had serious and lengthy discussions with his Cabinet and senior White House staff about the priorities of Powell he reviewed with them the Progress of the past few years and the problems that All members of the senior staff and Cabinet have offered their resignations to the president during this period of Powell the president will review these offers of resignation carefully and expeditious later the White House issued a com plete list of the officials who offered their it in Addi Tion to the 12 department secretaries of cementing Broadway a Cement truck pours a steady Stream of Concrete onto rain free weather has kept work on motor Broadway yesterday As City work Crews keep the mixture its cant wait until traffic flows return to police reject role in parole rehabilitation not part of our Halifax chief tells crime conference Halifax up police generally Are sceptical or downright negative toward rehabilitating says Dave director of Branch ser vices for the John Howard society of but Halifax police chief Fitzgerald Fry says police should not have to get involved with and have been Given a Snow Job by the nation Al parole the contrasting views were expressed tuesday during a workshop session at the we Klong annual Confer ence of the Canadian Congress on the prevention of police have no part in rehabilitation of chief Fry told parole offi their Job is to get them once they Are then rehabilitation is your Job All you have to do is ask one of the parolees if they want the police involved and youll find out they dont want the police at he parole officials Are Home in bed and expect police to Check up on the parolees dont like Fry adding that they claim but were doing it because you asked us to do accusing the parole service of giving police a Snow Fry said a joint committee of parole and police officials unanimously agreed that mandatory supervision should be abolished but when it was passed on to the parole service it was Only put under a study that will last three he also said he found it too difficult to persuade parole officials to revoke a Volkswagen recalls queried Washington a the transportation department said tues Day it will hold a Public hearing july 24 to determine if Volkswagen of America has reasonably met its obligations in carrying out a recall Cam the recall involved safety related defects in the accelerator systems of 197576 rabbits and 1974 75 dashers and 1974 Audi the hearing was ordered by Joan administrator of the departments Highway traffic safety and she said her Agency has received numerous reports from Consumers about continuing accelerator system failures despite the recall it also has received reports of accelerator system failures on later Model Volkswagen Volkswagen initiated the recall in after the administration received complaints of sticking and broken throttle cables with loss of control Over vehicle dealers were required to Check and lubricate the accelerator cables and Carburettor linkage and replace the cables if the complaints possibly Are coming from about car owners who did not respond to Volkswagen said Baron Public relations director at the company National marketing Headquarters in Englewood we sent out recalls to owners in March of Bates got responses to that the company will continue to make repairs for owners still responding to the he we catch someone and find Hes on they say parole should not be suspended because it should wait for but when you find a Guy on the premises with a gun in his hand there should be a Fry said parole officials sometimes show parolees the confidential reports written about them by although favouring chief Fry said he believed it wrong that repeated offenders Are Given the same parole Opportunity As first and second Kennedy contended that police by the nature of their involved in rehabilitation whether they like it or the John Howard society official said the prevalent attitude among police is negative and added that police reports on applications by parolees Are undoubtedly they say he Hast served enough time or ill give him a week before Hes Back the police Campaign for restoration of capital punishment shows police be Lieve rehabilitation does not he when youre dead youre dead and rehabilitation Doest the three officials with Cabinet rank director James special Trade ambassador Robert Strauss and ambassador to the United nations Andrew the 19 White House aides who offered to resign included not Only Carters most trusted such As but three members of first lady Rosa Lynn Carters staff and Vic president Mondale chief of Richard it remained unclear last night How extensive a shakeup in the administration Carter has in a White House official said that discussions of the mass resignation offers have been going on for several Days among some Cabinet officials and some senior White House the official said that the president was aware of the idea and approved suggesting that he already has decided who he wants to reaction to the Days developments was Swift and generally re publican presidential candidate George Bush if there is a Lack of Confidence in government it is the fault of Carters not the men and women entrusted to carry them Paul said the action makes the president look like he is in charge but also May project an appearance of the Washington Post Canada takes More refugees from Vietnam continued from Page 1 Pate in the sponsorship program a Canadian refugee fund will be established As a charitable organization under the chairmanship of a prominent contributions to the fund will be used for transportation and resettle ment of refugees in Atkey said sufficient plane space had already been reserved to enable up to refugees to be brought in each month Between 1 and the end of this transportation arrange ments Are now being made to meet the needs of he said that sufficient staff is Avail Able in Southeast Asia to process the refugees who will be coming under the new the government is planning to establish staging areas in August to receive refugees on arrival in Cana they will remain in the centres from two to seven Days before continuing on to their final destinations in the staging areas will be located at department of National defence facilities in Edmonton and working for Pioneer Grain no conflict of interest Lang continued from Page 1 Federal guidelines tabled in Parlia ment by former prime minister tru Deau in 1976 Call for a oneyear Cool Ingoff period for former Cabinet ministers and top bureaucrats before they can accept a position in private life related to their former the guidelines Are voluntary and carry no penalties or sanctions if they Are a former Dean of Law at the University of Saskatchewan and Feder Al Justice was one of the architects of the Knowles said langs appointment was a Clear conflict of interest and one that ought not to be tolerant but Lang said he want prepared to get into a debate with anyone accusing him of conflict of he said his former portfolios brought him into Contact with a great Many people and this prevent him from finding employment langs responsibilities with Pioneer will include Grain handling and Mer and May also involve trans actions with the government from time to he but most of the time the company will be dealing with the wheat which is an autonomous Ian director of the senior personnel secretariat for the privy Council in said several Defeated Liberal ministers contacted his of fice for copies of the conflict guidelines shortly after the Lang want one of Gold Price rises above in world trading continued from Page 1 it could move but i still expect a correction to take it Down below and possibly As far As he noted there Are a lot of profits out there available to go Downers who bought earlier and these people might be expected to sell and take their i would be a hesitant buyer right i think we could see lower prices in the next i think the trend is still up because of underlying weakness in the brought on by growing costs for imported Oil and the Onset of recession in that Gold has been moving up steadily right through from the first of the its basically the loss of buying Power of the the Dollar is Pri Marily affected by which is largely a function of the Oil the higher the Price of Gold the More we should be concerned by lost buying Power of the higher Gold prices Are not particularly Good at the same Canadian Gold mines will Benefit greatly from the upward it will allow them to increase processing of Lowe Grade Ore while maintaining profit Richardson had been projecting an average Gold Price for 1979 of an so the latest move is pretty he noted if the open nations raise Oil prices further at a scheduled septem Ber Gold prices would move up while the reverse would happen if the Oil Price is adjusted Down african students hold peking protest March peking More than 100 angry african students marched today through peking diplomatic area in a demonstration against what they called bad treatment they have received in the protest was prompted by three Days of fighting Between african and chinese students earlier this month at the Shanghai textile african students in peking said 50 foreigners have been injured in 25 of them students on the March carried ban ners Reading we want to go we dont want further Down with racial Down with false cultural Friendship and chinese Stop slander ing student sources said tension Between the african and chinese at various institutes around the country have been High for some it was aggravated by language loneliness and a big cultural Gap Between africans and the students in today March news Roundup Many of them French speaking Are All from institutes in they said african students in Shanghai have not been allowed to leave the quake rocks Anchorage Alaska a rolling earthquake that lasted almost two minutes Shook buildings in downtown an chorale just before noon there were no reports of injuries or the National earthquake information Center reported the quake had a Reading of on the Richter suspected Plo base hit Tel Aviv israeli Navy gun boats shelled a suspected guerrilla base on the Southern Leba Nese coast last the Mili tary command the location of the shelling was not disclosed by Israel but in Beirut the palestinian news Agency Wafa said the towns of Fadloun and Ansari Yeh were the targets of the an israeli military spokesman said Israel had very Good information the base served several terrorist organizations in the planning and preparation of sea launched terrorist attacks within huge drug ring broken Federal drug enforcement officials said yester Day they have broken a ring which conspired to smuggle into the cocaine and other drugs valued at More than Rolland special agent in the charge of the Louis administration called it the largest marijuana and Quaal Ude drug smug gling conspiracy in the history of Cen trial Quaal Ude is a tranquil officials said five men arrested Mon Day join seven others already in Cus and eight More were being Canadian Niagara of Niagara ont the Cana Dian Side of Niagara Falls received a clean Bill of health yesterday when at the same time the army corps of engineers stepped up their geological testing on the american Side of the Horseshoe Ronald Hoskins of the Buffalo corps said seismic set to detect As Little As on eighth of an Inch of movement in the Rock at Terrapin Are being read daily for the next few pm announces recall Detroit general motors yesterday recalled million cars and Light trucks including in can the 1978 Model year to replace front outer wheel bearings that might fail and cause a vehicle to run out of owners whose cars or trucks from the affected lines have noticeable front end noise or vibration should not wait for the recall letter to visit their dealers for pm spokesman Bill Knight said pm had Learned of one fatality in Canada believed to be the result of such a bearing failure and 16 other accidents in which no one was police strike maintained Honolulu most of the policemen in Hawaii remained on strike yesterday in a contract defying a judge who ordered them to return to their officers failed to report for the two shifts that began after circuit court judge Arthur Fong issued a temporary restraining order monday after air fare boosts planned Geneva world airline companies met yesterday to plan for at least a 10percent increase in air fares begin Ning in says a spokesman for the International air transport Asso the reason for the move by the 106member Iata for a fare increase is an estimated 71percent increase in fuel prices this the spokesman Iata said the Rise in fuel prices will increase their operating costs by an average 16 per cent for storm hits islands tropical storm Clau Dette and its 72 Kilometres an hour winds moved through the Virgin and Leeward islands last dumping heavy rain on several areas and prompting authorities to Issue Flash flood showers and thundershowers with locally heavy Gusty winds and above Normal seas were forecast for the Leeward islands during the Gale warnings were issued for the Virgin islands and puerto Flash flood warnings also were especially for puerto from the news services ;