Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg july no conflict in Grain Job Lang emm med from Page 1 Cabinet have to be read and understood in the Light of the election theres a fairly fundamental differ ence Between a minister leaving the government on his own timing and a situation where a government is de Lang Lang was accused last Friday of violating his party own conflict guide lines by Stanley Knowles Nipes North who said the Carter to review each position continued him Page 1 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 his 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 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 Lynzi 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 Gold prices break Barrier of new York Reuter Gold prices broke through the Barrier the first time Ever in after news that Jimmy Carters Cabinet and senior staff Mem Bers had offered their resignations in Gold prices hit a record High level of an ounce in after hours trading in the Gold futures Market in Winnipeg and touched in san Francisco after the resignation the Dollar also moved slightly lower in Light trading after the Carters press Secretary Jody Powell said members of the Cabinet have offered to resign to give the president a free hand in deciding How to face the country former minister knows the score from the inside and accept a Job so closely related to his former 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 photo 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 traits 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 r t details of refugee plan hammered out Somoza successor wants to Rule till 1981 says he had promised to serve Only As caretaker9 continued from Page 1 ambassador Lawrence Pezzullo met with Urcuyo briefly yesterday of a embassy source said Urcuyo administration was intended to be a caretaker government that would last Only until the Junta took the National guards adjutant Gener Felix said the army is holding its positions and fighting Only to defend but More than 100 soldiers backed by armoured cars moved from Managua to Miriam 32 Kilometres South of the and engaged the rebels witnesses reporters said the guard also sent a Sherman two armoured cars and artillery into action against the guerrillas in the City 32 Kilometres Southeast of Managua that Somoza government had been vowing to retake for government sources also reported fighting in Grenada and other cities in the firing around Man the Only major population Centre the guerrillas did not take in their was heavier than it has been in recent Somoza flew to his palatial estate in Miami he told a news conference he was thrown out by an International conspiracy that has a majority of communists and desires Nicaragua to be a communist coun said he Hopes to return to the country his family ruled for 42 maybe not As head of the government because i am too controversial a but i will be Back As a a member of the sandinista Sergio Ramirez said the Junta will ask for Somoza extradition to stand trial for crimes against the the state department said it will not comment until the extradition is Winni Eggers blamed for phantom dumping continued from Page 1 councillor Wilfred Bernardin said the Council has provided for fines to any person from outside the municipality who uses local nuisance in a dump supervisor work ing random hours any Day of the week attempts to control use of the Reeve Carl Pitura of Macdonald Rural municipality said illegal dump ing in the area has dropped off this compared with a couple of years a new problem has Deve he the rapidly developing villages in the area require More land fill but the municipality a prime agricultural area does not have cheap scrub or waste land on which to develop nuisance the Rural officials speculate that restricted hours in City Landfill Sites combined with charges for dumping Large loads May be behind the Rural dump Winnipeg has three Landfill Sites the East Kildonan site East on Springfield open 24 seven Days per week for residential and 16 hours per six Days per week for commercial waste the James site at Saskatchewan Avenue and Summit open 14 hours per seven Days a week and the fort Garry site on Brady Road open 10 hours per the City charges a rate of per ton deposited at the but residents Are allowed to dump up to pounds Ottawa up the government hammered out final details yesterday of a plan to increase the number of Southeast asian refugees coming to Canada As external affairs minister Flora Macdonald prepared to leave to an International refugee immigration minister Ron Atkey told reporters after a Long session of the inner Cabinet that he is delighted with the result of the deliberations which would be announced this he told an earlier news conference the Cabinet was considering a program that would increase both those sponsored by the government and by private he said the announcement will be made jointly by himself and miss Mac Donald who later will Fly to the Refu gee conference in on monday Atkey announced what he called a major breakthrough in Refu gee processing and facilities for private a defence spokesman said the Mili Tarys five Boeing 707 aircraft and military medical assistance can be immediately available for refugee res Geneva meeting holds use of the aircraft would depend on How quickly and How Many refugees that immigration officers can screen each week in the dozens of Camps in Singa Hong Kong and the what weve done is to Tell immigration were at their theres still a Heck of a lot of detail to work out the military planes were earlier tied up transferring Canadian forces personnel Between bases in Europe and Canada but defence has decided the forces could use commercial planes prices outpace wage increases Ottawa up prime minister Clark and his powerful inner Cabinet held their first meeting in almost a month amid increasing warnings of economic trouble to just As the ministers were gathering the conference Board in an influential private economic forecast ing organization with Headquarters a few Miles from parliament was releasing a gloomy forecast for the next 18 the Board had revised an earlier now saying inflation will be worse than previously foreseen at per cent this year an estimate senior Board officials said was three months the Board projected an inflation rate of per it said workers should be prepared to face determined and tight isted Man agers across the bargaining table in the months Nathan the boards director of said that Many compan ies have built up such Large inventories of unsold goods that a strike would almost be there will be some readiness among mangers to become a Little tougher in wage gains in the last 18 months have been outpaced by Cost of living in last average weekly wages increased per cent while prices went up per the a private economic fore casting is predicting More of the same for the average take Home pay will increase by per cent but the Cost of living will again Rise per during the first half of the prices have gone up More rapidly than but this pattern shows signs of shifting As More contracts Are signed outside the influence of government wage and Price even most workers will find by years end that their real buying Power has the Board if they try to make up the lost ground in contract they Are Likely to be greeted with indifference at Strong resistance at Laurie said this could Lead to a period of labor unrest and difficult Neotia it depends on the bargaining stance taken by both management and but Here is a real possibility of social for several years the Federal govern ment has been urging through its various inflation fighting agencies the ant inflation the Centre for the study of inflation and productivity and now the National commission on inflation restrain their wage de most senior Cabinet members Are treating these forecasts with concern but have said they want to make their own assessment of the country eco nomic prospects in the months finance minister John Crosbie told reporters during a break in the meeting he agrees with the boards analysis that the developing recession in the United states could spell trouble for Harold inflation commission says the responsible course for workers is to live with rising prices without demanding Large pay in it just int viable to have real wages falling for seven quarters 21 Laurie we cant sus Tain Telephone systems directory errors normally 1 in spokesman says continued from Page 1 in sure in not the Only per Morley they need a foolproof system where cant just take out the ads on verbal no at least one other business listing error has been reported in Gimli this Ted owner of a travel said his company was listed As Viking gravel prompting More than 100 Calls for Magyar said a Complete list of mistakes will probably be available in she said the system usually keeps mistakes Down to one in which would mean about 284 this 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 own 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 in reported the quake had a Reading of on the Richter suspected Plo base hit Tel Aviv israeli Navy gun boats shelled a suspected palestinian 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 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 Hood 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 ;