Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free August y 63 woj j him w to Shch Aransky said to look like living Corpse Moscow the Mother of imprisoned human rights activist Anatoly Shch Aransky said Here yesterday that her son is seriously ill and has lost at least 20 pounds since his conviction a year ago on he looked like a living 71yearold Ida Milgrom told Western i often after returning to Moscow my her first visit with Shch Aransky in a you could Only see such a face in Shch Aransky was sentenced to 13 years in prison Camp on july despite worldwide protests against his trial and despite the personal Assur Ance of president Carter that he had As been a Cia the trial marked a recent Low Point in soviet american there had been earlier reports that Shch Aransky was suffering from severe but after visiting her son for two hours in the Chi Stopol prison about 500 Miles East of Moscow last Milgrom said she was afraid that his life is in he is skin and his face is his nose is Sharp and and his eyes bulge with a strange she there is no doubt that he is a terribly sick Milgrom said she had pressed for months to have a competent medi Cal examination for her son but with Little she said her son had told her that a medical commission did finally visit him in prison last july but that it had pronounced him she Shch Aransky said he had overheard one of the commission Doc tors Tell another that he didst like the looks of the dissidents electro Cardia the visit was the first Milgrom and she Haransky older had been permitted since shortly after last Summers an earlier visit scheduled for february this year was cancelled when Shch Aransky refused to work in Pris the 31year old Shch Aransky is a jewish activist who was refused per Mission to emigrate from the soviet Union because of his studies and work As a computer he was also a founding member of a group established Here in 1975 to Monitor soviet compliance with human rights provi Sions of the Helsinki agreements on european cooperation and the los Angeles times foreign spies kill exiles in fierce windstorm rips through Regina a Refina fire department official Points to damage at a City flipped Mobile Homes and scattered debris throughout resident warehouse last night after winds gusting up to 117 Kilometres tial areas in the Northwest and Eastern parts of the at the i hour struck the the winds Tore roofs off of the Power was knocked out in some Grain Detour idea dismissed shipment through Thunder Bay Canadian officials say a suggestion that Thunder Bay May be use to Export american Grain held up by a monthlong strike of United states elevator workers at great lakes ports has been dismissed by Canadian a spokesman for the Minnesota Agri culture department said yesterday efforts to ship some of the Midwest american Grain via Lakehead Export facilities Are being however both the manager of the Lakehead Harbor commission and a spokesman for the Canadian wheat Board said yesterday they Are not aware of any formal Contact by Ameri can officials to ship Grain through the Canadian both Harbor manager Ken Mccuaig of Thunder Bay and wheat Board spokesmen Jim Morriss questioned How Lakehead facilities could be used when there is mounting pressure on the port to meet Canadian Export require since july 6 when it the strike against eight elevator companies has blocked great lakes Grain ship ments from terminals at Duluth and and has caused a massive transportation snarl through out the the huge terminals handle 10 pet cent of the nations Grain exports and also Supply wheat to Mills in the Center of the flour officers suspensions lifted Emit owed Frem Page 1 the police commission on the merits of each whether offi cers facing criminal charges should be suspended or Johnston Stewart was asked to leave the police commission meeting while the other members considered the and counsel for the officers were Al Lowed to present the decision to reinstate Baranetski and Johnson was in Addi Tion to Bill Jim Moore and former City councillor Bill Hallonquist voted for the Mcgarva said yesterday he Felt it would be too great a hardship on the officers to continue their in View of the lengthy court proceedings awaiting they be punished until they Are proven guilty in a court of he they Are longtime employees and this is the Only problem they have Ever said Baranetski and Johnson face charges in connection with their detention of who alleges he was beaten in an interview room at the Public safety building and forced to sign a confession to rape in the confession signed by Frampton while in their custody was rejected by a county court judge in 1977 on the grounds it was Likely obtained by Federal officials Hope to resume talks today with the Grain companies and Union representatives in a bid to end the Mccuaig said As far As he United states Export Grain has never been moved through Lakehead facile he said arrangements would have to be made with the various Canadian elevator companies and questioned whether the companies would be Able to handle both and Canadian both he and Morriss said customs and other Federal regulations would have to be examined first to determine whether such Grain movement would be at the moment we probably need All the port capacity for moving Canadian Morriss the strikers Are the 520 members of the american federation in of Grain Mills who operate the Grain trim the holds of the loaded vessels and perform other jobs at the Lakeside the Union is seeking a costo living adjustment clause in a new three year it rejected an 8 per cent annual pay increase without a Cost of living continued from Page 1 labelled findings rather than final its purpose was described As being to determine whether More extensive investigation was a major conclusion of the study was that none of the agencies most directly involved in the activities of foreign intelligence agents the the Fri and state department had direct responsibility for monitoring political harassment by foreign governments of their own nationals in the United the Senate report moreover has to be impressionistic on Points where the the state the White House and other agencies have refused to give up sensitive inform it is like most works on Intelli gence activity in that it has far More details of plans that were never put into effect or did not work than it has of successful but the report argues persuasively that even when the foreign intelligence agencies have not carried out their More startling the pattern of harassment and intimidation of dissidents had had a chilling effect on Public discussion and attitudes in the toward states with controversial human rights records at the intimidation has worked to de Prive the targeted some of whom were naturalized of constitutional rights to Freedom of Assembly and association that Are guaranteed to All the evidence collected strongly suggests that the pattern of intelligence activities May have pre vented officials and citizens from getting accurate information about emigre and student attitudes toward stability and human rights in their Home while president Carter was praising the Shah Iran in january 1978 As an Island of the Shah agents in the United states were intensifying their Campaign to silence dissident students who sought to get across a British swimmers cant hold bladder London Reuter it a either cannot or will not control their bladders when they go for a As a we pee into our swim Ming pools on a vast said David who manages a big London swimming you would not be Lieve the you would never go americans and apparent Are much More the Issue made headlines today after Pool authorities at Northern were criticized for consider ing putting a Dye into the which would flush an embarrassing red on Contact with different according to Intelli gence Community sources and Legal documents filed in Chicago court cases involving the six months Taiwan secret service had organized and paid for an anti peking demonstration attended by persons in Washington to protest a visit by Secretary of state Cyrus Vance to the Senate staff report Iran and Taiwan reportedly set up Case officers with diplomatic cover who ran dozens if not hundreds of agents who infiltrated Campus life and student organizations across the each also reportedly planned Large scale propaganda campaigns to be orchestrated through front the Washington Post study Bug bites student by Noelle Boughton Many University students repeat courses because Treyve failed but one University of Manitoba dentistry student is going to spend this year repeating All the courses he passed last its incredibly said pro Fessor Martin chairman of the Senate committee of appeals which has agreed to the during a University Senate meeting Samoiloff said the Stu Dent whom he identify had done extremely Well in his second year dentistry but the Young Man decided hed like to repeat the year to learn although his professors reassured him hed continue to learn in the third the student insisted on taking second year since the University Doest have any regulations about Samoiloff said the faculty passed it onto the appeals committee for its he said As far As he knew nothing like this had Ever happened at the University senates committee usually deals with appeals from Stu dents who have failed courses or have poor Marks and want to be allowed to we didst feel there was any ulterior said so we allowed the Only condition was that the dentistry student had to withdraw from All the courses he took instead of his Mark statements will show voluntary Paraguay court strips Mengele of citizenship Asuncion Paraguay reacted to allegations that it harbours accused nazi War criminal Josef Mengele by strip Ping him of his citizenship the supreme court ruled Mengele in validated the naturalized citizenship he obtained by an unjustified absence from the country since Mengele is wanted for the murder of jews at Poland Auschwitz concentration Camp during the second world experts hopeful on Well aboard Gulf of Mexico experts trying to control a runaway offshore Oil Well said yester Day they believe they have managed to Cut the flow by 30 per Clemente an Engineer of the mexican state Oil company told reporters aboard the a that instrument readings indicated a 30percent drop in the Oil flowing out of the main Well put he said More readings would have to be taken before definite figures can be Egypt Anna Aid planned Washington the Carter administration has decided to help Egypt revitalize its arms including the manufacture of big tank weaponry and aircraft defence news Roundup officials said Pentagon re search director William who is directing the administration recently returned from Cairo where he discussed the master plan for beefing up Egypt defence Etna lava flow continues Sicily lava continues to ooze from two craters on mount but experts said yesterday there is no immediate danger to villages in 1 its a week after the Volcano began instruments showed its activity is lessening and the lava is advancing Down its slopes at Only a few metres an villagers who spent four nights in the open returned to their Homes Bolivia Leader sworn in la Paz Bolivia two year Strug Gle to return to democratic Rule was completed yesterday by the inauguration of the first constitutionally elected president in 10 Walter Guevara elected monday by the took office in a ceremony inside the legislative priest accused in trial disease source mystery eight men and four women were told yesterday to leave their Bias and prejudice at the courtroom door by the lawyer prosecuting Bernard a a roman Catholic priest accused of being delawares gentleman ban was assistant pastor at Mary Refuge of sinners Church in when he was charged in february of being the Mil mannered gunman who held up eight stores in Northern Delaware and fled with it and t settles suit Washington the International Telephone and Telegraph signed a consent agreement yesterday to set the a government suit that charged the company with making million in illegal payments to secure overseas As part of the it and t agreed to an outside investigation of the payments while not admit Ting to any past pledged to fully disclose any future the filed in District settles a year old suit brought by the securities and Exchange commis it and to agreement to permit a review was the crucial part of the consent Toronto air conditioners have been ruled out for the time being As the source of an outbreak of legionnaires a Public health official said Marguerite medical officer of health for the metropolitan Toronto City of North where the outbreak is said in a state ment that her department is working with an Ontario government doctor in Hopes of finding a common source of the lung a spokesman in her department said later in an interview that air conditioners have been ruled out at this time because preliminary investigations indicate that the three confirmed and eight suspected cases in Toronto Hospi tals dont appear to have been in the same 3 by elections in Quebec Quebec the decision of parti quebecois Cabinet minister Robert Burns to withdraw from Active politics for health reasons yesterday opens the Way to a third by election in a spokesman for Premier Rene Levesque said that it will be announced late this week or Early next week whether to put bums Montreal Riding up for grabs at the same time As the two others promised for Early this Askew gets Trade Post Washington former Florida Reubin a populist re former who is now an International was named yesterday by presi Dent Carter to succeed Robert Strauss As the chief Trade Neotia whose nomination must be confirmed by the Senate after its a gust is expected to assume his Post about presidential press Secretary Jody Powell told the Job carries ambassadorial rank and Askew will receive the Cabinet status accorded Powell Nicholas Monsarrat Dies London Nicholas author of the cruel sea and a score of other books about sailors and the died of cancer wednesday in a London he was who lived on the maltese Island of Gozo the last 11 entered Hospital 10 Days he had also lived in Ottawa and for 13 the cruel the Story of a Royal Navy Corvette in the Atlantic during the second world established a major novelist in Tut Monsarrat Dies of cancer ;