Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, November 23, 1979

Issue date: Friday, November 23, 1979
Pages available: 117

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Post office loses rings for auction Brandy blk a containing More then 155 rings three believed to be Dia missing yesterday from the Post office auction postal officials do not know whether the Small parcel was lost in transit from Ottawa if it Ever left or is still somewhere in the moire than 600 parcels to be auctioned Lite parcel was discovered missing per regional Public affairs manager for Canada said he said the parcel could not be found when the Post office went to ship More than parcels containing Imdahl Verane and unclaimed items to t w ii Hun ikm9b when we loaded the trucks to take them Over to Carters auction rooms on Carlton Street we find Hoitong Veteran dominate a Post office catalogue lists the con tents of the parcel number 49 approximately 155 assorted used arid damaged rings of Silver and other included Are Sig pearls also included Are engagement rings and wedding band set and three rings believed to be postal officials Cotita give no Esti mate of the value of the missing Par unclaimed and Arti cles from Post offices across the coun try were placed in parcels in Ottawa and shipped to Winnipeg in August for v annual today auction Sale which began hotting although parcels were to be sent number 873 was withdrawn in Ottawa and the Post office there says it shipped parcels to melting Bob Post office claims officer for the Manitoba in the Mitel containing the rings went astray in but because of errors made in the count of parcels when they arrived in the Post office cant Verity that it received the missing he if it has its certainly not Here Bill superintendent of the mail processing Plant said yester whether it never came out of Ottawa we dont a spokesman in the Security and investigation department of the Post office said the matter is Stilt being investigated and the parcel remains unaccounted skiing a special Clear tonight Cloudy tomorrow Low 10 High 0 november ave is sets Moon rises sets final with co toted comics for Home Call 9439331 two weeks for outside City moslem i nations heed Iran Call women shake their fists during a pro american rally outside the iranian embassy in London trial stops for 301 y scene of alleged crime not Manitoba Dauphin court proceedings against a Man accused of rape have at least because evidence has placed the scene of the alleged offence in not Crown counsel Stew Whitley asked the court yesterday morning for a stay in proceedings against Thomas Kina lives near after surveyors checked the area where the offence is alleged to have occurred and found it to be 801 Yards outside Manito according to the criminal a court in one province cannot try an offence committed in another the code does make provisions for offences that occur within 500 Yards of a but in this Case it still left the jurisdiction area 301 Yards it will be up to the attorney Gen eral of Saskatchewan to proceed with the according to testimony Given at the trial by Crown the incident occurred at a gravel pit just Northwest of the Crown had proceeded on the Assumption that the incident had occurred in the error was discovered during de Fence counsel Merv Ozir nys crossed lamination of a witness on the third Day of the the witness was outlining the exact location of the gravel pit when Ozi Rny asked for a Short adjourn he then examined maps of the Benito area which showed the gravel pit to be on the Saskatchewan Side of the bound when this was pointed out in Whitley had the land surveyed and the position was after presenta Tion of Crown Whitley asked for and received a stay in the proceed Ings from Justice Guy Tehran a iranian Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini yester Day stepped up Hie attacks on the United calling on All moslem and american Blacks to join us in this struggle Between the infidel and Khomeini also welcomed the wave of anti americanism in Pakistan and urged the pakistani army to Rise against the oppression inflicted on their Brothers in moslem mobs took to the streets in four cities throughout the moslem world following the burning of the embassy in Pakistan on wednesday in Calcutta a mob of More than Indian moslem burned looted shops and stoned and tried to set fire to the and soviet crowd in the turkish City of Izmir marched on the but were turned Back by police More than 400 moslem Stu dents marched in front of the embassy in but said that As a Goodwill gesture they would not Burn Down the building and moslem demonstrated in the streets of Srinagar in India Kashmir in other developments today d about 20 most of them surprised iranians by parading through the streets of Tehran to demand the extradition of the the marchers were cheered by scores of iranians shouting Long live d saudi troops regained full control of the grand mosque of Mecca and were in hot Pursuit of the last of the moslem extremists who besieged the building for three the saudi information minister there was no word on the Fate of about 50 hostages the extremists were believed Western diplomats in the saudi Diplo Matic capital of Jeddah said that a simultaneous attack had been launched tuesday against islam second holiest the Tomb of the Prophet Mohammed in the at tack was foiled and the situation in Medina is they d foreign minister Abolhassan Bani Sadr announced Iran will not pay its foreign which he put at it was not known which coun tries would suffer most if Iran follows through on the d Carter summoned his top foreign policy advisers to Camp David to plan new tactics for gaining the release of 49 americans still held As hostages in the embassy in see riots Page 4 Appeal is Parrot in jail two weekends key to Trudeau Fate Toronto up Jeanclaude Par National president of the Canadian Union of postal went to jail yesterday afternoon after the Ontario court of Appeal unanimously upheld his conviction on a charge of defying Federal legislation sending postal work ers Back to work in Paul one of parrots Law yers at the Appeal which was heard last said yesterday he will seek leave to Appeal the judgment before the supreme court of Cavalluzzo said he will bring another bail application before an Ontario supreme court judge today to have Par rot released on bail again pending a hearing before supreme court of Cana in keeping with bail terms imposed when the Ontario court of Appeal re served judgment last Parrot surrendered himself at the Ottawa Carleton regional detention Centre at 3 As soon As the three judges of the court of Appeal were ready with their Parrot seeks new Appeal in its 29page the court of Appeal rejected the argument put Forward by parrots lawyers that the Union Leader had acted As soon As he could in directing his workers Back to by Mary Janigan and Carol Goar up news service Ottawa in the Wake of Pierre Trudeau snap it is now possible to reconstruct from the swirl of confusion the key events which explain his astonishing they Centre on two crucial weekends last one and the coming this the former prime min ister would have had a bitter Wrangle on his the 38member lib eral National executive is meeting in Ottawa and a determined minority was going to demand an Early Spring leadership Trudeau wanted to postpone the Cri Sis at least until he could have but it would have meant an ugly and exhausting squabble which would have effectively crippled him As party Quebec politics his decision to abandon the Battle was reached last he and his political advisers were in chatting to liberals attending the an Nual Ontario Liberal tru Deau received but he also Learned that some of the grassroots party especially in the were far angrier than the he already had realized that he probably would never become prime minister he also had admitted to himself that he did not like his Job and somebody else could do it he was exhausted by Domestic prob and he hates party executive such one this week even at the Best of so to avoid a confrontation which could Only Hurt the party and prolong his own he turned his Back on the and that left his party almost dizzy with three speeches up news service has Learned that As recently As Trudeau was arguing vehemently for a june policy convention at the weekly meet ing of caucus he gave no indication he would step Down and even insisted that a convention just after the Spring Quebec referendum would harm federalist chances in the Battle Over the future of our confusion stems from the fact that less than 10 Days he made it very Clear that he saw no sense or logic in leaving until the says a key caucus the next Day he went to Trudeau delivered three speeches at that weekend convention and he Nei ther lost nor gained ground in his Battle to woo party see 2 weekends Page 4 Mountbatten murderer gets life imprisonment Dublin Reuter Dublin judges sentenced Thomas to life after finding him guilty of the murder of Earl Mountbatten of the three in a special anti guerrilla court without a found a second accused Francis not guilty of the Uncle of the was blown up in his private yacht 27 while sailing off the coast of the Irish two of Mountbatten family and a boat boy also died when his yacht shrimp exploded in a Sheet of flame off the Irish coast at Irish Republican army fighting to end British Rule in Northern claimed responsibility for the killing of in the which began 13 Days the states Case rested strongly on forensic evidence said to show that the accused placed gel ignite aboard the yacht the preceding the prosecutor was detonated by Remote inside today crisis in Iran portent country the United states needs to have the Best possible relations with whatever government is in Power in former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger this Doest mean submitting to mob Bank wins in court the Manitoba court of Appeal has overturned a lower court decision and dismissed an injunction prohibiting the Toronto Dominion Bank from providing computerized accounting and payroll services for saudis take a bus motor coach industries of Winnipeg is build ing 187 buses equipped with air conditioning and Sun roofs for use in saudi Renaissance spirit lives the Renaissance spirit has come alive again in the household of Pinchas and Eugenia who will appear in a joint recital in Winnipeg brought Here by the cites Mother daughter impresario team of Laurane and Lois a flood of refugees cambodian refugees poured into Thailand heading toward what could become one of the biggest Camps in the being friends int easy foreigners in China and the chinese people have been kept at a distance from each other for so Long there is an intense desire to learn How the other Side but the government does its Best to keep them dreamer gets jail term Index scores a Man who was living in a veritable dream world when he bought a Mercedes Coupe Worth with Only in his Bank account was sentenced in county court yesterday to two years less a Day in judges role eroded juvenile court judges Are suffering from an identity crisis As rapidly expanding social work programs erode the judiciary traditional an Alberta family court judge said in Winnipeg missionaries in Middle Green tops Cal honors peace May be imminent in Zimbabwe but for Church missionaries in the Remote areas of the War torn nation Are still caught Between the guerrillas and the Salisbury just a year and a half David Green did not know if he was going to spend any More time running around with a football tucked under his today he is the outstanding player in the 43 19 27 43 37 79 19 37 Doug 5 19 Jumble 7 6 22 43 43 15 2 hockey nil Montreal 7 Winnipeg 0 Boston 7 Quebec 4 football nil Detroit 20 Chicago 0 Houston 30 Dallas 24 winners win Tarakd for win fall 98 ;