Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba H Winnipeg fade november n Vav 1a u Vav u vol i stats Manwill on Economy by Carol news service Ottawa canadians Terri today All us worrisome economic reports they have been hearing in the last few months add up to a genuine later statistics Canada re leases the set of figures economists and politicians have been waiting for the total Price tag for All products and ser vices sold in the country Between a gust and known in economists jargon As the Gross National product it is considered the single most crucial indicator of a coun try economic Carter says Shah can stay in continued from Page 1 if there was any theme to yesterdays news it was Carters firm Confidence that the course his administration is taking is the Correct f he for that former Secretary of state Henry a close Friend of the had anything to do with his decision to allow the former ruler into the the president said the Shah could remain in new York until he and his medical advisers feel he is Able to mild joke he also said that iranian students in the would continue to be treated with american fairness despite Calls for harsher As for screening iranian students in the fun Carter even allowed himself a mild saying it is very he for an iranian citizen or a student to get a visa at the american embassy in Iran at this the president used the occasion to once again ask the Congress and the american people to pursue Energy Independence from foreign countries such As we have got to accept the he that this dependence on foreign Oil is a physical threat to our National the last time figures were three Gran National product had plummeted during the second Quarter of the yeah the country production dropped by per this was a dramatic and unwelcome reversal from the per cent growth recorded in the first three months of the and represented the first decline since but one poof Quarter Only gets a country Halfway into a in order to be in a full fledged economic two consecutive quarters without economic growth Are Neces if today figures show the Economy shrank again Between August and octo of photo i the government Wilt be forced to acknowledge two weeks before budget that the country is officially in it the psychological Impact of the word is probably More upsetting to finance minister John Crosbie than durable economic repercussions of being in a we has already accepted and appealed to the Public to accept the fact that the country is in a severe slow Down which Calls for restraint and although the minister will not release his official economic forecasts before tabling his Crosbie has already made it Clear he foresees Little improvement in the country per cent inflation he expects the unemployment which now stands at per to Worsen Over the to add the Label recession to these Concrete trouble signals will give Cros Bies critics More ammunition for their daily attacks in the House of it would probably also mean a fur ther erosion of Confidence among investors and economists blame most of Canadas trouble on the dismal performance of the Economy this that country was in a recession during the grimaced president Carter mounts White House stage last night to speak on the Iran crisis vote on tax credit next tuesday Ottawa up the progressive conservative government overcame the commons logjam created by debate on its mortgage interest and property tax credit Bill Clearing the Way for maps to Deal with Freedom of information legislation privy Council president Walter Baker reached agreement with the opposition parties to have the tax credit put to a vote on second Reading principle debate on the legislation designed to make information on government activities More accessible to the Public will next All sides have been under pressure to get the debate a civil rights group protested the Lack of Progress in a statement earlier the government wants the tax credit Bill passed by both the commons and Senate and second Reading of the Freedom information Bill in the com Mons before Christmas recess starts the tax credit Bill would give Home owners a tax break of up to on their 1979 Federal income tax and larger benefits in succeeding the information Bill would make it More difficult for governments to operate in secrecy and would provide ways for the Public to Force unwilling officials to divulge commons debate on the tax credits had gone on eight Days with no immedi ate end in sight until late last when liberals said they were ready for an immediate vote on second Baker earlier said 1979 tax including a new schedule covering the tax had already been printed and would be mailed out next he said this made it impossible for the government to consider any major changes in the such As extending benefits to renters or Home owners who pay no Federal income liberals and new democrats Are Pilot blamed for dc10 crash continued from Page 1 released by the airline today the rest were new three new zealand mountaineers were lowered to the site today by a Navy they said the plane apparently exploded when it hit 500 metres up the which slopes at a 35degree the new zealand department of scientific and Industrial research in which maintains new zealand Scott base near the crash said the mountaineers found the Tail Section of the plane intact but u said they reported the wreckage was spread Over an area measuring 400 metres by 50 on hard Perma nent ice covered by loosely packed Snow but with deep crevasses and Fis the mountaineers reported no survivors among the 20 Crew and 237 Passen a new zealand air Force c130 her Cules transport equipped for ice land Ings was flying to the Antarctic today with police identification crash investigators and two Fourman Moun Tain climbing prime minister Robert Muldoon said the bodies recovered will be taken to Scott base for then flown to new Erebus is on Ross off the Antarctic coast Kilometres South of new a Low Altitude swing past the Volcano was part of the 11hour round trip from new Zea to the Bottom of the world and preparing amendments to Correct what they say Are major flaws in the both parties plan to vote against the Bill on second the five Mem Ber social credit caucus is also unhappy about the Large number who would be denied benefits under the plan As but has not said How it will v none of the wants an immediate and defeat of the minority government tuesday is new maps set to arrive two new maps elected in by elections 19 could be sworn in by and that would bring the standings in the 282member commons to conservative Liberal nip 27 and so Cial credit social credit sustained the conserva lives through two close votes of Confidence earlier this the al party agreement to break off debate on the tax credits and have a vote tuesday was a major achievement by the government in its bid to hasten commons before opening debate on the free Domo information Bill the commons was to debate government motions to establish four special com first two quarters of the but has rallied slightly in recent months to pull itself last Canada had one of the better rates of economic growth in the Western its level of per cent was above those of Italy and Canada fell slightly Short of the four percent growth reported by the and far Short of japans impressive per today news comes on the heels of a report yesterday from the department of agriculture showing that food prices have gone up by per cent in the last the department figures it now costs a week to provide a family of with a no frills nutritious before budget Crosbie faces two More sets of disturbing next the government releases latest figures on the country Trade performance during this has been one of the weakest sectors of the a few Days statistics Canada releases its preliminary estimate of what happened to the country inter National debt during the third Quarter of the High interest rising worsening unemployment and quite the Nasty word recession to top it All it adds up to a rather depressing Christmas Energy pact pm tells House by Jeff Carruthers up news service Ottawa prime minister Clark told the commons yesterday the Feder al government has won agreement with the Oil producing provinces on Only the tax details remain to be worked no acceptable alternative to Otta was proposal to impose a Sel Suffi Cliency tax at the wellhead has been that is opposed by finance minister John will be including a gasoline and diesel fuel excise tax of at least 20 cents a gallon in his upcoming to finance pro Grams to Cushion the Impact on the consumer of higher Domestic Energy the budget on 11 will also provide a glimpse of other elements of the pricing including the form of the controversial Federal self sufficiency while no details of the agreement were made sources said it included d a minimum crude Oil Price increase and a corresponding 15centsathousandcubicfeet natural Gas Price increase at the with All of the revenues to be split in the traditional 454510 ratio Between the producing the Petroleum and the Federal u a minimum a barrel and 45 cents a thousand cubic feet increase soon after july with on third of the revenues to be split in the tradition al manner and on half to be split in a different fashion using a new Federal self sufficiency so that up to half of these revenues go to the Federal trea d the possibility of slightly higher wellhead increases at both stages perhaps 25 to 50 cents a barrel extra and corresponding extra amounts of Gas As a sweetener to convince Alberta to cooperate in resolving the tax d Price boosts each year for three More years and 1982 of at least to a barrel a year and comparable increases per year for with revenues above a barrel annually covered by the special new Revenue splitting d a precise formula to ensure that Domestic Price increases Over the term of the agreement do not fall behind increases in world Oil prices d a lid on Domestic Price increases so that Canadian prices do not exceed 90 per cent of the Chicago d incentives to increase the amount of natural Gas sold domestically d Oil and natural Gas will be taxed in exactly the same fashion under the controversial self sufficiency with the possibility that Ottawa might also apply the tax to Gas profits from much higher prices obtained on Export it seems Likely that the Federal government will agree to leave Export revenues or profits in the Gas Industry untouched by the special Alberta continues to remain opposed to any self sufficiency tax at the Well even though Federal tax experts maintain that Ottawa has the constitutional right to impose such a child tax family allowance to Rise in january Ottawa up monthly family allowance payments will Rise in Jan uary to from per child in most provinces and the health and welfare department announced child tax credit benefits will also increase to per child for families earning or less family allowance payments vary in Quebec and Alberta according to the age or number of children in a providing the payments average for each child in the special allowances for Foster welfare government depart ments and institutions caring for Chil Dren will increase to from family allowance benefits made to about million families were Cut to from beginning in 1979 to pay for the new tax credit the child tax credit became Law late last year and was the first time the government moved toward a system of providing More for the poor than for the rest of the welfare minister David Crombie says the progressive conservative government wants to continue this trend by increasing social service payments to those most in need and reduce pay ments to the Crombie has assured opposition maps there will be no major changes in the family allowance for although there were rumours the inner Cabinet had decided to Cut family allowance benefits to upper income report claims soviets fighting afghan rebels a a t7nu of 11 it s4 rom a full fill i from the news services new Delhi combat troops joined afghan forces in a major offensive against rebel held territory in Central says a report yesterday from the asian Small groups of soviet soldiers were involved in the government offensive that was started said the report received from there was no estimate of the number of soviet troops the town of 65 Kilometres Northwest of the Afghanistan capital of was reported returned to government a source it had been held for two months by moslem insurgents who Are waging what they Call a holy War in much of Afghanistan against president Hafizullah amins pro soviet 60 nabbed in Church Hall Seoul martial Law authorities arrested about 60 most of them in a Church Hall yester news Roundup Day to try to restrict dissident Active the people were inside the korean National Council of churches Hall for a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Affili ate of the world Council of a spokesman for the korean which has been a Centre for dissident activities by some said about 50 of those arrested were Mem Bers of the korean students Christian ads near fever vaccine scientists have isolated a segment of the germ that causes rheumatic a development they say opens the Way for a vaccine against the dangerous we have not produced a vaccine that is ready for the Public we have cracked the said Gene chairman of the department of Medicine the University of Blacks want Ford probe port South Africa Black workers fired from a Ford motor Plant Here have appealed to the firms Headquarters in Detroit for a commission of inquiry to investigate conditions at the published re ports said the workers said they also want the Board to consider their the Eastern province Herald newspaper Fords Public affairs director Dunbar said management had no knowledge of the letter and had no knowledge of the More than Blacks were fired after walking off their jobs in protest last week at Ford and the general tire and rubber of South tugs Aid grounded ship Alexandria a Barge and two tugs were at the scene yesterday of the crippled yugoslavian freighter Jabla Nica that ran aground monday after a collision with a Canadian the Barge and hired by the Jabla Nicas were holding the freighter in place while Crews unloaded about tons of Corn and the Forward ballast tanks in Hopes of floating her about 250 Gallons of fuel Oil spilled in the incident reached the no environmental damage was canopy blows off Jet san Diego the canopy of an f14 Jet combat plane blew off accidentally As the plane flew High Over the Pacific on yesterday and one of two men in the Navy aircraft was apparently falling to his authorities Navy officials said the radar intercept officer was attached to his seat when he left the plane but no opened Parachute was seen by two other planes from fighter Squadron 124 on the Rou Tine training the Pilot flew the plane Back to Miramar naval air protected Only by his Daviess conviction of violating Canad an Seal Protection Davies has spent one Day of his two week jail sentence in prison before being released on irishman jailed for death albertan charged i Belfast a 31yearold Man was sentenced to life imprisonment yester Day for the sectarian killing of a roman Catholic Dennis a Mill was one of four masked gunmen who ambushed 18yearold Robert Mccaffrey As he left an engineering works in Belfast in 1973 the court was Hunt protest cancelled Washington supporters of Seal Hunt foe Brian Davies cancelled plans for a Boston demonstration yesterday after a Newfoundland court put off deciding whether to Send him to the demonstration had been scheduled to take place outside the Canad an consulate in Boston to protest the outcome of an Appeal to overturn a Young Man from Calgary has been arrested after police say they caught him running from a downtown dress shop carrying in Cash from the shops Wyne Arthur was arrested late tuesday for investigation of theft and criminal he was taken to the Pima county fifth flood victim found the body of a fifth person killed when a Highway collapsed during a flood near this Adirondack Mountain Village was found yesterday on a Small All five victims were killed on Mon Day the bodies of the other four victims were recovered on two men survived the ;