Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december Mercier orders vehicle continued from Page 1 admitted the Laws have been broken and has taken no firm action on the a free press investigation last week uncovered massive government vehicle registrations in qualifying them for Auto acs lower territory 2 Premium the study found that Brando Regis tired cars Are assigned to a number of top lever officials at the legislature who live in including provincial auditor Ennst who has been unavailable for comment on the Issue since wed Nee said through an aide yesterday in Iran by mob Tehran a militant students occupying the embassy said today the three senior diplomats detained at the foreign ministry were the head of the spies and must be kept in Iran along with the 50 citizens held hostage at the embassy the statement came a Day after acting foreign minister Sadegh Ghotb Zadeh said the Trio were free to Ghotb Zadeh said he could not guarantee Safe passage to the Tehran Airport for charge affaires Bruce political officer Victor and the embassy Security Michael All have remained at the ministry since the embassy takeover Ghotb Zadeh denied that he had said the three were free to i have never said in any interview that the charge affaires of the embassy and two of his companions could leave Ghotb Zadeh said in an interview with a correspondent of iranian radio and rather it has been announced that in the event of the embassy charge affaires and his two com who have sought Asylum in the iranian foreign Are leaving this the iranian foreign ministry would not accept any Respo Sibili he forbidden to leave Iran in a statement released through the official pars news the students said Laingen and his two companions Are the head of the spies and their movements must be strictly con they said the embassy was a spy nest and the americans held there will be tried As spies unless the Shah is returned for the three envoys Are not allowed to leave Iran or to make any contacts outside the foreign the state ment Ghotb Zadeh hinted that the Shah departure from the United states might ease the but said the hostages wont be released immediately in other developments d Zbigniew president Carters National Security said in new York City that the United states and our president will not be islam is not our enemy and the contest is not with islamic what were witnessing in Iran is an d about 350 mostly iranian protesters marched on the state department in two demonstrators were d the european economic Community issued a statement urging Iran most strongly to release the hos that he would make no statement until Legal counsel has reviewed the entire the aide said a report from mercers department is expected sometime Early next Enns said tuesday he assumed Auto Pac had exempted the government from the statutes in when a Pri vate Deal was struck allowing the province to License its vehicles in the aut Opac territory where they Are Pri Marily but a we Klong search by govern ment and aut Opac staff failed to turn up the waiver and officials involved in the 1971 Deal cant remember one being aut Opac chairman and general manager Button said he remember a waiver and said he haunt been instructed to search for Button took Ever from Blackburn As general manager one month before the 1971 policy was approved by manage ment Button said he thought a Cabinet committees approval was probably sufficient authority to adopt the policy even if it May not distinctly say that in the in sure that instructions from management committee would have considered a waiver he on Enns concede the Laws had been saying Only inquiry that there May Well be some need for clarification of the he vowed to the mfcdft0wn registry Tifis and consider extending the right to private Fleet the govern Frient had vehicles registered outside the City in 19 but Only gift of them were actually based in Rural according to figures made Public by in 943 government cars and trucks were based Winnipeg at that time but Only 200 o them were registered to the provincial garage Manitoba Telephone system has also taken advantage of the out town poli registering than half its 900 americans demonstrate in new York City against the holding of hostages in Chi settlement reached continued from Page 1 Mercier said he believed it to be a realistic settlement and said it was recommended by All lawyers acting for the opposition Leader Howard Pawley said the settlement was but his chief concern was the need for Assurance that the civil settlement not prejudice in any Way criminal proceed both Pawley and Mercier said no specific amount had been but the government wanted to recover All it the government has already paid in Legal fees and costs arising out of civil litigation in Chi Mercier counsel advised that the govern ment will not realize additional other than those presently in and that failure to Settle now would Only dissipate further the net anticipated he in 1965 the former conservative government entered talks on the develop ment of a pulp and paper Complex at the the government put More than million into the project before it was put in receivership in 1971 by the nip which launched a judicial the inquiry found that an was the Mastermind behind the alleged fraud million in excess fees charged by companies owned or controlled by criminal charges of fraud and theft were Laid against Kasser and six others in the Chi Complex is now run by the government As a Crown corporation known As Manitoba forestry austrian courts have indicted Kasser for the Manitoba strike chases Hospital patients Regina up a Man who at tempted suicide was released after receiving emergency treatment at re Gina general Hospital because a government workers strike had virtually emptied the psychiatric Ward of support Andre head of the said masters said he was called to the hospitals emergency Ward to treat the Young Man who had slashed his it is a potentially serious situation because there Are some suicidal people some who Are potentially dangerous to others who Are not being treated in he the Ward has been one of the areas hardest hit by the two week strike by members of the Saskatchewan government employees government services Are wearing thin and most provincial government departments Are operating on an Emer Gen Yonly government officials say they Are meeting demands As Well As can be the workers have been on strike since they Are asking for an 18percent increase in a oneyear con but the Public service commis Sion has offered eight per cent in the first year and per cent in the second year of a two year negotiations have broken off and none were scheduled for the Union negotiators said their position was flexible and they wanted to return to the bargaining but commis Simon chairman David Bock said there was no change in the governments two Union members trying to have the strike declared illegal will be Back in court they Are arguing the strike was not approved by a majority of Union Saskatchewan Liberal Leader Ted Malone said 60 per cent of those eligible voted and 62 per cent of them approved the the Union says the figures Are essentially vehicles in Thompson or the the wifi Deal Between the govern went and aut Opac quietly allowed this it said provincial vehicles used More than 50 per cent of the time in Rural areas could be registered regardless of where they were but regulations under both the Manitoba Public insurance Corpora Tion act and the Highway traffic act say a vehicles Home base or primary address must be used on All registry Enns insisted that Only about 15 per cent of provincial Jehu cles Are used or considered to be Pri Marily used for Urban he said the 1971 policy allowed the other 85 per cent to be registered in Hoff Tison 6r the the 1971 agreement Between the government and aut Opac clearly admits the purpose of allowing out town registrations was to Cash in on Tower insurance rates in Rural it said that since place of residence or address As shown on the vehicle licence is the determining Factor for Auto acs three territorial areas of it has been agreed with the mp1c that the government should maintain addresses for licence and insurance purposes outside of Winni concern led to merrier says continued from Page 1 inquest and what they Felt was a biased attitude against questioned about Montgomery comments to three reporters about Mercier said he will review the newspaper reports and talk to Mont he said he to have a report Early next it has to be dealt with i concede if the allegation is and i dont have reason to dispute the statements of those who were in it is an act i cant condone i cant condone it on a continuing basis and i cant condone it As an isolated Mercier admitted there was a Dis Tinct possibility the review could affect Montgomery he Montgomery will continue As director of prosecutions and his proposed Transfer to a newly created Post As general counsel to the attorney generals department will not be Mercier said he had asked for a report on the the evidence and the determination of the inquest and certain concerns that i had on which i requested some Mercier refused to say what con Cerns he had about the he said he made the request through his Deputy minister Gordon who had asked Montgomery for the re it May even be necessary and pref under the that even outside counsel be asked to review it if the request goes to somebody in the then there could be suggestions from some quarters that perhaps the fellow might work for Montgomery in his existing position not be totally ind Epen he said he expected Montgomery would make separate comments and a report to Mercier said the decision to appoint Montgomery As Crown prosecutor for the enns1 inquest was made by Mont Gomery As director of prosecutions and by which is he said the decision to Transfer Montgomery to the new Post of general counsel for the department was made prior to the enns1 companies find skilled workers in Short Supply Manitoba continued from Page 1 Eric director of Industrial relations for said in a number of areas there Are just sufficient people the company has been forced to import highly skilled workers from great Britain and he How it will fare in the future will depend upon the Competition for skilled particularly As the aircraft Industry grows he while motor coach industries trains Many of its production line it has difficulty finding skilled electricians and welders Are a Breed of their Diane assistant personnel administrator the company is always hiring and replacing she Hudson Bay and smelting personnel superintendent Joe Lamb said the firm is now training 150 trades apprentices in flin flon and saw the two operations have a total of about he hard to keep Lamb said its hard to keep journey men from leaving flin flon and Snow Lake once there and the firm cant keep spending thousands of Dol Lars training people Only to see them leave for firms which dont have a training he Gervin executive vice president of the Winnipeg construction said in an interview in october about skilled tradesmen have left Manitoba in the past couple of Many for Alberta or the Greasley said if training programs were established throughout Canada such places As flin flon would get the workers they need because jobs in such places As would be manpower officials in the South Cen trial area of the province say they have been desperately Short of Prospect Ive employees to fill permanent positions for local More vacancies v Lee Federal employment counsellor in said the number of individuals available for jobs in manufacturing plants in the area has been declining since takes retaliatory measures against Chile from the news services Washington the Carter administration announced yesterday a series of retaliatory measures against Chile for not fully investigating the 1976 murder of chilean socialist Leader Orlando the measures include a reduction in the size of the military and Diplo Matic personnel in Termina Tion of million in foreign military sales and a suspension of Export import Bank financing in in no new private invest ment guarantees will be approved for activities in letelier was killed when a bomb blew up his car on a Washington Street an american Ronni also was the administration undertook a review of Ean relations two months ago when the chilean supreme court rejected a request for the extradition of three chileans wanted in the letelier Moffitt news Roundup execution stay ordered death Row prisoner James Henry received a stay of execution from a Federal judge seven Days before he was scheduled to die in the electric chair for murdering a Black Community Leader in District judge John Reed ordered the execution delayed while he investigated whether the death penalty is disproportionately applied in Orange Reed also said he would review transcripts of henrys trial and subsequent grenades bit embassy Bangkok thai police today found an antitank rocket launcher across the Street from the Zembas where two apparently caused by occurred last a spokesman said they Are try ing to Trace the weapons no one was injured and damage was slight in the two explosions which occurred within 30 seconds of each court backs Carter Washington the supreme court is the next Battle ground in senator Barry Goldwater quest to win Congress a role in ending trea Goldwater lost a round yesterday when the court of appeals ruled 6 to1 that the president has unilateral Power to end a defence the Arizona Republican and 23 congressional colleagues had won an round 17 when District judge Oliver Gasch ruled that either a two thirds vote of the or a majority vote in both the House of representatives and Senate is needed to end a dissidents arrive in West Vienna a ukrainian dissident who spent 30 years in prison and labor Camps arrived in Vienna with his wife yesterday to Settle in the Svetoslav and his wife were allowed to leave the soviet Union after his release from detention last a ukrainian first was arrested in 1944 charged with being involved in underground he was pardoned in 1960 but imprisoned again in 1965 for a nationalist his a was imprisoned for four years in she was a member of a ukrainian human rights court upholds Gay rights Montreal in a precedent set Ting Superior court Justice Marc Beauregard has ruled that the Montreal Catholic school commission violated a provision of the Quebec human rights charter by refusing to rent space to a homosexual rights the handed Down is the first test of an Amend ment to the Quebec human rights charter outlawing discrimination on the grounds of sexual the amendment is toe Only one of its kind in Korea to choose Leader canal destruction urged Seoul acting president Choi Kyulah announced today that South Korea electoral College will choose Art interim successor to assassinated president Park Chung Hee on Choi is the overwhelming favorite to be Choi was named acting president after Parks death he announced the election in his capacity As acting chairman of the electoral which is made up almost exclusively of supporters of the late cocaine ring smashed Lima peruvian and West German police arrested 24 persons and smashed a cocaine smuggling ring that used peruvian prostitutes to carry the Nar Cotic to West investigators said the police said 14 per sons in Peru and 10 in West were accused of drug a West two austrians and an american were among those arrested Tripoli libyan Leader foam mar khad Afy urged palestinians Dur ing a rally this week to destroy the Suez canal because he says it has become a Supply line for the official Liby an news Agency reported the Jana news Agency also quoted khad Afy As urging that Arab Oil be disposed of unless it served the palestinian pipeline route approved the North Dakota Public service commission yester Day approved the proposed route of the Northern tier crude Oil pipeline through the the three commissioners voted unanimously to approve the pipelines 535kilometre segment through the states nine Northern coun the steel pipeline is designed to Cany alaskan crude Oil from tankers in port to a terminal at a ;