Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Wilf Tieg int Prmt december merrier orders vehicle admitted the Laws have been broken and has taken no firm action on the a investigation last week uncovered massive government vehicle in qualifying them for Auto acs lower territory 2 Premium the study found that Brando Regis tend can Are assigned to a number of top lever officiate at the legislature who live in including provincial auditor who has been unavailable for comment on the Issue since wednes said through an aide yesterday iranian militants Challenge minister continued from Page 1 Ghotb Zadeh also said yesterday that Tran would not attend the in debate and that there is no room for negotiation Over the hostages As Long As Washington refuses to return Shah Mohammad Reza now in a new York to stand trial in Iran for alleged crimes against the iranian last the three american Diplo Mats appeared to be still in but their whereabouts were unknown according to iranian a Security Council Resolution saying the hostage situation constitutes a threat to International peace would be Likely to have an immediate Impact on the standoff Between Iran and the United if such language were included in the the Council could impose in Iran began Legal action to Challenge Carters Deci Sion to freeze official iranian assets at j the Chase Manhattan Banks London the main Bank involved in Tan action last week declaring Iran in default on a million said its lawyers have been served with a Owril the International court of Justice in said yesterday it has notified the United states and Iran it will hold a hearing 10 on the Case filed against Iran by the United Washington seeks a court order for release of the hostages and their Safe departure from that he would make no statement until Legal counsel has reviewed the entire the aide said a Effort from Merciers 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 Over from Blackburn As general manager one month before the 1971 policy was approved by 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 been considered a he on Enns concede the Laws had been saying Only that there May Well be some need for clarification of the he vowed to continue the out town registry Titis and consider extending the right to private Fleet the government had vehicles registered outside the City in 19 but Only of them wets actually based in Rural according to figures made Public by in 943 government cars and trucks were based in Winnipeg at that time but Only 200 of them were registered to the provincial garage Manitoba Telephone system has also taken advantage of the out town poli registering More than half its 900 inquiry americans demonstrate in new York City against the holding of hostages in Iran settlement reached in Chi affair continued from Page 1 merrier said he believed it to be a realistic settlement and said it was recommended by All lawyers acting for f 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 merrier 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 merrier 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 involving 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 Argus Boss interested in Currle president Toronto up George president of publications said last night that Toronto financier Conrad Black is considering acquiring a holding in the newspaper in a Currie said he Learned of the possibility a few weeks he said he understood that Black is associated in the proposed Purchase with John Bassett former publisher of the now defunct Toronto Telegram and chairman of Baton broadcasting and George a Bassett business associate and in and with the concur rence of the directors of and major certain information has been made available to Black to enable him to decide whether to proceed if on what Currie i believe that Black has discus sed his interest in purchasing shares of with certain but no offer has yet been made and i have no knowledge of possible terms and conditions other than that any offer which May be made will be made to All Globe plan unlikely referring in an interview to the possibility of employees of the Globe and mail buying the Toronto one of the Currie said it would be legally but highly and As a separate entity it is not for he added that Richard chairman of the Winnipeg free former head of and a shareholder in the is not part of the bid by Black As first reported by publishing Malone earlier denied that he was involved in a bid to take Over chairman of Argus was unavailable and Bassett would not David a partner in Blacks newspaper said in Vancouver that weve always been interested in we have been for 10 a Toronto communications analyst estimated the value of at Well in excess of publications owns the Victoria Victoria Vancouver Lethbridge Calgary Al Winnipeg free press and Ottawa journal in addition to the Globe and vehicles in Thompson or the the iffy Deal Between the govern ment and aut Opac quietly allowed this to said provincial vehicles used More than 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 monday that Only about 15 per cent of provincial vehicles Are used or considered to foe Pri Marily used for Urban he the ital policy if did the other 85 per cent to be registered i Thompson or the the wll agreement Between the gov Erna Felt and aut Opac clearly admits the purpose of allowing out town registrations was to Cash in on lower insurance rates in Rural to said that since place of residence or address As shown on the vehicle licence is the determining Factor for Auto pics three territorial areas of it has been agreed with the Mulc that the government should maintain addresses for licence and insurance purposes outside of Winni x merrier says concerns led to review continued from Page 1 inquest and what they Felt was a biased attitude against questioned about Montgomery comments to three reporters about merrier said he will review the newspaper reports and talk to Mont he said he Hopes 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 merrier 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 merrier said lie had asked for a report on the the evidence and the determination of the inquest and concerns that i had on which i requested some merrier refused to say what con Cerns he had about the inquest he said he made the request through his Deputy minister Gordon who had asked Montgomery for the re 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 merrier said the decision to appoint Montgomery As Crown prosecutor for the Enns 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 in Manitoba continued from Page i Eric director of Industrial relations for said in a number of areas there Are just not 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 particularity 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 mining and smelting personnel superintendent Joe Lamb said the firm is now training 150 trades apprentices in flin flon and Snow 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 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 hit 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 earlier 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 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 the Only one of its kind in to choose Leader canal destruction urged Seoul acting president Choi Kyulah announced today that South Korea electoral College will choose an 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 approve the pipelines 535kilometre segment through the states nine Northern coun the steel pipeline is designed to carry alaskan crude Oil from tankers in port to a terminal at ;