Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg beef fibr 1079 f with the associated press Fife Battle cry of remember Pearl Harbor was recalled yesterday As americans likened the holding of hos tages in Iran to the japanese sneak attack 38 year Sago this in a show of patriotism rare since the second world there were prayers and petitions from the people and assurances from vice president Walter Mondale that we Are not going to forget until the 50 Ameri cans Are freed in Kums win fight with As More were ordered de historic Trinity which faces Wall Street in joined other churches across the country in pealing its Bells at the anniversary of the attack on Pearl new York cab Drivers will drive with their headlights on for one hour in a demonstration of support for the this country became United like it never was before and we beat Buck attempts to take away our free Doms and said Howard president of the Independent taxi owners americans stand again and remember Iran and remember the american hostages in some the anger of americans was More an anti iranian demonstration Washington and Lee University in Lex on tuesday night Deve loped into a screaming Torch carrying mob of about 400 students that burned two iranian unidentified american hostage at the embassy in Tehran exercises in embassy Ottawa cancels refugee plans continued from Page 1 it will discourage private sponsors from coming of about refugees already sponsored in Manito some have been brought in by j private he a Church spokesman said one reason Given for the policy shift was that letters to politicians were running five Toone against the refugee said that was not cancelling future government Spon would free Money for direct Aid to he gave no figure but the Church spokesman said about million was to go meeting the quota will depend on private sponsors picking up the Slack from the Atkey said the government will Spon Sor about already sponsored Public sponsorships total he said the final tally is expected to be government sponsorships and private results of a Gallup poll made Public just after a keys statement say per cent of canadians disagree with the Federal policy of admitting indo chinese to Cambodia and Atkey said the provinces support the program but feel any More than would not really be in our the government agreed in july to accept refugees by the end of 1980 in response to Public pressure to do dramatic to help Vietnam Ese fleeing their country in under the groups of five or More private individuals pledge to be financially and morally responsible for a refugee for at least one by which time the refugee is expected to have a Job and to be accustomed to his or her new the decision yesterday created con fusion As Atkey cancelled a news con Ference and did not say what he was planning until after the Church spokes men leaked what they were told at the a photo Money shrinks even before you pocket it the Royal Canadian mint is going to shrink your Money before it gets to your robbers beaten off with a stick two would be robbers turned Tail yesterday when a Regent Avenue grocery store owner beat them off with a police said two men entered Regent grocery 455 at and demanded the store realizing the men were armed Only with a toy picked up a stick and took command of the the owner sent the men packing by whacking one them with the police also report a Man robbed the Shell self serve Gas bar at 903 Pembina Highway of a Small amount of threatening the woman clerk with an Iron starting the one cent piece will be made thinner and it will be reduced to Grams from and in thickness to Milli metres from the change in the change wont of feet vending machines since they dont take said Bob Winnipeg Branch manager of Coin acceptors the manufacturer of the mechanism in vending machine Mech Anis which accepts he said there will be a problem with Coin because two sizes of pennies will be operations such As transit will be fouled up for Yvon master of the said in a statement that the change will hardly be the new size will reduce production including minting and the Price of the which exceeded the coins nominal peace through love Mother holding a sleeping Indian arrives in Rome today on her Way Oslo where she will collect her Nobel peace Mother brought with her five Chil Dren to be adopted by italian saying she was fight ing abortion through t believe the air must be cleared he eras must not Dill Dally of they must continue it or close it one or 1 have no doubt in my mind that the government intends to dismantle my Only doubt is their to him the opposition Leader Atso demanded that the Burns committee document its charges of political interference in Pic operations and threats by Auto Pac against its insurance Pawley called the committees plan open the Auto insurance Field to private companies unrealistic and said it would result in a Large number of High risk Drivers going without insure me the bums committee for urging optional collision insurance despite the massive delays and in creased costs it would cause and polls showing 71 per cent of Manitoba is in favor of compulsory the nip does not oppose recommendations for higher death and disability benefits and expansion of no fault Cov he but rejects the charge that Auto acs monopoly has caused it to become insensitive and who resigned from the nip tuesday to sit As an Independent new challenged Lyon to screw up his courage and test his convictions by calling an election on the aut Opac the tories should seek an immedi ate mandate from the people of Mani Toba to bring in other companies to engage in Competition with As this committee Green he also argued that turning Pac into a Mutual company owned by its policyholders is ridiculous because the Crown Agency is already just its already owned the policy holders the people of he called total Bill nip minister responsible for Pic when the government changed hands in said the report is exactly what i would expect from a committee set up to do a the study will Cost the Manitoba taxpayers slightly More than he called the commission a total waste of Money since any private insurance company would have recommended the same Uruski also predicted the be cause it is harsh and would make the Lyon government look like pussycats if they adopt a modified version of he said the most Likely result is abolition of a pics general insurance division As a Concession to the Lone Liberal la june Westbury said her constituents Are solidly opposed to returning automobile Ance to private Industry and called parts of the Burns report sheer Insan t think weve been ripped off on this whole i think the committee knew very Well that they were expected to recommend it Gubick into private clerk talks of Lack of Oil continued from Page 1 during the summer and fair the government assured canadians that while the Energy Supply situation is tight and fragile it was manageable and the country would be Able to get through the Winter without a Eastern particularly the at lactic would be hard hit by Oil shortages that might develop this they depend on Oil supplies from foreign if there Are shortages anywhere in Canada this Winter they will be a direct result of the failure of the former government said he said his government is deter mined to Stop Canadas Reliance on the Iran of the world and to build a policy of Canadian Energy the prime minister added that Gulf Oil is reasonably confident it can make up the expected shortages of iranian Oil with other he said the president of Imperial Jack had been asked to come to Ottawa Tomor Row to meet with Energy minister Ray he said the president will be asked to present the government with full details to justify that compan ies recent Price Mercier planning no review of Enns inquest continued from Page 1 i am also assured that the family was represented at the hearing by their Paul who was provided full Opportunity to crossed Amine the witnesses and make a closing he Mercier also said that to his knowl Edge neither the Enns family nor their counsel had written directly to him or his department concerning conduct of the i have also received no complaint from the who i understand attended the inquest in considerable both Peter and Mary Enns have been quoted in press reports stating that they Felt the inquest was biased against they questioned the conduct of both the Crown prosecutor and presiding and maintained that their son had been unjustifiably killed by the i accept the recommendation of my Deputy minister that no further action be taken on this the attorney general Mercier further indicated he will take no action against Montgomery As a result of reports that the director of prosecutions had threatened to slug free press reporter Cecil Rosner for articles he had written about the the reporter said lingering doubts remained about the shooting incident an questioned the conduct of the Montgomery has expressed his regret for the statements attributed to my Deputy minister advises that during exemplary service As a Crown prosecutor with the department for 17 Montgomery has to his knowledge always acted with Complete honesty and in his statement Mercier quoted remarks made by chief provincial judge Harold Gyles that absolved the ramp of any blame for the shooting and said the police should be mended for the incredible restrain they one american recipient of artificial blood Dies from the news services Santa one of two american patients who last week received transfusions of newly developed artificial blood died it was Learned the a 65yearold male who was not entered doctors Hospital five Days earlier in Shock due to massive bleeding in the gastrointestinal Ron Lapin both patients were Jehovah wit a religious sect that refuses to accept human blood transfusions but allows use of artificial there is no reason to believe that the artificial blood was a Factor in causing his Lapin autopsy findings on the deceased Man Are still he missile put on rocket car Rogers California a sidewinder missile was fitted yester Day to the rocket vehicle driven by him stuntman Stan Barrett to give him More Power to try news Roundup to become the first Man to break the sound Barrier on the Needle nosed rocket vehicle later made a test run across this dry Lake bed at a Speed of Between 560 and 640 the sound Barrier Speed is about first bodies recovered Auckland the first 114 bodies recovered from the crash of an air new zealand dc10 jetliner in Antarctica were flown Back to Auckland a total of 152 bodies have been Reco Vered from the crash site on the slopes of mount an Active Volcano on Ross the crash killed All 257 persons aboard the dc10 which was on a sightseeing Hospital fire kills five through a this fire swept of a mental Hospital in Village at Dawn killing five elderly women patients and injuring three one report said the dead patients May have been trapped inside a locked nurses at the 103yearold Crispin Hospital helped to evacuate More than 150 some in karate master regrets Tokyo Mas japans master of Ful Contact says life has become unbearably unpleasant and full of regrets since he bowed to Arab pressure and barred israeli competitors from an International Tournai it was a Case in which japans concern for a steady flow of Oil per cent of which comes from the mid East seeped into i did not want to contribute to the country he adding he regrets his decision to ask the israeli team to stay away from the second world open karate tournament journal editors seized Moscow secret police agents searched the Homes of six editors of an underground journal and held two of them Tor dissident Leader Andrei Sakharov said Sakharov told Western correspondents the six were involved with pub Lishing Poi ski of which six issues have appeared in two he said Viktor Sorokin and Valery Abramkina were taken away for questioning by Kab who also confiscated typewriters and typing train crash reported Spain a commuter train collided with a freight train North of Barcelona today and railway officials said there were reports of scores of injured and an undetermined number of the officials said victims were being taken to hospitals at about 30 Kilometres North of authorities said Rescue workers were struggling through the Gaunter 01 Passen Gers trapped inside shattered asphyxiation blamed Pope to stay in Rome Ohio the 11 Young people killed when Rock music fans pushed their Way into riverfront Coli Seum for a conceit by the who died of a Coroner said Frank Cleveland of Hamilton county said in a preliminary report that the victims were pressed under the weight of others who stepped and fell pm he said he would make an official ruling after testing blood and tissue poster Wall to be closed democracy Wall will he closed on but people will still be Able to put up posters in a Park after registering their names and addresses with the author City officials today Vatican City Pope John Paul ii will celebrate Midnight Christmas mass at Peters Basilica and deliver a Christmas message from the main Balcony of the huge Basilica at noon the made wednesday by a Vatican dispelled rumours that the polish born Pope might go to Bethlehem for Christ Pix office under siege Beirut libyan troops Are reported besieging the Tripoli office of Yasser Arafat Palestine liberation Pargani Ali rounding up Plo officials in Obj Wall had been expected four Tai Campaign against the forum for it Tiol activists by of the press Art the libyan the official iraqi news Agency said the Plo radio station in Algiers reported the Arab diplomats in Beirut said Uby ats Moa mar was try Jajjo movements to they Dott oat i ;