Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Montt fixed Tom Page 1 dont have any quarrel with the corporation under government owner i believe the Public system is Good and has worked Well on the but there Are a lot of recommend in the report for improvement dont require a Complete change of operating Structure the committee Sherman Gerry emphasizing he was speaking As the la for said in not certain conversion of aut Opac into a Mutual company would necessarily an there Are Many Lii recommendations in that report that be implemented in the existing which would vastly improve ser and benefits to the i v Mercier and Sherman both said As Public opinion would have to 1 caucus chairman Dave who is also a member of the Pic Board of said i dont think aut Opac should but there is room for Craik said his statements that Auto Pac is Here to stay Doest necessarily under government at this Point in not married to the that aut Opac should stay As a government owned Cor he some forms of such As the wheat Are still Public companies and that is the nonprofit form of Mutu Al recommended by whether the government owns the shares or the policy it is still Public in our Craik Craik said the Bottom line would be what system would give motorists insurance at the lowest possible Price for the coverage they both Craik and Harry minister responsible for the Pic said the recommendations would have to be carefully studied and their Impact weighed before any decision is Craik said the decision would have to be made before the legislature meets i Early in sacred cow dangerous j cultural affairs minister Norma Price said Enns had forewarned Cabinet wednesday about the head lines that would appear and that they might be having but she said the Cabinet had not discussed the rec f Price said she received Calls from her constituents government was going to disband Auto i said we would she a Mutual company is not Dis banding consumer affairs minister Warner Jorgenson said on the the recommendations seemed like a Heck of a Good but he said a lot of thought would have to be Given to any such he questioned whether a mutually owned company would be Able to sur people insuring with aut Opac want to see that he he that it was dangerous to allow a monopoly to become a sacred cow that cant be resources minister Brian Ransom and recreation minister Bob Banman said they haunt yet looked at the a former new democratic party minister has denied yesterday there had been too much government interference in the operations of Auto Pac under the Bill who had been minister responsible for the Manitoba Public insurance said cases of political interference cited in the Auto Pac report have been much More pre relent in the last two aut Opac is not running As smoothly As it should because of the political Bent of this said the member for in boy shoots at pictures of the Shah and preside Tcarter with an Airgun rebellion breaking out Shah Nephew shot dead from the news services a Nephew of the deposed Shah of Iran was shot dead today As he left a building in the fashionable 16th District of the French Interior ministry said the identified Only As a son of the Shah Princess was hit in the head by two pistol in Tehran the regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini announced today it will set a spy trial Date soon for some of the 50 hostages at the embassy and that death sentences Are Possi the government also struggled to put Down a rebellion in the Northwest by the country largest ethnic minority announcement that a trial Date will be set was made by foreign minister Sadegh who also said he Hopes those not suspected of spying will be released As soon As and that arrangements Are being made for All the captives to be he gave no indication How Many of the hostages May be selected for or exactly when the Date for the Tribu Nal will be it is expected to be announced within 48 there have been persistent but unconfirmed reports that about eight hostages have been under intensive interrogation during the last two the hostages were seized 34 Days asked whether he believes the hos tages will be sentenced to Ghotb Zadeh said i Hope we dont reach that but on the face of the Earth anything is the foreign minister gave no specific Date for the planned and didst say How Many hostages May be while in the the Ayatollah Khomeini is the target but he said there Are two types of hostages those who did not work in espionage and those who Are guilty of of the latter he said i dont think those people Are going to Benefit from diplomatic Ghotb Zadeh also announced that arrangements Are being made for All the hostages to be visited in order to show the world that allegations the captives have been mistreated Are some of the hostages have not been seen by Neutral observers since the Day the embassy was seized the moslem militants holding the captives have vowed to keep them until president Carter allows Shah Moham mad Reza Pahlavi to be extradited to Iran to stand trial As a War Canada to increase natural Gas sales to continued from Page 1 Alberta Gas who now receive More than in extra revenues for each thousand cubic feet of Gas will be receiving at least million in extra Revenue in 1980 and million or More a year in and this additional Revenue is already being eyed by the Federal finance department As a new source of tax Money under the National Sel Suffi Cliency in the event Alberta wont agree to a tax on Domestic Oil and Domestic Gas production that will give Ottawa the billion it needs its subsidy the Industry is expected to use this Gas report to push for More exports beginning in when this latest new Ontario legislation Shields Media in libel suit neb decision would begin to cutback the latest Short term the report also contains some bad news for Western companies planning to use new Alberta Gas exports to help the faltering billion Alaska High Way Gas the largest single by pan America Gas of is conditional on the Foothills consortium obtaining government approval to rebuild Southern portions of the alas a starting As Early As next year and the Alberta exports through the new pipeline will be phased out when alaskan Gas deliveries Are sup posed to Start at the end of this kind of conditional approval also threatens to complicate financing of the Overall since the rebuild exports Are More arid More considered critical to obtaining private finance Toronto up legislation protecting newspapers and broadcasters from being sued when they publicize the opinions of of tiers was introduced in the Ontario legislature today by actor Ney general Roy Mcmurtry said amendments to the provinces libel and slander act will strengthen Freedom of speech and encourage discussion on matters of Public it also will update a 21yearold clause to include Cable operators in the As the act now the Media Are allowed to publish or broadcast the opinion of a Reader or listener even of a defamatory nature if the opinion is honestly held and based on proven the amendment will allow Media to report opinions in forums such As let ters to the editor or Manint Estreet interviews without having to prove the writer actually held the opinion sex fair comment allowed this will allow publishers to defend themselves on the basis of fair com ment if the opinion expressed was one that a person might honestly have Mcmurtry this de Fence will not apply if the person pub Lishing the defamatory material Doe so out of the changes in the which the attorney general promised earlier this were prompted by a court Case in which an City Alderman sued Saskatoon Sta Phoenix for publishing a letter from two Law a jury found that Morris Cher Neskey had been defamed and awarded him plus an Appeal led to an overturning of the verdict but last the supreme court of Canada restored the original verdict and penalty in a 6to3 the decision caused some newspapers to reject letters to the editor that posed even a potentially Small threat of Legal in letters to the editor disappeared from All City news Law to Force return of illegal Tow fee sought continued from Page 1 Charles owner of Buchan an said he has never had a problem with the current civic towing bylaws and welcomed the crackdown As a method of police towing companies who falsify authorization in order to legally Tow vehicles from parking i understand two outfits Are using a fictitious name within the Tow ing company to authorize parking lot he if City Council the cites special delegation to the provincial government will attempt to persuade province to enact the appropriate committee chairman councillor Pearl Mcgonigal said she recently received five complaints about illegal three of which proved unfounded and two of which required Legal action under a City the Legal stowaway charge is and the per Day compound fee is the towing company was charging a daily storage Mcgonigal Jim Ragsdill said if he wanted to get All hed have to do is Tow away cars to a compound and charge a spending restraint Doest include my wages from the news services Ottawa up despite the progressive conservative govern ments pledge to restrain members of parliament will have their salaries increased privacy Council president Walter Baker made the announcement in the commons but did not say How much the increase will Stanley new democratic House had suggested the in creases be deferred until the results of a government commissioned study of salaries and benefits for maps Are legislation passed in 1975 provides for annual increases in line with in creases in the Cost of members of the commons now receive a year plus a tax free while senators get plus a tax free allow next Irish pm Dublin millionaire Charles news Roundup acquitted in 1970 of involve ment in an Irish guerrilla gun running was chosen today to be next Premier of the Irish will become Premier of this country of million people next tuesday when Jack Lynch formally he was elected today by the parliamentary members of the governing fianna fail soldiers of destiny party to succeed Lynch As party speech forum closed peking chinese authorities yesterday ordered the shutdown of Pek Ings democracy Wall Zidian Wall poster chivas last forum for free Public expression and an object of controversy and world attention for More than a 21 treated for fumes Ottawa Carbon monoxide fumes escaping irom a boiler in a metropolitan store basement sent 15 employees and six ambulance attendants to Hospi Tal Early yesterday for 18 die As trains collide Spain a drive less train slammed into a stationary Pas Senger train at High Speed near Barce Lona killing at least 18 persons and injuring railway officials Nobel dinner cancelled Oslo the Nobel foundation yesterday approved cancelling a dinner to Honor the 1979 peace prize Mother Teresa of and instead will donate an extra to her Mission in officials suit seeks million Cincinnati a class action suit seeking More than million was filed yesterday on behalf of the 11 persons killed and another 14 injured at the Rock concert monday by the who at riverfront the suit was filed on behalf of Todd and the Volkman was among those Hurt when fans hop ing to get into the coliseum before the concert crushed people at the front of the the suit military to try 7 koreans Seoul the supreme court yesterday ordered former intelligence chief Kim Jaekyu and six others be tried in a military court in connection with the assassination of president Park defence lawyers had demanded a civilian a panel of four High court judges said there is Legal precedent for trying the seven civilians in a military scientologists face jail Washington five leaders of the Church of scientology were sentenced to jail yesterday for directing a conspiracy to steal government documents about the District judge Charles Richey sentenced four Church members to prison terms of four years and were fined Mary sue the fifth Leader and the wife of Church founder Ron was sentenced to five years in jail and was fined soviet naval strength up Washington the soviet Union has strengthened its naval forces in the Indian Ocean for the second time in As Many the Pentagon reported a defence spokesman said three additional soviet naval vessels have been raising the soviet strength to 18 ships from 12 two weeks there was no indication whether the increase in soviet naval activity is related to the iranian crisis and accompanying in the israelis limits Tel Aviv the israeli government decided yesterday to crack Down on palestinian rallies in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza israeli television it said the decision to limit rallies came after West Bank mayors met and called for a palestinian state and an end to jewish settlements in territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 mid dle East the latest series of rallies resulted from the imprisonment last month and planned expulsion of Nablus mayor Bassam on Israel reversed its decision to Deport and jubilant palestinians welcomed the news yesterday with and claims of a palestinian demands made san Salvador guerrilla kidnappers of South Africa ambassador to Al Archibald demanded yesterday publication of a manifesto in 102 countries As a Condi Tion for his they said Dunn is in Good ;