Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december liberals expect contest to be interesting continued torn 1 Turner said i will probably be More passive than Turner did not endorse anyone for the party leadership and when asked about Donald considered a Lead ing replied that Macdonald would make an excellent who succeeded Turner As finance minister in said he was disappointed Turner decided not to run but said it would have no Impact on his own decision and dismissed suggestions that the leadership was now his for the 1 think the nature of the race May have but i think there May be some other candidates coming Forward he i think it will still be a wave Olopai like other potential candidates remained noncommittal about their own but All predicted a leadership Campaign despite Turners former Cabinet minister Robert Andras said Turners announcement has changed the Ball game and will be a Factor in whether he decides to despite Macdonald High potential candidates rejected the possibility of a Oneman race now that ers out of the there will be More than one Candi Date in this said Jean Chretien of of Thunder Bay Nipigon in also said he feels less pressure to make a decision on his candidacy in the near he said Turners decision not to fun has delayed the Start of the campain and Given potential candidates More time to consider their Pierre de former Supply and services is the Only my to have declared himself at candidate to succeed Pierre Trudeau at the March leadership convention in two other candidates have announced they will seek the leadership Denise a housewife from and Madeline a fashion store owner from prime minis ter Clarks Home town of High Herb Liberal finance critic and my for Windsor said Turners decision might strengthen Macdonald leadership who says he is considering running for the said turn ers decision will not be conclusive in his own former finance minister Chretien said Turners absence will not influence his decision and that he still is trying to determine where support would come from if he decided to Chretien said he must decide whether a francophone has any Chance of win Liberal tradition says that if the outgoing Leader is a such As the next Leader should be former Cabinet minister Jeanpierre regarded As Turners Campaign Leader in agreed the switch Back and Forth Between an anglophone and francophone is Ken Jones left and Jack Mcmorran look Over meteorological maps at the Winnipeg environment Canada Snow removal Cost trimmed City official claims savings through private weather forecasting service continued from Page 1 Clearing Mcrae the government Agency Only revises their forecast twice a Day and we need More up Odate information than the first forecast from environment Canada came at 6 the forecast was for near blizzard conditions Start ing yesterday evening with 10 to 15 centimetres of Snow that forecast was the same As acc weather at but Mcrae said acc weather changed its forecast at 3 and notified the City by Telephone that the snowfall would Only be about three environment Canada until 5 was still predicting at least 10 Centi metres for Winnipeg with winds up to 60 Kilometres an environment Canada later revised its forecast and by Early evening yesterday was calling for total accumulation of thereto five Jack Mcmorran of environment can Ada said the weather reports Are Avail Able but the government opera Tion produces forecasts for the general Public we phone the news and the City of Winnipeg works and operations department is on our list but we cant take the time to give special service As it takes an hour at least to Telephone environment Canada has 100 people in the province collecting weather and weather balloons Are sent up twice daily from Points such As Churchill and Northern Ontario Trout Mcmorran said information for the general Public comes and the City wants special Quick two of Winnipeg largest radio sky and use private Ottawa probing up takeover bid Ottawa up the director of investigation of the anti combines Branch has launched a preliminary study of a proposed takeover of up publications by businessmen associated with Argus one of Canadas largest consumer affairs minister Allan Lawrence announced this adding to reporters 1 think the government has to be concerned about any Large scale merger when that merger might concentrate a number of activities in the Competition he said when one looks at such organizations As Standard broadcast up or Sterling newspapers they obviously at least indicate some danger areas where undue concentration of ownership and capital might cause some concern As far As anti com pet Tive activities in the Market place Are Conrad Argus and some associates have bid to buy the up which owns eight details of the offer have not been shareholders Are to discuss them at a Toronto Black already owns a Chain of Small Argus controls Standard a Chain of radio stations including Toronto Lawrence told Lloyd Axworthy l Winnipeg fort Garry that the Federal government has expressed concern Over the proposed he told reporters later that the director of investigations has started studies to determine whether a formal investigation is meteorological services in addition to environment Job uses meteorological Environ mental planning of Toronto and sky uses John a spokesman for said the station found the Feder Al government service giving priority to aviation and Marine forecasting rather than continuous updating of weather for the so we went to a private service in Joel president of acc weath said the company has been in opera Tion for 18 i started it because i was interested in making a i have my doctorate in meteorological science and i Felt that there was a specialized service Neces we have the City of Ottawa As an new York and Washington Are among our 200 we have 30 meteorologists working for Myers said he pays for the information gathered by the environmental service and environment its a matter of calculating All the information into a Good wed like to think that Over a year we would be More Mcmorran maintained that during the space of a environment can Ada is More he we just dont Telephone that not our he also left open the possibility that Turner could change his finance minister in tru Deaus Cabinet for 3v4 Rhodes articulate and wealthy had been repeatedly asked since he left politics four years ago if he would one Day seek the leadership he lost to Trudeau at a convention in when Trudeau announced his Resig nation Many eyes turned to now a senior partner in a Toronto Law Turners giving few Rea sons for his also did not explain his recent appearances at party Turner said he made the decision during the but there was never any real likelihood of his run despite being told his chances of winning were i dont think i Ever got to the starting line on this Turner said his whom he married a year after he was first elected to parliament in would have supported a decision to but i do have a Young family and that certainly was one of the said who has a daughter and three he said he left the government four years ago because of legitimate differences at the time and acknowledged he still has enemies within the 1 Felt i could no longer make a contribution to the Axworthy posit stronger by Victor Mackie Winnipeg free press Ottawa Lloyd sur prised and puzzled by John Turners decision not to run in the Liberal leadership agreed Here yesterday that it strengthened the possibility he will enter the discussing Turners unexpected de in the opposition lobby shortly after his Friend John had called a press conference in Toronto to make the Axworthy said it altered the picture completely As far As his own decision is wherever i went West after Pierre Trudeau said he was stepping Down i was told they be glad to support me if John Turner want in the but with John could make no now its All he he is reexamining his with delegates who were ready to commit themselves to the support of John Turner now free to support another Axworthy expects to pick up a lot of strength in the fellow liberals and Napers they share the same lobby passing the 39yearold my from Winnipeg him with suggestions he could become the Joe Clark of the Liberal that is running As a dark horse and emerging As the Leader at the Conven meantime he is pressing ahead with his French language he has been studying French under the special House of commons language training program since last i can read it and understand it pretty Well but its understanding the spoken word that Tough and speaking it is it takes he iranians Challenge Carter Tehran a Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini defied the United states to blockade Iran and made a vituperative personal attack on president Carter As the outcome of the rebellion in Northwest Iran against his authority remained we Are not frightened of economic Khomeini said yesterday in response to Carters threat of More severe economic measures against Iran if the 50 citizens held hostage at the embassy in Tehran since 4 Are not these brainless superpowers think that now they have such Power All the All the uni verse should follow november jobless total increases continued from Page 1 in it said people were out of work and the sea Sondall adjusted unemployment rate was per there were people in the labor the seasonally adjusted which takes into account employment trends such As seasonal hiring patterns of particular had been edging downard since then until the official jobless rate Hast in creased in consecutive months since last the largest increase in the seasonal a adjusted unemployment rate was in Newfoundland where there Are Many seasonal jobs in the fishing the rate jumped to per cent from 14 per cent in Prince Edward Island had the next largest there the rate jumped per cent to per the decrease was slightly smaller in British Columbia where it went from per cent to per in the other provinces the seasonally adjusted rate dropped by per cent or remained the in Nova Scotia the rate was consistent at per in Quebec it remained at per cent and in Saskatchewan the rate stayed at per in new Brunswick it dropped from per cent to per cent and in Ontario it fell from per cent to per Urt rejects q s bid to sue Honda from the news services Montreal one of Quebec Lar Gest consumer Protection groups lost yesterday in a bid to file a class action suit against Canadian Honda motor for alleged rust ing and engine Superior court Justice Ivan Bisaillon denied the automobile Protection association Apa permission to file suit on behalf of a potential class of car the judge ruled that the plaintiff in the action must be an unsatisfied Honda owner and that the Apa does not fill the protesters attacked san Salvador three men were shot and killed and several other peo ple were wounded when about leftist men broke up a demonstration yesterday by about women de manding that the government end Polit ical violence in this Central american Hospital officials police said they did not know who did the shooting or How Many people were news Roundup witnesses said police did not the members of the move ment for peace and organized the March to press the military civilian Junta of Al Salvador for a crackdown on Street Kidnap pings and City Facelift planned new an agreement has been signed Between the City of new Westminster and govern men owned development for a million Facelift in the decay ing downtown refinery dispute flares Montreal the Petrosina Canada refinery locked out its unionized employees yesterday for an indefinite period after 270 employees walked off the Job As part of a on Day work there was no immediate comment from the United Oil but ear Lier yesterday president Bill Butcher said the Union would strike at Shell and Texaco refineries Here if Petrosina locked out its the Shell re finery is the largest refinery in the province and provides about a third of the provinces total production of re fined curfew on several towns and sent troops to one District to quell for the tribal Peoples of Assam have been Seething with resent ment Over illegal aliens from neigh Boring Bangladesh and West More than 20 persons have been killed in clashes Between assamese and non assamese in recent weeks and hundreds of houses have been burned say reports reaching and Rescue personnel found a fourth body yesterday near a fishing boat that washed ashore on a Bleak strip of alaskan Shoreline about 75 Kilometres North of the bodies of a a boy and a girl were discovered sunday aboard the 10metre which had left Here an intensive air sea search was continuing for six police had not yet identified the Cape technicians lost Contact with a j20million Ria communications satellite yesterday after firing a Small engine to try to put the Craft into permanent officials the satellite was launched from Cape canaveral last election postponed India authorities yesterday postponed next months National election in much of the Northeast Ern Indian state of imposed rebel Leader caught allegations denied Vincent the Leader of a min revolt on tiny Union is land against the new government of Vincent and the grenadines has been arrested on a neighbouring radio Vincent said it identified the Leader As Lennox one of Charles followers was killed and a policeman was wounded in the leg during a revolt on Union Island last fourth body found Prince search Seoul Kim former South korean chief presidential Sec denied yesterday he was an accomplice in the 26 assassination of president Park replying to prosecution questions at a court Kim also denied prose cution charges that he deliberately delayed the arrest of Kim former director of the korean Central intelligence charged with the fatal shooting of Parks chief body guard Cha the former presidential Secretary is accused of Aid ing in the assassination without killing anyone award jeopardized Washington the supreme court said yesterday it will Rule on whether the Federal government owes the Sioux Indian nation More than million for land taken 102 years ago after the Battle of Little big the decision jeopardizes the massive award won by the Sioux last june in a lower government lawyers argue in the Appeal accepted for review that the Indian nation is entitled to Only assassination plotted Cleveland a convicted killer says he was asked to assassinate former Cleveland mayor Dennis Kun but lost the Job when he was arrested in another a Cleveland television station reported Way ctr quoted the Man As saying he was contacted about killing Kucin Ich in Kucinich was elected mayor the next ;