Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 18, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december pm set Tif Viii o a Lufty deadlock of Fiew prices for crude Ell prevailed today the yearned meeting of the Organ edtion of Petroleum exporting Cotton Effes went into its second Day in this venezuelan capital with saudi Arabia trying to hold the line at a barrel and Libya and Algeria pressing in the Globe and mail says which will follow the Oil Cartel meeting will Cost Canada about double what Federal Energy had Beert and card Iasi payers till be hit for almost Mill Loti a the paper says the new optic prices Wilt mean that last weeks Ottawa budget estimates Are already out of this year and next the Cost of subsidizing that Region so that it pays the same for imported Oil As other areas pay for Domestic Oil will be triple what it was last the paper the new Spades Ottawa dispatch says that while the and dimes cannot be worked out until All the open Price increases Are Federal economists estimate that potted Oil will Cost Canada about More a barrel after this round of in increase of about 23 per saudi specs largest Mem is holding out in Caracas for no increase beyond the to percent boost it announced last but flaying the industrialized countries can pay their Are has boosted its Price to tto a barrel and suggested that the Price for saudi the Benchmark Tor open should go High is specs prices already m about 100 m and fast weeks crease in the Price of saudi code lifts specs base Price by almost w per cent since tout algerian Oil minister Fiji Kickem Nabi defended the cartels steady Price saying in an interview that countries can easily switch from one source of Energy to we us what 1 Fol find not hesitate to can a psychosis Oil re Iran the militants by announcing the Price of its we has to 128 a barrel from and Oil minister Man of Nigeria said he would have no objection to raising Nigeria base Price to from moderate Oil ministers met for two hours open ended in an a wept to Settle we but things were v ister Humberto Cald rofl the open moderates were led by Sheik Ahmed the saudi Oil minister who said optics biggest producer will impose no in prices in the first Quarter of 1jso fld perhaps also in the moderate bloc were Venezuela and cites Liberal bid to save pcs Ottawa up a former Liberal Cabinet minister attempted to Stop the commons defeat of the minority progressive conservative government last week that forced canadians into a Winter new democratic party sources Jean finance minis Trudeau agrees to Lead liberals continued from Page 1 party since Trudeau assumed the leadership in Only three Liberal maps from Western Canada were elected May i the 60yearold Trudeau said he believed Quebec has gained new Faith in the future of Canada and that he wants Western provinces to share the same Trudeau announcement follows by four weeks his statement that lie would resign the party j liberals Are in the process of Reth inking the party policies and of re building its to be ready to return to Trudeau said in my one element of that renewal should be a change of Leader a few Days he told the Montrealle Devoir i came to the conclusion that i was not the Man to rebuild the Liberal party and negotiate a new federalism during the next answering questions following his an Trudeau said i wanted to get out and i still want to get out before the next election after Trudeau accused the conservatives of bringing in regressive tax measures in order to be Able to pay for their property tax he said he believe my ears when he Learned that the social credit party members had not been consulted Over what Type of budget they would have been prepared to not Only cant the tories manage the they cant manage a minority they were Gam bling that they would stay in but they didst even show the skills of doing he said we cannot put ourselves in a position of a party that was being afraid to speak up for the Little people in Canada because we were in the of a leadership that would have been betraying our role As we still Felt it our duty was to meet with the disarray which might Ter who had been a prospective Candi Date for the leadership of the Liberal party if Pierre Trudeau had stepped is reported to have offered a Deal to the the rejected by nip Leader de would have meant the minority progressive conservative government would have survived the nip motion of no Confidence in its budget thursday that would have meant prime minis Ter Clark would not have asked de Schreyer on Friday to dissolve parliament and Canada would not be faced with the 18 general elec the government was Defeated on an nip motion that condemned the Bud in the commons last on the grounds the conservatives did not live up to May 22 election Campaign promises to reduce among other the Liberal against the bet Ter some of its decided not Only to support the motion but to make sure All its members were on hand for the on the Day of the it became obvious the minority government could the motion because the five social credit which had been supporting the decided to three conserva Tiv Escoula not make it for the while All but one Liberal and All new democrats were liberals heeded Call rals heeded the Call to be on hand for die vote but some were unhappy at the Prospect of bringing Down the government at a time when Trudeau had announced he was stepping Down and there was nobody to step into his shoes nip sources Chretien approached lome influential new Democrat from the Saskatchewan constituency of Yorkton Melville with an offer to keep seven liberals away from the voting if the nip could keep two More the government went Down thursday night by a vote of 139 to the nip sources said Nystrom took the offer to who rejected it in part because the nip feels it can make substantial gains in an there was no attempt to discover whether Chretien had the Power to keep seven liberals away from the Confidence Only one Liberal was Chretien could not be reached for comment on the prime minister Clark already has denied reports he offered social credit maps amendments to the budget propos als presented by finance minister John Crosbie in return for support in the Confidence the report of Chretien alleged offer came at a time when liberals were still wondering whether Trudeau would Lead them in the Trudeau announced last month he was stepping Down As Leader and the party planned a leadership convention in March in fire damages housing project City firefighters Man hoses at the scene of a fire yester de damage to insulation stored for use at the the Day morning at a Manitoba government housing project under caused by Sparks from an acetylene broke out at construction at 545 Ellice the fire caused an estimate about and was quickly confined to one report slams care at Victoria Hospital nurses cite death of Lack of proper attention to patients continued from Page 1 and that the Wiser decision had been Kuntz said the Hospital is considering plans to hire a nursing director for the the nursing directors report noted that a crisis situation has evolved Over the Lack of sufficient nursing personnel to give Safe Quality patient budgetary restraint was cited As the the hospitals executive director admitted there is a shortage of nursing personnel because of the governments restraint but said this does not harm too few instructors in confident that the staffing Pat terns that have been arrived at Are such that the patients Are receiving Safe patient he adding that nursing directors have the authority to Call in extra nurses on an eight hour basis when warranted by patient the nursing directors also voiced concern Over the insufficient number of clinical instructors at Victoria because of the Lack of proper Orienta new staff Are thrown onto an extremely Busy inadequately prepared to care for acutely ill a a recommendation to hire clinical instructors to remedy the Situa Tion has not been the report to increase the number of clinical instructors on every unit would Cost Kuntz although the Hospi Tal Hast that Money in its it is considering plans by the department of educational services to improve the there coming to the Point where they Are improving the program so the nursing students Are getting More Clin ical he Kuntz the Hospi Tal is experiencing difficulty in recruit ing nurses for specially areas such As the obstetrics Gyne cology and the operating the nurses also take Issue with the hospitals proposal to hire a director of a move they say will add another level to the organizational Kuntz said the Board is currently considering retaining an outside consultant to assess the feasibility of a director of heart drug study funds Cut off Toronto up a Canadian dig company has Cut off research funds for a heart drug because provincial Laws allow other companies to profit from its research a company spokes Man lib Agergy Canada has spent More than million on research in Canada to develop the formerly used to treat Only to find that pharmacists Are substituting other the now is the Only Wulfin Paranzone in Canada with government approval for heart until two when Anuran was shown to reduce sudden deaths after heart it was the Only sul Fin Pyrazole available in since other brands of Wulfin Pyrazole have appeared in Canada and Are being marketed As gout they Are sometimes used by heart we feel As a Point of principle we should not support More research on this drug in Kenneth medical director for Ciba said in an a provinces except Nova Prince Edward Island and newfound land have legislation allowing or forc ing pharmacists to substitute cheaper brands of drugs unless the prescribing physician forbids nato offers russians troop withdrawal Deal from the news services Vienna the North Atlantic treaty organization offered yesterday to pull out troops from West Germany in Exchange for the withdrawal of three soviet army totalling from Eastern eur if accepted by the Warsaw the plan would represent the first agreed pullback by East West forces since the second world it would be the starting Point of a manpower and arms reduction program which both sides have sought in six years of Tough Pope denounces Trig lie1 Vatican City Pope John Paul in an Appeal to world today denounced the use of the big lie and said the existence of the arms race raises suspicions of the sincerity of declarations in support of peaceful violence flourishes in lies and needs the Pope said in a news Roundup message marking the roman Catholic cur chs world Day of peace secret talks reported Vatican City traditionalist archbishop Marcel Levebvre was re ported yesterday to have had secret talks with Vatican officials Over his Defiance of reforms of the 196265 Vati can ecumenical the Vatican declined formal comment on the latest development in Lefebvre but sources said he had been at the Vatican last week and held talks with Franjo Cardinal prefect of the Congre gation for the doctrine of the transit workers strike Chicago Public transit workers walked off their jobs yesterday defying a court order not to go on strike and probably ensuring snarled freeways As commuters try to get to an estimated one million people use the transit system a total Proba Bly swelled during the Christmas shop Ping strike ruled illegal Regina chief Justice Johnstone of court of Queens Bench has declared illegal the Mont hold strike by the Saskatchewan govern ment employees John Stone ruled yesterday the sea did not have Majenty approval from its members to take strike the ruling instructs the sea to Stop persuading its members to Stop use of Union funds to prolong the strike and Stop paying full wages to liquor Board employees striking in court reserves judgment Ottawa the supreme court of Canada reserved judgment yesterday on whether to hear an Appeal by postal Union president Jeanclaude Parrot on his conviction for defying a parliamentary Law to return postal workers to their Parrot was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to order inside postal workers Back to their jobs after parliament passed a special Law to that effect Parrot is free on b awaiting the outcome of his no same sex marriages los Angeles a Federal acting in a Case where two men claimed to be legally ruled yesterday that same sex marriages Are saying the word spouse Means a relationship Between a Man and a one of the Anthony said the ruling denies homosexuals due process and equal Protection of the he said the decision by District judge Irving Hill Proba Bly will be nicaraguan trials begin Managua the new nicaraguan government opened the first eight of an estimated trials yesterday against aides and employees of deposed president Anastasio Somo Many of those facing trial fled the country and will be tried in Somoza in exile in will not Nicaragua five member governing Junta says it Hopes to extra Dite although the two countries have no extradition fierce storm hits Europe London Europe first major Winter storm hit with Hurricane Force Snow and heavy causing destruction on land and sea and leaving at least 30 persons dead or officials dozens were reported the weekend bad weather continued into yesterday in some winds gusting up to 195 Kilometres an hour 120 Miles were reported in Ireland and in other euro Pean Trees were roofs were ripped away and structures top pled by the fierce in bans hostage taking United nations the in Gen eral Assembly yesterday unanimously adopted a treaty making hostage Tak ing an International crime and requiring governments to prosecute or extra Dite any hostage takers who enter their in a Resolution approved without a the 152country Assem Bly also opened the agreement for More dissidents held Warsaw a total of 108 were reported taken into custody in the last including one Man picked up monday outside a Church where persons gathered to Honor polish work ers killed in food Price riots nine Yean dissident sources said the arrests were an attempt by Poland communist government to curb anniversary observances for the victims of the bloody uprising in they said 13 of those arrested had been released by yesterday leaving 75 still in ;