Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 24, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tages Cali us Cohoe out of us Muir Una Only to Neh Iff i slow with m sufi Felt Hlatt in Muty Young Sofnin Fol we a incr Vdell Bilof Totth nov Tali of crawl i Ines nun Mieir Ninny to f it Titi is a Midi if Iii melt two of the m the t Nofi finally eff Lengi the hostages Are and what their duly existence although kept Ai oils As to mite by Ite is of the 50 no More than half believed to Mill be in to secret to to make any Rescue difficult psychological however scattered they May Lorr Tats believe the 50 hostages include about 10 and Tural embassy officers four military officers about six embassy administrators about 10 consular officials and two or three communications tech in at least nine Marine corps guards Are among the three More of the captives have been accused by the students of being Cia on the strength of documents which appear to be a then the hostages include two civilians who merely happened to be inside the embassy at the time of the students attack Jerry a Sherman Salesman who was investigating the possibilities of opening a business in and William the came out me continued from Page 1 the most seriously affected family was the with 14 family Mem they occupied three of the m suites in the an employee a Winnipeg cold suffered a fractured two of his children were in Hospital with broken while others had been released after treatment for Cut Sand 4 and sat around at Motel 75 on Pembina High Way yesterday where the salvation army had placed i was thinking of Coutu said with a look of i cleaned the i was supposed to do the cooking with his burned Arm and foot swathed in munched halfheartedly on a burned my i tried to get out by the stairs and the flames came out at they burned my on the Pul Down Wall bed Desjarlais placated baby Crystal with Robert self consciously hid his right hand from it was covered with cuts he received when he smashed a window with his Coutu lifted her own Arm expos ring Large purple yellow i went shopping three times this week for the gifts for perhaps damaged by smoke or were Back at the apartment but she go nobody could go the coitus had to make do with ill fitting clothing donated by friends or last two City police officers were guarding against despite its being boarded the Block was broken into earlier in the William William Howard and Aux Llla by Bishop Thomas grumble on of Detroit were in new York yesterday just prior to boarding a night for they have been invited to Lead 50 hostages in Holiday the former principal of Tehran american who was in the embassy basement collecting some of the records of the which closed last according to accounts Given by the the students and the few inde pendent observers who have managed to visit the the captives Are being kept under conditions of pay but not physical most of the hostages spend their Days sitting in faces to the Wall or placed in cubicles where they see or speak to any of their their wrists Are tied about two feet with strips of White they Are permitted to but Only carefully selected books and magazines they Are Given Little or no information on the negotiations sur rounding their they Are required to beseech their guards for everything permission to go to the permission to sleep at psychiatric specialists have said tages absolute dependence on their captors induces both feelings and of utter helplessness and respect and fondness for the Young men and women who control their perhaps worst of the hostages May not speak to one some of them Are not even allowed to see any of their colleagues and according to former is psychologically the most difficult experience of All but the hostages appear be in relative Comfort the students say the embassy heating system is working warding off Tehran freezing Winter they say All their captives sleep in or at least on the hostages they is Basi Cally american thanks to the Zembas sys Well stocked which the students say should last for six in some of the student guards have complained that their prison ers eat much better than they the american hostages still have the ser vices of the embassy pakistani who volunteered to stay on although the iranians offered to let him americans have flooded the embassy with Christmas cards estimated fill Fin so according to the los of Geles radio newsman who is delivering Flost of the cards As Well As and cassette tapes with everything for be to Ted messages to Christmas Pafel says he has m Way of knowing for sure that the cards afe getting to the he the student guards Slit open each and every Enve Lope As soon As paen delivers his huge Canvas mailbag full of cards he doubts that they would go to that Trou ble if they intended merely to throw the cards away without passing on at least some of meanwhile in new one of the three american clergymen invited to hold Christmas services for the hos tages at the embassy in Tehran criticized president Carter William Sloane coffin told his congregation in Riverside Church in Manhattan that Carters Call for United nations economic sanctions against iran is highly reminiscent of Lyndon Johnsons bombing of North Viet coffin also said senator Edward Kennedy much publicized remarks about the deposed Shah of iran saved the lives of the the other two clergymen Are roman Catholic auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit and Wil Liam Howard of an american Baptist and president of the National Council of also invited to visit the hostages was Cardinal Etienne Catholic Arch Bishop of he said he would Fly to Tehran Ken press members of the Coutu family had their dreams of Christmas shattered Early yesterday morning when fire destroyed their apartment talkies Pioneer Darryl Zanuck Dies at 77 until Din few Thi Newt services Palm Darryl the movie Mogul who helped usher in the age of talking died saturday at age the producers wife of 56 Virginia Fox was at his Side at Palm Springs desert Hospital when he died of a stroke and complications from said a spokesman of 0th the giant movie studio which Zanuck confounded in Zan uck had been in and out of a coma since entering the Hospital 29 after suffering a he had not been Active in film work since when he was ousted As chief executive officer of 20jh Bane crash kills 15 port moresby All people aboard were killed when an austra Lia built Nomad aircraft crashed in new authorities investigators began searching ugh the wreckage for clues w the cause of the which occurred the plane struck the Side news Roundup of a Mountain near the Village of about 50 Kilometres Northeast of port shortly after heavy rain and blizzards in the Moun with wind gushing nearly 100 Kilometres an hour in some the National weather service posted storm and blizzard the Lous san Francisco Bay area was hit by driving heavy rain almost out of a Stone Grey hostages life threatened Telephone service Back san Salvador leftist Guerilus Las holding Archibald Gardner South african ambassador to Al Sal said saturday they will execute him if their demands Are not met by Faramundo Marti libera Tion which kidnapped Dunn outside the South african embassy on is Derain Tjing Aew spa pers in 10 countries including Al Sal Vador publish a manifesto critical of the country Junta before Dunn Calif Orua Battell san Francisco a Pacific storm roared ashore yesterday in Northern bringing with it Gates and Montreal Telephone service returned to Normal Here yesterday after Bell Canada operators ended illegal strikes that began How a 48hour Legal walkout is expected to begin it Cost Tomor which could cripple overseas Calls placed through pravda blasts reports Moscow a soviet newspaper yesterday denounced As pure inventions Western reports that conv Bat equipped soviet troops have been sent to Afghanistan to help the is government fight moslem the communist party also repeated charge that the Central intelligence Agency and Nese agents Are helping Arm and train the afghan rebels at bases in Paki and in chivas Xin Jiang prov grenade blast kills 6 Philippines hand grenade exploded in a bar filled with Christmas revellers killing six people and injuring police re no group had claimed responsibility for the similar incidents have been blamed on moslem rebels seeking Independence for the Carter approves merger Washington president Carter approved on saturday a merger of pan american world airways and National airlines into what will be the second largest air Carters decision was the final govern ment action needed for the takeover of National by pan under merger nationals routes will be integrated into pan Aras and the name National will storms floods Venice Italy much of Venice went under water saturday in the worst flooding since the disastrous deluge of a storm that battered the italian Peninsula with Gal Force winds sent sea water spilling into palaces and Ordinary Homes in this Lagoon swelling its famous canals so High that gondolas and other water traffic had to be halted because boats could not pass under the arms Sale plot claimed new York three one a former Cia were arrested yesterday in an alleged conspiracy to sell British made machine guns for City prosecutor Robert Morganthau told reporters the suspects had accepted a Down payment from two undercover police detectives posing As latin american revolutionaries and promised to deliver the guns to the Caribbean within 45 ;