Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january 1980 crts opens Channel for Cable alarm service greater Winnipeg Cablevision will be allowed to provide fire burgler alarm and medical Alert ser vices to its subscribers East of the red River As Long As the channels used for them Are not required for broadcast ing the Canadian Radi Otele vision and telecommunications com Mission said the decision to Grant the licence amendment is contrary to the wishes of the Manitoba government and a num Ber of Western Canada Cable compan ies who argue that the commission can free hand Given police review by Tom Goldstein the consultants reviewing the operations of the Winnipeg police depart ment will have virtually a free hand under guidelines approved yesterday by civic finance its a fairly Broa based study were City auditor de Marks told committee after the study guidelines were the which was approved two weeks ago by City Council following a three month preliminary audit by will evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness productivity of All matters related to the operations of the police depart its he can look at anything and everything once he gets in adding the is a on shot along with committee chair Man Abe police chief Norm Stewart and City finance commissioner Roy prepared the draft guide guidelines expanded supporting an Amend ment by Harold Macdonald expanded the guide lines to include the departments relationships with various civic political and administrative those in clude the Winnipeg police commis the City finance commissioner and Board of civic finance committee and City among the few prohibitions facing the Stilto reappointed consultant will be such sensitive areas As police intelligence Marks said the two key areas for examination Are police department staffing especially defining criteria for dealing with requests for additional manpower and response times which have deteriorated since Dis Patching services were centralized in preparation for the new computer aided system which is expected to be operational in Many aspects to consider among other aspects to be consid ered Are possible streamlining of departmental staff deploy Community and court relations and the effectiveness of the chiefs office and promotion practices which could involve some investigation into the controversy surrounding sex Constable Susan Irvine being sent to Law school at police in preparing their the Consul Tants will be expected to Contact the police associations and department Exall ranks of officers will also be permitted to meet confidentially with the All criticisms will be reported As will any rebuttals by senior the guidelines will be presented for approval by City Council one week from Council has already appropriated for the project and is to allocate More it the Broad based study goes Over the consultants Are expected to have the bulk of their findings ready within 90days after being notices for tender Are to appear in local and National newspapers before next Council Only approve or regulate broadcasting Doug spokesman for the provincial consumer and corporate affairs said he interprets the crts decision As meaning the Cable company must still ask Manitoba permission before proceeding with the Smith said yesterday it appeared the crts was recognizing provincial Juris diction in matters relating to no pro ramming use of Cable but Cablevision spokesman Hugh co Mack said his company intends to Winnipeg free Phel proceed with the services with of without the blessings of the Manitoba Telephone system and the provincial we have the necessary Federal authority to go he Well take every Legal step but that Doest necessarily mean getting provincial Comack said the company would initiate a Pilot project to test the system this of subscribers could be receiving the service by next he estimated costs of the package of services is about per he but company officials Are working on methods to achieve a lower Manitoba Cable signals Are carried by the provincially owned Telephone the Powers of the Federal regulatory body has been a Bone of Conten Tion with the Manitoba leading to a special Canad Manitoba agreement in 1976 on the development of Cable television in the in the Manitoba recognizes exclusive Federal responsibility for All programming services carried John Lucy and his hold photo of who helped americans escape Iran sons letters told of Iran going to hell in a bucket continued from Page 1 As an american citizen i am very glad the Canadian people did what they have done for the captives in thank you very much for helping the David Dowd who was among a Skeleton Crew embassy officials left in told his parents in letters that members of the diplomatic service were extremely upset about the plight of the american Lucy were very proud they brought this Celia Lucy they really achieved something when appeared to be a stalemate in said Rogers letters described the worsening situation in that country following the Lucy said he was never Overly worried his sons weve always Felt that it would work out All said know this is a Job that has these the Lucas Are looking Forward to seeing Roger when and if he returns to Canada with the rest of the diplomatic corps from the we dont know whether Hes in Europe or returned to Lucy i imagine he will be returning to Ottawa very Hes been there since Only one aspect Lucy said he and his wife had found television news from Iran very i think we Learned As much his letters As we did from to the incident involving the six Ameri can diplomats is Only one aspect of what has been happening since he Roger was appointed in Lucy during the revolution in Roger took a bus through the mountains to evacuate a group of although it is possible Roger May take an appointment in Lucy said he was hoping by the end of the summer to be posted somewhere preferably in Western Roger Lucy joined the external affairs department in and held Post Ings in Chicago and the Middle East before being promoted to first Secretary and going to Lucy in John Oflaherty said he could hardly wait to see his sister who was communications officer at Tehran Canadian although police still had not told him when she would therell be a Celebration in Johns when she comes Home when Ever that he asked what he knew about the Rescue Oflaherty said the first i heard of it was on the and then external affairs telephoned me to Tell me Mary was Safe and that she was coming he had not been worrying about his an Lightyear Veteran of Exter Nal on Cable including pay Televik the agreement also says the Regula Tion and supervision of telecommunications other than programming which is carried by the government Telephone Are the exclusive responsibility of the in approving the application for greater Winnipeg Cablevision to pro vide the fire and burglary alarms and the medical Alert the com Mission made the following conditions d subscribers not wishing the new services will not be obliged to take them or pay extra for them either directly or d priority shall be Given to distribution of programming if Chan Nels occupied by the new services Are required for the non programming service will be Dis d no advertising material of any kind shall be distributed on channels used no programming the new services for Winnipeg is an experimental one and so has been licensed Only until islam states lash out at soviet Union continued from Page 1 the two it was obvious Here that the soviets had engineered More ill will among nonaligned and world nations by their military March into neighbouring Afghanistan More than a month ago than any other action they have taken since world War their military takeovers in Hungary and Czechoslovakia did not draw the Strong reaction from the third world that the invasion of Afghanistan did from the most of whom Are both nonaligned and third world fears even the United nations general Assembly failed to mention the soviet Union by name last month when it called for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the islamic mentioned the soviet Union nine times in its five Page Resolution on we expected but nothing this said one soviet the Strong resolutions came As a Surprise since a number of leaders of the islamic conference including the saudi arabian foreign Prince Saud Al and Agha Shahi said from the beginning that both Moscow and Washington had been in creasing tensions in the we declared our Independence from the superpowers while reaffirming our desire to maintain relations with them based on Mutual said Agha cannot disengage he added that the moslem world knows it cannot disengage itself from relations with the United states and the soviet but it can demonstrate that islam can be a Factor in easing the dominance of the even members with close ties to the soviet such As the Palestine liberation organization and supported the the soviet invasion of the islamic nation apparently Cut so close to the Bone that it overrode any inclination to use Strong words against the the Strong islamic stand against the soviet Union comes three Days before president Carters National Security Zibgniew arrives Here to discuss Pakistan military needs in View of the threat of almost soviet troops on its besides calling for the Quick withdrawal of soviet troops from afghanis the islamic foreign ministers also denounced the presence of soviet troops in the Horn of Africa and called for their immediate the afghan Resolution condemned the soviet military aggression against the afghan demanded the withdrawal of soviet troops and said they should refrain from acts of tyranny and oppression against Afagh in it suspended Afghanistan from the islamic foreign minis ters invited its members to withdraw diplomatic recognition from Afghanistan until soviet troops Are and called upon member states to consider an olympic the foreign ministers also urged islamic nations to help afghan refugees and established a fund that could be use to Channel Money to rebel doctors practice raises questions continued from Page 1 i dont want to make any it he the College is Basing its charges on seven patients who were treated by Schwartz Between 1978 and August the source close to the Case said these people also visited other on a few occasions some of these physicians mentioned to the College that the treatment their patients received from Schwartz might be the College of physicians and surgeons is the regulatory body of the medical profession and polices the standards of its College registrar James Morison would not comment on or confirm the charges the results of an he Are published in the colleges which Only prints the physicians name if the findings Are if the doctor is found not his name is not Board has four options if the professional standards Board rules against Schwartz at the hear ing scheduled for March 6 and 7 and finds him guilty of unprofessional the College is empowered by the medical act of Manitoba to do one of four things it May erase Schwartz name from the Register in which Case he cannot practise he May be suspended for a period of no longer than two years he May be reprimanded or the College can suspend its decision until after an inquiry is conducted under the who has been a doctor for two years and has about said he is apprehensive about losing his right to practise a lot of people Are concerned that if i holistic Medicine a subcommittee of the Consumers health organization of Manitoba is currently directing its efforts to pre vent that from million plan set to re equip coast guard from the news services t Vancouver transport minister Jon Mazankowski yesterday an 2nounced a 30year program to re equip the Canadian Mazankowski told a news Confer rence the first five year phase of program will Cost the minister said there has been a Meterio of coast guard equipment and a Jack of attention to renewing the coast guard he wid he will be in the Vancouver All this and expects to have report on his investigation into coast on the British Columbia the investigation was called Tor the freighter Lee Wang to in a fierce storm Christmas Day the Owea Charlotte islands with a t statements made at an into the tragedy have been by critical of the coast hold several Hundred afghan news Roundup political prisoners Are being he Din Side the soviet the times re ported from Kabul times correspondent Robert Fisk said evidence of this was found in a letter smuggled out of the soviet Union from an afghan shiite religious Leader arrested after 1979 Afghanistan revolution that brought the late Hafi Zullas Amin to in was killed during last decembers so Viet backed leftists Seise hostages san Salvador members of the leftist popular leagues of 8 took Over the office of the Christian demo cratic party Selwod of tag i and demanded the resignations of the three party members of the five Man civilian military the group also demanded Freedom for 200 persons reported arrested after a 22 antigovernment March that ended in a bloody shootout in which at least 20 persons were killed and As Many As 90 Chile to Boycott games Santiago Chile will Boycott the Moscow olympics because of the soviet intervention in the Chil Ean olympic committee said yester Chile is the second after saudi to announce a Boycott of the summer Trade deficit eases Washington despite a record Bill for imported crude Oil and Petroleum the Trade deficit narrowed to billion in the Commerce department reported the merchandise Trade deficit was the lowest since when imports had exceeded by the deficit in 1978 was the smaller deficit had been anticipated because of the strength of derailment blocks line Thunder the Canad an National railways main track was blocked Early yesterday after freight train derailment 270 Kilometres North of a in spokesman said 11 of the trains 27 cars four of the u cars were carrying steel plates and the rest were Crews had not reached the derailment site by last freight and via rail traffic was being rerouted through Thunder causing delays of several bomb explodes in Paris powerful bomb shattered ground floor offices of the syrian embassy Here killing one Man and injuring eight other shortly before the arrival in the French capital of the syrian foreign minis three none known to French claimed space shuttle up in air Washington the first flight of the space shuttle might have to be delayed until Early next year to assure that All problems have been the head of the National aeronautics and space administration re ported the a reusable ship which will land on Earth like a originally was to have undergone its first manned launch into Earth orbit in Early repeated postponements of its Maiden flight stemmed mainly from technical problems with the shuttles engines and Thermal Protection sys Agency head Steps Down Ottawa chair Man of the National Energy will retire May a Board spokesman said he said chair Man since announced his retire ment in a memo to his the Board was established in 1999 to regulate Oil and Gas pipeline construction and Energy related Ottawa to Aid gallery Vancouver Secretary of state David Macdonald said yesterday the Federal government plans to give the Vancouver Art gallery million Over the next four years to help it move to the cites old courthouse from its pres ent Macdonald told reporters on the Steps of the courthouse that he has a proposal to use up to million in unclaimed loto Canada funds to cover deficits in Canadian professional the dance companies and orches six Hurt in explosion six persons were in Hospital last night following an explosion and fire at the Agrisula Canada fertilizer Plant near ramp David Plant operations said the Plant was a total loss and structural damage to the building cannot be the fertilizer Plant is owned by Cana Dian Superior Oil Didsbury is Job Kilometres North of ;