Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg Fyfee january 1980 Trudeau ignored hints to curb Iran debate Ottawa up minister Clatk dropped Subtle hints More than Twat months ago that Canadian Diplo Mats in Tehran might be sheltering but they went dark dropped the hints while under in the commons from the Liber at opposition of Pierre which criticized the government for not being Tough enough on since news surfaced tuesday of the role in harbouring and then helping six americans escape safely from Clark said he is surprised Trudeau kept up those attache in the when he knew the diplomats were being hidden by the Clark said tuesday he informed tru Deau of the delicate situation at the Canadian embassy in Tehran about one week after militant iranian Stu dents took Over the american embassy he said yesterday he was surprised at the tone of the Liberal questioning in the and a review of Hansard the official record of commons proceed Ings illustrates Trudeau was aware of the Well kept there were four Well orchestrated Liberal attacks on the Clark govern ments of Iran situation be tween 21 and and it was during the final attack on 3 that Clark dropped the gushes with thanks for Canada continued from Page 1 adjacent building on Massachusetts office workers posted giant Jetters on their windows that read parents fear from Page 1 supposed Leader is 17 years of and less than five feet in after 16 and Are of similar one works full another baby one lives in a trailer with her 22yearold Boyfriend from they have Young girl Good its a Bunch of cheap said the she said she has talked to a lawyer because the rumours Are get Ting out of we would be behind bars if we were that had a few ruins said the but we dont do it Day for something to they Trace the beginnings of the rumours to a party they attended with i out town engineers at a local Motel two years and gossip they added laugh at their notoriety and say they wont give people the satisfaction of i leaving juvenile court judge Brian Gies Brecht said although he has seen some girls on More than one Virden is no different from other towns he presides and what about More criminal charges nobody comes said ramp you cant Chase rumours or youll be run off your thanks Canada and Merci Beau besides expressing their callers also requested the addresses of external affairs minister Flora and Canadian ambassador to Iran Kenneth on Capitol the Senate foreign relations committee passed a Resolution of thanks to in Consul general Timothy Williams was cheered and slapped on the Back when he appeared to speak at a service club the club later sent a giant red and White Floral bouquet to the at a shopping mall in people were asked to sign a Mammoth Valen tines Day card that would be warded to How big secret was even los Angeles police depart ment joined the sending a formal message of thanks to and in hundreds of students looked on As the Maple Leaf was run up a flagpole in a ceremony to kick off Canada appreciation at radio station Kook in Oklahoma news director Wexler said several callers broke Down in tears while voicing their the Sta Tion hooked up with chm in for a live talk show in which americans spoke with our hands have been one of the callers Wexler said the station was asking listeners to Call in with wording for a proclamation of thanks that the Gover nor would Send to major to networks sent camera Crews to most of the Canadian Consul ate off ices sin the requesting interviews with shopkeepers were offering free gifts to any Canad an visitors who might wish to drop in All the messages and tributes that were poured out yesterday across the one theme predominated gratitude for the first bit of Good news in three months of american agonizing Over the hostages being held in As one caller said on a Washington hotline show Ive always Felt that Canada was a Good this cements the relationship like Noth ing Tody struggle continued from Page i forcing her to attend the custody hearing in Waiman went to court i of Queens Bench and obtained an interim custody Malamud that is the order that in existence he the judge presiding Over the affair adjourned the hearing there in anticipation of getting More inform i Tion from the information want made available and every to eng was put in limbo for reasons Malamud said he didst want to Dis while the lawyers continued to sort out the Waiman want Al Lowed to see his child without super i Malamud his concern throughout has been the child is going to forget about Malamud Waiman was scheduled to appear before judge Kroft today to Deal with the jail he is also scheduled to appear in provincial judges court today in connection with the abduction hint about Trudeau knowledge of the i would have thought that of All people in this the right Honor Able Leader of the opposition would have understood that in a situation As delicate and As Complex As the purpose of Canada and other countries in seeking to uphold International Law should hot be simply to be but should to be effective in trying to bring influence to Bear on the iranian the thrust of the Liberal attacks was to Denind a Tough worded statement from Clark and leaders of other major Western industrialized countries condemning the iranian the new democratic party remained silent on the Issue in the com nip Leader de Broadbent did not know until tuesday the real reason behind the governments Deci Sion monday to close the embassy in Tehran was that the six americans had escaped safely from he originally accused Clark of closing the embassy to gamer votes on on Clark indicated in vague terms that there was an important role to play for Canadian diplomats in Tehran and rejected Liberal my Allan Maceachen Call to have Canadian personnel pulled from we Are naturally preoccupied about the safety of Canadian Clark we Are also aware that there is a role which Canada can play in one which we can play effectively if there Are personnel on Trudeau accused the government of a stand Offish attitudes and said vague statements of support for the United states from individual countries were not the leaders should indicate they Are ready to take collective action if there is any harm to the those remarks prompted an angry external affairs minister Flora Mac who knew Trudeau had been informed of the to accuse the Liberal Leader of this question is much too serious because it involves not just the break ing of the Vienna but it involves the lives of human Trudeau often prefaced his questions to Clark with comments suggesting he knew the situation was on Trudeau said he realized a lot of this action might have to be taken behind the at least in the Early and i do not want to probe the prime minister any More than is a week he asked Clark to state within the Bounds of propriety what actions the government was contemplating against Gerry free press in the swim of things Lois Klassen is diving into Winter with the right in practice for summer by taking part in swimming while frigid weather prevails outside at the University of Shes classed As a minnow below a but a step above a the first year physical education student is getting the other two categories in the tories will keep aut Opac continued from Page 1 the insurance Bureau wanted the entire Auto insurance Field opened to Wawanesa had sought a Quebe Type the government in Suring bodily injury and and private Industry having the vehicle and property damage opposition Leader Howard Pawley tended to distrust the governments announcement As last minute Repen tence in the heat of an election Cam the statement is geared to reassure Manitoban during the heat of an elec Tion Campaign but it allows room for manoeuvring and i believe after the next election there will be considerable in relieved aut Opac has a reprieve but i do not Trust the conservative Pawley told if the tory government is reelected it will either adopt a Quebe Type plan or open Auto insurance to private com he repeating a forecast he has been making since the report of the Burns committee on Pic was made Public in Enns said he rejects the suggestion that it has Ever been the governments intention to privatize he admitted the poll conducted by the review committee headed by Michael Burns showed a substantial num Ber of Manitoban found Pic Satis the Burns recommendation to con Vert aut Opac to a Mutual was an honest and sincere Effort on the part of the committee to separate aut Opac from government and still retain the close identity Between the users and the Enns we have made a very serious Effort to examine what other Means Are pos sible to replace the present we have had an Opportunity to study the but we found them All other recommendations adopted by the government include d substantially increasing injury and death debt charges make up 30 of its expenses continued from Page 1 up to the Telephone system has been recording Revenue surpluses consistently each its had a million profit in million in 1977 and in the people paying the interest for the debts built up by its Are Manitoba phone who face the second rate increase1 in 12 months this its expects to raise rates by 11 per or 65 cents a month on a once the total number of telephones in Winnipeg passes Hie the new phone total places the City in a higher it is not necessary for its to approach the provincial regulatory body to increase rates when the figure is business phone rates will be going up by 22 per cent at the same debt charges Are the biggest single expenditure in the its expense accounting for 30 cents for every Dollar paid out by the Crown during the Long term debt was further increased when the govern men borrowed a total of million at an interest rate of 9 per Holland said the new rate Structure approved by the provincial Public utilities Board last March is based on a of the corporations financial d on Estop Accident eliminating the necessity of reporting vehicle accidents separately to Pic and to the at a potential saving of of which would be a saying to the attempts to achieve a joint Accident reporting form will be d continuation of the tort process allowing traffic Accident victims to receive compensation under the no fault injury benefits program and in addition to seek damages in but the system will be monitored against d possible expansion of programs to Reward fault free at present one Merit Point is awarded for each two years of Accident free d separation of the general insurance division of Pic from aut Opac for accounting and reporting d separation of the roles of the Gener Al manager and Board chairman of As they were prior to the conservatives taking office in who currently holds both will continue As general and a Board chairman will be found d payment by Pic to the Manitoba health services commission of a Lump sum to be negotiated annually on the basis of the previous years actual Hospital and medical costs to avoid Legal fees in some the current payment is about million annually to the health services russian reinforcements Jam Kabul Airport from tip news services Kabul ten More plan loads of soviet soldiers and supplies arrived at delaying civil Ian the soviet an43 cargo planes landed at the afghan parked nose to Tail in the mow and began discharging troops in heavy Winter heavy trucks and smaller vehicles in full View of foreign airline officiate said civilian air traffic was delayed up to 40 minutes be cause the soviets we rent Clearing the runways fast boy Dice in Pippi Tift fire san wan a Road building a a gasoline pipeline a three Kilometre that burst into news Roundup flames and forced thousands to flee a densely populated suburb of the puerto rican police a 14yearold boy was burned to death no other injures were Neo nazi group banned Bonn the West German govern ment confiscated weapons from a 400 member Neo nazi organization yester Day and banned the contending its military style activities were unconstitutional and gave the country a bad name Interior minister Gerhart Baum said the which held its own troop training Camp in a Castle near Burem sought to establish a totalitarian state through the use of he said about 500 policemen raided 23 Sites in Bavaria alone that were connected with the righting extremist a so called recreational shooting Tunisia recalls Diplomat Tunis Tunisia withdrew the head of its diplomatic Mission from Libya yesterday in reaction to an attack Sun Day on the phosphate mining City of Hafsa that Cost 41 it blamed Libya khad Afy regime for the prime minister Hedi no Ira told a meeting of the ruling socialist Detour party Tunisia must prepare itself for further such acts of aggression in the near because the defeat of the assault on Hafsa is Likely to be Felt in Tripoli As an unbearable the libyan news Agency Jana quoted a foreign ministry official As saying we have been extremely surprised to learn about this decision and we believe there has been no reason whatsoever for such a arms Cache discovered London British police have uncovered a Cache of explosives and fire arms at the Home of an employee of the to secret Royal aircraft establish where new weapons Are the defence ministry said the British re ported the weapons included a missile warhead and trigger the ministry declined to confirm that and a spokesman said there Doest appear to be any sinister aspect to but added inquiries Are being car ried out into a Quantity of firearms and other equipment traced to a pipeline ruling delayed Ottawa the National Energy Board has delayed for at lest two weeks a ruling on a request by trans Ana a pipelines of Toronto for an immediate decision to allow construction of the first portion of the proposed Eastern natural Gas pipeline this a expected to be could come in the form of a special neb order about in and Vance of an neb recommendation on the Overall project later in the the neb is considering whether it might be possible to Speed up the decision on the whole project to allow government approval by late february or Early panel to probe torture Geneva t a United nations panel is working to draft a convention that would make torture an International crime and establish punish tent for the group is expected to report to the in human rights which meets Here next the draft is aimed primarily at gov because organizations like amnesty the red Cross and the International commission of jurists have established that torture is Practised by Law enforcement organizations with the knowledge of authorities most notably in latin and Cen trial ;