Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, February 02, 1980

Issue date: Saturday, February 2, 1980
Pages available: 213
Previous edition: Friday, February 1, 1980

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba George bpm Home final of of lots Are getting Mailer pm that didst improve in the 70s muffs Jas by it training plans Are a great Way to Cloudy today Cloudy tonight High 15 Low 20 february Murray tree a floss Gold fever at40 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 304 with coloured comics for Home Call 943933 f two weeks Lor outside oily b Moscow expels Al Canadian him a spy Ottawa up the Federal government will retaliate against the so Viet Union for the expulsion of Cana Das senior military attache in Harold an external affairs department spokesman said yester Gold has been ordered out of Moscow just 10 Days after three soviet military officers were accused of spying and ordered out of Canada by external affairs minister Flora the spokesman said Ottawa was planning to retaliate and the govern ment was now considering How this should be miss Macdonald has promised to retaliate if the russians responded to the recent expulsion of soviet officials by ordering Canadian diplomats to leave the soviet Canadian diplomats Are not engaged in she the external affairs spokesman Reaf firmed this saying Canadian military attaches we rent performing the same Type of activity that the russians were Over air attache in the Canadian embassy in is being kicked out apparently for intelligence Rea the spokesman he has one week to this russian move further chills so vie Canadian relations which have cooled sharply since the soviet Union election 80 d some new democrats have the uneasy feeling that their Leader May really be yanking up some of the cherished roots of their d Pierre Trudeau concedes Joe Clarks popularity May Rise As a result of the dramatic escape of six americans from Iran with Canadas d James and Winnipeg Assiniboine were tight races last sent about troops into afghanis Tan in prime minister Clark has announced restrictions on Trade with Russia and called for a Boycott of the Moscow olympic games to protest the soviet miss Macdonald announced 21 the government was booting out three soviet military officials on the soviet embassy staff for it was the second major expulsion of soviet officials in two i new zealand has also recently expelled the soviet ambassador to new and a major soviet spy Case has just erupted in a native of was posted to Moscow last he was previously in defence department head i quarters in the three soviet military men told to get out recently were accused by the government of buying classified information from an american citizen for More than two years the government told 13 soviet diplomats no declaring they had tried to recruit an ramp officer As a prisoner claims escape used to show innocence a Gold prospector in Northern Manitoba works to disconnect drilling rods in three partners Are gambling on what could turn out to be a Rich Gold see Story Page its denies payt Deal firm hoping to provide hotels with first run movies by Cecil Rosner a private Winnipeg company has circulated a document claiming it has an agreement with Manitoba Tele phone system to provide first run documentaries and other vision programs to hotel rooms in the but its denies any such agree ment has been signed and the presi Dent of the private company said yesterday that whoever prepared the document was in error in making the the Selecta vision circulated an investment proposal dated to potential in offering them an Opportunity to buy shares in the recently formed use one coaxial Channel in Winnipeg which would pipe payt programs into about hotel rooms in personal care Homes and other ins Titu the proposal says service is expected to begin by july this and company profits Are predicted to be More than by no agreement Gordon general manager of said there is no written agreement with Selecta but he said he is not unduly concerned that the company is telling potential investors that a agreement said its has hat Neotia the labelled person quotations on How much its would charge to carry the when asked to elaborate on the in Backhouse said he want at Liberty to discuss negotiations be tween its and its its chairman and general manager Gordon Holland also said he comment on private but said there Are a number of companies interested in bringing payt to Mani and As a common provided them with any requested in David president of Selecta confirmed that the investment had been sent to potential Blithe also said the company does thave a signed agreement with Al and says ejecta i which has Sion has an agreement with rats to included company with see Page by Ron Campbell and Steve Pona an inmate of Stony Mountain Penitentiary who escaped while serving life sentence for the 1973 murder of Winnipeg Man says he left the prison to draw attention to himself and his claims of his lawyer told provincial court Brian Norman of fair Ford Indian was one of four men convicted in the stabbing and beating death of tin Fong formerly of 620 William suite they were convicted by a Manitoba court of Queens Bench jury and sentenced by Justice James defence counsel Charles Guberman told the court yesterday he had been asked by Anderson to Tell the the Public and Media that he still proclaims Hes innocent of the he said Anderson escaped from prison to bring attention to his Guberman told reporters that Ander son believes he knows who the real murderers its not a dead Issue with him and he Hopes that his pleas wont fall on deaf he he said he thinks Only a Cabinet order could reopen the murder in an interview Jack general counsel to the attorney generals said Prince Albert lawyer j Clyne Harra who was retained by Anderson in has communicated with the department about the Deputy attorney general Gordon Pil key recalled there was no new evidence which would have warranted a reinvestigation of Andersons role in the if he claimed he was not on the scene of the for he would have to prove his actual whereabouts at the he Crown counsel Don Melnyk told judge John Enns that Anderson and another Paul Roger were working with a dump truck at the Rockwood Institute on the morning of Roulette suggested they drive away and Anderson of was serving a 15year sentence for see prisoner Page 4 six americans get warm Homecoming by Stephen Lynton the Washington Post Washington six americans who escaped from Tehran last weekend with Canadian help returned to Washington yesterday for a warm Welcome from president Carter and hundreds of state department the president praised them As six Brave americans who he said did not fully realize How much the peo ple of our country loved them until they got Back we All love Carter said after a private talk with them at the White the four men and two women Are being referred to As the Canada they wore Maple Leaf pins to show their gratitude to they were loudly applauded by state department employees who packed their buildings stairway and balconies to Cele brate their the crowd waved placards that read Canada in both English and in a solemn statement read by consular official Robert one of the returning the six escapees expressed gratitude to the american people and the govern ment for their to Canada for the risks it took in helping them and to those reporters who knew that the americans were hiding see Carter Page 4 ars to be Tes research at Churchill into the effects of Oil spills on Polar halted about a year ago by a Public is about to be oilers Hammer jets Wayne Gretzky skated rings the Winnipeg jets last night As he collected three goals and an assist to Edmonton oilers to a 92 troubled olympics China and Zaire yesterday voiced support for a proposal that the summer olympics be moved from postponed or cancelled in response to the soviet invasion of dentists get warning iranians celebrate dentists must be sensitive to everything tens of thousands of iranians gathered the patient smells and hears in his in Tehran yesterday to Mark the first a member of a dental consulting anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini return to their bylaw to be studied Index amendments aimed at plugging All the loopholes in Winnipeg troubled Massage parlor bylaw will be considered monday by civic environment not merely skating theres a lot More to being a member of the ice Capanes skating troupe than just As Ottawa Lynn Nightingale is Media watcher everyone knows the medias keeping track of election but who watches the reporters Clive Cocking tells it As it was in excerpts from following the leaders a Media watchers diary of Campaign Doug focus Fot Henegham Jumble Puzzle 41 60 49 41 34 7 29 34 5 7 6 7 65 29 38 letters 6 17 41 17 scores hockey nil Edmonton 9 Winnipeg 2 Atlanta 4 2 ;