Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 11, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canadas forgotten hostage in Iran Douglas Browning is an the bankrupt Stadler Murter of endangered species these signed a contract in 1973 with an an living in Tafi aft Tomti corp oration to build yet despite six months of trying to shed his and operate a huge pulp and paper Plant at exclusivity he has been unable to persuade the Pott of aft Sill on the Caspian sea in the foreign ministry to let him go Home to North had become something of a celebrity around the Canadian embassy in recent months and said he was not unhappy with the embassy efforts on his the problem is that a Long line of creditors backed by the revolutionary government want him to stay on As the Lone remaining representative of a now bankrupt Canadian firm that has not completed contractual Nort Hefft when the company withdrew to personnel because of the anti Shah revolution it had invested about million in the almost completed since then it has declared bankruptcy and been taken Over by a West German Klockner Stadler Browning agreed to stay on to handle negotiations with iranian authorities to sign a new contract but says he has encountered one delay after another and that the govern ment will not Grant him an exit in held Here by a binding contract so really its my company that is to he they Haven even made it Clear to me whether Ive been rehired by the new he is not receiving any Money and is barely getting by with the help of some former iranian he Browning had become something of a landmark around the Canadian embassy in recent months and said he was not unhappy with the embassy efforts on his but 1 Felt anger when 1 found out what a fantastic Job they had done for the american Why they have done the same thing for me he said he also feels Canadian participation in tie smuggling out of Iran of the six diplomats has stiffened the resolve of the iranian government to frus trate his efforts to an external affairs spokesman said in Ottawa 0fi Friday that Canadian embassy officials had approached Browning regard ing his departure from Iran but that each time they made suggestions to him he disappeared and they didst see him for he added that embassy officials had been it close Contact with Browning for the last six months and throughout that period it remained unclear whether he had a real desire to Browning six attle to get out of Iran Snow flurries moderate winds High 9 Low 23 Winnipeg free press february 1980 i vol Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 200 James free press for Home Call 9439331 weeks Lor s Ide City turnout heavy in Advance polls teen Queen leaders of the major political parties charged into the Home stretch of the 18 Federal election Campaign today with indications that voter turn out could be heavy come polling if Advance polls Are an Manitoban will be thronging to the As a Survey of six constituencies showed Advance voting up significantly Over polls at returning offices were open 48 and will be open again 13 to Canadian press reported a Brief res Pite for the National leaders yesterday As prime minister Clark took the off in Vancouver while Liberal Leader Pierre Trudeau and de Leader of the new democratic chose their it will be the last rest for any of them until election Day As they criss the country in search of on vote Rich South Clarks biggest task is a series of opinion polls that throughout the Campaign have shown his party trailing the liberals by a wide margin and himself trailing both Trudeau and Broadbent As the Peoples Down poll results he has consistently played Down the value of such saying the Only important one will be held while maintaining that he and his work ers remain confident the parly will form a majority Trudeau and his advisers Are faced with an entirely different problem overconfidence much As they did in 1972 when they thought they had an easy win Over the progressive conservatives then led by Robert they coasted Home in that but to a minority the most recent of the polls shows the liberals with 48 per cent of committed voters compared with 31 per cent for the conservatives and 20 per cent for the so Trudeau this week will throw off the shackles the party has had on him throughout the Campaign so far and will attempt to imbue his workers with a renewed sense of maintaining his position As Power broker in the next parliament is Broadbent hoping to form a Strong enough bloc in a minority government to control the direction it ads approve fee raise Manitoba representative miss teen Canada pageant in Toronto will be 15yearold marys Academy student Diane Zurowski she was crowned saturday at Garden City shopping Centre after being chosen Over nine other including runners up Lisa of Bruns collegiate Centre and Sandra of Garden City olympic delegates Rebuff Call to postpone games election 80 by Claude Adams up news service Lake the stage is set for a major confrontation this week Over the siting of the 1980 summer olympics in As the 89member International olympic committee con siders an american proposed delegates to the which sees itself As the guardian of the Modem olympic began debating the proposal today in the stately Lake Placid a Monument to conservative olympics elegance in the site of the Winter games beginning the debate will Likely be a on sided during the Secretary of state Cyrus Vance opened the Ioc session with a Strong plea that the summer games be postponed or cancelled because of the soviet invasion of Vance said Jet Ida mental olympic principles to hold the games in a nation which is engaging in see annoyed Page 4 d even a Winter storm failed to prevent a heavy turnout at Advance d Many Oil firms have reversed their attitude toward d Jean Chretien is a popular speaker across Story Robert de Cotret faces a Tough Battle in i columnist Dalton Camps Tongue is firmly in his Cheek As he takes a la yet another poll indicates the liberals will win the 18 d Churchill race tight 77 by Manfred Jager Manitoba doctors have overwhelmingly approved the provincial govern ments contract proposal giving them a per cent increase in fees during the next two a source in the Manitoba medical association says just Over 90 per cent of the Mas who have been voting on the new contract by have accepted the new agree an official tabulation of the vote is expected later this Mma president Ami Laxdal has recommended approval of the proposed the two year contract would give Doc tors a per cent increase for the 12 months starting april 1 and an additional per cent for the 198182 fiscal until two years Manitoba Doc tors received their fee increases on a Calendar year when negotiations with the govern ment in 1978 dragged into the first three months of the the Mma agreed to make that years contract effective from april medical fee arrangements Between Manitoba doctors and the province have been on a fiscal year basis Ever putting them on the same time schedule As Hospital the new contract now ready to be signed and implemented Between association and government will Cost Mani Toba medicare an million of it this year and during the fiscal year starting april of per cent april 1 per cent is for a general fee per cent for special adjustments made for certain medical specialities and per cent for changes which will replace House Call fees with a special Call the per cent for the second con tract year is made up of an general fee a per cent Spe Cial adjustment and another per cent boost for certain under contract general increases for the second year will be re negotiable if the consumer Price Index for Manitoba rises by More than 10 per cent this the special adjustment classification in the new contract provides for office Hospital visits and consultations which Are below the National there will also be a special fee increase for psychiatric physicians practising North of the 53rd parallel will also receive higher Northern allow Iran drops demand for paper says Tehran up president Abolhassan Banisadr was quoted by a French newspaper today As saying his government no longer demands extradition of the deposed Shah As a pre Conditi ton for the american hostages which could come perhaps even in the coming the French newspaper be Monde published Banisadr statement at the 50 american hostages marked their 100th Day in Captivity at the embassy release for the hostages could come if the government acknowledges its past crimes in Iran and recognizes his governments right to obtain the extradition of the Shah and the restitution of his the newspaper said Banisadr ind rated that revolutionary Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini would have to ratify this new Compromise inside today open dominating one fact persists amid the unrest in Southern Asia Western countries Are almost helpless in the face of decisions by the organization of Petroleum exporting men sell cosmetics Ding its the Avon Man the cosmetics firm has six male representatives among us female salespersons in rebels Battle soviets Dollar on the Rise jets and oilers tie a pakistani newspaper reports moslem rebels recaptured two towns in Northeast Afghanistan yesterday in bitter fighting with soviet i bks the value of the Canadian Dollar could reach 90 cents in funds by the Middle of this an executive with a Canadian Bank the jets kept a close watch on Edmonton oilers top line last but still Winnipeg could manage merely a 22 dead lock 745 northerner honoured old Joe Flett was honoured for the skills Hes acquired during a lifetime in the North at the Thompson Winter carnival lawyers criticized Young lawyers Are and senior Ontario judges told a Canadian bar association meeting during the t protests recall 60s echoes of 1960sstyle protests reverberated through the United states during the weekend in reaction to president Carters Call to Register Young men and women for the scores 29 19 19 25 30 24 18 30 Dalton 5 20 7 6 19 Jumble 29 17 hockey nil sunday Edmonton 2 Winnipeg 2 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