Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Political big guns go out on a limb by Paul Sullivan theres no such thing As a free weve got a great said the assistant news editor Why dont we get a a Liberal and a new Democrat together for wine them and Dine and get their election predictions said the City we can run the predictions in mondays then get the three of them together again monday night after the polls they All watch the results Ogeth and we record How they react As the results come rolling in election terrific a really terrific i beads of sweat forming on my upper but Why Tell me because youve been elected to make sure it Doest degenerate into a food so there they were three of the least Likely lunch mates since Roosevelt and Churchill broke bread at stuffed into a carrying on like old pals g Harry Enns la for minister of a million important things aut Opac and the phone company in the Lyon looking fit and tanned from a 10day vacation in Aca d june Westbury la for fort the Lone Liberal in the Provin Cial carrying on in the Brave tradition of Lloyd there was much Good natured banter about where Westbury will sit in the next session of the but she took it All in and turned out to be the Best armed with not Only the National breakdowns of the last but province province re sults to la Ben Hanuschak nip la for Bur textbook Salesman and educational the minister of education in the Schreyer kindly consented to join the he revealed hell give one More kick at the cat in the next and regardless of the that will be his last try for before they got Down to climbing out on any the three had some interesting observations about what has to be one of the weirdest political campaigns in our even Westbury conceded Pierre tru see pros Page 4 depression can make its victims sorrow Over the present and fear the Cloudy tonight Cloudy tomorrow Low 1 7 High 12 press february 1980 19 vol Sun rises sets Moon rises sets for Home Call 9439331 two weeks Lor its City a thirty Tryc press records reveal pm decided to Force vote Manitoban began trekking to the polls at 9 this morning to helps election clerk Donna Liljequist and assistant clerk cast ballots in the second Federal election in less that 10 Darlene Mcdonald sort out ballot boxes for the various polling left to returning officer Anne Mcdonald polls close at 8 polls clouding voting picture seasonal temperatures and a mainly sunny sky greeted Winni Eggers today As they went to the polls to determine the makeup of Canadas next Parlia the weather was Good in most other parts of the country As leaving Only the conflicting Public opinion polls to Cloud the Issue for Canadas 32nd Federal about per sons aged 18 and Over Are eligible to vote for a record candidates who Are seeking to fill 281 voters were lined up Early this morn ing at Wellington school on Beverly one of the polling stations in James Riding a tight three Way race has been predict at another polling station in the i on officials reported Early in the morning that a number of people had come to vote but found they we rent on the voting electoral officials predicted this might pose some because the govern ment relied on the 1979 electoral list to determine leaving the responsibility for making changes up to individual there Are 282 commons seals at but the election for Frontenac constituency in Quebec was delayed until March by the death of the social see polls Page 4 harness track proposed by Elman Guttormson a group of Manitoba horsemen has endorsed a harness racing track proposed for a 200acre site East of the Jack president of Corelan a development told a meeting of 180 standardised owners saturday in Brandon that a group of Manitoba businessmen is ready to build the track and provide harness racing by one of the principals is Cornelius corny president of hidden Valley farms of an told the annual meeting of the Manitoba harness Hor semen the proposed track would be located East of the City on the perimeter Highway adjacent to the trans can Ada Highway where the businessmen own 200 acres of he told the meeting that if the horse men supported the the group would apply to the Manitoba horse racing commission for a licence within the next who designed the track and acts As spokesman for the four said it would have an air conditioned grandstand with dining and bar facilities and winterized barns which could be used year round by he said meetings with horsemen would determine whether the Circum Ference of the track would be half a mile or Ross said the Likely of be called Springfield would apply for dates to race in March and he said the new track would Stim ulate the provincial Economy by pro Viding 600 and will be a major tourist attraction for the David outgoing Secretary treasurer of the harness said he didst anticipate any problem getting sufficient horses to race at the proposed Ross said formula car and grand prix racing might be an alternate use of the track facility in the election 80 la facts about today i final plea made for la Joe Clark s own pollster says the prime minister is in serious u columnist Dalton Camp finds attention paid to the polls has made this Campaign g it May Well be time for Reform of Canadas electoral by Doug Small and Walter Stewart up news service Ottawa canadians Are trooping to the polls today for an election that technically need never have taken confidential documents obtained by up news service show that prime minister Joe Clark was advised by the country top civil servant How an election could be avoided even after the tories were Defeated in parliament last despite this the tories decided to go they had private soundings that convinced them they could win but of a decision to stand on such a technicality would have brought a storm of polls the key in an election dominated by confused flawed and frantic these Early hitherto were among the most misbegotten in recent political opinion polls brought the election there was the Gallup poll late in november showing a massive lib eral Lead that determined the Liber als to push the minority government to there were the private conservative polls which indicated to the tories that they could win despite Gallup they convinced Clark and his once they realized that the commons vote was going to be to Call an election that might have been there were the polls throughout the election that seemed to show the Liber als holding their Lead they deter mined strategy for All three major results dubious then there were the election eve polls pulling in opposite directions one from Gallup showing the liberals still 20 Points one from ctr showing the Lead Down to 10 Points and still these poll As they were re leased in both were up news service has Learned from confidential documents that it was Clark who made the political judgment to go to the although he claimed throughout the election that it had been brought on by the liberals and the documents indicate that he was Given this advice by Marcel clerk of the privy Council and Secretary to Cabinet that he need not Call an election and that he could have spun it out into when the political Cli mate might have been More favor the main dated and headed memorandum for the prime minister options on defeat in the House tonight contains this crucial paragraph although any defeat during the Bud get debate would be regarded generally As a major defeat for the govern technically at least dissolution is not your Only since the nip motion is Only a sub amendment see pc polls Page 4 panel selected to probe Shah by Michael Weisskopf the Washington Post United nations an International commission to investigate Irani an grievances has been by in Secretary general Kurt Waldheim and approved by the United a unofficial said but a delay in the expected approval by Iran has stalled formal announce it was that the five member panel plans to gather in Geneva tomorrow and leave from there on a unchartered plane for apparently to begin investigation at once of the alleged crimes of Iran deposed such preparations indicate that mediators Here Are nearing a firm agree ment from iranian officials to fix a time for releasing the estimated 50 americans who have been held hos Tage by islamic militants in the embassy in Tehran since after the announcement by in officials Here yesterday that the panel had been approved by the United White House Deputy press Secretary Rex Granum said in washing we dont have any reaction at this while officials have been will ing to allow the naming of a commis see inquiry Page 4 inside today Farmers confused the embargo on Grain shipments to the soviet Union is clouding the Canadian Export and leaving Prairie Farmers unsure of what to Plant this dog race Mark Falls records Are made to be and Peter Norberg did just that when his team of huskies finished the world dog Derby ahead of the existing joint Effort Index Eye on the Kremlin killings tied to coup Aneve for Queens at Cinno five cautions in a Kabul Orison began less diplomats Are looking closely at signs that two allies of president Leonid Brezhnev May have gained higher rankings within the soviet communist party ruling executions in a Kabul prison began less than a month after the first soviet backed regime took Power in says a former Diplomat who was imprisoned there one Little girl in the audience last night had a pretty Good she picked Liette preset As festival do Voyageur and the judges a inquest jury probing the capsizing of the a taiwanese freighter has called for improved coordination of disaster response thirty died in the Selling of peking while the Market in China is not that big says one it could and some foreign companies Are getting in on the ground floor with billboards in Luke leads jets win Morris Lukowich led a come from 65 Victory Over the Quebec Nordques yesterday to give Winnipeg jets their third Victory in 26 31 7 20 21 32 56 21 32 Dalton 20 Jumble 31 17 scores Winter olympics modal West 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