Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Man Flo suspect held Montt Feal up Nigel Barry a 32yeafold Junior College electronics was attested by police Here yes Tettey in connection with the w7d do totter police spokesman Charles said Hames is id be arraigned in ses Sions court today on charges of conspiracy to forcible de Tention and detectives of the Montreal police Liaison and Security Section took the British born Hamer into custody at his Home in suburban Lasalle last Quebec Justice minister Marcandre Bedard said last March his department was considering laying charges against a so called sixth Man who allegedly took part in the kidnapping of British Trade commissioner Lames Cross by front de liberation do Quebec the crime oct eyed off what has come to be known As the october five Days after Cross was Mem Bers of another f1q cell kidnapped Quebec labor minister Pierre Laporte was found dead in the trunk of a ear on strangled with the Chain of his Cross was freed 3 after 60 Days of Captivity in Exchange for his abductors Safe passage to of the five known men Beds of the three have retained to face changes in Cana while two More remain in Lite existence of a suspected sixth member of the cell was revealed ear Ner this year by Andre a senior Montreal police in Testi Mony before Quebec Keatte Chartrand told the inquiry in Afy that police had passed up at least three occasions to arrest the the first came the Day after the Cross when an informer gave police the identities of four men who had taken two were arrested and placed Ina but neither Cross or the Cross maid Alto both witnessed the kidnapping were Able to identify the Day after Cross in former Carole Devault pinpointed the sixth mans hideout for her police con Chartrand said the Man was placed under surveillance but never although the of temp had de finitely tracked him on May a third source told police that the sixth Man and three others known to be among the Kidnap pers had rented the taxi used to Cross away from his Montreal a Cool drink will do More to beat thereat if you dress it up a showers tonight 17 hot tomorrow 32 free july 1980 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home 9570550 Dave free press Lyon scraps bid to ban Campaign lies by Ingeborg Boyens proposed legislation that could have sent to jail anyone publishing false statements intended to influence an election Campaign was scrapped yes just one Day after it was made Premier Sterling Lyon withdrew the clause in the proposed elections stating it should never have been included in the first anything that is silly be Lyon opposition Las and Legal experts had branded the provision totalitarian and a Throat to the democratic pro the electorate and not the judicial system should judge what is a false political they Lyon saying in this Day and statements made by candidates cant be adjudicated by the but the Premier said he explain Why the clause was included in the these things sneak through from time to he told election problem Lyon said he had been told the attorney generals department was try ing to address the problem of Candi dates for election who falsely identify themselves As members of political it obviously didst he said he didst know of any specific cases that might have generated the the Premier dismissed As coincidence promises made last year by attorney general Gerry Mercier to protect the Public against false state Mercier had denounced nip Ross Mere candidate Vic Schroeder for using smear tactics and blatant lies in his Campaign Mercier was absent from the Legisla Ture but said monday the clause was included for discussion i have heard of that Lyon but All i can say is that were not proceeding with the the subsection is being withdrawn and that the important he Lyon said he want showing undue see silly Page 4 Manitoba fails in bid to put Kasser on trial tenants of Waldron apartments on Broadway Hope to save their Home from building coming Down greatest life ignores plea by tenants of apartment by Pamela Fayerman greatest life Assurance has ignored a request by the civic Environ ment committee to extend the leases of tenants in the Waldron a 70yearold building the company Hopes 10 tenants of the Block at 544548 Broad Way Are trying to persuade the City the building has historical and architectural value and should be put on me historic buildings conservation if it is it must be preserved but greatest life says the building must be demolished to make Way for its j62million development plans for the about three weeks the civic environment committee asked the com Pany to delay termination of tenants leases until instead of july but greatest life has ignored the request although construction is not expected to begin until the built in the Block had As its architect Victor who also designed Boniface City the Law fort Osborne Complex and the Brandon in 1911 Horwood was appointed provincial architect see tenants Page 4 by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba seven years of efforts in Austria to bring to trial Alexander Kasser have Kasser was charged As Mastermind of the multimillion Dollar Churchill Forest industries tin austrian court of Appeal has upheld a lower court judgment quash ing the indictment against Alvin special prosecutor for the government in criminal proceed Ings in the Chi said assistant Deputy minister in the attorney generals de said it is my understand ing that austrian proceedings have been Mcgregor said he first heard of the judgment from passers Sev eral before it was filed with the and the judgment itself didst impress me a no Appeal possible the judgment cant be but Mcgregor said there Are other areas which Haven yet been pursued in these include presenting new evidence to the prosecutor or Lay ing further charges of fraud against Kasser in connection with one of the Chi companies he said he would have to consider these possibilities and await a full report from the governments Austria Wilhelm before making a recommendation to the government on whether to pursue these charges of fraud in Canada and International warrants against the 71 year old Kasser will remain in Goodman he is aware of the International warrants and if he does he travels at some Goodman the government has spent million in criminal and civil proceedings against Chi principals so far and last november reached a civil attorney general Gerry Mercier and Mcgregor have said this represents All the Money Manitoba can recover in the alleged even if they were successful in criminal charges against Chi All but of the civil settlement has been paid Over to in Montreal last night at tending constitutional talks involving provincial attorney general and ministers of intergovernmental said he had just received word of the appellate court he said that on his return to Winnipeg this weekend he intends to review with special prosecutor Mcgregor the Rea sons for the decision and alternative Steps which May be Premier Sterling Lyon want aware of the austrian court he said yesterday he has asked for a see Manitoba Page 4 More control on phones sought Telephone customers using unauthorized phones May find their service Cut off under proposed changes to the Manitoba Telephone act amendments to the act would outlaw phones purchased from retailers other than its and used without its a every person who Dis or otherwise provides an authorized terminal attachment must notify the purchaser of the provisions of the Section or whether the attachment its has estimated it lost More than in revenues through other out lets Selling phone interconnections last the interconnections have become prevalent since its began in stalling Extension jacks in residential Homes and since local department stores began Selling under the proposed All terminal attachments to the system must be authorized under a general Tariff approved by the Public utilities the Tariff will outline conditions and terms under which the connection can be any manufacturer or supplier of the me connectors could apply to the Board for an now manager in a precedent setting the Manitoba government yesterday took Over interim management of the Winnipeg symphony no still tops the National league s 42 win Over the american league in baseball s Allstar game left everyone at a loss to explain the no s superiority venturing out Joan Armat Ramg is emerging from her intensely private world to meet the Many people who love her music 25 bad Blunder a Blunder by four smugglers not a cruel scheme May have caused the tragedy in the Arizona desert where 1 3 people died in searing heat 64 Index bust c c 41 44 j4 42 41 47 7 74 2b 47 35 food guide forum focus Horoscope Jumble letters relax sport i sports record stocks Tempo to listings 17 6 7 34 51 6 37 41 65 72 43 25 41 ;