Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free july 1980 Churchill plays the waiting game continued from Page l Board seems to have a different sex he last year it was the Canadian wheat Board and this year its the but theres something damned wrong when they let Churchill go Back or at Best stand when every other port in Canada goes polish shipping agents who visited Churchill last week said the sail ing time from Here is Days Shorter to Baltic sea than from Lawrence River they also that the Quebec City Grain terminal loads ships about five times As fast As the Churchill facilities Are old but they operate pretty but theres Little backup if anything goes its like running a car without a spare one polish agent either the polish freighter Ziema Mazowiecki tons or the ced nya tons is expected to be the first Grain ship entering the port this Allan president of the Cana Dian Union of Public employees local in said the port is being discriminated against by Grain suppliers because it is owned and operated by the Federal currently there Are 106 people on the ports at the Peak in Normal seasons it would be More than Johnson said the port authorities Arent calling in any More people and if anyone their positions Are left people have been worried about not making enough overtime to make their jobs Worth Johnson now there concerned about not getting the 20 weeks of work nestled to for unemployment insurance next said Brown our town Council has put up a hell of a fight to keep the army from to get the new fighter planes tested Here and to get the armed forces presence in the right now were fighting to keen the Federal government from tearing Down whats left of Canadian forces base Churchill so that some of the 51 mining companies exploring the North May base their operations in we need All those supporters who came oat of the Woodwork last summer when Jack Morta called Churchill a luxury Canada cannot of to prove their words by same significant if the standstill at the port is a source of the lineup of Pacific Western airlines Hercules and other freighter aircraft at the Churchill Ter Minal has Given the Community a Wel come shot in the Cullaton Lake mines has begun an air shuttle of equipment to their Gold mining site 200 Miles Northwest of the company expects to employ 120 people for Dpi where from six to 90 years when it gets into full production m the company is expected to establish an administrative Headquarters in currently there Are is mining com panics using the town of Churchill and the Airport As their starting Keith manager of the arc tic to hotel in estimates that the total number of tourists visit ing the Community this year will in crease to from in boost in Oil Price probable by Jeff Carithers up news service Ottawa if the Alberta govern ment raises its Oil prices by no More than a barrel next month and does nothing else to inflame the still bub bling Otta Aalberta Energy pricing the Federal government will Racehorse fix nets Fine Toronto up a horse owner and a Trainer have been fined a total of for conspiring to defraud bettors at Woodbine Racetrack by holding Back a Crown attorney Lawrence Felman Suid it was the first Case of its kind to come before a criminal court in can Trainer James formerly of was fined monday Jor his part in the conspiracy to hold Back a Twoy Earold filly named mania in her Maiden race in Frank owner of the was fined because county judge George Ferguson found him to be the creator of the scheme and the Manipur a jury found Roberts and manna guilty earlier this month after a three week the scheme was to hold mania or stiff the in her Maiden race so the Odds would be higher in her second she was to finish first or second in the next race and those who knew about the scheme would collect a Large Hania finished fifth in a Field of eight in her first race and last in her second manna devised a scheme for own greedy purposes and Roberts conspired to carry out his Ferguson or Roberts is now effectively barred from training race probably for the rest of his throughout the manna will probably never be allowed to own a thoroughbred again at a reputable the desire and incentive to own a winning horse is not an unusual one in fact i have been one of allow the Price increase to pass through to Consumers without any interfere the Liberal government would wait until when Parlia ment resumes sitting and a Federal budget is being to unveil a series of Energy initiatives designed to assert Ottawa control Over the coun try Energy situation and to lure or pressure Alberta Back to the negotiating table before the budget is actually the taxes would include a natural Gas Export a Federal refinery and a new series of taxes on and Grants for the Energy All of the taxes being designed to give Ottawa More revenues for its own Energy Back to bargaining there is the further Hope that when Alberta sees what the Federal govern ment plans by Way of its Energy the sides will return to the bargaining if Alberta does move on its own later this week to increases its Oil prices by a effective at the wellhead the increase in the consumer prices of about six or seven cents a gallon appear until about the comparable natural Gas Price increase of 30 cents a thou Sand cubic feet would be effective Early in Energy tax plans among the Federal initiatives planned for the fall would be an array of Energy taxes designed to recover substantial revenues from the Oil and Gas Industry for the kind of Federal spending in Energy and other areas that prime minister Trudeau referred to in his Friday news just after the Energy pricing talks had Bro Ken Down with Alberta Premier also planned for a fall unveiling is the controversial natural Gas Export tax that Alberta and British Colum Oia oppose so vehemently and that was prominent stumbling Block to an Energy pricing agreement with Al Berta last the Export tax could Start at about j thousand cubic feet and come into effect when a Compa Rable increase in the Canadian Gas Export Price should come into effect on top of the current a thousand cubic feet Border which Way to Rome someone must have meant to be but Edmonton and foreground were sticking out from the Back of a City works Ellice appears to be just the Corner Novice Drivers and visitors truck some time after the truck everything to the City should in the three signs in the became As Clear As Ghotb Zadeh defection denied Iran foreign ministry denies Clandestine radio report Ghotb Zadeh seeking Asylum from the news services Tehran the iranian foreign ministry today denied a report that foreign minister Sadegh Ghotb Zadeh had resigned and fled the country to seek Asylum the broadcast yesterday by a Clandestine iranian radio was monitored by a government Moni Toring the which the monitoring service said it could not identify due to poor claimed that Ghotb a Deh intended to request political Asylum in France or the United life sentence imposed Calgary Suk Weott Lee of Winnipeg has been sentenced to life for the Shotgun murder of his estranged Kore an wife last Lee pleaded guilty in court of Queens Bench Friday to second degree news Roundup he was sentenced yesterday by Justice Mary Lees Barbara was found dead in a Van in discrimination cited a spokesman for two French Canadian prisoners says discrimination at the Federal Penitentiary Here led them to make an escape attempt in which a guard was taken hostage at knife Point steam stops firefighters a blast of steam yesterday morning from mount Helens halted most firefighting efforts near the but Crews were sent in later to Battle one the Forest service More than 130 firefighters had been few nations attend Shah funeral photo continued from Page 1 Koran after the arrival of other rela Tives and close friends of the egyptian officials and representatives of foreign the most prominent foreign mourn ers were Nixon and eking Constan Tino of Greet e foreign governments either designated their ambassadors in Cairo to represent them or sent no one to the funeral for fear of angering the revolutionary regime that drove Pahlavi from his throne 17 months ago Nixon came As a private to pay his lust respects to a Friend for 30 a Loyal Friend and ally of the he said on his arrival yester he told reporters the Carter administrations failure to give decisive sup port to the Shah during the revolution against him was one of the Black pages of american foreign policy and his treatment by the administration after he left Iran was shameful i think Tutu president in providing Haven for the Shah in his last at a time when the unites states turned its Back on one of its is an inspiration to us Nixon said the i s state department designated ambassador Alfred Atherton to at tend the funeral prime minister 1 Rudeau sent his condolences to former Empress Surah Diba but Canada will Send no official representative to the funeral in the prime ministers office said yesterday Trudeau sent a private Mes Sage to the Shah widow expressing his personal but in declined to give an external affairs spokesman said yesterday in Ottawa the Canadian ambassador to Egypt will not attend the funeral in sources in the egyptian foreign ministry said that no invitations to the funeral had been according to a Western Diplomat Sadat government took this line in order to avoid embarrassing Friendly world leaders who might fear that attendance at the ceremony could affect their relations with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini revolutionary government in the iranian foreign ministry announced today Iran intends to protest Britain official condolences a the death of the former Shah it Means they support the regime of the Shah and not the iranian revolt a spokesman said but British charge Arthur Wyatt said no such protest a so far been received by the British pm in Tehran both the Queen and prime minister Margaret Thatcher messages to the Shah widow following death on sunday in a Cairo Hospital former president Nixon is met at Cairo Airport where he arrived for Shah scheduled to work on Small fires smouldering beneath the volcanic Ash near the but were held Back after steam shot to an Altitude of metres at much of the Forest around the Volcano was set afire by the May 18 some of the fires have continued to smoulder in logs buried beneath a thick layer of volcanic relations to be restored Jeddah saudi Arabia and Brit Ain agreed yesterday to restore full diplomatic relations following a four month break Over the screening of a film in Britain about the execution of a saudi Princess convicted of resumption of full links Between the two countries will take place next fishing talks scheduled Washington Canadian and officials meet in Washington today for preliminary talks aimed at avoiding another fish War Over migrating Alba Core Canadian ambassador Marcel Ca Dieux and state department officials want to head off another confrontation like that which occurred last year when 19 american boats were seized for allegedly violating Canadas 200 mile fishing limit while pursuing the playwright Tynan dead Santa playwright and critic Kenneth who won Fame with his unsparing critiques of other playwrights in Britain and the United has died after a Long Battle with he was Tynan play of Calcutta became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic despite controversy surroundings its explicit he had been writing a number of lengthy profiles of show business figures for the sew yorker no Parvon decision yet Ottawa the Federal health department has made no further Deci Sions on possible action involving Dar prescription painkiller associated with a High number of a department spokesman said yesterday the drug is still under close scrutiny by health officials who Are investigating the records of victims where the deaths Are linked with Dar known by its Gen enc name As propos Phene t i i i ;