Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free july 1980 paper fight ends Long session Manitoba progressive conservative government May have traditional paper fight at the end of the 112day legislative won the War of but it had to take cover during Tho session Early this guerrilla attack thwarted bizarre plop an to slip into Israel by balloon uncovered from the news services Aviv United nations peace keeping troops have found the charred wreckage of a hot air balloon loaded with weapons in Southern apparently the remains of a bizarre bid by palestinian guerrillas to slip silently into Israel by timor spokesman for the in peacekeeping troops in said yesterday that soldiers discovered a wrecked balloon with live explosives and fragments of a map of Northern Israel bearing arabic in a Palestine liberation organization spokesman in Beirut said that he had no information on the alleged israeli withdrawal urged nations the general Assembly called on Israel yesterday to begin an unconditional withdrawal news Roundup from occupied Arab territories by 15 and then endorsed for the first time the right of palestinians to found an Independent Sovereign state in those the United which had warned that adoption of the Resolution would both dramatize and Advance the Arab drive to isolate was joined by Only six other nations in voting against the the vote of 112 to with 24 concluded a we Klong emergency Assembly session devoted to the Issue of palestinian is a employees off Job Ottawa employees of the Public service Alliance of Canada walked off the Job Only 48 hours before some of them were scheduled to represent government clerks at a conciliation Board a spokesman for the alliances 5g Public relations and education officers Mem Bers of the Alliance employees Union said the walkout would continue in definitely although the situation would be reviewed whaling action defended Ottawa Canada did far More to protect whales by opposing a global moratorium on whaling than it would have by supporting the Mac the Canadian whaling commis said Mercer said in an interview that during meetings of the International whaling commission last week in in Canada consistently voted against allowing species scientists said should be spared from being israeli ambassador Yehuda Blum watches anxiously As votes Are tallied at the United where delegates voted yesterday to Call on Israel to withdraw from All occupied Arab fireworks kill three san confiscated from americans who bought them in Mexico for the fourth of exploded yesterday As they were being transferred from an ammunition Bunker at a Navy submarine killing three including a the Navy the blast sent a torrent of flaming fireworks into the second world War Bunker dug into a Hillside at the Pacific fleets largest sub floods inundate Poland Warsaw a state of emergency was declared yesterday in 22 of to lands 19 regions after several Days of torrential Rains that flooded cropland and left an estimated farms under floodwaters also damaged or Des troyed hundreds of Bridges and closed polish authoring troop massing alleged peking foreign minister Huang Hua said yesterday that Vietnam has intensified its War of aggression in is massing troops along the thai Border and threatening Thailand with Huang said withdrawal of vietnamese which invaded Cambodia in and in stalled a new government in phenom penh the following is the major condition for easing police officers attacked police in riot gear cordoned off an area of downtown or Lando Early today amid reports of scattered Rock and bottle throwing and looting in a predominantly Black neigh Orlando police chief James Nursey said several policemen were injured when confronted by a crowd he Esti mated at 60 to 150 Nursey said the incident began when an armed robbery suspect wus being arrested by the suspect began a crowd gathered and police were pelted with rocks and Veverka surrenders Miami expo ice officer Charles Veverka surrendered 10 a magistrate yesterday to face cml rights charges in the beating death of Arthur a Case that led to race riots in Miami when a state court acquitted four other former Dade county officers Veverka was granted immunity to testify against the four in a state trial in he was freed on a per Sonal surety he was indicted monday on four Federal civil rights West coast ignored in Energy showdown by Carol Goar up news service Ottawa to most British Columbia is the forgotten prov Ince in the Energy showdown looming Between the Federal government and the few easterners realize that it is the country second largest natural Gas supplying million Worth of the fuel to the United states last even some of Ottawa so called Energy experts Are in the the chief information officer for the National Energy the Federal Agency which regulates All Oil and Gas product Ion in the blithely told up news service this week that the Only province with significant natural Gas exports is Sells Gas to United states Doest British Columbia sell Gas to the United states the spokesman was she glanced at her sales of 1 guess it last delivered 237 billion cubic feet of natural Gas to the enough to Supply the entire Pacific Northwest and parts of that Why it matters terribly to the province that the Federal government is threatening to impose a whopping tax on natural Gas experts As part of its new Energy Cost to Treasury estimated British Columbia Energy minister Robert Mcclelland estimates the tax would Cost the provincial Treasury be tween million and million in forgone royalties and lost sales he has fighting the proposed tax tooth and Nail since but cant help wondering if anyone East of the Rockies is especially with prime minister Trudeau and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed headed for a Nasty collision on Energy seems to have been Rele gated More firmly than Ever to the the province is not alone in its Alberta which exports about 10 times As much natural Gas As is also enraged about the natural Gas Export its Premier made his feel Ings on the subject abundantly Clear before he turned his Back on Ottawa alter two Days of frustrating Energy culling the idea offensive and completely but Alberta has a heritage fund to fall Back British Columbia has Little to Cushion the blow if the Federal government decides to dip into its natural Gas and it could hardly be coming at a worse this has been one of the most disappointing years in recent memory in for the men who Drill for natural their traditional the Forest is limping waiting for the current recession to ease so people will Start building houses to make matters Helens erupted in in really taking the punch out of the Economy of the Pacific Sev eral major companies lost thousands of acres of prime forcing them to turn off even More of their Gas sales dropped Canada might have been Able to keep toehold in the Market if it could boast highly competitive but it Gas rate increase expected natural Gas users can expect in creased rates in Winnipeg this fall if Alberta raises the Price As a greater Winnipeg Gas spokesman said Bill Salo said the company is scheduled to appear before the pubic utilities Board 10 in anticipation of an expected to be about 10 per we will definitely attempt to pass on any increase to the he the current Gas pricing agreement Between Ottawa and Alberta ends 1 and the Alberta government is expected to step in with its own arrange ment on that Salo said with All the Fin nuelling Between the Federal govern ment and Alberta the actual Price is up in the Salo said Tran Canada pipelines wholesale Price of Gas is about while the Price to the consumer is about per thousand cubic Domestic natural Gas prices Are expected to jump by 30 cents a thousand cubic feet to at Toronto City Gate on Union angered by pay criticism Ottawa up the Canadian Union of postal workers upset by criticism of its recent contract Settle ment with the government says some senior business executives were granted salary increases of More than 200 per cent Between 1975 and the largest raise went to president of Westcoast Petroleum whose annual salary in 1979 was 639 per cent higher than what he earned the year the militant Union said in the july edition of its monthly the circulated to Dele Gates attending the unions five Day National conference in Ottawa this noted criticism of the recent contract settlement which gave its 100 members an annual increase of about 95 per saying its information cume from the financial the financial newsletter compared a Post Al clerks hourly wage of with Imperial Oil chairman John Arm Strongs annual which 11 said works out to an a mail handler who belongs to the Union makes an compared with Edgar chairman of Seagram who earned or an it the newsletter compared the 1975 and 1979 salaries of 24 top eight of whom got increases of More than 2do per cent during that and added six others not on its previous list whose earnings Rose 57 to 234 per cent Between 1978 and other Large increases listed 1 Paul Vic chairman of ale an aluminium in compared with in Juan de chairman of the Board of Bell last compared with in f Ross president of Gen Star in compared with five years Ijames president of husky Oil last compared with in c Edward president of nor in Energy resources in compared with five years excessive Lead found in air at foundries continued from Page 1 the Lead objectives Are those which would like to but there Are no they Are Sun pay objectives in a Telephone interview yesterday a research geochemist with Viivi Rosment Canada in said even the five microgram level Manitoba Safe level object is Loo High or j 0 Nagu said the Linued tra Protection Agency sets 1 5 micrograms of Lead per Uhic metre of air As an acceptable making the readings taken Here in june More than six limes higher than i Hose standards be by the Linued nations As Safe ure also stricter Hun Manitoba he said a recognized Canadian authority Oil ii subject of Lead Lotita was concerned about the High Levels surrounding secondary Lead such As in Winnipeg Case similar smelters were ordered cleaned up in ii Suiku last he a recent paper by Niagu in the International medical in Tironi Malul states there is increasing concern that the present airborne Lead Levels in Many Urban and even Rural areas constitute a health particularly to Chil Dren the need for substantial reduction in the rate of Lead discharge to the ambient air simply cannot be overemphasized Niagu said conclusive tests in the limed states have shown that Lead in the air Call affect the mental capabilities of children Good conclusive testing showed that children affected by High ambient Lead Levels had slower mental capabilities and did less Well in school after lengthy exposure to Lead in the he there was direct correlation Between 1q and Lead Levels in blood tests on children at Weston 1410 Logan in an Industrial and lord Nelson 820 in a nonindustrial in Isal showed children had Lead in their the blood testing was ruled by officials 10 be unreliable by 1979 the tests showed a substantial drop in the number of children with Lead in their blood at Weston the number dropped from 74 to and at lord Nelson the number dropped from 34 to one credit was Given to cleanup efforts by the a paediatrician head ing a fireman Manitoba medical study team formed to measure Lead Levels in children neat the secondary Lead plants in said he was concerned about the new readings and was aware of or magus reference 10 the effect of Lead on children but at this Point there is Little i can Coodin in a childrens doctor who is just starting to organize testing we really dont know anything yet about the effects of ambient Lead on humans Here the air testing undertaken in june by the environmental control Branch is pan of an investigation into Lead contamination ordered by environment minister Warner Jorge Ison ;