Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mil 4 Winnipeg free atm St 1985 set Back from Page i at angry americans through Chrome covered keeping them Back from the some of whom were still bandaged from their last encounter with the the Ayatollah chanted the when some iranians raised a Colome picture of iranian Leader Ayatollah a rain of eggs quickly 1 spattered the photograph As the crowd some of the americans were plainly driven to near rage by the upset at nerve Many were upset by the iranians nerve in publicly demonstrating at the White House while the captives re main in there was the Man in the Blue polyester one moment calmly eating his lunch at a nearby Park the next leaping to his feet to pull a Tomato from his lunch bag and hurl it at an he was arrested and taken away in a Paddy come out you Brave a muscular Young Black Man with Curt ing dreadlocks called through the police on die crowds fringe prowled a bearded dressed in an Uncle Sam costume Complete with remand White striped top Khomeini the costumed Larry Edwards of carried a Straw filled bag Over which he had stretched a rubber Khomeini inside a a loud cheer arose when a Middle aged iranian in traditional garb including a Shaw like co the be Tilg net passed out in heat after police cleared a path for Stretcher bearers to a old a motorcyclist suddenly sped through traffic to Cut the car As a Small crowd surged into the Street to leap on the cars roof and aim kicks at its your wives Are at is with some americans trying to taunt the iranians to step outside the police none did the Ayatollah eats Camel shouted it was Walki talkies new police lines formed and the iranians were escorted to three waiting City buses As bystanders shouted insults and waved the american they got you an american called one bandaged iranian who shifted his crutches to one hand As he stepped on the but were going to get you better next president Carter ordered an investigation into charges that the iranians arrested july 27 were released before they should have been and be fore their visa status could be thoroughly officials complain the invest ligation of the july 27 arrests was ordered after some officials of the immigration and naturalization service complained that the Carter administration pushed for the premature release of the the Many of whom took part in yesterdays were freed ins spokesmen denied that the re came before the and visa status of the iranians had been fully Driver yelled inquest told Swift up bus Driver Michael Beach shouted a warning to his passengers and steered for the shoulder of the but could not avoid a crash with an oncoming of was one of 22 up rail workers killed in a three vehicle Road Accident May witnesses told a coroners inquest yesterday Beach had pulled on to the shoulder when a Black 1965 Chrysler driven by Alfred of Hamil ton collided with the survivor Angus Moores of Placentia said he saw the car on the wrong Side of the Road and knew it was going to hit the the next thing he remembered was being pulled from the shattered saw car approaching Gerald also of Placentia said he was sitting next to Moores and had stood up to pass a cigarette to a Friend when he saw the approaching his Arm still in a Synard told the inquest the bus flopped Over on its Side after the As men were tossed about inside the sliding a Tanker truck hit it and ripped off its several victims were badly burned when the truck burst into flames after the 32 Kilometres West of this southwestern Saskatchewan the Accident was Saskatchewan worst transportation disaster since 1954 when an air crash near Moose jaw claimed 37 Moores and Synard were two of eight survivors on the eleven of the dead were from nine from Manitoba and one each from Ontario and Nova witnesses Tell stories Bob Shaw of Driver of the truck which collided with the Rolf Fischer of who pulled Shaw from flaming and other witnesses also told their stories yester Day to Stewart chief Saskatchewan and the six Man inquest a Small Man wearing wire rimmed glasses and Cowboy had been hauling Asphalt Oil to pm he said he first saw the bus when it was sliding on its Side in his he saw he miss the bus and beaded for the striking the compartment of the bus As he went his next memory was Fischer help ing him out of the truck and saying to get out because the truck was starting to neither Shaw nor Fischer said they knew what started the who was driving a truck about half a Kilometre behind said he saw bodies lying on the Road when he arrived on the George Frisky of Gull said he helped pull three victims from the he also saw a Young Man with a mangled face on the Side of the Road asking for he put the Man into his pickup truck and turned on the Heater so he go into Carl director of Highway safety programs with the Saskatchewan Highway traffic told the in quest injuries May have been less severe had the bus been equipped with seat but he said a strange sequence of events came together in this Accident to produce the worst possible to take a school which is not a terribly Strong vehicle structurally to Start Lay it on its and then hit it with the largest vehicle we possibly have on the Road from the top is the worst Case configuration i can imag he said in an the Inqui St botulism killing waterfowl Cwi Ufema hot i at Oak late wart said it he when decayed matter la the Marsh Bot Tom is exposed to botulism Toifl is created and then ingested by water which Are in turn eaten by Park said a Cycle sets in once a botulism infected Duck Dies because the decaying carcass produces mag also and then other ducks feed on the compound ing the it is necessary to pick up to infected carcasses to break that he wan said cold weather is needed most to arrest the spread of the the cleanup operation at Oak Lake is expected to continue eventually covering about dead Birds Are put into sacks and dumped in two open pits that have been dug in the the dead Birds gathered yesterday have not been said 1 imagine it will be sufficient just to Bury the drought is also being blamed for a 36percent reduction in the number of ducks hatched in Western Canada this despite recent Early drought conditions reduced nesting habitat by 67 per cent in highest of All the Prairie close be Hind is Saskatchewan with 64 per cent of its nesting and Alberta with a 51percent according to the Canadian wildlife the fish and wildlife and wildlife agencies across the ducks unlimited is a privately funded waterfowl management Organiza Tion responsible for about two million acres of wetland habitat in the 170 on Jet survive crash Larry of hangs a mask of Ayatollah Khomeini from a Hospital Pigpen claim hit the directors of Winnipeg Munici pal hospitals will hold a special meet ing next week to Deal with charges by Board chairman George Provost that the chronic care institution is a firetrap and a Don Gerrie find River a member of the said today he will try to have the Board meeting at 3 tuesday opened to Hospital news Media and the so fears that things Are remiss at the Hospital can be Laid to Gerrie and fellow Board member Bill Mcgarva Park Are angered by the charges Provost made in a letter to Hospital administrator Norman Singleton re frightening statements Gerrie said they were totally unfair and not adding he is at a loss to understand How Provost could make we cannot have statements like they unnecessarily frighten the people who either Are patients in our Hospital or who have relatives in the the municipal hospitals Are administered to the full satisfaction of the Manitoba health services the Winnipeg fire department and the Canadian Council on Hospital accredit Gerrie if the chairman of our own on the other has lost Confidence in the Board and then maybe there ought to be a parting of the Mcgarva said Provost went too far in his if the place was a the fire department would not have approved the fire alarm system we if it was a we would never be accredited by the Canadian Council on Hospital accreditation and we have never had any trouble getting our accreditation Hugh assistant chief fire prevention officer in the Winnipeg fire department said the department was satisfied with the hospitals fire alarm system upgrading this the fire inspector who is responsible for All the hospitals is on vacation just now and were going Over his reports today to see if there were some outstanding orders that have not been Gornall if there in pretty sure they would be and not endanger he said municipal hospitals Are inspected routinely several times a Gerrie said municipal hospitals spent about Early this year in up grading its fire alarm system to specifications spelled out by the Winnipeg fire in addition to an up Odate warning system there Are regular fire drills and the fire department continues to in Spect the Hospital about once every three Gerrie Mauritania Apall but two of 172 people aboard a romanian jetliner escaped with their lives yesterday when the plane plunged into the Atlantic on its approach to a mauritanian an official statement said one person was known to have another was missing and 13 were injured four of them a staff member with the official mauritanian news Agency said in a Telephone interview the other survivors Are in Good he said the Accident is being investigated and he had no immediate explanation for the remarkably Low casualty some passengers were picked up from the sea by boats and others Man aged to swim an official of the French airline Uta in Mauritania told the associated press news Agen the Airliner of the romanian National was carrying 18 Crew members and 154 romanian men due to relieve Crews aboard fishing vessels in the mauritanian authorities Sola powered plane makes historic flight Balcony exits called unsafe continued from Page 1 obviously it could be made safer in a number of different Turner adding that there is no require ment the balconies be made with fire resistant he said he Hast designed a similar Structure since he did the Fairlane Complex in Point ing out that we would have to consider How we would do it differently if the need Turner told the the inquiry the circumstances of the fire were unusual and disturbing and they Point to the need for possible changes to the build ing code regarding regulations for bal conies and other outside some consideration should be Given to the Type of material used on the bal he but i dont think theres a guarantee it will be Safe in any situation at any Turner agreed that firewall in the building Jont Stop the Blaze from spreading from one Side of toe Struc Ture to the Otter along the but he said the building codes intent is to contain fires inside buildings and Doest concentrate on spread of fires from one building to another by flames moving along the As occurred in this the code is not written with that Type of fire in he in the Light of Turner it May be Wise to extend the firewall to Stop fire from spreading along the outside of the building As the inquiry was told that the total Square footage of the building would have required the use of certain non combustible materials and flame Resis Tant in order to avoid having to use these the architect and owners installed a firewall Down the Middle of the building and thereby technically created two separate Struc Tures Tor the purposes of the Turner agreed that the code requires any suite More than six feet Steve the ground to have at least two separate but said they Felt they could proceed with construction in any Case because City and Federal officials approved the from the news services Edwards air a 90pound schoolteacher wrote a foot note to aviation history yesterday by piloting a Sola powered air plane for three bouncing Kilometres above a dried out desert Stream the 15minute flight by Janice in the fragile Gossamer Penguin was described As the first sustained flight by an aircraft powered Only by the Brown said the plane reached a top Speed of 26vi and climbed As High As metres As it covered a Little More than three Kilometres at Edwards air Force the penguins Bank of solar cells mounted on a platform above the crafts 22metrelong Wing Powers a Small electric motor which rotates a rear mounted Volcano erupts again mount Helens erupted yesterday for the fifth time since May sending a plume of Ash and steam metres into the officials there was no immediate report of injuries after the minister denied bail Salisbury a High court judge refused to allow bail yesterday for a Black Zimbabwe Cabinet minister jailed on a murder charge in the shoot ing of a White farm court sources Edgar minister of Man Power and planning As Well As Secre tar general of prime minister Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe african National Union was accused of killing Gerald William on a farm 30 Kilometres West of news Roundup traffic jammed in new York thousands of com Muters jammed alternative routes yesterday after the biggest entryway to new York the 14lane George Washington was closed when a Tanker truck began leaking its gallon cargo of explosive propane traffic was thrown into knots in the City and across the Hudson River in new Jersey As port authority police began Clearing vehicles from the two Levels of the which handles vehicles it took an hour to get what one policeman described As Wal Towall cars off the 16 angolans executed Lisbon sixteen angolans convicted of carrying out political bombings under orders of South african authorities have been Portugal National news Agency bomb suspect remanded France a Young righting italian fugitive suspected in the Bolo Gna Railroad station bombing that claimed 79 lives was remanded thurs Day pending an extradition decision that could take at least a peace talks May resume Cairo efforts to resume the talks Between Egypt and Israel on autonomy for palestinians in the West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza seemed to make headway yesterday Egypt agreed to receive israels latest Mes Sage on the an israeli spokesman said a letter from israeli prime minister Mena chem begin in response to one Early this week from egyptian president Anwar Sadat would be accepted today by Egypt Hosni my switch fools soviets Moscow in a Las minute switch which apparently fooled soviet author a family of Temeco stylists left the soviet Union this week with a friends son instead of their the Friend said the switch took place after one of the family sons was taken away and hidden by his who didst want him to the Friend glider flight continues Toronto Michael a Volkswagen Salesman from West landed at Toronto is land Airport late safely completing another leg of a journey which has seen him Pilot a motorized glider across the Thomson buys Janes London the Canadia owned Thomson organization bought the com Pany which publishes Janes fighting ships and authoritative yearbooks on International weapons and aircraft yesterday for the Thomson group owns the times of provincial a scottish television North sea Oil interests and a 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