Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Be August Carter in new York to claim nomination 300metre free fall the above in show California stunt Nan Dar Robinson seconds after he leaped off the pod of Toronto in Tower and fell 300 metres before a wire device braked his free fall and lowered him to the during his Robinson travelled As fast As 190 Kilometres an hour with his arms and legs swinging the stunt who refused to reveal How much he was paid for yesterdays said after his jump i was 33 but now in an a ctr camera Crew was on hand to film his stunt for a Aaka 4 Cuil Bihwu Iron Page i give Carter a platform of Kennedy they left out Only wage and Price although his speech contained a word of congratulation for he stopped Short of endorsing the presidents Campaign for reelection in the great outpouring of affection and nostalgia for Kennedy came Only after he and his had left the platform and disappeared from the convention it lasted longer than his the democratic party just handed the election to Ronald said a weeping woman in the California where wildly cheering Ken Nedy delegates and quiet Carter Dele Gates made a Stark democratic National chairman John White had sent out word to the Carter majority make peace with to reporters he said its Kennedy its our Way of we love prom the Carters son Chip waved a hand lettered sign Carter delegates love Kennedy the Georgia delegation flourished Ken Nedy supporters cheer this after arriving at the Sheraton his Headquarters Carter told a cheering band of 200 supporters throughout this year and throughout the last four years you have shown your Confidence in we have faced formidable Odds in the past and we have never been Defeated on major i have no doubt we will be victorious in the president noted his Success Mon Day night in the fight to preserve a party Rule requiring delegates to vote for the candidate they were elected to my heart goes out in thanksgiving to the delegates who did such a wonder Ful Job protecting the integrity of the primary system and honouring the votes of 19 million democrats who expressed their will this he presidential appointments Secretary Phil asked How Carter would spend today in new York As the convention prepares to nominate him said he will concentrate on polishing the acceptance speech he will deliver tomorrow when Carter returned to the White House last night after a five Day holi Day at his Camp re he told reporters he hoped to have Kennedy but added that a decision for him to Good democrats it would certainly be beneficial for me to have his full support during the Carter asked whether he could defeat Republican presiden tial nominee Ronald Reagan without Kennedy Carter replied i can win much better with winning that and the Back ing of the Kennedy is not a process that is accomplished in a night or a Powell he added in the most Good democrats will act like Good but Many we rent ready to fall into line last former Wisconsin governor Pat Kennedy Deputy National Campaign resigned As a Dele Gate and said he will take a hard look at Independent presidential candidate John Anderson before deciding who to support in the Charles an official of the machinists Union and Kennedy whip for the Indiana said delegates and alternates from the Union plan to walk out during Carters acceptance speech tomorrow night to protest his economic Carter will be in new York for 50 attending today rally and a luncheon delivering his speech that night and meeting Friday with the democratic National commit in he will be in his hotel polishing the speech that promises to be one of the most important of the yearlong watching the convention proceedings on meeting with aides and keeping in touch with of photo president Carter left Steps from helicopter in new York where hell be renominated As his party presidential at right is new York governor Hugh nuclear policy feared arms control setback continued from Page 1 said the president had signed directive 59 which codifies a steady evolution of nuclear policy away from concentrating on destroying soviet cities if Russia attacks the United states the thanks largely to the advances in nuclear weapons making them deadly enough to destroy under ground command centres and other protected could opt for a limited attack on soviet military tar vulnerable it would give him More advocates than the Mutual assured destruction policy in which both nations incinerate each others administration briefer said specifically that directive 59 and targeting instructions to implement it would put More emphasis on the capability to wipe out political and military com Mand defence Secretary Harold an architect of the modified nuclear Strat wrote nato defence ministers on Friday that the United states has Long included in its plans effective and comprehensive coverage of military and control targets it is crucial that the soviet Leader ship recognize that by aggression they would risk not Only a general retaliation on the full Range of targets they must also understand that if they choose some intermediate level of the by More limited impose on the so Viets an unacceptably High Cost in terms of what the soviet leadership values most political and military military Power both nuclear and conventional and the Industrial capacity to sustain military operations m Stone took Issue with the official warning about hitting soviet command saying it amounts to a Funda mental inconsistency of trying to attack soviet leaders and trying to terminate a nuclear he reasoned that once either civilian or military centres were knocked out in u limited nuclear attack there would be no Way the Chain of command could control the fear Surprise attack As he said the new targeting emphasis raises the danger that each Side will conclude its better to fire quickly before its military capability is such a he leads both sides from fall Safe to fail danger and merges with other pressures to fire on meaning launching missiles to make sure they Are not caught on the ground by Surprise administration officials involved with nuclear strategy conceded yester Day that the question of destroying the command and control Structure for limiting a nuclear War was trouble one administration official said the whole idea is to keep a nuclear War from breaking out in the first place by serving notice on Moscow that the United states was not limited by an allo nothing nuclear this adds to said one official in describing the modified Strat egy As giving the president More the he would be less certain than Ever that they could win any kind of nuclear Herbert former Cia executive and longtime Backer of arms limitation said giving the president less fearsome options for using nuclear weapons would reduce the inhibitions for employing Scoville the More flexible nuclear strategy would provide the rationale for producing More nuclear warheads at a time when both super Powers have More than they need for deterring each Wilhalm executive director of the arms control which has backed the Salt i and it agree said he assumed targeting com Mand centres would mean less than the top civilian i guess in expressing a he added that the move into putting a wider spectrum of targets under the nuclear gun is but one More example of technology driving strategy rather than the other Way police officers still on duty eight face charges of the assault causing bodily harm continued from Page 1 the Manitoba police commission conducted hearings into the Case and recommended the two officers be disciplined and police chief Norm Stewart said the recommendation to discipline the offi cers wont be carried out until their Case has been completely resolved in there has not yet been a preliminary hearing into the and the Crown is now remanding the matter on a month month basis without requiring the officers pretence in court Obirek and Chambers were convicted last year of assaulting Robert Macario and were sentenced to three months each in the Appeal court Over turned the conviction and ordered a new the police which had upheld stewarts suspension of the men after charges were Laid last decided in june to let the officers return to Active Kilfoyle and Parker Are charged with assaulting Ken Brisson last they were suspended from the Force without pay but reinstated to full Active duty less than a month information have been sworn against Broadberry and Pitcher in connection with a police investigation into missing they have not yet been served with summons to appear in but have been relieved of their duties in the gun control unit and reassigned other jobs in the depart Stewart expressed concern yesterday at the number of officers who have charges pending against 1 would certainly prefer it if there were the chief he said he had no jurisdiction Over the police commissions right to lift suspensions on officers facing criminal Stewart said he believed most of the officers Are Back on their regular duties and in Contact with the Public the police chief said he be opposed to an amendment to police regulations which would see officers facing charges removed from the Force with pay until the allegations against them were resolved said this suggestion was a but added that if youre giving somebody a paid Holiday its not very the mayor said a consultants report into police department affairs is expected to contain recommendations re Garding the role of the police commis Sion and its Powers of among other the report May be ready by the end of the Marty co chairman of a Mani Toba association of rights and Liber a group examining police prac said yesterday the police commission is at the Beck and Call of practising policemen and not Access Ible enough to the he criticized the secrecy surrounding Many of their activities they have to have a Damn Good reason for holding disciplinary hear Ings in he said ;