Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, August 13, 1980

Issue date: Wednesday, August 13, 1980
Pages available: 125
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free August Jujj 1080 police facing remain on a continued from Page 1 Money from Coin collection As far As the Public is nor Rte theres always a sushi theres always a feeling that maybe the person charged be carrying out his regular employ the officers and the charges they face Are Charles Baranetski assault causing bodily o Douglas Johnson assault causing bodily a photo u Lawrence Towfek assault causing bodily o Ronald Chambers assault causing bodily d Keith Kilfoyle assault causing bodily d William Mckenzie Parker assault causing bodily g William d Pilcher Baranetski and Johnson were charged More than a year ago in connection with their detention of John who alleges he was beaten in a Public safety building interview room in the Manitoba police commission conducted hearings info the ease and recommended the two officers be disciplined and police chief Norm Stewart said the recommendation to discipline the offi cers wont be carried out sit to their Case has been completely resolved in there has not yet been a preliminary hearing into the the Crown is Row remanding the matter on a month month basis without requiring the officers presence it Obirek and Chambers were convicted aircraft crashes on Highway the Pilot and passenger in this twin engine prop plane died yesterday when their aircraft crashed and burst into flames on a Busy Highway in the victims were not immediately identified and cause of the crash is not there were no other Energy officials find Oil profits dramatic by Carol Goar up news service Ottawa Oil company profits shot up by per cent in Canada last an increase termed dramatic even by the Energy department officials who released the 1979 review of the Petro Leum Industry the 44page Survey shows that the foreign dominated Industry made prof its of billion last it spent about billion exploring for new Oil and paid out dividends of million to its shareholders and spent billion on it was a Happy year for the dramatic increase in earnings in 1979 has boosted rates of return of the Petroleum Industry the report the report comes at a tense and sensitive the Federal government is on the verge of announcing its Long awaited National Energy it has just launched a advertising Campaign to convince canadians it has the country Energy situation in after failing to reach agreement with the Alberta government on two weeks Alberta sent nervous trem ors through the by raising the Price of Oil unilaterally by a with warnings that runner in creases May third annual review Federal Energy minister Marc la Loihuu Baui he was releasing the third annual review of uie country closely watched in a a tool to help the Public understand the Industry and not As a disguised government attack on the 01 companies the financial performance of the Petroleum Industry in its profits and investment has been the source of considerable Contro Versy and the minister to Public this monitoring report is prepared and presented not As an advocacy Docu ment intended to pass judgment on the performance of the but rather As a report to the Canadian Public on the facts and the underlying developments which characterize the the Survey showed foreigners con trolled per cent of Oil company a figure the Energy minister called excessive in a on Page state ment accompanying the the government is committed to increasing Canadian participation in the Industry and the current situation will be taken prominently into account in the formulation of our new National Energy which i will be announcing Lalonde spokesmen for several major Oil companies were caught off guard when contacted by up news service shortly after the Survey was our senior people Haven seen the figures and it is unclear what their reaction will a spokesman for Imperial Oil said but he was eager to comment on the widespread impression likey to be reinforced by the Survey that the Industry is making astronomical prof the figures Are he the bulk of the funds Are reinvested in exploration and Impe rial oils own records show the Tompa by spent 80 per cent of its after tax earnings last year on building and a spokesman for Texaco Canada said it was unfair to judge the Industry by comparing one years profits to the the leap can look staggering after a bad he pointed asked if 1978 had been such a bad compared to he acknowledged it had the Federal report is packed with interesting observations about the Oil Industry l Canadia owned Oil companies in creased their expansion and develop ment budgets by per cent last while foreign owned firms re ported a More modest increase of per l the most profitable operations for Oil companies Are not those to get Oil and Gas out of the but their Down Heline activities such As refine marketing building Gas stations and restaurants on major highways and petrochemical take c the Industry took in billion last this known in the Trade As internal Cash flow represents both after tax income and any Money spent during the year on exploration and de last years figure was per cent higher than the 1978 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 trial 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 sworn information have been sworn against Broadberry and Pilcher 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 i 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 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 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 at Beck and Call 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 they have to have a Damn Good reason for holding disciplinary hear Ings in he poll shows grit policies win support Montreal up the proportion of canadians who approve of the record of the Trudeau government since the february election has increased to 43 per cent in july from 37 per cent in says a Gallup poll published the proportion of those who said they disapprove of the governments record dropped slightly to 39 per cent in jury from 40 per cent in while 19 per cent said they did not know in july compared with 22 per cent in the results varied widely by with the approval rating in july stand ing at 51 per cent for the Atlantic provinces compared with 42 per cent in May 48 per cent for Quebec compared with 44 per cent in May 47 per cent in Ontario compared with 39 per cent in May 27 per cent for the Prairies compared with 30 per cent in May and 29 per cent for British Columbia com pared with 22 per cent in the poll was conducted through interviews with about Gallup said samples of this size should not vary More than four percentage Points at a Osper cent Confidence nuclear strategy defended continued from Page 1 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 miliary and control targets it is crucial that the soviet Leader ship recognize that by aggression they would not Only a general retaliation in the full Range of targets they must also understand that if they Fth Rosc some intermediate level of the is by More limited impose on the so Viets m Unarce Publ High Cost m 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 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 new dangers he reasoned that once either civilian or military centres were knocked out in a limited nuclear attack there would be no Way the Chain of command could control the As he said the new targeting emphasis raises the danger that each Side will conclude its better u fire quickly before its military capability is impaired such a he leads both modes from fail 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 in 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 Hope expressed Willaim executive director of the arms control which has backed the Salt 1 and u agree said he assumed targeting com Mand centres would mean less than the top civilian 1 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 technology1 driving strategy rather than the other Way 300metre free fall the above in show California stuntman Dar Robinson seconds after he leaped off the pod of Toronto in Tower and fell 305 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 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 i ;