Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1980 not militants in Iran say from the flows services Tehran the militant students holding the 52 hostages in Iran today denied a lebanese radio report that five of the captives had been shot and killed while trying to we deny the which comes from zionist Phala Gist radio in a student spokesman at the occupied embassy in Tehran said in a Telephone the spokesman said the where some of the hostages Are thought to be has received numerous Calls from All Over the world asking for comment on the the foreign ministry and presidential office also issued firm i have contacted the students at the embassy and i am authorized to say there is no truth in this for eign ministry spokesman Hashemi said when contacted by Telephone from the report was broadcast by the voice of the Beirut radio station of the lebanese Christian Pha Lange quoting unidentified Arab diplomatic it said five of the americans who have been Cap Tives since last 4 chiselled a Hole in a Wall and then were shot and killed As they tried to scale an outer Johnson enters race Quebec Daniel son of the late Union National Premier and brother of Pierre Marc the labor minister in the parti Quebe Cois confirmed today he will seek the Liberal nomination in Vaudreuil Soulanges Riding West of Montreal for the next Quebec currently Vic president of Power had Long been touted As a Liberal and his announcement comes As no 2 sons die in fire Shelly and her two sons died in an explosion and fire at their Home yesterday news Roundup backed afghan government of Babrak Karma announced a program of Finan Cial incentives aimed at reviving the country Warton a source in Kabul said the soviet attack last sunday sent hundreds of refugees streaming into there was no Independent Confirma Tion of the houses swept away Flash floods roared through narrow Mountain Val Leys in West Virginia yesterday for the fourth straight washing away Homes and businesses and forcing the evacuation of entire in about 40 Kilometres West of buildings were picked up by the raging Waters of grass a normally tranquil Stream that reached a depth of nearly metres at the height of the there were no serious using somali As base Washington the United states and Somalia agree yesterday on a military facilities arrangement that will place forces in an african country that is warring with its soviet and Cuba supported ethic Somalia formerly was a soviet ally Complete with a soviet military and Ethiopia was an american ally with the countries changed partners after the 1974 ethiopian Revo Lution and especially after soviet and cuban forces came to Ethiopia de Fence in late 1977 against invading somali Grain Harvest better Moscow the official news Agency Tass said yesterday this years soviet Grain Harvest would be much above the poor 1979 Harvest of million but gave no specific Premier Bill Bennett left talks with Sterling of John of Nova Scotia and Albertas Peter Lougheed before yesterdays premiers Confer ence got under Way at the Manitoba Constitution deadline rejected continued from Page 1 Lyon said Ottawa unpopular Posi Tion on Powers Over the Economy be necessary if the provinces could work the Brief further says Only that the leaders agreed to recognize a number of specific including protecting Basic human and democratic rights by the most appropriate the entrenchment of human rights in a Homegrown Constitution has been opposed by several led by Lyon said the entrenchment question was hardly the communique also failed to con Sider a Counte Campaign to Ottawa multimedia advertising Blitz promoting a new although several delegates to the conference said Feder Al attitudes provoked much discus Lyon said the premiers hoped the communique would remind the Federal government the provinces Are an Inte Gral part of procedures in Constitution Al discussion and while we do take Issue with some of the positions advanced by the Federal were not making a great Point in this document at this is no time for inflexibility on the part of the Federal government and on the part of the provincial govern said he added it was Only Natu ral for the provinces to discuss the strategy they would employ during the 8 talks with the Federal govern ment on constitutional to suggest that 10 premiers would get together and not discuss strategy is to say horticulturalists would get to Gether and not talk about in talking about unilateral action on the the Trudeau gov Eta ment is acting As if the world will come to an end if agreement on the 12 items on the september Agenda int said none of the premiers accepts that at he Ontario attorney general Roy Mcmurtry said his government might agree with unilateral action if significant Progress Hast been made by next Ontario Premier Bill Davis said he had no serious disagreements with the but might ask for one or two editorial Saskatchewan nip Leader Allan Blakeney said he had no reservations approving the although everyone disagreed with some the premiers yesterday also Ham mered out some Basic agreements on economic including the need to reactivate Canadian productivity and initiate Energy Newfoundland Premier Brian Peck Ford said he expects premiers to Block any attempt by Ottawa to impose an Energy Export Davis has said the Federal government needs such a tax for additional Peckford said he also thinks the pre Miers will agree to raise Domestic Oil prices to near world Levels within the next four said there no consensus on Energy Winnipeg native Dies Tanker hits Oil Rig polish general strike rumoured Toronto a funeral service was held today for Winnipeg born Edmund Allen president of a real estate company Pas president of metropolitan Toronto childrens Aid who died wednesday at soviet attack reported new Delhi a soviet tank and artillery assault on villages in the Raghman Hills West of Kabul killed about 400 afghan insurgents and wounded an informed source said in another the soviet new Orleans almost a Day after a Tanker carrying More than Gallons of fuel rammed an Oil flames were still 30 metres no major pollution was the 172metre Texaco North Dakota slowed into the Rig and exploded into flames about All 39 Crew members were flames shot 50 to 75 metres in the air and the danger of an explosion kept fireboat from approaching the ship for about eight cause of the crash was not a photo continued from Page 1 Plant were among the new dissident sources reported the arrest of eight More of their leaders in War saw and one in Southern to those rounded up in the capital included Leszek president of the committee of Independent to and Wieslaw a leading member of the committee for social Jacek the chief spokesman for the committee for social self de and 15 other members were arrested in Warsaw wednesday but one of them was released yester the sources there was speculation the crackdown was related to widespread rumours that a general strike was imminent in the began july 1 scattered transport strikes several weeks ago have been the Only recent evidence of labor unrest in sporadic strikes began around the country after the Gierek regime with Drew meat subsidies on july and prices the current strike wave began 14 at the giant Lenin shipyard in Gdansk and quickly spread through the Industrial Triangle on the Central Baltic Gdansk was also the scene of anti Price strikes and riots in 1970 that resulted in the death of at least 50 people and the replacement of communist party chief Wladyslaw Gomulka by but this time the strikers Are demanding free Trade unions and other Radical political reforms As Well As wage increases to offset the Rise in meat Gierek in a broadcast earlier this week offered gradual wage increases but rejected the demands for political Effort to Divide the workers by bypass ing a unified strike committee they set the streets of this normally bustling Gdansk were almost empty of taxi and Streetcar service were and gasoline sales to private motorists were banned because of strikes at the the police refused for the second Day to allow trucks to bring food to workers occupying the Lenin ship but relatives and sup porters were permitted to carry in Small for the events of the past weeks Are a personal As Well As a National when he came to he promised consultations with the workers under his Leader Poland has become a More relaxed and open this fostering of a spirit of tolerance toward opposition which is one of Gieres greatest has also removed the fear of the authorities that characterized the 1950s and in Gdansk this Many strikers remarked that the fear of the state was no longer through being halfhearted in his Reform Gierek has complicated Poland social and economic which is now in Many ways worse than a decade Many senior party members blame the present Cri Sis on the failures of the last 10 years and the squandering of huge Loans borrowed from the which now have to be immense economic damage is being caused by the which is said to be running at million a Day in the port of Szczecin Poland leading Mieczyslaw hinted at leadership changes in a major article in the influential weekly which appeared Rakowski wrote that the question of responsibility for mistakes remains an open choosing his words Rakowski added that someone must be to blame for the strikes either the group bearing the main responsibility for the development of our country or the factory Crews who have abandoned in either he wrote this indicates that at some Point there was a Lack of understanding Between the leadership and quite a substantial group of the working it is by no Means Clear who would succeed Gierek if he traffic ticket is provincial court decides Helm mediately offered to meet with individual strike committees in their own continuing a government continued from Page 1 the traffic judge said hell Only be bound by a decision of a higher court judge Mitchell saying he was not satisfied he had set a i dont want to bind anybody in the courts by my he adding that his knowledge of traffic matters is not having dealt regularly with them for Many in his Minuk argued that under the summary convictions act the government must authorize the use of expressions and abbreviations which designate offences listed in the Stan Dard fou part summons while the legislature has provided for the Short form descriptions of the Speed ing and driving carelessly Cate Gories on the Minuk said it has not Given the official nod to improper follow too Dis obey traffic control unlawful Possession liquor and other listed the legislature has approved Only the summons but not All its con he Crown prosecutor John Gescher said the legislature did not err in not approving the summons the legislature clearly must have intended that by passing the form of the traffic offence the abbreviation approved thereon should be sufficient to designate the both As to form and he judge who hears 90 per cent of the traffic cases which come before the agreed with magistrate George who Over sees the disposition of traffic violations at the Public safety said minus which saved Brun eau a was rather Provost is ready to resign the Tanker Texaco North Dakota Burns after colliding with an Oil Rig in the Gulf of no major pollution was continued from Page i i have no regrets because the Hospi tals Are now getting cleaned ill probably resign you have to con Sider the Quality of people in working with the Board has three members from the Public and four from the fourth Council Anne Jaworski was not at the Gerrie said the Board heard reports from Hospital staff at the meeting and decided there Are no cleanliness or safety during the Public Board members were applauded for disassociating themselves from provosts Alle Doug another Board said provosts outrageous allegations were intended to publicize a on per son Trudy a polio victim who has been a patient at the municipal hospitals for 28 called provosts remarks in a statement made from her wheel chair at the Back of the she said Ive seen a lot of changes Here in All for the i am very disappointed the chairman is not Here to let us confront As Long As 1 have lived i have never seen a dirty Hospital administrator Norm single ton said 53 housekeeping personnel Are employed to clean 365 Days a year on a logical and scientific Mark acting Deputy fire chief if the Winnipeg fire said that in Case a fire broke out at the Hospital response time would Range Between four to eight chief fire prevention officer Phil Lyons said that provosts allegations discredited not Only Hospital adminis but did very Little for our image As ;