Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free aug rat employees in the tribunes Mai room maintain their paper 1 even after hearing the publication has till be hard to find work at 58 some trib staffers others stare in disbelief at hearing bad news continued from Page 1 journalists in Here trying to interview each he said with a smile As radio and newspaper photographers and camera men milled around the some staff members wept while others stared in knowing their Job prospects Are dismal following the recent closing of a number of other major Canadian on the sixth 20yearold Allison a social notes employee in the classified advertising continued to in the midst of the stunned she sat typing with tears running Down her enjoyed Job i love what i she Ive been Here two years and the people Are just i just know ill never find another Job like for Dick who has walked through the trips front doors for the past 23 it will be hard to find work at Kathy Schmidt of the advertising department said she was feel ing maybe its a Good indication we should go on to better later yesterday the trib usually alive with people coming and telephones ringing and typewriters was there All Over at the press club getting said Marg Secretary to publisher Ernest wheat the clutter was still there drink cans and Coffee cups piled on desks and lying on the but Tele phones rang and went who has been with the Tribune since said she Doest probe of closings launched continued from Page 1 Bertrand said that a 1976 decision by the supreme court of who Cut quashed monopoly charges against the Irving newspaper interests in new makes it difficult to take action in the Southa Thomson news Media closings and mergers Are much More serious than in manufacturing where you can always choose alternate but when its information by the what can you do Roy Deputy director of combines said the com Bines legislation is not very certainly the legislation provides for but whether the Evi Dence persuades the attorney general to prosecute is another Ouellet said the Federal governments options were not great unless collusion can be clearly its still too but if it is a move to enhance a financial it has to be seriously funding urged lome nip consumer and corporate affairs said the Federal government should provide a couple of million dollars to keep the journal and Tribune publishing until a full investigation is Nystrom Melville said last night that stronger anti com Bines Laws should be passed in the next sitting of the and could be made retroactive to affect the moves by Thomson and the sudden demise of the two daily newspapers was Well received in at least some Stock Market analysts said the move was logical in terms of dollars and Barry Gruman of Jones Heward and investment dealers in Montre said it had become Clear that its very difficult for most cities to support two Gruman said an anti combines investigation would have Little be cause figures showing heavy kisses would support the know what Shell do after operations officially probably at the end of the despite a Stree Corner Rush on trib Une last Don coun try circulation manager at the trib said were going to get every paper out the eager souvenir Hunters who paid Ken free for their copies outside the quiet build ing All expressed regret for the passing of the in really Suzanne Hood weve had it for 16 years at our Dave and Oord Brothers who worked on the Tribune editorial said a Book publisher had unwittingly part in a cruel joke they could Only laugh As they were leaving the building they spotted two books submitted for but now discarded on a one was titled it could have been worse the other coping in the Somalia claims invasion repelled Nairobi a somali forces have driven ethiopian invade Back across of Border after Day of heavy fighting along a 43kltometre stretch of Soma Lias Northwestern foreign dip fhe contacted by phone in the somali capital of Togadi quoted the government radio As saying yesterdays invasion had been there has been no Independent confirmation of the somali invasion claim or of the reported the somali government said that ethiopian forces had attacked across the Border and were driven said a Western who requested we really dont know any thing else and dont have enough info Matlon at this Point to speculate on what is Somalia said the ethiopians suffered heavy casualties in the fighting but it gave no figures and issued no state ments on somali the diplomats quoted the radio As saying fleeing ethiopian soldiers abandoned Large quantities of equipment during their no comment Ethiopia has not commented on so Malias claim that an ethiopian inva Sion Force of infantry and planes struck along the with the planes bombing at least five somali Frontier the East african countries Are traditional rivals in the strategic Horn of they fought a bloody War two years ago for control of the Ogaden with Somalia seeking to Annex the semiarid wilderness from Ethiopia because its population is primarily ethic somali natives of the backed by somali soldiers and made impressive gains through two years of but Ethiopia emerged the Victor in 1978 the Aid of cuban and soviet military advisers and an Airlift of sophisticated soviet weapons to the desert feud has continued to of tiie government backed somali a lbs Erat Lon front staging i Landrun at tacks on ethiopian Ethiopia has accused somali of continuing infiltrate regular army soldiers into the in a warning earlier this Ethiopia said its patience was thin and it threatened possible Retalia i Western diplomats in Mogadishu said recently there was evidence of an ethiopian military buildup at tank base about 100 Kilometres West of the Ethiopia Somalia but the Diplo Mats said they doubted Ethiopia was prepared to Cross the state department officials say about to cuban soldiers remain in they Are believed to be stationed in the Ogaden and in the j Northern province of another secessionist army has fighting a decade old War against ethiopian postal i dispute at tast Vancouver up officials the Canadian Union of postal workers have Given management at the main Vancouver Post office a deadline of 4 today to resolve a dispute that sparked a Wildcat y failure to reach an agreement but that time will result in a second by the Union officials said the postal workers walked off the Job monday evening to protest changes starting hours and Days but agreed to return to work yesterday on the condition that negotiations Oitt Days off and that nor disciplinary action be taken against the simmer since the with guerrillas police Hunt 3 for Casino blast frustration at tribunes closing was evident yesterday in office records scattered All Over floor a police today hunted three suspects in a bomb ing that blew the Side out of a Lake Tahoe hotel Casino during a botched attempt to extort million in Bills from the gambling the Fri said the sophisticated design of the Complex which sent plumes of smoke sky Ward and showered debris Over several blocks when it was accidentally Deton ated by a May offer clues to its late yesterday authorities issued an Al Points bulletin for three suspects driving a Black lat Model car with California License a California Highway patrol spokesman said it was not known where they were head agents tried to meet the Ransom demand to save the posh but the bomb exploded yesterday during at tempts to dismantle the blast made rubble of the casinos Bot Tom floors and blew out most of the window in the 12storey no one was thousands of people had been evacuated earlier from a four lock area around the there was no immediate estimate of the blast came More than 30 hour after the encased in a Blue steel Box inside an ism computer car was first discovered at Harvey resort state and Federal some of them experts from nuclear la had rushed to the scene As Garm Biers in this resort City tried to make bets on whether the device was a after the blast and a fire thai briefly raged in the Casino five to urfa agents were searching for Thrett j Jerry Fri special said the sophisticated design of bomb might provide clues on who made r i dont know of another similar device being Yablonsky i have not seen anything like it in my 28 years of some of the most highly trained explosives experts if the United states failed in efforts tolf crack the j after the the Fri said that agents tried to meet a ran som but the extortionists did not show at a prearranged Heli Copi Ter rendezvous Reagan debate debates from the news services Washington president Carter and his Republican Ranald were locked in a fierce debate yesterday Over when and with whom to kick off the during the Campaign for the 4 general both sides were insisting there eager to debate each one on but they were stymied Over whether Independent candidate John Anderson ought to be after fruitless negotiations tuesday at the Headquarters of the league of women snapped up a National press club invitation for a one onolae Carter wants the first debate to in news Roundup elude Only Hime oif and but under the league Anderson will be invited to participate if he has at least 15 per cent support in major Public opinion polls by he is lust below that figure in most current natural Gas Price to Rise Ottawa the Federal and Alberta governments have formally agreed to extend the Domestic natural Gas pricing agreement for another two ending setting the stage for a 30cent increase on 1 for each cubic feet of natural Gas sold in the Toronto and Montreal area the National Energy Board has announced new transportation charges which can be imposed by Tran Canada pipelines of Toronto in Central and Eastern effective marijuana haul found Victoria a marijuana haul valued at millions of dollars was found yesterday in the sea and on the beaches near Cape at the Mouth of Juan de Fuca the coast guard and other american Law enforcement authorities had 210 Bales of thai Sticks length Sticks of potent marijuana in their Possession by but were still without syrian group surrenders Damascus about members of the moslem blamed by Syria for a wave of assassinations and have surrendered and renounced their official sources said Ament deadline for members of the underground fundamentalist group to give themselves up or face the death penalty ran out last the group is blamed for 18 months of violence that has rocked including an attack on an army Cadet training school in Aleppo in which about 60 cadets died in the summer of 1979 fighter crashes into sea the Hague a Canadian forces f104 Star fighter plane crashed into the sea Northwest of the dutch Island of Ter Scheiling yesterday but the Pilot ejected and was rescued by a the dutch defence the who suffered a broken was taken to Hospital in his identity was not immediately the which was por anly stationed at the dutch air based at came from the air base at West murder charge Laid London a 42yearold London Man was charged with murder yester Day in an arson attack on two Sobo drinking clubs earlier this month in which 37 people police said they charged John Thom son after an investigation into the Blaze which gutted the Small clubs Early on ;