Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 War Tref a to gut v employees in the trl Bunei mall Root maintain their paper i 1 even after hearing Newt the publication hat till be hard to find work at 58 some trib staffers others stare in disbelief at hearing bad news continued front Ptg 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 Uve 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 which quashed monopoly charges against the Irving newspaper interests in new makes it difficult to take action in the Southern 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 u 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 quest funding urged lome nip consumer and corporate affairs said the Federal government should provide a couple of million dollars to keep the journal and trinum publishing until a full investigation is Nystrom Yorkton Melville said last night that stranger anti com Bines Laws should be passed to the next sitting of the and could be made retroactive to affect the moves by Thomson the sudden demise of the two Dally newspapers was Well received in at Toast some Stock Market analysts said the move was logical in terns of dollars and Barry Gruman of Jones Heward and investment dealers in Montre said it Aid become Clear that its very difficult for most cities to support two Grumo Tolm an investigation would Nave tue be cause figures showing heavy losses would support closings 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 Kem rate press 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 Cord Brothers who worked on the Tribune editorial said a Book publisher had unwittingly played a 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 with death in the Somalia claims invasion repelled Nairobi a somali have driven ethiopian invaders Back across the Border after a Day of heavy fighting along a 43kilometre stretch of Soma Lias Northwestern foreign Ionata said the contacted by Tele 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 information 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 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 with the Aid of cuban and soviet military advisers and an Airlift of sophisticated soviet weapons to the desert feud has continued to simmer since the with guerrillas of the government backed somali liberation front staging i Landrun tacks on ethiopian Ethiopia has accused somali of continuing to infiltrate regular army soldiers into the Mikut Jefe in a warning earlier this Ethiopia said its patience was wearing thin and it threatened possible Retalia Western diplomats in Mogadishu said recently there was evidence of an ethiopian military buildup at a 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 aay about to cuban soldiers remain in they Are believed to be stationed in the Ogaden and in the Northern province of where another secessionist army has been fighting a decade old War against the ethiopian safety funds restored the provincial government restored a yearly Grant to the Manitoba safety Council after funds were Cut off in a controversy Over defensive driving the restored Grant includes pay ments withheld after 15 driving course instructors withdrew their services in the instructors complained that the Council was directing too much Atten Tion to other safety such As one for farm and Rural Council president Jean Norman announced the Grant was restored after meetings Between the Council and highways minister Don the payment was held until the Council could show it was Able to obtain new driving instructors and continue defensive driving the highways department withheld a quarterly payment of More than on july 25 because motor vehicle Branch referrals were no longer being accepted into the hostage takers ready to give up Montreal up nine hostage takers at maximum Security Laval Institute were preparing to surrender Early this ending an ordeal for their 11 captives that began monday Penitentiary service spokesman Guy verreault told reporters outside the 108yearold prison they Are finalizing an agreement under which they would give up the hostages and return to we Are not too far from a the hostage taking began As an at tempted during which one con vict was shot the other nine convicts of them murderers were pinned Down against an outside Wall of the surrounded by police but protected by their shield of verreault said negotiations had been going on sporadically since 2 cd the Penitentiary service called in a lawyer at the request of the hostage takers to act As an intermediary in the but verreault refused to identify the lawyer was stationed inside the Penitentiary and we Are permitting frustration it tribunes closing was evident yesterday in office records scattered All Over floor Reagan debate debates them to talk one at a time to the we have Given Coffee to both the hostages and convicts As a humanitarian the Penitentiary official they had eaten and drunk nothing since tuesday morning when a hos Tage with a mild heart condition was released in Exchange for sandwiches and soft asked if hunger and the chilling rain last night had caused the prisoners to decide to give verreault answered it could be ail these factors and the hostages and although remaining against the were separated into two he Canadian forces armoured personnel carriers and a squad of soldiers were brought to the Penitentiary but but Verrault denied it was intended As a show of Force to the the vehicles were parked in a lot and the convicts did not see verreault said they had been called in As a preventive the two Canadian forces armoured personnel mounted with unloaded arrived aboard flatbed from the news services Washington president Carter and his Republican Ronald were locked in a fierce debate yesterday Over when and with whom to kick off the debates during the Campaign for the 4 general both sides were insisting there eager to debate each one on but they were stymied Over whether candidate John Anderson ought to be after fruitless negotiations tuesday at the Headquarters of the league of women snapped up National press club invitation for a Carter wants the first debate to in nbw8 Roundup elude Only himself and hut under the league Anderson will be invited to participate has at Toast 15 per cent support in major Public opinion polls by he is just below that figure in most current natural Gas Price to Rise Ottawa the Federal and Alberta governments have formally agreed to str Ted he Gat prom agreement for another two for a accent increase on 1 for each cubic feet of Gas sold in the Toronto and Montreal area the National Energy Board has announced new transportation charges which can be imposed by Pip Eunes of Toronto in Central and Eastern effective marijuana haul bund Victoria a marijuana haul valued at Iii ions 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 119 Bales of thai Sticks length Sticks of potent marijuana in to Jar Possession by but were without suspects syrian group Damascus about members of the moslem by amid by Syria for wave of assassinations and have surrendered and renounced their official sources said a government deadline for members of the underground fundamentalist group to give themselves up or face the death penalty ran out last the group is blamed or 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 toe summer of fighter crashes into sea the Hague a Canadian forces f1w Star fighter plane crashed into the sea Northwest of the dutch Island of Ter Scheuing yesterday but the Pilot ejected and was rescued by a Heli the dutch defence ministry the who suffered a broken was taken to Hospital in Lee War his identity was not immediately the which was temporarily stationed at the dutch air base at came from the air at West murder charge Laid London a 42yearold London Man was charged with murder yester Day in an Arm attack on two Soho drinking dubs earlier this month a which 37 people police said they charged John Thom son after an investigation into Tine Blue which gutted the Small club Early m 1c ;