Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free october 1980 Iran resistance blunts Iraq drive continued from Page 1 prematurely in Baghdad last Satur is beginning to look like a desert somewhat iraqi govern ment officials loaded two dozen foreign reporters into Fourshee drive jeeps yesterday and told them they were being taken to their escort a Burly army Captain who refused to divulge his name or any other military inform insisted that Ahwaz was in iraqi even though soldiers at the front freely admitted that it was Ahwaz a sergeant much the Road to Ahwaz from Iraq main port on the Shaft Al leads through the Green Marshlands of the Tigris and euphrates but Cross the Tigris on a Pontoon Bridge thrown together by the iraqi and you Are on the East a giant wasteland of ankle deep dust and scrubby Sagebrush like Twenty jolting Miles into the Iraq becomes the Only indication is a Border Post that looms out of the now it is in iraqi hands and except for a single bloodstained shirt on the there is no indication that the iranians even tried to defend the iraqis Are holding Down other Border posts and a set of unfinished buildings that they insist is a military base with a prodigious number of armoured cars and hundreds of their vehicles Are dug in along the few dirt and hundreds More Are Miles from nowhere scattered across the open desert there is no evidence across the entire front of the heavy fighting to which both iranian and iraqi military communiques fighting should produce damaged tanks and and wounded soldiers being treated or ferried Back in there Are none of those to be either iraqi or except for one iranian jeep that apparently broke Down and two iraqi trucks stuck headfirst in deep drifts of dust at the once iranian Border there Are no Bullet scars testifying to clerk strike halts Federal payments continued from Page 1 the Federal government Drew criticism earlier this year for a and Campaign on the the constitutional and Campaign Fol Lowed a massive referendum Advertis ing criticized strongly by the Quebec government As a misuse of departmental Money to influence Politi Cal up photo Johnston said advertising aimed at the clerks Likely will be in he did not say How much it will Cost or release other it will explain the latest Federal offer 20percent wage increase Over two a Lump sum payment of or 10 per cent of whichever is and two weeks of paid maternity and paternity the clerks earn an average a Treasury Board president Johnston wants to Alberta delays Oil pricing decision continued from Page 1 Leitch said at that time Alberta would consider another Price increase but he said yesterday the prov Ince will delay a decision on pricing until after the Federal Leitch denied a suggestion that a Federal tax on natural Gas exports has become but he said he expects the Federal government to announce a Lon term Patria Tion first item for House continued from Page 1 Economy and As to when and How Energy and the Economy will be Pinard said it will depend on How the constitutional debate he said the liberals will be willing to accept suggestions and amendments to its secret constitutional if it Means we will he i think we Welcome a Good Pinard said he will not make Public the constitutional proposals because he has pledged that the opposition receive the package he said an order paper notice that usually precedes a new session May not Tell the whole Story on the Feder Al proposals because the pcs and the nip must be told he said prime minister Trudeau has no plans for a television address to the nation before parliament Energy minister Marc Lalonde new Energy package is promised for introduction before 30 and finance minister Allan Maceachen has said the budget will be brought Down Between 15 and Pinard said yesterdays decisions will not alter budget or Energy pricing a Blip either in the budget or shortly before he said he was hopeful but sceptical about the outcome of a meeting scheduled for tomorrow with Federal Energy minister Marc the issues of an Export tax on Gas and How to arrive at Lon term pricing arrangements were the major unresolved issues when the two ministers met last with these matters to be dealt with in the it was unclear what the meeting tomorrow would but Leitch said Lalonde has promised a new the Edmonton journal said Lalonde will offer to Deal separately with future Oil Sands offering them the world Price guarantee revoked earlier this year in a bid to get new production of synthetic crude on Stream As soon As project held up Alberta has delayed final approval of the Al Sands project until settlement of an acceptable Overall Energy on Lon term pricing Leitch said Alberta has consistently proposed Domestic prices reach a percentage level of average prices in the United the last Alberta proposal was to make Domestic Oil prices 75 per cent of Lalonde has flatly rejected the notion of tying Canadian to world Leitch outlined Albertas objections to a natural Gas Export the Federal government cannot add a tax Levy to the current Export Price of a thousand cubic feet because customers would switch suppliers if it he any Export tax would be carved out of the existing a report just published by the invest ment firm greenshields says fed eral Energy including a refinery would make billion available to the Industry and Alberta in the next four year and have not had a raise in two they Are seeking 19 per a Shorter work week and a costo Liiv ing businesses dealing with the Federal government will not be paid until the clerks strike is Over or the Treasury Board makes alternate a Bill office Man Ager for the Supply and services department in said he said the regional office normally processes about payments a month for businesses in Northwestern Saskatchewan and the Eastern part of the Northwest Ivan National Media relations chief for Supply and said in a Telephone interview from Ottawa yesterday Federal departments in Manitoba paid suppliers for the year ending last March the National figure was he handle forms Kolbuck said Supply and services staff will try to process As Many pay ment forms As but the forms normally Are sent to the department by the striking he Kolbuck also said 67 no designated Supply and services workers who pre pare the cheques and government pay cheques Are on about 20 management and other plus six casual Are doing the Bare Bones minimum in the Edmonton Street and Ellice Avenue he Kolbuck said while most of the government workers in this Region receive Standard pay cheques from a it will be difficult separating about clerical workers from the rest by the next pay As casual workers pay cheques Are not on computer and they May not be paid he management spokesmen in Winnipeg said the strike has not had any serious effects but Val a Sac negotiator and Winnipeg Supply and services said yesterday the strike could have greater Impact if the Union asks other Sac workers across Canada to Honor picket a move which could come later this show of importance Denesiuk said clerks initially asked other Sac members and unions like the Canadian Union of postal work ers not to Honor picket lines because the clerks wanted to show they Are important to the governments like the the air traffic con trollers Are seeking More the Toronto controllers say they handle much More work than those in any other Canadian Airport and there fore should be reclassified so that they get More Canadian air traffic controllers association president Robertson said he did not expect controllers to Book off work As a result of the trans port department decision to Levy the controllers will lose a Days pay for booking off sick sunday and a Days pay for a Day they will be suspended at managements the transport department close Only gaping holes that appear to have come from iraqi tanks and artillery As they moved the suspicion at least on the Ahwaz that the iranian army pulled Back quickly and efficiently to the Hills around the City As soon As the iraqis began to the Irani ans May have thus conceded to Iraq almost Square Miles of Terri it is Square Miles of undependable the evidence of the past few Days is not Only that Iraq Advance into Iran has but that the iranians have moved More artillery up to their newly Dugin front perhaps even in Prepa ration for a in the the iranian air Force is not Fielding massive numbers of but on this Southern front it is Field ing More than the the iranians were Send ing their f4 phantoms out across the desert at skimming at Treetop level All around the one Jet came in at the stroke of noon to strafe the main Highway Southwest of along which the iraqis have placed their main the Basra area is defended by sever Al batteries of sam6 heat seeking mis but the iraqis rarely use perhaps to conserve their the iraqi response to air raids thus far has been almost exclusively to fire aimlessly into the air with Small anti aircraft guns and even ak47 assault on the other Southern there was also evidence mounting that Iran has moved in new journalists visiting Iraq positions just North of Khorran Mshar came under heavy hellfire yesterday pre the iranians did not appear to have the capability to deliver artillery barrages against those iraqi As a Iraq Advance into which had already bogged Down in the first few streets of the appeared the iraqi which eight Days ago appeared Likely to sweep through Large parts of southwestern has clearly been halted Short of every tar get of real strategic Gutry fat dec pb6ss some striking Public service Alliance of Canada clerks in Winnipeg sing message on picket line political crisis in Italy from the news services Rome Italy political crisis deepened yesterday As the communist party demanded a role in the next government and a communist led Union vowed to Seal off Fiat automobile factories in what could be the first step toward occupying the president Sandro Certini met with major party leaders in an Effort to put together the nato country Ern ment since second world communist party chairman Enrico after meeting with renewed his demand that communists be included in the new the communist party is Italy second largest but there have been no communists in any italian Cabinet since Buzzard forces Landing a Marine student Pilot was forced into his first Solo flight and Landing when his t34c Turboprop collided with a Buzzard and his partly blinded and unable to see the bailed officials said both men were recovering yesterday mews Roundup from injuries suffered in mondays collision Over Southern the 2nd broke a Collar Bone and suffered a mild concussion and facial said Bob the Dean suffered a con Cussion and cuts to the left shutdown protested Anaconda Copper decision to shut several of its Montana Copper operations will affect the livelihood of nearly eight of every 10 people in this southwestern Montana and 100 of them went to the state capital yesterday to the third largest Copper pro Ducer announced monday that it was closing its Copper smelter and refinery in Montana at a Cost of jobs of them in this City of on hour strike planned Warsaw Independent Union Lead ers say they Are going ahead with a on hour nationwide strike for higher wages Friday despite the governments claim that their demands exceed in creases promised in the Gdansk agree ment Deputy Premier Kazmierz Barci Kowski accused the labor leaders yesterday of breaking the 31 agree ment that ended the wave of strikes for higher pay and political Andrzej Vic chairman the Independent Solidarity Union Feder said his organization would not cancel its Call for a 60minute walkout at noon Friday to support demands for More pay increases than the govern ment is willing to 14 believed dead in crash Johannesburg an elevator carrying 14 miners plunged to the Bottom of a Gold mine in Johannes burgs Eastern suburbs Early today and All 14 were believed the South african press association it said four bodies had been Reco Vered by mid morning from the bal moral Gold which is 700 metres Rescue teams were attempting to reach the other 141v ii conscience basis of proposal councillors would be asked to reveal financial interests Zanofsky serious continued from Page 1 d personal debts in excess of with the exception of the mortgage on a councillors personal residence d individual political contributions of More than councillors would be upon to file a declaration with the City clerks where it would be available to the they would also be asked to update the information when Abe and hoc committee said even though the propos Al was based on the voluntary cooperation of the work of the committee set up in May to recommend changes to existing rules has not been a waste of it declaration mainly serves As an indicator to the provincial government of our seriousness and that it should move to pass legislation since we dont have the authority to do Yanofsky said earlier that the prov Ince should pass legislation covering every elected body in the Yanofsky said he had a lot of Confidence in the work of the Law Reform which in May was asked by attorney general Gerry Mercier to devise conflict interest legislation for municipal article cited lobbying for new Laws followed a Story in the free press that Jim Ernst had voted in favor of applications from a sign company in which he has a financial soon it was revealed that Jim Moore who has his own advertising had an involvement with Winnipeg enterprises corporation in connection with the Selling of ads for the hockey City solicitor Frank Steele told the and hoc committee that because of the substantive matters related to the rules the City was the City did not have the authority to pass such mayor Bill chairman of the and hoc said he Felt that by virtue of the contents of the Declara it would be harder for councillors to become embroiled in conflicts of Norrie said he would inform City Council at its meeting tonight of the and hoc committees the matter will be voted on by the executive policy committee at its meet ing next week and will go to City Council for final approval just in time for the i ;