Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Miniature furnishings aim at not k passengers escape of tar new Iowa a passengers forced to abandon the burning cruise liner Prinse dam reached land yesterday after spending one Day bouncing around in lifeboats buffeted by eight metre we were so said Sonna of i dont believe we could have survived a night in the it was a i dont know what else to Call criss was among 65 passengers taken to by helicopter another 85 were taken to Sitka late yesterday by the coast guard Cutter Boutwell and ferried ashore on Small criss and her 53yearold husband William were on the cruise celebrating their 30th wedding Irving of Seattle was brought ashore in Sitka on a Stretcher and was later taken to his de Brux of who flew to Sitka earlier in the said his father is a the Prinse dam was left burning 138 nautical Miles off the alaskan Jan Vic president of reservations and tows for Holland Ameri Ca owners of the said All of the More than 500 including 16 and Crew Mem Bers forced to abandon ship Early sat urday have been accounted Boeren told a news conference in new York City the ship had no sprinkler and fire doors failed to hold Back the Crew members filled the burning engine room with Carbon Dion when that did not they tried using foam and water from a pump system crippled by the he Boeren said that on this voyage there had been a demonstration of lowering the but no fire he added that the smoke detection system had worked and that passengers had been notified of the fire by a series of he said a minor fire aboard the vessel a year ago was contained in the Cooks according to the coast guard inspected the ship in May 1980 and found it to be while the primary responsibility for safety inspections rests with the coun try of the coast guard inspects about every four months All foreign cruise ships that take on Pas see Crew Page 4 m k ppm feg sunny today 20 Cloudy tonight 5 october Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Patria Tion debate to open commons by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press second session of the 32nd parliament opens today for what is certain to be a trouble tense and exciting period Domin ated almost exclusively by three key issues of which vitally interest Manitoba and the debate on the first Issue begins today Ottawa claims walkout unlikely Ottawa up government officials say they expect most members of the Public service Alliance of Canada to ignore their unions Call to stay away from work today in support of striking clerks because of the Treasury boards threat to prosecute illegal despite the Union Leaden were still urging Alliance Mem Bers last night not to report for work a move which could bring Many Federal government operations to a in a Sac spokesman said activities in Canada Rev Enue Canada and All other Federal government offices in the City will grind to a halt if Alliance members Honor clerks picket lines but no pickets were out at 6 and the morning shift went on duty As Ernie president of the Alli ances Winnipeg said a meeting was held yesterday to convey Sac president Andy stewarts request that All members Honor the picket lines As of Midnight last he said similar meetings were held in other cities in Canada Lawson said members of the Canad an Union of Portal workers will not be asked to Honor the picket but the Post office will be picketed Treasury Board officials obtained a ruling from the Public service staff relations Board on saturday that sym Pathy strikes would be Howe Upson said the Alliance is not interpreting the action a negotiations aimed at to Taj the clerks dispute with government Over warm and noun of work Are to Rume late today among Don the Treasury Board see Ottawa Pap 4 with the introduction of the Federal Resolution to unilaterally Patriate the British North America opposition Leader Joe an undetermined number in his caucus and a pair of dissident Liberal maps oppose nip Leader de Broadbent has sup ported providing the government promises to Iron out the thorny Issue of resources but Broadbent was perceived to have come Down on two sides of the referendum Issue talking federalism but failing to fire members of his party in Quebec working sovereignty Assoria he cannot afford to come Down on both sides of this one As Chretien Aims to woo Clarks position also is he is running against what he admits is unfavourable Public opinion and faces a thinly disguised threat from Iron Ore company of Canada president Brian Mulroney is Good look bilingual and Liberal strategists Are privately talking about going easy on Clark out of the fear that they will soon have to Deal with a contender with much More As Premier Rene Levesque indicated yesterday the Quebec govern ment is prepared to initiate court action in an Effort to mock Ottawa move to unilaterally Patriate the Constitution and entrench a Chart Enof the second big Issue is Energy and it will be dropped on the House before the Patria Tion question is what makes it More Complex is that the Federal government plans to bring in both the new Energy package and a budget about the same some where Between 15 and insiders say Energy minister Marc Lalonde and finance minister Allan Maceachen Are politely fighting Over who gets to announce the Good news and who the the budget is almost certain to in clude higher perhaps even re Moval of that idea and others have been hinted at by Maceachen during the last eight the Energy program is Likely to hit Alberta it could include a Gas Export but it is certain to raise the Price of Oil in 1981 and it will be full of spending and tax Relief programs to curb Canadian Oil How much Money Kunde plans to take from Saskatchewan and of hydroelectricity Victory dance defensive backs Vince Phason and Charles Williams perform a Victory Jig after the Blue bombers Defeated Edmonton eskimos 2814 both players had reason to celebrate As each came up with an interception to help extend the bombers winning Streak to seven m Newfoundland and que Bec will determine Bow much Money Darfur of will grab from the pockets of the general the Federal deficit is 114 billion and if it is to come the Money will have to come either from Energy levies or the Maceachen has the Federal Energy package is Likely to include a National Petroleum Agen Montreal up Quebe cers will not be faced with another referendum on sovereignty association during a second parti quebecois the party National Council decided yester Anglo right split the which does not exclude the possibility of a referendum on other was backed by most of the party brass and a Large majority of the 750 delegates at the weekend the still feeling the sting of the defeat of the May 20 referendum on were anxious to avoid having the next provincial election turn into a replay of the Spring Premier Rene Levesque told a news would be politically the will of the people must be respected he adding were Nei ther suicidal nor if the pm wants to take its so proposal to the people during a second Levesque Well put our exis tence on the line and Call an elec the Premier readily admitted that the temporary shelving of the referendum strategy was motivated by the party desire to remain in All this might look like opportune he told but you have to have a taste for Power in a Democrat the party remains committed to so motions adopted during the weekend meeting show it Levesque said his government will keep on trying to get More final for 9570550 or 9422161 refinery target of bomb threat Edmonton up Imperial Oil plans to maintain production at its Strathcona Canadas despite an extortion bomb Bert Imperial oils external affairs said yesterday the threat was made in a typewritten note delivered to company officials thurs the note said a Remote controlled explosive device would be detonated if Imperial did not pay a sum of a weekend search by 30 to 40 workers at the refinery on the East Ern outskirts of Edmonton failed to turn up a but Weir said the plants 560 employees will continue to search every Niche and the Money has been but Weir declined to disclose the saying Only that when extortion is involved its always a ridiculous Brian Joshiua Csc reporter in said the Money was flown to Winnipeg saturday afternoon and taken to the air Canada cargo office at Winnipeg International Weir would not confirm or deny the the extortionist said he would con tact the company again we dont want people Weir when theres lives involved were prepared to go to any fourth threat he said the bomb threat is the fourth the company has received in the last seven the earlier threats just petered were we have an action plan whenever we get one of these threats we assume there is a Weir said the Job of looking for the alleged bomb has been left to company Security personnel and workers More familiar than police with the Maze of pipes and storage tanks that can pro Cess barrels of crude Oil a he said Plant employees on every shift Are being advised of the situation and Are being asked to search their work areas for foreign he said the refinery will continue to turn out a full Range of Petroleum from Asphalt to Jet Al though 30 to 40 contractors and their construction Crews will be kept off the site until the situation is Weir said the letter advised company officials not to Contact police and de tailed How the Money was to be turned he said the company has followed the instructions in the but ramp became aware of the threat after the Story was leaked to the plan Power for the province if the referendum strategy was one of the things that helped the pm reach Power in 1978 and the Man responsible for the strategy was Claude now minister of intergovernmental Morin was originally against shelving the possibility of a referendum during a second mandate because in for a he said with a Morin said the main thing is that the pcs fundamental commitment to sovereignty for the province has been coalition wins a Centre right coalition led by prime minister Francisco 8a 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