Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free october 1980 smoke pours from the dutch luxury ship which is still burning about 138 nautical Miles off the coast of passengers Safe after ship fire continued from Page 1 sengers at american ports for compliance with the International convention for the safety of life at coast guard spokesman Phillip Franklin said yesterday a c130 search plane and the Cutter Boutwell found a life raft reported missing its 20 passengers were taken aboard the Cut eleven people were taken to but Only two were at the Sitka Paul White said the worst Case was a passenger complaining of Back and abdominal pains from being knocked about pretty badly in a the other passenger was treated for the 120metre dutch which had set out on a 30day cruise to the Orient from was afloat but still burning with no one on Board and no attempts being made to douse the the coast guard a spokesman for the Holland Ameri Ca cruises said yesterday the launched in is not expected to the ship radioed an Alert Early Satur saying fire had broken out in its engine and that All aboard had been ordered on five hours after the first radio the Prinse dam advised the coast guard that its passengers and most of the Crew were abandoning the coast guard said it does not know what caused the another spokesman said the coast guard will not conduct an investigation into the but will closely observe any investigation carried out by the ships Home Strain of spending hours at sea shows on woman who fled i partial commons Reform would reduce members9 speaking time i l n Nix do it continued from Page 1 billion in funding to promote conservation and billion to encourage substitution of natural Gas and electricity for the Gas Export tax is expected to raise billion and an Oil refinery tax another with the Energy plan and budget competing with the there will be Little room for anything House Leader Yvon Pinard plans to push at least the Bank act along with other Bills which either the liberals or conserva Tives put on the Block during past but have not been passed because of Pinard also is hoping to bring in a system which will amount to a Stream lining of business and a partial Reform he is considering reducing the amount of time an my would be Able to speak on a Given but says it would Likely need Al party each my now can now spend 40 minutes speaking on Union in continued from Page 1 Dennis head of the Canad an labor and officials from both talks broke off More than a week lawyers for the Treasury the governments bargaining told reporters they sought the ruling from the staff relations a quasi Judi Cial body which oversees relations be tween the government and its employ to warn workers they could face penalties if they do not report for they also said the ruling is meant to reinforce government attempts to obtain injunctions barring or limiting picketing or to prosecute workers and the Union for illegal strike to launch the govern ment first would have to get consent from the Board to penalties for illegal strike convictions Are fines of up to for for Union officials and a Day for the there is no general feeling of alarm in the spokesmen and there is no Overall contingency plan to Cope with a massive Alliance each department will have to fend for relying on the More than managers and thousands of other non Alliance workers in the the unemployment insurance com Mission program could grind to a halt if thousands of already replacing the do not show said a spokesman for the employment and immigration wed be up the wed be in a real spokesmen for the Supply and vices department and the health and welfare department said that cheques for old age and military pensioners and family allowance recipients will not Likely be october cheques were sent before the clerks strike and the Supply depart ment is at least two weeks away from issuing november meanwhile government lawyers will be in court today seeking an injunction against walkouts by clerks who Are designated essential and barred from striking by Only prison guards Are exempt from the alliances sympathy strike All other forms of government ranging from movement of goods by All Means of transport to maintenance of buildings and could be maps May be better appreciated if they Cut the fluff from their speech by going for 20 minutes of Pinard observers can look Forward to possible Cabinet the Cabinet has been divided Over the approach to the Constitution at least until its final meeting and was openly split in the last session on whether to go ahead with the Southern portions of the Alaska natural Gas Lalonde argued against it out of fear that the would never build the top half of the while Industry minister Herb Gray and senator Bud Olson favored Olson saw it As a Boon to the almost a Gray saw it As a source of potential jobs for Southern Ontario steel As Ontario Industrial sector continues to the potential for division among the liberals programs planned employment minister Lloyd a worthy has a Western development scheme to present to while Gray has an Industrial program at least As big scheduled for consideration by a Cabinet struggling to figure out How to cover Maceachen hanging Over the whole cauldron is a strike by Federal which is scheduled today to become a general walk out by the Public ser with key Federal departments miss ing half their three major prob lems to Deal with and a variety of others that could crop this com Mons session will be iranian air raids end iraqi ceasefire by tin associated Pren the War Between Iran and Iraq went into its third week today after iranian air attacks ended a unilateral iraqi ceasefire moments after it no major ground action was an iraqi spokesman said iranian planes made two raids on the Baghdad area and other iraqi cities beginning at Dawn when Iraq had said it would Stop fighting if the iranians did Iraq said it retaliated with raids on the Tehran Airport and Oil installations elsewhere and will continue the War in View of Iran none spouse to the in the iranian parliament cancelled a Public session that was to have discussed the 52 Tehran radio said most of the deputies have gone to the War today is the 338th Day of Captivity for the hos Jordan supports there was no report of the damage done by the raiding iranian but Iraq said its pilots destroyed two jumbo jets at Tehran Mehraban Airport and 20 helicopters at besieged Sank an iranian ship loaded with rockets and 10 gunboats in the Shatt Alarab Estuary at the head of the persian set ablaze Oil tanks in Khorran Mshar and a refinery at in Northwest and attacked an Airstrip and Oil installation near an iraqi communique also reported 12 iranian fighters shot Down and the destruction of two iranian rocket bases and 11 iranian it said All iraqi planes returned safely to their but admitted five iraqis killed and 16 Iran gave a different account of the iraqi raid on Tehran and said nothing about any other iraqi air an iranian communique said two planes bombed Western Tehran Early yester Day two civilians and injuring a number of it said antiaircraft fire brought Down one of the the stalemate in the ground War in Iran Khz Stan province apparently was continuing at Horrman Shah and at the Southern end of the front at the provincial capital 110 Kilometres to the and at a key communications and Mili tary Centre 100 Kilometres farther although iraqi defence minister Adnan Khairallah said his artillery had All four cities in iranian troops and revolutionary guards still held part of Horrman Shah and All of the other three reporters visiting Iran major port on the Shatt reported mortar and artillery duels with the iranians firing mortars into the Section of the City occupied by iraqi forces and iraqi artillery firing Over the apparently at iranian positions in the Oil refinery City 10 Miles to the iranian revolutionary guards were battling the iraqis on both sides of the Karoun which divides the City and runs into the Shatt Alarab the reporters the official iranian news Agen said the fires at the giant Abadan refinery started by iraqi shelling and air attacks in the first Days of the War have been brought under the iranian command also said that a commando squad advanced 20 kilo metres into iraqi destroyed a number of tanks and then returned safely to the iranian an iraqi communique said iraqi forces repulsed attacks by iranian land and air killing 18 iranian soldiers and Captur ing both Iran and Iraq Are moslem coun but the nonarae persians Are the largest and dominant ethnic Community in the southwestern Border province which Iraq invaded and the site of Iran Oil has a Large Arab population that has been waging a Campaign of Sabo Tage and sporadic armed attacks for autonomy or Independence since the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Resa Pahlavi in Schmidt receives faces test in within party Ottawa up Joe neat As a pin As sits Back on the sofa chair in his office and contemplates the next few months that could be the toughest fight of his political not Only is his party to be the main commons opponent to the Constitution Al proposals unveiled last week by prime minister but he Heads a progressive conservative party de manding to be convinced that he should continue to Lead Clark is saying not not this Way to constitutional proposals at a time when a majority of the Canadian Public seem to be urging Trudeau he is flying in the face of Public opinion just when his party is looking to the polls for reassurance that Clark can Lead them Back to no question were Clark said of the party position in a recent interview in Advance of today re sumption of with a touch of bitterness he de scribed the billboards promoting constitutional Reform he saw splashed All Over Sudbury during a visit a few Days before paid for by the tax pay Trudeau has Public opinion on his Side As we speak because Treyve been manipulating Public opinion for a Long not Only Public opinion is behind William Ontario tory says he supports tru Deaus constitutional package and is asking members of Clarks caucus to go along with his despite having one of the roughest years any politician could imagine being knocked from Power by mis calculation with the seat in the prime ministers office barely warm Clark remains outwardly deter mined and he faces a party convention in february where delegates will be asked by secret ballot whether they want a leadership even if Only a significant minority say yes he could be urged to step aside and avoid a repeat of the bloodletting that forced John Diefenbaker out in the and while he says he is not particularly worried about the february he has been travelling extensively meeting with party members in every part of the country and hell have Busy weekends this fall As the commons schedule this fall appears to have Little that will help boost Clarks image with the the liberals Are certain to bring Down an Energy package with lower Price in creases than would have been the Case under the finance minister Allan Maceachen will bring in a budget that May raise taxes but Likely in More Subtle ways than the conservatives proposed 18 cent gallon excise tax that infuriated voters lasted Broadbent new democratic party appears ready to Back Trudeau Reform proposals which include bring ing Home the Constitution from Britain with an amending a charter guaranteeing fundamental human rights and language rights binding on the provinces and Ottawa As we As entrenchment of that learn Clarks party As tit Only one appearing on the negative Side in the historic debate on constitutional Reform even though be supports parts of it such As Patria Tion with an Amend ing formula and entrenchment of the principle of he could also support a charter of rights if the prov inca were Given the Choice of opting in instead of having it forced on the Liberal majority ensures the measures will be passed and that could put Clark on the wrong Side of his he has Only two months or so to turn around Public opinion because that is All the time the liberals have allot Ted to the the Liberal plan to shift the Resolution out of the Glare of television lights in the commons and into a committee Means it will get less making Clarks task even More Stron mandate Bonn a West German voters quadrupled Chancellor Helmut schmidts majority in the lower House of giving his leftist Liberal coalition four More years in schmidts Victory Over his conserva Tive bavarian Premier Franz Josef had been forecast by opinion polls before the National election yes but the size of his projected which could jump to 45 seats from was a Surprise and resulted from gains made by his Junior coalition Hans Dietrich Genscher moderate free Schmidt said he was very satisfied with the outcome of the National elec Tion adding that it also pleased the neighbors of Western Europe most prosperous and popu Lous Germany remains he repeating his favorite Campaign and that is what he told reporters his new majority in the bundestag will allow him to govern More smoothly and to pursue detente with the soviet a military balance in Europe and a policy of social resist demands commentators said the free democrats Strong showing will give Schmidt increased support with which to resist the demands of his own party radicals for stronger socialist preliminary official returns gave schmidts social democrats per cent of the votes cast and 218 seats in the a gain of but the free democrats raised their share of the vote to 10 per cent from per cent in 1976 and took s3 an increase of Strausss Alliance of Christian democrats and his own bavarian Christian social Union held its position As the single largest faction in the bundestag with per cent of the vote and which is 17 less than it had in the last Strauss conceded defeat but vowed he will not disappear from the political i Majum will remain bavarian he said in a television a i will still have a place in West German but it was a decisive setback for the Burly conservative who has been Angling for a Chance at National leadership since he Rose to Cabinet posts in the an opinion sur vey taken on election Day found 21 Par cent of the Christian Democrat Chris Tian social Union voters questioned would have preferred another Candi ;