Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, March 03, 1981

Issue date: Tuesday, March 3, 1981
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Royat wedding july Confron a Fitce Charles and lady Diana Spencer will be married july 29 Ift Pauls their personal Buckingham Palace announced Palace spokesman Michael Shea said the Choice of Pauls instead of Westminster traditional site for recent Royal was influenced by the greater size of the which can seat an important consideration in the decision was that there Are Many More places for guests at said Shea said Pauls was the personal Choice of Charles and rather than the where Charless Moth the married Prince Philip in sunny today 3 Clear tonight 9 o p defectors launch progressive party1 progressive party members Hanuschak and Green by Cecil Rosner three former new them Beranic party Cabinet ministers who have defected from the party announced yesterday they Are forming a new political organi progressive party of Inkster la Sidney Green said Ben Hanuschak Burrows and Bud Boyce Winnipeg Centre Are joining forces and will now sit in the legislature together under the designation further details about the party platform Are expected to be made Public today Green said afterwards the new organization is holding talks with people of various political persuasions and is eager to swell its we Are talking to Manitoban of progressive of whom we believe there Are a great Greet he defined progressives As people who want to better although four members Are required before the legislature Grants official recognition to a political Green said he expected his new party to be Given the same Courtesy and status As is currently afforded to the Lone Liberal the announcement Drew surprised looks from All sides of the legislature yesterday and Premier Sterling Lyon took Delight throughout the question period in referring to the nip oppose tort As the newly diminished having adopted half of the name of the Why Doest he Green take the other word and join see breakaway Page 4 March 1981 vol 109 no 73 free press 3un Rise sets Moon rises sets final for Home 9570550 or 9422161 9562330 Oil Price by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Consumers started pay ing an extra half cent a litre on All Petroleum products today to pay for increased Oil imports following Alber tas production in announcing the Federal Energy minister Marc Lalonde also warned that two further cutbacks promised this year by Alberta will result in More Gas and heating Oil Alberta began cutting production sunday by barrels a Day As part of its protest Over last Falls Energy which imposed new Energy a new Revenue sharing formula and controversial new tax As a result of the it will almost million More each Day to subsidize Eastern refiners Rotthe differ ence Between the Domestic and world a motion to put the increase into effect was tabled in the commons yes Marc rental jump worries elderly tenants by Brian Cole some pensioners say they May have to trim their food and clothing budgets in order to pay rent increases being demanded by the Manitoba housing and renewal about 50 pensioners living in the Bluebird 86 Keewatin will be affected by the increases ranging up to 50 per cent when they sign new leases this its a Nasty said one who declined to give his name for fear of being singled out As a i know we have a lot to be thankful but it is still just a struggle to keep up without the rent the resident said in an the whose total monthly in come is less than will pay a month for a Bachelor the 12foot by 16foot suite has a Combina Tion As Well As a Kitchen and i guess ill just have to be More careful when shopping for he Georgina fre Finson said she will also have to Cut but wont complain about the i never had much All my in just grateful for what i she adding that her a son and a help take care of aside from the usual expense reduce said she would probably have to Cut Down on the amount of Wool she buys for last year she knitted 60 pairs of Mit tens which she donated to a maybe i wont be Able to knit As much next she explaining she will also have to pay close attention to grocery store the resident also said she would have a tougher time finding Money for such items As a coat or pair of that where the real Pinch will come she out of the Blue Alex said the in creases have left everyone concerned and naturally we expect but not to this its right out of the he said last we dont like this at he Marc housing rents Are not sup posed to be higher than 25 per cent of a residents but a Survey yester Day showed some residents Are paying slightly one paying in rent from a monthly income of is being charged per cent or too see tenants Page 4 Ter Day afternoon and the Levy took effect at it increases the Price for a litre of gasoline or heating Oil by a Hal cent or a gallon by about an average Winnipeg family using about 800 Gallons of heating Oil a year will see their Bill increase about and a Driver who logs Miles a year and gets about 25 Miles to the gallon would pay about the special Levy is 75 cents a barrel on crude Lalonde was immediately condemned by Energy spokesmen for both opposition who said Ottawa should make Alberta an offer to show it is willing to bargain in Good Lalonde said he had made an offer to Start but it has been he said he had to either increase Gas prices or increase Federal deficit and higher prices were no shortages Lalonde said there is no shortage of foreign Oil to buy and Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed has promised that whatever canadians will hot be forced to suffer there is no reason to fear shortages in the near Lalonde said yes the minister first agreed with the Contention by new democratic party Energy critic Ian Waddell that the move Breaks a election Promise by the Lalonde said the terms of the election Promise on Energy made by prime minister Trudeau have not been technically but a Promise in the 28 budget to increase crude Oil prices no More than a barrel in 1981 has been we regret Lalonde but theres no Alberta has put us in this Waddell said Lalonde had plenty of he suggested Ottawa could give the billion West Ern development fund directly to the change the eight percent wellhead tax to a corporate tax or change the natural Gas Export he Waddell said canadians Are being hit in the pocketbook by two stubborn governments which Are playing poker with its not Good enough just to blame it see Levy Page 4 a photo baby faced robbery suspect identified Only As Robert Heads for family court hearing with lawyer Mel boy Only acting in stick up new York a a Niney Earold boy authorities say May be the nations youngest Bank robber was Only play acting when he held up a Bank with a toy gun and was actually surprised when the Teller handed Over his lawyer said the boy was released in his fathers custody to await a family court trial on juvenile delinquency lawyer Mel Sachs told the court his 90pound identified Only As used the Money to buy French Fries and Ham a musical watch Worth and a movie ticket to private Benja he said his baby faced defendant was a Copsan robbers television addict and Only was acting when he pulled out a gun in a Rockefeller Centre Bank 26 and said this is a he has a steady diet of watching shows involving crime and involving Sachs this caused a malnutrition of boy Well behaved the boy was attentive and Well be have during his court a rarity in that it was open to the such proceedings Are handled in strictest Roberts father asked the proceedings be open to let the world know just what kind of a person the boy really the whose name was not would say Only thank god nobody shot him in the Sachs said Robert arrived Home after his on Day spending spree with which he gave his Sachs said the youngster did not admit the but claimed he was just there was no intent to Sachs on the night before the Robert had watched the Rockford a private Eye and Adam a Copsan robbers Sachs the boys who Are separate called him a victim of television and a broken the lawyer Sachs said Robert does not go to and a neighbor said the Young Ster is out on the Street at All sometimes after military role in additional american advisers will be going to Al Salvador from the news services the Reagan administration is in creasing its military involvement in Al Salvador despite concerns of congressional liberals that the tiny Central american Republic May become an other Vietnam for the United Handoff policy under the state department announced last night it is sending million in new military Aid and 20 More military training experts to Al the increased support is needed to help the embattled Junta put Down marxist rebels who the administration contends Are armed by Cuba and other communist officials salvadoran president Jose Napoleon Duarte said yesterday in san Salvador he is willing to meet with representatives of the socialist inter National to seek a political solution to the bloody conflict in his at the same time in the Secretary general of the socialist inter National said the most important leftist and guerrilla groups in Al Salvador have accepted the groups mediation Bernt Carlsson of Secretary general of the socialist said he would meet in Washington today with state department officials offer the mediation services of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to begin talks with presi Dent announcement of stepped up Ameri can assistance came just hours after Secretary of state Alexander Haig Dis closed that the would Stop All Aid to Nicaragua unless it took Steps within the next few weeks to Cut off the flow of arms going through Nicaragua to insurgents in neighbouring Al we told them they would have 30 Days to clean it Haig told a group of it is in their Power to clean it and weve had certain assurances from the newly announced Aid to Al Sal Vador will include four fireman teams of advisers to train the salvadoran military in intelligence and other skills to Stop infiltration and respond to terrorist state department spokesman William Dyess Dyess said the extra bring ing to 54 the number of americans serving in military related capacities in Al will not go beyond the Garrison area or take part in combat More than 40 members of the House of representatives said in a Telegram yesterday to Reagan that one or More of the advisers Are Likely to be forcing the United states into another Vietnam or a humiliating and senator John Glenn warned that the new advisers go Down there As prime targets for the guerrilla but senator Jesse Helms supported the administration saying there Are nervous nellies say ing weve got to do not even unhook the fire Hose when the House is burning the nervous nellies phrase in it self evoked memories of the president Lyndon Johnson used those words in the late 1960s to deride critics of the Indochina War Dyess said additional military Aid beyond the million approved by the president Jimmy Carter in Jan uary is justified because leftist guerrillas May launch a new the insurgents Are regrouping and massive quantities of arms remain in their he adding that the rebels have reason to expect additional supplies Are on the Way from soviet bloc the Aid package will include radar and surveillance equipment and Small Haig said that Nicaragua has been warned that the will impose a formal Aid cutoff As Well As demand that about million in Aid already delivered be returned unless arms shipment to Al Salvador is he said that the warning was Given to the nicaraguan government about two weeks it would leave just Over two weeks for Nicaragua to shut Down the arms which Intelli gence reports say is coordinated by Cuba and the soviet Bergman quits her film career spanned continents and but now Ingrid Bergman is leaving film fans with a Host of celluloid opening shots French president Valery Giscard Destain wasted no time As he started his reelection Campaign with a hard hitting hammering at his recession Over a Overall increase in Canadian economic growth indicates last years recession has motion rejected in a Case reminiscent of the historic 1925 Scopes Monkey a California judge rejected the states dismissal Index Tel Ann 20 Jumble 29 7 20 51 30 45 50 sports 20 30 17 to ;