Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press. Saturday april 18. 1981 n. Dakota might become no. 1 soviet missile Law by Gregg Shu Liday the soviet the Senate to Cut Basin Mode funds in North Dakota missile silos could be come highest priority targets for at tacking soviet missiles if the . Con Gress cuts the huge my missile system budget it is now considering. Sources in Washington say that if these cuts occur the new my missiles would be placed in existing minuteman launch Sites such As those in North Dakota. And because Winnipeg is about 160 Kilometres from the Northern most silos located at Hannah n.d., it would not Likely escape blast damage from some of the soviet intercontinental bal Listic missiles the soviet is 18icbm can potentially carry up to 25 nuclear warheads. Many senators Are said to be appalled at the estimated billion slated for the my system. A sizeable percentage of that would go toward a Basing Mode track system for trans porting the missiles. The original my plan called for the development of Large tracts of Utah and Nevada Range land into a massive launching site with missiles being transported from silo to silo in an Effort to frustrate soviet monitoring. The Senate sources predict however that amendments will soon be passed in Lyon says pm distorts agreement the Senate to Cut Basing Mode funds and reduce the my system to the missile proper. These new Multi War head missiles would be used to replace existing minuteman ii icbms currently located in North Dakota. Because the mrs represent the la test in . Missile technology the sources agreed that North Dakota would most certainly be among the highest priority targets for incoming soviet icbms. Senate foreign relations committee aide Carl Ford said in an interview from Washington that everyone Here is betting that the Basing Mode portion of the my budget will be killed. It s just too damned Ford said Many analysis Are unconvinced that the hide and seek Prem ise the my system is based on can work. He said senators Are apprehensive about spending billion on a project that could prove ineffective within a couple of years. What Many senators can accept is cutting the Basing Mode part and then stuffing the missiles into existing minuteman silos like you have up in North Dakota. I think a lot of Liberal and conservative senators could live with an aide to one conservative Southern senator said he had collected Assur ances from 49 of the 100 senators that they would vote for an amendment limiting my spending. He added that he knew of Only 18 hard Core my supporters who approved of the Origi Nal plan. Basically the mood Here is that we want the new missile but the Basing Mode is just too much. So let s put it in the Damn he said residents of Utah and Nevada have voiced Strong opposition to having their state criss crossed with my tracks but he did t think North Dako tans would object to mrs replacing minutemen. An assistant to North Dakota sen. Mark Andrews agreed with the assess ment. I can t see the people of North Dakota objecting too strongly de Doherty said. It would t disrupt any thing really. People get used to this sort of thing pretty he said that placing the advanced my into the existing silos was t cause for alarm. Hell it does t make much differ ence if we re highest priority target or second highest or whatever Well Al ways be a target in North a photo continued from Page 1 indication of i think they see Canada As a confederation of shopping he said. I Don t. I think there is such a thing As a National will from which none of us can opt Lyon said he expects a prompt and serious response to the premiers rather than the spiteful exhibition put on by Federal Justice minister Jean Chretien who was on television ridiculing the pact Only minutes after the eight signed it. The Ball is in the Federal Lyon said. He rejected Trudeau s ultimatum to reach a settlement by next tuesday or put off negotiations until after the Constitution is brought to Canada with the entrenched charter of rights and the Federal government s amending formula. Lyon said Trudeau and Chretien were dishonest to suggest the disintegration of Canada would result from a clause permitting provinces to opt out of constitutional changes which reduced their traditional rights and Powers. What s the minister of Justice doing trying to feed that kind of Pap to the Canadian Lyon asked. He knows he said the clause is Tough enough in any Case to make opting out uncommon. It offers some Protection for rights the provinces have and have had since 1867." main Concession the premiers said their main conces Sion was that in the new proposal a province would Only be Able to opt out of a constitutional change that Dero Gates from or diminishes provincial rights. They say the Federal Resolution be fore the commons does just that. During constitutional talks last sep tember their favored formula was set up to allow provinces to opt out of constitutional changes which Only affect rather than diminish Provin Cial rights. Trudeau was scornful about the new Accord signed with much fanfare and after hours of negotiation in Ottawa. He said it was virtually the same As what the premiers wanted eight months ago except that it was presented again and contained a Large Public relations meanwhile the Montreal Gazelle says that the first major act of Quebec Premier Rene Levesque in his new mandate was to help Lyon scuttle fed eral provincial agreement on the Constitution. In a dispatch from Ottawa the news paper said most of the eight premiers who met in the capital thursday were willing to accept Trudeau s cherished rights charter if he agreed to their version of an amending formula for the new Constitution. The premiers had earlier agreed that the Way to sell their amending formula to Trudeau was to accept the charter and then insure that future Char Ter amendments would be binding on All provinces. Protected category although their proposed Vancou ver amending formula would allow provinces to opt out of some future constitutional amendments the charter would have been placed in a protected category. The newspaper says Trudeau would have accepted this package Deal As a basis for negotiations but that he would have insisted that the Constitution retain a provision for referendums to break deadlocks. But the tentative agreement vanished As the premiers haggled through the six hour meeting. The premiers finally had to face the conclusion that to make a Deal with Trudeau they would have to admit that a rights charter was inevitable and most of them were prepared to do so the Gazette says. But then both Levesque and Lyon flatly refused to place the charter in the protected category. To the fury of the other premiers they resolutely refused to accept the rights charter under any conditions. The Gazette says that while the pre Miers were angry with Levesque they could understand his position to a cer Tain extent. But they were truly furious with Lyon who was seen As dogmatic to the Point of pig headed Ness. It was at this Point that the meeting almost broke up with some of the participants threatening privately to walk out and change sides joining Trudeau. Instead they decided to go Public with their limited agreement on Patria Tion and the amending formula knowing full Well that Trudeau would reject it out of hand. Thousands of Christian pilgrims Jam the via during Good Friday of the carrying of the Cross. World mourns by the associated press millions of christians in countries around the world mourned the Crucifix Ion of Jesus Christ with pageants processions and quiet devotions on Good Friday. In Jerusalem Centre Point of christianity s holiest season pilgrims thronged the via Dolorosa. Just Kilometres away the embattled christians of Zahl Lebanon kept to their Homes for fear of syrian sniper fire. And the Church Bells were silent for the first Good Friday in memory in that City said to have one of the largest concentrations of christians in the mid dle East. Pope John Paul carried a 1.3-metre wooden Cross in a torchlight procession through Rome s Pagan ruins to the top s crucifixion of Palatine Hill where a crowd waited in a Light rain to hear him speak. In the Philippines seven people had themselves nailed to crosses briefly in penance for their sins. The impale ments Are not sanctioned by the roman Catholic Church but Drew thousands of spectators Many of whom engaged in flagellation and self sacrifice in lit eral interpretation of the scriptures. Killed in explosion offered Aid rpnctnwt7 w. Germany hit by bombs violence West Berlin up five bombs exploded in West Berlin and leftist demonstrations took to the streets m several West German cities yesterday after a jailed hunger striker on a 10-week-Long fast died. Convicted leftist terrorist Sigurd Debus 38, who was serving a 12-year sentence in a Hamburg prison for Rob Bery and attempted bomb attacks died thursday during a hunger strike by 24 leftist prisoners demanding they be treated As prisoners of War rather than common criminals. One of the bombs ripped through a West Berlin research Institute. In an apparent move to forestall a demonstration police in Hamburg said Justice officials would wait until tues Day to announce the Date and time of Debus s funeral. Victim identified after Man found beaten to death City police have identified William Frederick Arthur Taylor of Redwood Avenue As the Man found beaten to death in a Manitoba Avenue Home Early wednesday morning. Police say Taylor 21, apparently died instantly from a blow on the head with a shovel. Police were called to the House at 514 Manitoba Avenue by a Telephone tip and have charged Williard Pelletier 22, with second degree murder. Several hours after Debus s death was announced 25 other jailed terrorists from the red army faction and the second of june movement said their two month hunger strike was at an end. Police in Hamburg West Berlin and Frankfurt reported they Are on Specia Alert for any further violence Fol lowing Debus s death. Shortly before Dawn a 6.8-kilogram bomb disguised As a fire extinguisher exploded in the Max Planck Institute located in West Berlin s Schmargen Dorf sector. The bomb caused damage police said but no injuries. Windows smashed West Berlin police also reported that leftist sympathizers smashed windows in nine Banks and food shops and pitched gasoline bombs inside but none caught fire. In Hamburg Small groups of youths left a rally at a protestant dormitory late thursday and wandered through the heart of the City smashing windows and painting slogans on Walls. One woman was arrested police said. About 200 youths clashed with police near the District Headquarters of the . Army 5th corps located in Frank Furt. Two police officers were injured. The 25 jailed terrorists said they had Given up their hunger strike after officials assured them group meetings would be allowed and no one would be held in isolation. Redstone Colo. A residents of the nearby Rocky Mountain City of Glenwood Springs have offered free food hotel rooms and other help to the families of 15 miners killed when an explosion roared through a stretch of the dutch Creek no. 1 Coal mine in Redstone. What we have available is said Al Frederickson owner of the knotty Pine Lodge in Glenwood Springs. I mean what in the world can you do at a time like this what happened to them happened to All of Frederickson said he knew several of the miners whose bodies were found in the mine Early yesterday 32 hours after what was believed to have been a methane explosion. He said his daughter was engaged to a worker in the same mine. Several Good friends were killed. We feel we have to do something for their he said. The mine owned by mid continent resources remained closed on order of the . Mine safety and health administration. Mid continent lawyer Bob Delaney said the soft Coal mine would remain closed pending comple Tion of a Federal investigation which he mine Entrance ground level 2.000 feet auxiliary Tunnel Utch Creek no. 1 mine. Redstone. Colo not to scale said might take several months. Three other mines operated by mid continent adjacent to the no. 1 were closed As a memorial to the dead miners but Delaney said they May reopen As Early As next week. The bodies of the 15 miners were discovered late thursday and Early yesterday. Nine were discovered in the main Tunnel runs from the Mouth of the mine at a 13-degree slope into the bowels of Huntsman s Ridge five More were found in a Branch corridor about 300 metres from the first group a company spokesman said. Company personnel director Marvin Meyers said the 15th Miner s body was found about hours after Rescue workers discovered the second group of dead workers. In Paris thousands filled the Cathe dral of notre Dame for the annual ceremony of the veneration of the relics of the passion the Only Day of the year that the Church shows the relics from Christ s Fina Crown a piece of the Cross and a Nail used to crucify Christ. In Jerusalem priests and monks led the faithful along the narrow twisting path to Calvary singing hymns in a dozen languages at each of the 14 stations of the Cross. The devout walked from the site where tradition says Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus to the Marble mausoleum at the Church of the holy sepulchre where he is believed to have been crucified and entombed. Two easters in Lebanon where there Are Many different religious sects both Eastern and Western easters Are celebrated. Lebanon s Catholic sects Catholic maronite roman Catholic and armenian Catholic easter this week. Others such As greek orthodox armenian orthodox syriac and sole protestants will Cele brate easter sunday on april 26. Eight Days of syrian bombardment on Zahl ended april 9, but sniper fire kept the town s Christian Resi dents at Home listening to radio Broad casts of Church services and hymns. In Beirut Christian inhabited East Beirut celebrated quietly As shelling along the Frontier with moslem West Beirut resumed. Few people ventured out to mass. Polish roman catholics celebrated Good Friday in a spirit of concern for their ailing spiritual Leader but enjoyed the most extensive televised religious broadcasts since the polish born Pope visited the country in 1979. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski 79, has been ill and will not attend easter services today Church sources said Caner tech s goals under fire higher Fossil fuel prices needed to Spur development Energy experts say continued from Page i nerf Pyp not f u 01v Only interested in taking Over Success Ful companies. What they want to do is find a company that is doing Well so they can take it Over but that successful company does t need Lee said. Gray said a Market study on the collector system which is being in stalled on a Calgary Church could have been helpful to Caner tech. I thought the study could be of Aid to themselves and it could relate to other companies they in the future might be she said. Lome Dyke Caner tech s president said Lee s system is still in the Proto Type stage along with hundreds of other devices and therefore his Agency was t interested. It s a research project at this Point and we re not a research organization. We re a venture capital Organiza subsidies available he added that ample Public subsidies Are available from other sources to research and test projects using renewable Energy sources such As solar wind biomass and tidal Power. Although Section 1 of Caner tech s mandate Calls for it to invest in renew Able Energy companies Section 3 also requires the organization to engage in research and development Richard Kadulski chairman of the solar Energy society of Canada inc., said Consumers need incentives such As higher Fossil fuel prices before they will use renewable Energy technology on a wider scale. If the Market is encouraged by rising fuel prices you will find companies entering it. Capita will find its Way Grey Hamilton a Petro Canada offi Cial acting As a consultant to Caner tech agreed that higher fuel prices would improve prospects for renew Able Energy but he noted this was a political decision. It s self evident that an upward trend in Oil and Gas prices in direction of helping alternative Energy but that s a political Hamilton said Caner tech would be a useful alternative source of funds for companies turned Down by conventional sources. Cameron agreed saying the Winni Peg organization is prepared to take bigger risks than a commercial com Pany. They might be prepared to Gamble sooner than we Hamilton said private lenders have been slow to invest because the technology is new and the payoff is longer term than for other types of invest ment. In renewable Energy we re talking about technology of very recent Vin Tage. This makes private corporations somewhat vested interest Hamilton added it s not necessarily True that companies will quickly enter the Market with promising new products. Some Large corporations for example May have a vested interest in keeping new technology off the Market. I m not at All sure that there Aren t All kinds of patents sitting around gathering dust because for strategic reasons the companies want to pre clude others from entering that mar ;