Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press monday april 27.1981 syrian israeli jets Battle Over Lebanon skies Beirut up syrian and pro syr Ian forces battled to seize strategic Central lebanese Mountain peaks from rightist control yesterday while Israel launched air raids on palestinian guerrilla targets on Lebanon s Mediterranean coast. Witnesses said a syrian Mig-25 was downed when it and another syrian fighter tried to intercept four israeli planes near in the South. Neither nor Israel would confirm the Downing of the soviet made Jet. Hospital sources in Sidon reported at least 15 people killed and 40 injured in the israeli attack on the port. Giscard must win Chirac s bloc of votes continued from Page 1 bids for the presidency. After winning 26.2 per cent of the vote yesterday his task in the Runoff election is exactly that faced by Giscard to win the undivided support of a divided voting bloc. France s political left is split Between socialist and communist and the communist Leader Georges Marchais is smarting from his party s worst Post War electoral showing per cent yesterday and conspicuously with held any comforting words for Mitter Rand. Outsiders on left French election analysts said a socialist presidency underscoring the communists position As outsiders on the French political left May be the last thing Marchais wants. The communist Leader blamed his showing the first time his party fell below 20 per cent in a National elec the sordid Manou Evers of president Giscard whom he accused of playing Ping Pong with Mitterrand. His party will meet this week to decide How to instruct its supporters for the second round vote. Whether or not Marchais eventually endorses him Mitterrand s situation was spelled put bluntly by Giscard himself. To win he said or. Mitter Rand needs communist it is a theme Giscard s supporters will be trumpeting Over the next two weeks As they present France s elector Al Choice As one Between continuity and into the unknown of left Wing Rule. France has been governed for 23 years by a administration founded by Charles de Gaulle and continued under Georges Pompidou and Giscard. Six minor candidates divided More than 12 per cent of yesterday s vote led by the ecologist Brice Lalonde with 3.7 percent. Although Lalonde refused to make a second round endorsement Mitterrand supporters claimed that the ecologist s vote plus supporters of Marchais and three other left Wing candidates added up to a majority 50.7 per cent for the left. Giscard lost no time in firing the first Salvo of the Runoff Campaign. Smiling broadly the president interpreted the first round results As a vote of Confidence in himself appealed for the support of All frenchmen opposed to bureaucracy and marxism and challenged Mitterrand to a television debate. Israeli sources said some tanks and tank carriers were also hit at Al Halili a palestinian guerrilla base North of the Mediterranean port of Tyre. The Palestine liberation Organiza Tion said the israeli jets also struck eight villages scattered in the mountains and along the coastline. Focal Point of the syrian attack was gho fat Al Frans Saziye an observation Point held by rightist militia men on Tannin Mountain. The number of casualties in the fight ing was not known. Troops of the All syrian Arab deter rent forces in Lebanon who had sur rounded the Christian town of Zahl about 15 Kilometres to the Southeast bombarded the stronghold with Artil Lery and helicopter launched rockets the rightist Phala Gist party said. The pro syrian lebanese nationalist social party said the stronghold had been captured but that was denied by the Phalanx its. Attack witnessed villagers in far Bibiane said they watched two syrian jets make strafing runs against the stronghold. As the villagers were talking to re porters incoming shells exploded in Quick succession amid the widely scattered houses. The incoming syrian artillery fire was answered by lebanese Christian batteries hidden in the heavily wooded lower valleys. The fighting outside Zahl wrecked the latest lebanese ceasefire after three Days of Calm. It also scuttled an agreement be tween the syrian command and the lebanese government for the dispatch of a Force of 250 lebanese troops to take Over Security in Zahl from the militia men of the Christian phalanges party. The agreement was designed to relieve the siege of the City of Brandon Man Dies near Elphinstone a Brandon Man was killed in a single vehicle Accident yesterday morning near Elphinstone 150 Miles Northwest of Winnipeg. The ramp said William Piniuta 56, died in an Accident while travelling alone on a municipal Road outside Elphinstone at . Blizzards sweep England the Century s worst april blizzards swept southward across stranded in two metre snowdrifts thousands of Homes without England and Wales yesterday leaving hundreds of motorists electricity and seven people missing. Temperatures hit Zero. Justices reflect nation s diversity record of pro Federal rulings not certain indication of striation decision continued from Page 1 Baker. But among the six appointed by tru Deau three Are from the West and one Quebec Justice is both new and consid ered a swing voter. The court itself has been conserva Tive in most judgments contrasting sharply with . Courts. But on major Federal provincial it has most often come Down on the Federal Side. The liberals have defended this re sult by pointing out that the supreme court has generally ruling on specifics of the British North America act which was designed to favor a Strong Federal government. This time they re going to decide whether the new Federal proposal is Legal and there is debate in judicial circles about whether the court must keep itself to the narrow Legal question or take into account the general Situa protest Over Sands spreads to London continued from Page 1 Banner waving protestors ran Down a main Street and scuffled with police for about 20 minutes. The police reported 32 arrests. Eleven More demonstrators were arrested in Whitehall the government Headquarters District after they tried to March on -10 Downing Street Thatcher s official residence. In Belfast about Sands s sup porters marched through the City in what was said to have been the largest rally in the capital in recent years. Hundreds of youths broke away from the main group and hurled bricks stones and Lead pipes at a fortified police Post. No injuries were reported. Meanwhile police warned members Hen free a floss of the British parliament and other Public figures to watch out for letter bombs from the Ira. Barry Porter a member of the House of commons from Thatcher s conservative party received a letter bomb at his Home Satur Day morning. The incendiary device failed to explode when he started to open the letter. In Toronto saturday a dozen police men had to separate supporters of Sands from British loyalists at an emotional pro Sands rally outside the downtown Toronto offices of British airways. About 70 members of the Irish prisoners of War committee were holding a rally for Sands when a group of 30 loyalists set up a counter demonstration. No arrests were made. Tion of the country and its various conflicting forces. And then there is self interest. The justices have had the constitutional debate which some politicians say is a purely political Issue dropped on their Doorstep for what will clearly be a painful if historic Deci Sion. Some justices May resent this. And if the constitutional plan is finally passed the very Power and influence the reality of the court will have changed. The supreme court will Sud Denly become much More powerful As it is called upon to Rule on a myriad of expected cases. Like american courts a court ruling Here could in some cases become an act of governing. Some might like idea some justices might like the idea others might think it goes too far. To confuse predictions even More the court itself consists of muted factions slighted feelings differing Basic philosophies and justices who have rid Den the Fine line carefully enough to play a wild card. Here is the breakdown q chief Justice Bora Laskin first among equals Laskin was appointed by Trudeau in 1970 Over the Heads of More senior and More conservative judges. He is 68 and is looked upon As a Liberal. But Liberal with a Small letter l does not translate to automatic acceptance of Trudeau s la test venture. Laskin is credited with streamlining and opening up court proceedings and raising the calibre of court judgments. He has made dissent ing decisions opposing the majority on questions of censorship and abuse of police Powers. He was born in fort William ont., and came to the Bench via Osgoode Hall Harvard teaching and the Ontario court of Appeal. D or. Justice Ronald Martland he is the most senior Justice and is rated the supreme court s strongest conservative. He was bom in England but grew up in Alberta. He was appointed to the supreme court by Diefenbaker in 1958. Laskin Small l Liberal and the 74-year-old was passed Over when Trudeau appointed chief Justice Laskin. He s a Rhodes scholar and faces retirement in february making this one of his last major cases. O or. Justice Ronald Ritchie another Diefenbaker appointment Ritchie is a maritime named to the supreme court in 1959 and a Strong conservative. He s quiet 71 years old writes commonsense judgments and was once strongly criticized by chief Justice Laskin when the latter was still a Law professor. Some chilliness re Mains. D or. Justice brain Dickson the 65-year-old Saskatchewan born Justice spent most of his career in Manitoba. Dickson Practised Law in Winnipeg became a Manitoba judge and was appointed in 1973 to the supreme court by Trudeau. He is reported to be one of the liberals and is also known for his commonsense judgments which Appeal to the interests and understanding of the Man in the Street. He won the University of Manitoba Law school Gold medal and served on both the court of Queen s Bench and the court of appeals. D or. Justice Jean Baetz the 54-year-old Mon Trealer was for three years Trudeau s constitutional adviser. But he is sometimes regarded As a conservative and got into a tussle with chief Justice Laskin and civil libertarians Over a ruling which upheld a Montreal bylaw giving the City Power to ban demonstrations. He is senior of the three Quebec judges. He came out of the University of Montreal and Oxford and is a Trudeau appoint ment. O or. Justice Willard Estey former chief Justice of Ontario court of Appeal Justice Estey is 61 and another Trudeau appointment. He was born in Saskatchewan and took his Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan. He is regarded As Philo a Liberal. D or. Justice William Mclntyre a moderate voice of the supreme court Justice Mclntyre is regarded As a Western Canada appointment Al though his roots Are nearly every where. He was born in Quebec educated in Saskatchewan and Practised Law in British Columbia from 1947 to 1967. He s 63 years old and served on the . Supreme court and court of Appeal. D or. Justice Julien Chouinard a former Deputy minister of Justice in Quebec the 52-year old is Clark s Only appointment to the supreme court. He is a respected scholar and ran for the tories in 1958. He is seen As a moderate and is respected for his handling of an inquiry into the controversial problem of bilingual air traffic control at Quebec airports. D or. Justice Antonio lamer a new boy on the Block Justice lamer is 47 and the youngest of the nine. He s read As a swing voter Al though Trudeau appointed him a year ago to fit into the Liberal group. He served five years As vice chairman of the Law Reform commission of Canada and two years As chairman. He came from the Quebec court of a peal. Sexual abuse automatically Calls for criminal charges fire victim gets help Rick Wade 23, of Dufferin Avenue takes oxygen after suffering smoke inhalation at fire at 212 Lipton Street saturday afternoon. Wade was listed in fair condition yesterday in Misericordia Hospital. The fire ignited while a child played with a lighter caused damage. Continued from Page 1 in Louise s Case her husband repeatedly denied the allegation. He swore it was t True. He cried and she said. I was shocked and Hurt but i never doubted while Louise believed her daughter there Are Many cases where an abused child is not believed and the victim is ostracized by siblings who blame the child for tearing up the family. Louise s husband disappeared the following Day taking almost All their Money but not before he went to his daughter s school and tried to convince her to retract the Story. She refused. What really annoys me is the prejudice against the said Graven or. Often the Mother is torn Between her husband and her children but undergoes pressure from professionals and Peers who ask what kind of a Mother would stay with that kind of a Many of the children Are frightened of telling their Story. In most cases the abuse has been going on for years and it is not easy to get the child to talk about the big you have to get rid of All the secrets often there s a lot of Energy used in covering she said. Most of them Are victimized in that they Are terrorized into said Grant. The terror is often the result of the Parent s Power Over the child. Rarely is physical abuse found in sexual abuse cases. Sometimes they hate their fathers but they Are so worried about dad going to they remain Gravenor said. Dealing with children in sexual abuse cases of Means talking to the youngsters and winning their Confidence . Marshall Chiborek of the child abuse unit. There s a lot of Subtle said Allen especially when the children Are taught to obey their parents. Some of these kids Don t even know until they get older and talking to their friends this is the first time some of these kids realize that All daughters Don t have Intercourse with their in Winnipeg an and hoc committee of interested professionals meets each month on a voluntary basis to discuss sexual abuse cases. The members from the police abuse unit the children s Aid society children s Hospital and the two Crown attorneys hash out cases and decide what is Best for the child and the family involved. Charges May be Laid but the Case can be postponed for additional assessments or while treatment is begun. Most professionals agree the judicial system and jail sentences Are not the answer for sexual offenders. But it s important to have the backing of the Law. You have to have the clout you have to have the Legal right to interfere in that said Grant. The people who Are involved in these families respond More readily to a higher said Gravenor. Most of these families have Middle class values. They believe in religion they believe in the family. They Are very very traditional in most of their but most of these families Lack communication and members live in Isola Tion. The mothers Are often passive and dependent. In Many cases the sexual acts a father has performed with his daughter were never performed with his wife. Louise and her husband who is Back in Winnipeg have separated and she is living with her two daughters. She has no plans to reconcile. She said it in t possible since her husband is unable to accept responsibility for what he did to his daughter. Louise and her daughters have had counselling and Are slowly picking up the pieces of their lives. It s like being in limbo. You Don t know what to do. You act but there s a Relief really. I think we can be stronger now than we be Ever but with children who have been molested no one can predict the Long term effects. It s a scar that stays said Grant. In the Maze ;