Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Stories of atrocities rumoured or real become a Normal part of life in san Good Samaritan took it on the nose a woman who was Keing beaten by i her common Law husband repaid a woman who tried to help her by breaking her nose and beating her into unconsciousness a Winnipeg judge was told yesterday. Provincial court judge Charles Rubin was told Rosemarie Jeanette Clarke 23, of Elizabeth Road and her common Law husband were drinking in a West end hotel on March 26 and began arguing. During the argument Clarke slapped her common Law husband and he dragged her outside to the hotel Park ing lot and began hitting her in the face Crown counsel Bruce Miller said. A Young couple walking through the lot saw the Man beating Clarke and tried to pull him off court was told. At that Point Clarke jumped up grabbed the woman threw her against a Fence and began beating her. In a statement to police the Young Mother said she thought the couple was trying to beat up her common Law husband so she grabbed the smallest one and threw her against the Fence. I lost Complete control and just kept beating her. Then when 1 seen the blood and that i really Hurt her and she was t getting up she stopped Clarke told arresting officers. Yesterday she pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing bodily harm and was placed on supervised Proba Tion for one year. Court was told the would be Samari Tan suffered a broken nose and numer Ous raises to her body while her husband suffered Black eyes and bruises from his scuffle with Clarke s common Law husband. In passing sentence judge Rubin told Clarke who has since left her common Law husband and is living on welfare that it was unfortunate some one acting in a Good Samaritan Way attempts to Rescue you from being beaten up by your common Law Hus band and is not Only thrashed but damaged by your he noted however that Clarke had never been in trouble before and he accepted her lawyer s submission and that of the Crown that the offence was an isolated incident and out of Char Acter. Clarke s lawyer Martin Tadman also noted the woman has already paid a penalty for her actions because the children s Aid society took her son 5, away from her after she was charged. Tadman said the woman has since applied to get the boy Back and a family court hearing is set for Cloudy today 15 Cloudy tonight 0 Winnipeg free press thursday april 30. 1981 vol 109 no 127 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises am sets 4-or n m final 200 for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 court told it s last Hope for provinces Ken free press by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the supreme court of Canada is the last Hope of remedy for the eight provinces opposing prime minister Trudeau s constitutional plan and it should not throw out the constitutional question on the grounds it is a purely political Issue Manitoba warned the court yesterday. Hearings before the nine justices on the Fate of the new Constitution picked up momentum yesterday As provinces used the painstaking technical argue criticism of Ottawa defended by Cecil Rosner Winnipeg free press Thompson Canada s four West Ern premiers said yesterday they Are fed up with constantly being accused of Federal arguing they have an obligation to criticize Ottawa when Ever the occasion warrants. The premiers who wrapped up their annual two Day meeting Here yester Day spent most of their time denouncing the Federal government at every Opportunity. In addition to battering Ottawa on its constitutional Energy and Transfer payment proposals they blamed Canada s economic problems largely on the absence of adequate consistent and regionally sensitive Federal eco nomic policies and we Don t meet annually just to kick around the Federal government and try to make them look British co Lumbia Premier Bill Bennett said. But i Don t think you can expect us to meet see Good Page 4 ments made by Manitoba in tuesday s first round to bolster their own arguments. Manitoba counsel Douglas Schmeiser told the justices that their court has final authority on constitutional mat ters in a Federal state like Canada because its duty is to be the arbiter when the two Levels of government come into conflict. Chief Justice Bora Laskin told Schmeiser it is self evident that it was up to the court to decide and Schmeiser expanded upon his train of thought. Only remedy if the court decides this is a political matter not a judicial matter then the rights of the provinces Are being violated because this is their Only he warned the chief Justice. He also urged the court not to Deal alone with the technical Legal questions but to look at the substance of the proposal a Point made later with More intensity by Quebec counsel Colin Irving. Irving also picked up on Manitoba s Contention that Canada is comple Tely Sovereign. He argued that the degree of Independence of both Britain and Canada Means Canada cannot Force Britain s hand when it comes to final passage. If Canada is a Sovereign state so is the United kingdom and i Don t think they can be compelled to he said. The provinces Are putting emphasis on Canada s sovereignty because it weakens the Case for British action on the Constitution without proper Ca Nadian consent. They contend uni lateral Federal action is not proper Canadian consent. The proposal to bring Home the 1867 British North America act will go to the . For final passage if it clears the supreme court and final votes in the commons and the Senate. Tru Deau has said it is Britain s duty to hold its nose and pass whatever Canada sends Over. See supreme Page 4 vacant suites for rent this gaping Hole is of the features of a Bannatyne Avenue building visited yesterday by City health inspectors. A welfare Mother and her son had just moved into their suite in the building when they were told to move out Sands rejects Appeal from Pope Prospect of hunger striker s death stirs fears of More sectarian violence marketing boards come under fire Toronto up canadians pay an extra 13 cents for a dozen eggs nine cents More for a Pound of broiler Chicken and about 15 cents More for a litre of milk because marketing boards Are limiting production and keeping prices up to increase Farmers incomes say two men who prone ref in Council of Canada. Although milk marketing boards across the country Benefit producers handsomely milk product Consumers As Well As taxpayers Are seriously harmed by the various Supply manage ment or. Richard Bari chello of the University of British co Lumbia said yesterday. The Canadian Dairy commission sets the Price of Industrial milk and the Federal government wrings its hands of any responsibility in the matter. They have a virtual Blank prices of manufactured milk products in Canada Are roughly double the world Market prices said. As a result milk producers make a total of million a year. The loss sustained by Consumers is an annual Transfer away from Consumers of million. Even the taxpayer loss the administrative Cost of running the show is a Formi d the study on eggs and chickens by Vancouver consultant or. Peter Arcus found that the egg marketing program costs Consumers million annually which works out to about a person or 13 cents a dozen eggs. Regulation of Canada s broiler Chick in Industry costs about million a year Arcus said. This amount is obtained through higher prices to con Sumers who pay an average estimated nine cents a or about a person annually. Arcus said marketing boards Benefit Only existing producers because future producers must buy a production quota to get into the business. The Washington Post London despite Long meetings in the Maze prison near Belfast a papal envoy Bas apparently failed to per Suade Bobby Sands and three other convicted Irish terrorists to end their hunger strike. The Prospect of Sands death after 60 Days of fasting has stirred fears of a major upsurge of sectarian violence in British ruled Northern Ireland. Hunger strike White not disclosing details of the private meetings that the Rev. John Magee an Ulster born private Secre tary to Pope John Paul ii had with the prisoners tuesday night and again yesterday afternoon and evening Brit ish officials said the hunger strike continues. Sands 27, a former Leader of provisional Irish Republican army convicts in the Maze who recently was elected a member of the British parliament from a predominantly Catholic Rural constituency in Northern Ireland has refused to eat since March 1. He was reported yesterday to be very weak and emaciated though still conscious. He is attended around the clock by prison doctors lies on a special bed and can absorb Only bottled Spring water. After first talking to Sands at the Maze tuesday night Magee met yesterday with Britain s Northern Ireland Secretary Humphrey Atkins who explained the British refusal to meet the hunger strikers demands for changes in prison rules that would give them special political prisoner status. The papal envoy then returned to the heavily guarded prison 16 Kilometres South of Belfast to speak to the tour men in separate meetings. In More than four hours at the prison Magee is believed to have conveyed what Atkins said to Sands and to Francis Hughes 27, who has been on hunger strike for 45 Days and Ray mond Mccreesh and Patrick o Hara both 24, who stopped eating 39 Days ago. Sands is serving 14 years in prison for weapons Possession Hughes a life sentence for murder Mccreesh 14 years for attempted murder and o Hara eight years for Possession of a hand grenade. The British government has facilitated Magee s visit to demonstrate its desire to end the hunger strike without conceding the prisoners demands. The papal envoy was welcomed said a British statement on the Clear under standing that the government s position in relation to the hunger strike would not change or be subject to Neotia the belief that Sands is determined to die backed by provisional Ira Lead ers who Hope his death will attract renewed sympathy and support for their Long terrorist Campaign against British Rule was widespread yesterday in Northern Ireland and among officials Here and in the neighbouring Republic of Ireland. Officials continued to fear a backlash of sectarian Vio Lence for which both Catholic and protestant militants claim pre paring in their segregated neighbor hoods in Belfast and elsewhere in the province. See concern Page 4 Syria deploys soviet missiles to thwart israeli air strikes Beirut a Syria wheeled so Viet anti aircraft missiles into Lebanon to bolster its defences against israeli jets after they shot Down two syrian helicopters near the besieged Christian City of Zahl witnesses said. The missiles were deployed wednes Day in Eastern Lebanon s Bekaan Valley As israeli aircraft pounded palestinian guerrilla positions to the South along the israeli lebanese Frontier and the guerrillas fired at least two rocket salves Over the Border into the North pm Galilee. Palestinian gunners said one of the raiding jets was shot Down but Israel said All its planes returned safely. Witnesses said four tracked vehicles each equipped with three Sam-6 mis Siles were deployed South of the Rayak airbase in the Middle of East Lebanon s Bekaan Valley where the two syrian helicopters were downed. The israeli Jet attack yesterday hit palestinian mortar bases near Beau fort Castle about six Kilometres North of the israeli Border about noon. Four hours later a Salvo of rockets was fired into Israel s Western Galilee. There were no immediate reports of casualties either in the air attacks or shelling. Palestinian anti aircraft gun ners claimed they downed an israeli Jet in the air raid but Israel said All its planes returned safely. In Jerusalem the . Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis expressed the serious concern Washington has about recent military actions in Lebanon in a meeting with prime minister Mena chem begin United states officials said. But Israel radio said Lewis did not criticize Israel s shift to direct Mili tary intervention against the syrians tuesday when israeli jets downed the see Syria Page 4 baby Bonus a study says women should be eligible for Federal baby Bonus cheques As soon As a. 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