Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Friday. May 1, 1981 Britain accuses Ira of calculated terror Belfast a the hunger strike of Bobby Sands neared its grisly conclusion today As Britain bracing for the expected outbreak of violence Fol lowing his death accused the outlawed Ira of using the incident to stir a calculated cold blooded Campaign of terror. Meanwhile another jailed Irish re publican army guerrilla Frank Hughes received the last rites of the roman Catholic Church today and rela Tives said he was approaching death in the 46th Day of his hunger strike. Last rites have already been administered twice to Sand who was elected to the British parliament last month while serving a 14-year sentence in Maze prison near Belfast. British officials said the two men Are deteriorating at an alarming roman Catholic and protestant families stockpiled food in Belfast and elsewhere in the British ruled province in Case threatened violence Breaks out if one of the hunger strikers Dies. Residents of Catholic areas were pre paring to barricade streets should Vio Lence break out. Britain refusing anew to make con Cessions to the hunger strikers that would amount to granting political prisoner status to Ira guerrillas cautioned it would use All available Means to keep order. Sand s ability in London Northern Ireland Secre tary Humphrey Atkins said the militant provisional Wing of the largely Catholic Ira was conducting a calculated cold blooded Campaign to increase protestant Catholic feuding in Hopes of reaching its goal of uniting Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. Don t play the Ira s game or any one Atkins told the one million protestants and catholics of Northern Ireland. The Irish Republic is 97 per cent Catholic. A merger would make the protestants a minority. The Ira dismissed Atkins allegations As an attempt to divert attention from the hunger strike. Visitors to the Maze said the skeletal Sands 27, jailed for possessing arms has now lost All feeling in his Gums and Mouth while his body is racked by constant pain. They said Hughes 25, imprisoned for life for shooting a Soldier has difficulty speaking. Sands Mother Rosaleen said after visiting the prison that her son was prepared to die and doctors must not interfere. Two other guerrillas Raymond Mccreesh and Pat o Hara joined the hunger strike 40 Days ago but Visi tors said they were not in critical condition. All four hunger strikers have rejected a papal plea to end their fast. Rev. John Magee personal Secretary to Pope John Paul returned to Rome today after his three visits to the Maze this week failed to change the prison ers minds. Vetoes of sanctions May Spur Call for in Assembly session United nations Reuter the United nations faced the Prospect of a Call for an emergency session of Gener Al Assembly today after three Western members of the Security Council be Loed proposed sanctions against the White minority government in South Africa. The United states Britain and France cast a total of 12 vetoes to Block four resolutions from african countries that would have barred All diplomatic and economic relations with South Africa. The african states sought to punish South Africa for failing to implement a 1978 Independence plan for Namibia also known As South West Africa which Pretoria administers in Defiance of in decisions. Syria slows offensive into Central Lebanon Beirut Reuter Syria facing threats of retaliation from Israel appears to have slowed its offensive aimed at Flushing rightist Phala Gist militiamen out of Central Lebanon s strategic Heights lebanese sources said today the drive aimed at ensuring com plete syrian control of East Lebanon s Fertile Bekaan Valley prompted Israel to intervene by shooting Down two syrian helicopters on wednesday. Syria in turn responded to the air strike by Rushing soviet made ground to air missiles into Lebanon. But the sources said the troops from the All syrian Arab deterrent Force had also curbed the Campaign launched last weekend without securing the peaks in Lebanon s Central Highlands from the Phalanx its. They did manage to seize the most important Peak however the metre Tannin Mountain which Domi nates both the Bekaan and the Christian heartland to the West. Israel said it intervened in support of the christians because they were in danger of utter in the words of israeli prime minister Mena chem begin. The air strike and the subsequent positioning of sophisticated soviet mis Siles in the Bekaan by the syrians raised International fears of a wider Confron tation. 12 Trade birr Inifi sri lit a a m m with labor federation Toronto up a deep split in the Canadian labor movement was widened today with the announcement by 12 building trades unions that they intend to establish a new body to be called the Canadian federation of labor. James Mccambly executive Secre tary of the executive Board of the building trades said the new labor body plans to hold a founding Conven Tion in october. The move is a Complete break from the Canadian labor Congress which had told the 12 United states based building unions with Canadian members that they would be suspended if their . Headquarters did not pay More than today in dues withheld since last Spring. The unions began withholding their dues in an unsuccessful attempt to press the Congress to change its convention rules and to dismantle a rival building trades organization established by the Quebec federation of labor a Congress affiliate. But while exercising their vetoes the three Western Powers promised to continue efforts to strengthen the Unen Dorset plan which they themselves drafted together with Canada and West Germany by negotiating additional constitutional guarantees. The 5fl-country african group has rejected any deviation from the Origi Nal proposals calling for a ceasefire in the guerrilla War in the territory and unsupervised elections. If As expected the group now takes its fight to a special session of the general Assembly it will be the second time this year that the Assembly has discussed Namibia. Only the Security Council has the Power to order enforce ment actions. In the Security Council voting China East Germany Mexico niger Panama the Philippines Tunisia Uganda and fhe soviet Union supported All the resolutions while Ireland Spain and Japan abstained on two drafts. Japan alone abstained on another dealing with an Oil embargo. Negotiated settlement there were no abstentions on a final vetoed text to strengthen an existing arms embargo against South Africa. Jeane Kirkpatrick chief . Dele Gate reaffirmed Washington s determination to press for a negotiated Namibia settlement while expressing regret that the sanctions proposals had been presented. She said the foreign ministers of the five Western states concerned would meet in Rome next week to discuss the Issue. The next step will be the Prepa ration of specific proposals which we would Hope to discuss with the parties concerned in the near she said. Kirkpatrick said the . Had a Low regard for economic sanctions As an instrument of policy. She cited Washington s decision last week to lift the Grain embargo against the soviet Union that was imposed shortly after the soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Sir Anthony Parsons of Britain said he profoundly regretted that the Security Council had not been Able to main Tain its earlier Unity on the Namibia Issue. Here comes the Kipper submarine has opportune nicknamed the Kipper look around at Halifax yesterday after their sub became the first to enter the City s Harbor submerged. Acute situation in Manitoba blamed on much lower fees continued from Page 1 they basically do it on a shoestring. It s who s around at the last the general Hospital at the health sciences Centre is Short three anaesthetists and is Only running 10 of 12 operating rooms he said. The intensive care unit needs at least four and is operating with Only one anaesthetist and one internist he said. The situation is also tight at Miseri Cordia and Concordia hospitals which have shared anaesthesia services since last summer. The combined service is Short four people Duncan said Sig Enns Concordia executive director said yesterday the Hospital has been using two operating rooms during the Day but he says he has been told Only one will be serviced during the summer. Last summer Concordia was almost forced to close when it lost its two full time Anesther stilts. One retired and the other moved to the new seven Oaks Hospital. There Are 46 anaesthetists in the prov Ince 40 in Winnipeg and six in bran Don. Two years ago we started telling the government we were having a great Deal of difficulty with Duncan said. We Haven t recruited a single Manitoba graduate since we he said of the 17 potential recruits now in the province none have expressed a desire to remain Here. Duncan admits the shortage of Anes theists exists across the country but he said the problem is particularly acute in Manitoba where fees Are much lower. In Manitoba the average hourly rate for an anaesthetist is Between and in Alberta it s he said. Duncan said the members of the group Are loathe to opt out of medi care to obtain higher wages because unlike other specialists patients Are rarely Able to choose anaesthetists. But we feel that Many of us Are getting into a Corner and that May be the Only option open to he said. A Saia of me 17 potential recruits the Only option open to us he constitutional striation is Legal supreme court told Gerard Mcneil left lawyer John Scollin Chat near bust of chief Justice sir Lymon Poore Duff 4 continued from Page 1 Justice Martland asked Robinette if he was contending that convention can never evolve into Law and Robinette was forced to admit that Only in this Case is he making that argument. As Justice Martland pressed Robin Ette chief Justice Laskin called off the Day s work because the court was past its 4 . End of session. Earlier chief Justice Laskin s questioning was so Tough he All but Des troyed the Case made by a lawyer arguing for the four nations confederacy of Manitoba indians. He forced lawyer d Arcy Mccaffrey to change completely the direction of his arguments and at various times lecture him like a Schoolboy for what he appeared to see As a waste of the court s time. Old arguments Mccaffrey had structured his Case to make a series of arguments leading to a conclusion. Chief Justice Laskin forced him to give the conclusion first and then dismissed various sections of the arguments As old or repetitive. In the end the four nations argument was similar to an earlier argument made by Manitoba although it also consisted of a Strong Advance attack on potential Federal positions. Mccaffrey said later the reason his Case had nothing to do with indians or Indian rights was that he was required to address the three questions under Appeal. The third question placed before the court was whether provincial consent for constitutional change to required. The question omits the reference to convention in the second question. Most of the provinces Are Basing their Case on Manitoba s argument that the nation is a Federal state created at the will of the provinces Sovereign within their own sphere and not subject to having their Powers diminished by the Federal government without consent. Robinette has asserted that the provincial consent is not legally required but part of his argument was scheduled for today. The Federal lawyer argued however that it is because the Federal proposal is a Resolution rather than a statute that it carries its technical legality. If it were a statute it could be challenged in the courts and when the present Resolution is passed by the British parliament and enacted As the Canadian Constitution it can be challenged on a Legal basis. Once it is a statute then 4t can be challenged As taking Powers beyond which it should be allowed Robinette said. But that has not happened yet. On the question of provincial consent Robinette quoted Legal scholar w. T. M. Kennedy i do not think there is the slightest necessity in Law for parliament to consult the he said. It May be very Good politics but politics is not the Law the function of a court is to decide upon questions of Robinette told the justices. The reference procedure is meant to Deal with Legal matters and not matters which although of very great importance Are of political or possibly Aca Demic Robinette said. Saskatchewan s Case contained an aspect which could tempt the court. In making his Case that Only a reasonable measure of consent among the provinces is required for constitutional change Lysyk argued that it is not up to the supreme court to define that measure of consent immediately. The result is that the provinces and the Federal government would go to the court to find out whether what they came up with was a reasonable Mea sure of consent. Lysyk did t say it but his proposal would make the supreme court part of the amending formula and would also increase the court s Power. Robinette argued that Lysyk s proposal would put the court in a difficult position. Lysyk s argument for recognition of a convention requiring a reasonable level of provincial consent counters the argument that a convention should not be written in Stone on this basis Bedrock principle although constitutional convention ebbs and flows there is a Bedrock principle which is not changeable. That principle is that there must be some reasonable measure of provincial consent. Chief Justice Laskin told Lysyk that convention is not something with which the court unlike com Mon Law which he said was our convention is a political he qualified the comments by saying they were part of a question and questions Are designed to probe rather than express opinion. Chief Justice Laskin said convention by definition is changeable and flexible. Saskatchewan was asking the court to Nail it Down or Lodge it in Cement he added ;