Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 4, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press monday May 4, 1981 of photo czech Pilot Vaclav Otahal his wife Eva and son Petr Are seen in an austrian police car after their flight to freed ont soviets retake Afghanistan City Hundred of casualties reported after brutal offensive against moslem rebels in Kandahar from the news services from the news services new Delhi hundreds of dead and wounded Are reported in Kanda har Afghanistan s second largest City after a brutal soviet offensive against moslem resistance fighters entrenched there for several weeks. Refugees fleeing across the Bor Der into Pakistan said yesterday that after 48 hours of heavy bloodshed the soviet Union appeared to have effectively retaken control of Kanda har a City of nearly people. They were quoted As saying that the soviet offensive began late last wednesday or Early thursday with Aerial bombardment of guerrilla positions throughout the City. Fearing even greater loss of life because of the ruthless nature of the onslaught the guerrillas pulled out and went into the surrounding mountains. General s son slain san Salvador a gunman shot and killed the son of a right Wing army general As he was entering a Church yesterday authorities reported. Witnesses said a Man with a pistol approached Jose Ernesto Medrano 28, near the Entrance of a Baptist Church in northeastern san Salvador and fired several shots at Point Blank Range. Medrano is a son of Gen. Jose Alberto Medrano. Airline executive resigns Auckland air new zealand s chief executive Morrie Davis resigned today one week after publication of a report which blamed the airline for a plane crash in the Antarctic in which All 257 people aboard died. The report by the one Man Royal commission of inquiry or. Justice Peter Mahon said the air new zealand news Roundup dc-10 crashed into mount Erebus on Ross Island in november 1979, because the airline had changed its computer flight path without telling the Crew. Mahon also accused airline officials of lying and withholding information at a subsequent inquiry. Iran holding . Ship London Iran is holding a seismographic ship belonging to a Texas based research company after the ves Sel apparently strayed into the persian Gulf War zone company officials re ported yesterday. They said Kuwait which hired the ship is seeking its release. The ship the 247-ton, 47-metre-Long Western sea and its Crew of 19 most of them British were escorted thurs Day to the iranian port of Bushehry on the Southwest coast of Iran said Damir Skerl a vice president for Western geophysical co. Family flies to Freedom Vienna a czechoslovak family of three flew into Austria in a Low flying crop dusting plane yesterday to evade radar surveillance and applied for political Asylum austrian authorities said. The plane with agricultural Pilot Vaclav Otahal 35, at the. Controls landed in a Clover Field near Grasdorf North of said Otahal his wife Eva 25, and sorr Petr 7, were taken to a refugee Camp after their 50-minute flight from Vaclov Czecho Slovakia. Csc struck pickets out in City continued from Page 1 was left to the Union s seven member negotiating committee he said. Neil Traynor a Union spokesman in Vancouver said the network earlier this month turned Down a conciliator s recommendation on a two year con tract which would give the technicians a 12-per-cent raise in the first year and a 10-per-cent increase in the second year. Smith said the network has offered 10 per cent during the first year and 10.5 per cent in the second year of the contract. Technicians in the Union earn be tween and technician announcers and announcer operators in the Union earn Between and and building Trade groups in the Union earn Between and Smith said. A major Issue in the dispute is Job Security Lowe said. He said Csc wants to contract More film work to freelance producers. Smith said the network is asking for More flexibility in areas of contract ing out procurement of commission ing of and co production of pro he said the network wants the right to schedule non Union technicians adding the network has guaranteed in writing there will be no erosion of in House production and not one Union Job Csc s Quebec operations also were hit sunday by a general walkout of technicians. A recent series of walkouts by the technicians who Are involved in a separate labor dispute has prompted radio Canada Csc s French language network to give up rights to broadcast nil playoff games on its National French language service and its English outlets in Quebec. The network agreed sunday night to a Union demand that it broadcast the Semi final playoff game Between Minnesota North stars and Calgary flames from Minnesota with no commercial interruptions. At the conclusion of the game television screens tuned to Csc in Eastern Canada went Blank. Vic Lluu wc11l ult left. Peace trip Broadbent s first big foreign task continued from Page 1 the peace Mission will be Broad Bent s first major diplomatic assign ment since the former academic be came nip Leader in 1975. Broadben said he contacted the Ca Nadian government on the weekend to inform it of his Mission. External affairs minister Mark Macguigan has said Ottawa deplores Mili tary intervention by foreign Powers in Al Salvador. However he has refused to criticize american involvement. During an nip initiated commons debate on Al Salvador March 10, Macguigan said we Are prepared to contest the . Policy of military Aid but not to protest the debate was held on the eve of Reagan s visit to Ottawa. In an address april 25 to a special conference in Ottawa on Al Salvador Broadbent termed the Canadian government position hypocritical. The Liberal government s policy is clearly one of acquiescence to the exis tence of the Junta it is clearly acquiescent to the . Military Assis Tance to the Junta it is clearly Hydro Broadbent told the Confer ence. Broadbent announced his peace mis Sion at the end of a weekend meeting of the nip Federal Council the party s governing body Between conventions. The Council had just been presented with a major foreign policy review prepared by Pauline Jewett nip external affairs critic and my for the Vancouver area Riding of new West Minster Coquitlam. Broadbent said there was no connection Between his Mission and any at tempt by the party to involve itself More in foreign affairs. Broadbent had been criticized during the last Federal election Campaign for a reticence to discuss key external affairs and de Fence questions. Jewett s policy review will be debated at an nip policy convention july 2-5 in Vancouver and will not be made Public until More party officials have studied her resolutions Broadbent said. Greyhound buses rolling As strike ends civic workers of pact Vancouver outside civic work ers in Vancouver have reconsidered their earlier rejection and voted 72-per cent approval of a new contract. City garbage collectors and labourers had been the Only groups in the greater Vancouver regional District to reject the proposed contract which1 was worked out Early last monday. Oner limps to Miami Miami Fla. The troubled cruise liner is Norway limped toward port on half Power yesterday accompanied by two smaller sister ships after a break Down that becalmed the vessel and left her passengers without fresh water and electricity for 24 hours. Calgary up greyhound buses started rolling again across Western Canada today after a 12-Day strike by about Drivers terminal and maintenance workers. Greyhound ticket offices in Winnipeg were reopened at . Today. The first buses Between Toronto and Vancouver were Back on the Road Early today after workers ratified a 32.6 per cent wage increase Over three years plus a Cost of living clause. The agreement ended the first strike by employees of greyhound lines of Canada Ltd. Since the amalgamated transit Union won collective bargain ing rights in 1947. It left about 400 buses on a network of routes West of Sudbury ont., Idle the first bus from Calgary was to leave at . Cd for Regina and Winnipeg. In an Effort to regain passengers the Calgary based company a subsidiary of .-based greyhound lines inc., announced a special thank you Sale slashing All ticket prices by 50 per cent Between next Friday and May 14. For round trips the return leg of the trip must fall Between May 21 and 27. We were concerned initially that we could run into a Long said greyhound vice president Bruce Tyson. So we Are Happy to offer our full service again after a relatively Short the settlement was hammered out late thursday when Tyson made sever Al last minute concessions while the Union was on the verge of breaking off negotiations. Bob Saarinen president of the amalgamated transit Union said the com Pany s new offer was ratified by a 709-to-292 vote or a 70.8-per-cent majority. But Saarinen admitted not All Mem Bers were pleased with the Settle ment. British Columbia members rejected it by 54 per cent. Frank Smorong chairman of the Winnipeg Branch of the Union said members Here voted overwhelmingly to accept the new pact. Only three of the Union s 123 members in the City voted against the new contract. The strikers gained three per cent More in wages by their walkout plus the reinstatement of the Cost of living clause the company wanted to cancel after nearly 30 years. Wages will increase 10 per cent in each year or 33.2 per cent compounded Over the three years and the Cost of living increment will be paid As soon As the consumer Price Index reaches 33.2 per cent above december 1980. In 1981 this will give top Drivers 39.ss cents per mile As of last Jan. 1 or about in 1981 for their average Kilometres Miles of work a year plus a fixed four per cent for meal allowances. Top Drivers will earn about a year when the contract expires dec. 30, 19s3. First class mechanics will get an hour this year and reach by 1983. Coach cleaners will make and top ticket clerks about an hour this year. By Saarinen said Many members Are disappointed that the Union failed to make significant gains in fringe Bene fits and the rejection vote in . Indicates members there Are also unhappy with the wage package. The Only gain in fringe benefits said Saarinen is Valentine s Day As paid starting in 1983. We did receive some important Lan Guage changes which will provide greater Job Protection for our drive Saarinen said. Hijacker described As apparently mad botched nose surgery gets million award continued from Page 1 described by officials As apparently Downey is being held at regional police Headquarters in nearby Lille. Authorities there said Downey could appear before a judge today but declined to provide further information. A crack French anti terrorist squad used trickery saturday night to distract and overpower the Short Stocky Dow Ney who had hijacked an Are lingus Boeing 737 with 113 people aboard As it approached London s Heathrow air port after a flight from Dublin. Holding plastic bottles apparently filled with gasoline Downey 55, a native of Perth Australia ordered the Pilot to Fly to be Touquet Airport 195 Kilometres North of Paris to be re fuelled for a flight to Iran. On orders from Downey piloted Ward Foyle opened his cockpit window after Landing in France and tossed out a nine Page message entitled the third secret of the message began a former Trappist Monk from a monastery in Rome reveals after 20 years How a simple punch in the nose of his Superior which led to his excommunication and expulsion from the cloister be came the Means whereby the greatest secret of All time was made a resident of Dublin since 1978, Dow Ney entered the ancient tre Fontane monastery in Rome in 1950, where the monks live under a strict Rule of silence and fast frequently. Monastery officials said Downey left the order in 1954. Downey said in his message that after leaving Rome he worked As a tour guide at the shrine of our lady of the Rosary of Fatima in Portugal. The Virgin Mary is said to have Chicago a a woman left a speechless quadriplegic after cosmetic surgery on her nose was awarded million in damages and her Hus band million for her medical care after she testified the one thing she wants is for her pain to Stop. The 12 circuit court jurors never heard Eileen Tannebaum describe her condition aloud testified by making High pitched sounds meaning yes or no As a therapist pointed to a Board with 64 words. Tannebaum 46, of suburban High land Park iii., testified for about five minutes Flat on her Back in a bed. Doctors said Tannebaum s arms and legs were permanently paralysed after her brain was deprived of oxygen during surgery in 1975 at Northwest Hospital. She was awarded damages of million by the jury saturday and her husband Louis 51, was awarded million for her medical care. Their lawyer John Hayes said he believes the million amount is the largest personal injury award in Illinois. The woman has been confined to bed since the nose surgery. In court Tannebaum was asked if you could have one thing in the world what would it with the help of the words on the Board she replied Stop the jury s decision followed a 57-Day trial before circuit judge Jerome Lerner. Tannebaum and her husband filed suit against the Hospital or. Arthur Broder 46, a plastic surgeon or. Murray Rosenberg 55, an Anaesthesiologist and Norma Nicola a nurse. The nurse was found innocent. During the trial Hayes said the medical error occurred near the completion of the nose surgery. She has a Beautiful nose and that s about the Only Beautiful thing he said during his closing argument Hayes called the incident a Clear Case of malpractice which has destroyed a woman s life. The family has spent about on medical Bills Hayes said adding the paralysis makes Tannebaum subject to frequent painful spasms. Her mental facilities were unaffected he said. Louis Tannebaum 51, feeds his wife Eileen 46, at their Home saturday after court decision Downey an sex Trappist Monk appeared to three children in Fatima six times in 1917 and to have told them three secrets. One of the children was Lucia Dos Santos now 74 and a carmelite nun living near Coimbra in Central Portu Gal. In 1942, she wrote an account of the apparitions which was Given to the Pope. Two of the secrets have been revealed. The third has not. The first described a vision of hell and the second predicted Bluit a strange Light would appear in the sky to forewarn of a War. Believers in the Fatima apparitions contend a strange sky illumination in Europe in 1938 Ful filled the second secret by forecasting the Start of the second world War. There has been speculation among some believers that the third secret is a detailed prophecy of another global War or of the end of the world. Some catholics prepared to flee continued from Page i de late yesterday through the streets of lame in county Antrim. Kev. Ian Paisley s protestant demo cratic unionist party announced it would hold a memorial service for All the forgotten victims of Ira violence on the Day of Sands s funeral. There is a run on canned goods in grocery stores. Some Catholic families Are reported to have packed their bags ready to flee to the Irish Republic. Sands sentenced to 14 years in prison for Possession of firearms and the other hunger strikers demand that convicted Ira members Wear their own clothes instead of prison uniforms be exempt from prison work freely with each other in prison be allowed More mail and visitors and get lost parole time restored. The British government rejected the demands because they would constitute recognition of the Ira As a legitimate political organization instead of the illegal terrorist army the government says it is ;