Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 72 Winnipeg free press wednesday june teamsters veto ethics watchdog Crimmins jury weighs confession Las vegas Nev. A in an emotional response to the . Govern ment indictment of interim teamsters president Roy Lee Williams Conven Tion delegates have rejected overwhelmingly a proposal that the Union police itself with an ethics committee. Resentment Over the bribery conspiracy charge and an earlier Senate investigative report accusing Williams of being a tool of organized crime burst onto the convention floor yesterday when Union dissidents pushed for Crea Tion of an ethics committee. In the bitter debate that ensued among the delegates a member of the teamsters for a democratic Union add suggested top officers have something to hide by opposing such a committee. Diana Kumura a dissident team Ster from the Union s Vancouver ., affiliate sought approval of the ethics committee on behalf of the thu fac Tion. International vice president Edward Lawson of Vancouver said he had a better idea for an ethical practices Board one that would Stop the thu and its Convoy Magazine from print ing All the lies and distortions about the officials of this he promised that if the thu will Stop telling lies about us Well Stop telling the truth about the Williams 66, was indicted earlier this year on Federal charges of conspiring to bribe senator Howard Cannon dem. Nev in connection with a Las vegas land transaction when the Union was fighting a trucking deregulation Bill. Williams says he is not guilty Cannon was not indicted. In other business delegates voted substantial pay raises for the top Union officers. Williams expected to be named to a full five year term during the Conven Tion got a salary increase to 000 a year from Williams became head of the Union after the death of president Frank Fitzsimmons earlier this year. Secretary treasurer Ray schoessling s salary was raised to from and the 18 International vice presidents got hefty pay raises. New York a Craig Crim mins s alleged confession to killing Ca Nadian violinist Helen Hagnes Mintiks at the metropolitan opera House is very compelling a prosecutor told the jury on the last Day of arguments in Crimmins s murder trial. But the defence has called the confession acting state supreme court Justice Richard Denzer was scheduled to charge the seven woman five Man jury on the Law today with deliberations to follow. The jury will consider two counts intentional murder and felony Mur Der. The 22-year-old stagehand is charged with the murder last july 23 of Mintiks 31, a native of Aldergrove Who was performing As a free Lance musician with the Berlin Ballet at the Plush Lincoln Centre opera House. She was last was seen during an intermission that night. Her nude bound and gagged body was found the next Day. Crimmins a High school dropout employed As a stagehand at the opera House was arrested last aug. 30. Before his arrest he was said to have confessed to forcing Mintiks off a Back stage elevator and later killing her. Those admissions and police behaviour in obtaining them have been in soldiers lower coffin of body of Ziaur Rahman former Bangladesh president during funeral services yesterday in Dacca. Slain Bangladesh president mourned conflicting accounts issued on deaths of three leaders of failed rebellion the Washington Post Dacca Bangladesh hundreds of thousands of mourners streamed through the streets of this crowded dirt poor capital yesterday in a funeral procession for slain president Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh and the government announced the deaths of three leaders of the abortive rebellion that took his life. The burial of the assassinated presi Dent capped an outpouring of grief for a Leader widely regarded Here As a vital driving Force behind efforts to develop a country that Henry Kissinger once called an International leadership vacuum the death of Ziaur or Zia As he was known in Bangladesh leaves a Leader ship vacuum that could eventually Lead to a struggle for Power and reduce the degree of political stability he had established bangladeshi and Western sources said. Combined with a level ing off of International development Aid this year the sources said Zia s Mur Der also casts a gloomy pall Over prospects for continuing the country s painfully slow but steady economic Progress of recent years. In addition the loss of the authoritarian but generally popular president has Laid Bare some old unresolved rivalries that have been festering within the armed forces since the country s War of Independence from Pakistan in 1971. Hours after yesterday s funeral pro cession and burial the government reported the arrests of 17 army officers John Paul taken offinet venous antibiotics Cut Rome a Pope John Paul s doctors took him off intravenous feed ing yesterday and reduced the Quantity of drugs he has been receiving since the attempt on his life nearly three weeks ago Vatican radio reported. The Pope met with Vatican Secretary of state Agostino Casaroli who had just returned from Warsaw where he represented the Pope at the funeral of polish primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. John Paul had received intravenous feeding As a supplement to the Normal diet of food he has been on for some 10 Days. The pontiff had also been receiving substantial quantities of antibiotics to prevent infection. Or. Francesco Crucitti one of the Pope s surgeons has said that while the pontiff s recovery is constant he must still undergo a second operation to close the artificial anal opening in the Colon made at the time he under went surgery after being shot. It is surgery and carries with it certain Crucitti said. He said the operation was not expected to be under taken for about three weeks. Allegedly involved in the two Day take Over of the Southern port City of Chitta Gong. A communique also announced the measures to punish those responsible for Zia s murder and disclosed that authorities Are seeking an unspecified number of accomplices who Are still the statement said an inquiry court and a Field general court martial have been set up to identify and try the culprits responsible for the brutal kill ing of president Ziaur Rahman the government announcement added some conflicting detail to an offi Cial radio Bangladesh broadcast tues Day morning that reported the death of the rebel commander . Man Zur Ahmed. The initial report said angry soldiers killed Manzur As he was being brought Back to Chittagong Fol lowing his capture near a Village North of the City. Exchange of fire the later announcement said two of Manzur s both Lieuten ant colonels also died in the at tack. It said that some agitated armed people tried to snatch them As they were being taken under guard to the Chittagong Cantonment or Garri son. The announcement said an Exchange of fire ensued Between the at tackers and the guards during which Manzur was shot and wounded. He died on the Way to the Hospital and his two aides were killed on the spot the communique said. According to a Well informed bangladeshi source however Manzur was shot inside the Chittagong Cantonment by fellow soldiers about . Mon Day two hours after he was captured along with his wife and three children and the two army officers in a thatched hut 17 Miles North of the port City. The source said Manzur had been about to open fire on police when one of them grabbed his daughter As a hostage. Government spokesmen were not immediately Able to confirm or deny a report that the wife daughter and two Young sons were subsequently killed. Bangladesh government officials and other sources generally agreed however that Manzur s motives i launching the rebellion appear to be personal rather than political. It was widely reported that Manzur a hero along with the Zia in the 1971 War against dispute throughout the trial. Defence attorney Lawrence Hoch Heiser contends Crimmins is a slow witted suggestible individual whose phoney confession was coerced by detectives who put words in his assistant District attorney Roger Hayes in his three hour summation yesterday called the confession very Strong very powerful and very com Pelling Hayes challenged the jurors to throw the Case out if they believed the defence Contention that police lied when they said Crimmins s confession was voluntary. Crimmins faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison if convicted. . Prepared to sell f-16s to venezuelans Sattar interim Leader Pakistan had deeply resented a scheduled Transfer from his command Posi Tion in Chittagong to an Job in Dacca As army staff College commandant. According to foreign and bangladeshi sources Manzur regarded As a Brilliant but extremely ambitious officer had been angry with Zia since 1979, when the president transferred him to Chittagong in what was seen As a move to keep him out of the Way. Felt slighted Manzur also reportedly had Felt slighted by Zia s appointment of it. Gen. H. M. Ershad As army chief of staff instead of him. The resentments boiled Over into an angry argument Between Zia and Man Zur at the Chittagong Cantonment Only hours before the attack that killed the touring president sources said. Manzur 43, an intellectual among officers with a masters degree to economics from Dacca University was politically hard to classify sources said. During his student Days he had been considered pro peking but he later established relations with the islamic fundamentalists who constitute a key Force in Bangladesh politics one official said. Although vice president Abdus sat tar has officially taken Over As acting president in place of Zia Ershad now is effectively wielding Power be Hind the scenes bangladeshi sources said. Another source called Sattar 75, a very frail old Man who is clearly an interim . Times news service Washington the Reagan administration is on the Brink of approving the Sale of f-16 advanced fighter aircraft to Venezuela a step that would reverse Long standing american policy against the introduction of sophisticated arms in latin America government officials said yesterday. The venezuelan air Force has Al ready test flown the plane according to . Officials and has tentatively asked to Purchase a Squadron of Between 16 and 24 planes. Officials isaid the Sale would reflect the administration s intent to expand the Circle of nations permitted to buy advanced arms. In past administrations advanced aircraft were sold to Only a limited number of allies and friends including Iran Israel and saudi Arabia. Reagan stand backed senior officials said that Venezuela s interest in buying f-16s was viewed sympathetically because the govern ment of president Luis Herrera Cam Pinas was democratic and moderate and has been supportive of United states policy in latin America and the Caribbean. Specifically officials said Herrera has actively supported the Reagan administration s efforts to help the government in Al Salvador resist armed opposition from the left and right. Officials Here also cited Venezuela s importance As a major supplier of Oil to the United states. Some doubts about the Sale were raised in the state department. Concern was focused primarily on How the Sale of f-16s to Venezuela would jibe with the administration s Overall arms Transfer policy and How it would influence the regional arms balance in latin America. The arms Transfer policy outlined two weeks ago in a speech by James l. Buckley undersecretary for Security assistance emphasizes the use of weapon sales As a legitimate instrument of foreign policy. The administration also intends to review arms trans fers on a country by country basis rather than establishing Broad rules to govern sales. Two weeks ago two senior venezuelan officials visited Washington meet ing with vice president George Bush Secretary of state Alexander Haig and Frank Carlucci Deputy Secretary of defence. Administration officials said at that time that Sale of the planes was discussed though the matter had been under consideration for several months. Judge said drop so he did Vancouver Wash. A Julian m. Lamadrid 40, did As he was told walking to the Centre of the courtroom and dropping his pants. Later that Day he was found innocent of rape charges. Lamadrid was wearing a bathing suit beneath his Street clothes when he Fol Lowed the order of judge Robert Harris in Clark county Superior court last wednesday. The purpose was to show the jurors in his trial on second and third degree rape charges the straps holding his artificial leg in place and the rebuilt Heel and inflexible toes on his other foot. Defence lawyer Darrell Lee said he wanted to show that Lamadrid would have had a difficult time carrying a woman Down a hallway to a bedroom As he was charged with doing in a feb. 5 incident involving his former girl Friend 25. Deputy prosecutor Art Bennett said the courtroom display was merely an Effort to win sympathy. Lamadrid said the couple did have sex that Day but he denied using Force. He was convicted of assault for having slapped the woman. Suicide murder couple tired of life on the run Tucson Ariz. A a couple who died with their two Small children and a teen age girl in an apparent suicide pact left a note saying they decided to end their lives because they were tired of running from the Law police said yesterday. But homicide detectives said the Only record they could find on either Bruce Mckinley 28, or his wife Mary Joe 25, was an old warrant for the husband concerning acquisition of narcotics Over the counter without a prescription. In Denver the Post said a woman with the same name As the wife was wanted in 1978 for questioning in connection with Possession of narcotics for personal use. Authorities said it appeared that the Mckinley and their children each had been shot in the head by a .22-calibre Rifle. The other victim was identified As Dana e. Greenup 15, of Seattle who police said had been living with the Mckinley for Over a year. Their bodies were found monday in a room at the Frontier Motel by manager Richard Mccrory who said mrs. Mckinley registered last Friday using a false name and address. He said the five went out for meals and just seemed like they were Stop Ping off for a few Days on their Way police sgt. Mike Walsh said preliminary investigations indicate one per son killed the other four and then committed suicide after first entering into a pact to end their 50 quitting jobs getting ready to be lifted to heaven june 28 Tucson Ariz. A fifty Mem Bers of a Tucson religious group say they expect to be physically lifted to heaven to be with god on june 28. Oooo glory i get Bliss just think ing about said Bill Maupin spirit Ual Leader of the fundamentalist Lighthouse gospel tract foundation. Maupin and others said Bible study has convinced them that the second coming of Christ will take place in 1988. They however said they be Lieve they already will be in heaven. We re not just going to some Mountain hideaway we re leaving the Maupin said. This is known As rapture. And when rapture takes place the people not saved will be Able to see us being saved. There s no such thing As a secret in preparation for the event the 50 members have quit their jobs and Dis posed of some of their property. John Vickers 32, quit his Job As a commercial Glass worker and is Liv ing off the Money from the Sale of his Home. He and other members of the group said they have donated their remaining Money to the group to spread its word. My main concern is for others and i would like to be Able to give that to Vickers said. Mideast War i be never known such peace such said or. James Mccullough a doctor who was brought into the group by former award winning bodybuilder Bert Seelman who said he is cutting his training to save his strength for the lifting of spirits. Using biblical references to events expected to precede the rapture Maupin predicts that after a War in the Mideast the world will be Domin ated by a multinational Power headed by an american anti Christ until Christ returns in May 1988. But before then Maupin said be Lievers will be transported to heaven. Maupin said those remaining on Earth after june 28 will have to decide Between going into league with the Devil thereby assuring their Eter Nal damnation professing Faith in Jesus. But one does not have to believe in the june 28 Date to experience the rapture Maupin said. True believers in Christ including the dead Are All eligible he said. And what if the group is not lifted into heaven on june 28? i can t even answer a question like said Maupin. Come Back and see us on june 29 and Well talk about it we re ready for the said labourer bub Bowman. My Little one sort of wants a three Wheeler be fore it happens but we re ready to not All of the 50 Are so fully con Vinced. Jerry Walker co owner of a Tucson want and newspaper said he Hopes the others Are right and that his uncertainty probably results from my own inability to interpret the Desai claims India did t test a bomb new Delhi a Hornier prime minister Morarji Desai yesterday claimed that India s 1974 test explosion which led to cancellation of Canadian nuclear Aid was not nuclear As reported but was a powerful conventional blast. India s atomic Energy authority dismissed the claim. It was something like dynamite but More Desai said. Desai told reporters his feeling that the 1974 blast was non nuclear was based not on documents he had seen As prime minister from 1977 to 1979 but on the Lack of fallout. If there had been a nuclear explosion there must have been a fallout which there was fhe former prime minister said. A spokesman of the Indian atomic Energy commission dismissed Desai s statement As the funniest thing i have heard so the Indian government officially de scribed the May 1974, blast in the great Indian desert As a peaceful nuclear explosion Experiment at a depth of More than 100 foreign governments including those with sophisticated instruments Able to detect nuclear explosions concluded that the blast was nuclear and Many said it Means India has the capacity to produce atomic weapons. The 1974 test prompted Canada to Cut off Aid to India s atomic Energy pro Gram. While in office Desai once told parliament he regretted the 1974 test and said it had Cost India dearly in terms of credibility As. A country dedicated to peace and non violence. He said he stood by a statement he once made at the United nations that India should not possess atomic weapons even if the rest of the world has them. Prime minister Indira Gandhi and other leaders have said India must Reserve the right to reconsider its renunciation of such arms if for exam ple neighbor Pakistan becomes a nuclear weapons Power ;