Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, June 29, 1981

Issue date: Monday, June 29, 1981
Pages available: 92
Previous edition: Saturday, June 27, 1981

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free press monday june Gromyko being sent to Poland Warsaw a the soviet Union is sending foreign minister Andrei Gromyko to Poland presumably to Tell leaders of the polish communist party where they should draw the line at the party Congress next month. Tass the official soviet news Agency said Gromyko was invited by the polish party s Central committee for a Brief Friendly he s Likely to go there and Lay Down the line As to what is accept Able to the said a Western Diplomat in Moscow. He May be carrying new threats with in Poznan meanwhile Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa yesterday told poles we have had enough of he said the same thing at a similar ceremony last thursday in Radom commemorating food Price riots there in 1976. The throng had gathered for a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Poznan riots against a tax increase the first mass protest against communist leadership that took Over Poland in 1944. Government officials were present along with roman Catholic prelates and Walesa for the unveiling of a Monument to those killed in the riots. The government put the toll at 53 dead but the unofficial count was 74. Soviet officials have sharply criticized polish party chief Stanislaw Kania and other leaders for their concessions to the demands from the labor movement and the party rank and file for democratic reforms. The party Congress opening july suspects held in deaths one woman was beaten to death and another stabbed to death in unrelated incidents in the Portage la Prairie area during the weekend. Ramp said Dennis Joseph Malcolm of the Sandy Bay Indian Reserve was to appear in court in Portage this morning charged with Sec Ond degree murder in the death Early yesterday of Vir Ginia Roulette 38, also of Sandy Bay. A male suspect is also in custody for the beating death of a woman 33, of Portage la Prairie. Ramp said the woman sustained fatal in juries in an incident in por Tage at about . Fri Day. She died at health sciences Centre in Winnipeg at . Saturday. No names have been re leased in the Friday Inci dents. We be had enough of Walesa tells throng commemorating Poznan riots. 14, is expected to approve the re Monist party Congress that was sex forms made so far and decide Wyeth petted to support the Liberal commuter there will be More despite the nist leaders who had taken Over the threat of soviet military intervention. There has been speculation in Moscow that More soviet troops May be moved into Poland before the con Gress convenes. This was done in Czechoslovakia in 1968 before a Corn party and who later were ousted by the soviet invasion. Gromyko will be the first top ranking soviet official to visit Poland since the Kremlin s chief Idolo Gist Mikhail Suslov met polish Lead ers in late april. Soviet officials have been particularly critical of the election process for delegates to the party Congress one of the reforms agreed to As a result of the country wide unrest that began last summer. Nominations from the rank and file Are permit Ted something unheard of in the soviet bloc and the election is by secret ballot. The spirit s growing on Sale starts monday june 29th Sale ends saturday july 4th the downtown Winnipeg association presents an. Saturday july4th 9a.m-sp.rn. Over 80 stores and services free bus service 9a.m.-11 . Free meter parking entertainment for All a comfortable music room with stand up bar wine by the Glass continues with the Billy Graham Trio. Featured july 2 4, jazz vocalist Bobbi Sherron sets nightly until 1 am 2 am thurs. To sat. C g vegetable Oil West. 3 litre cheese slices process Reg. Or thin individual slices Coop. 1 pkg facial tissue asst. Colors zoo a scotties pkg. Dessert Mac the financing people from general motors and your participating pm dealer May be Able to relieve your worries Abonit High interest rates on new 1980-1981 models. See your pm dealer before july Mac and Csc Light duty trucks grapes wieners Green California can. No. 1, la. Reg. Pride of Canada vac. Pak. 1 la ;