Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, August 20, 1981

Issue date: Thursday, August 20, 1981
Pages available: 83
Previous edition: Wednesday, August 19, 1981

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Gimli to Host Antiterrorist driving school by Kevin Prokosh a for Tom tace welds tafe of it tripe and m Smalt of Gimli has Jeen Chesaw As the site of an International Amiter Rof 1st driving school designed to teach the wealthy and powerful How to elude the first group of students enrolling in the Eeurise taught by american Tony sati Are eight employees of the Cana Dian external affairs department in South America was arrive corporate businessmen and govern ment officials for Oft around the Globe Are expected in Manitoba to take part in Leottis Security the school in Gimli will join ones in Florida and in teaching executives and their Drivers How to react to saults and trained in by the air Force and who subsequently became a successful race ear his intensive five Day course costs proximately for each of the Murn eight students per his school also has Mobile training units which have taught executives in Guatemala and some critics of Scotti dismiss his James band on the movie Chris Gray of one of the organizers of the driving school in said Serotti has a lived testimonials that his course has practical Gray said a sceptical student from the Middle East told Scotti that he thought the course was worthless and believed hed forget everything within weeks months later he turned a Corner and found the Road blocked by two men armed with machine Scotti without even thinking he did a fast Mirn and escaped with Tinty a couple of Bullet holes in the rear said ii Atli won out Over other areas cause of its geographical ideation Aid Access to a ear Racetrack 1m said he said that Winnipeg is a major Centre where people from All Over the world can quietly pass through Gray explained business executives from the Middle for dont like to be stuck in Large airports like Kennedy in new York or Mirabel outside Here they can Fly in and go directly to Gim Liall very Low said see Drivers Page 4 soul Dpi Avert Manitoba Kussat Surner tonight 14 sunny tomorrow 29 August 1661 vol 109 no 220 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 0 final 250 9s70550 v 9562330 class mail registration number 0266 Wayne Erie press Bullseye faces of pedestrians show concern after 4 steel beam by unidentified woman left the beam fell from the top weighing 27 kilograms fell five storeys yesterday and crashed of the National Cash Register undergoing through the Windshield of an unoccupied automobile owned at 1619 Pembina no one was Kent report sent to new task Force multiculturalism minister Hopes to receive recommendations by fall by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press minister responsible for the Kent commission report on newspapers said yesterday he Hopes to bring recommendations to Cabinet this but one of the commissioners warned the government May decide to ignore a proposal to Force newspaper chains to divest themselves of some multiculturalism minister Jim Flem ing would not be tied to a fixed deadline for action and refused to say what he thinks about the reports he has ordered a task Force of civil servants to study the Kent report in detail before he makes recommendations to Laurent one of three commission members said in an that if the government drops any recommendations from the one of the things will Likely be the idea of forcing a former president of the said the divestment proposals will face problems because people became owners of these newspapers in a perfectly legitimate theres a possibility of i think everybody sees the potential unfairness in forcing someone to divest himself of something legitimately a the report said companies which own a newspaper and a broadcast outlet in the same City should divest themselves of one or the it also recommended divestment where a company owns More than one newspaper in the same geographically distinct As the commission said no Northern Medicine Man inundated by letters from people seeking cures by Bob Lowery Winnipeg press Cross Lake John Paniel Black Smith is getting a Little bit sick of the Healing a Story appeared in the press a year about his local reputation As a Medicine Blacoe said he his been inundated with Yoa really got Roe into some trouble when you published that first Ive bad More Baa jew letters from people wanting he said during a recent its but i kind of wish medical services and the insurance people could find a Way of passing Roe Money for All this pile of Blacksmith As he sorted his Way through a Kitchen table full of the letters come to or Medicine Man or they come from Roost areas of Winnipeg and All across Rural Manitoba and Sas most letters Are they Tell of Tong endured pain and chronic medical problems which the Al has All but Given up Hope of having often the letters have a note of pleading As they ask help for a a grandparent or a some Spon dents Send Blacksmith airfare to come and see their ailing loved ones a Winnipeg interviewed this week by Telephone an the end pc see peas Page 4 company owning a daily printed in two or More distinct locations in separate provinces should be allowed to own any other daily in that would Rule out the possibility of the Thomson Chain continuing to publish the National Edi Tion of the Globe and a second proposal that May be Picard is the recommendation that newspaper advisory committees be the commission proposed the Crea Tion of seven member advisory com which would include representatives of the for newspapers whose assets represent less than half the owners total business Strong reaction the committee would discuss the objectives of the paper and the role of the editor chief As defined by his comments by the group or its individual members would be published in the reaction from English language editorial writers has been Deming the commissions proposals As government interference with a free newspaper editorials used such terms As Star battering see Kin Page 4 denies libyan fight Washington a the United states want looking for a fight when it shot Down two libyan jets but was keenly aware there might be one when it ordered War games off the libyan the Reagan administration to ranking officials said yesterday that Navy pilots had no Choice but to shoot Back when they were attacked Over International Waters 60 nautical Miles from Libya and would react the same Way confrontation no theres no question that past experience with the libyan government suggested that we were keenly aware of the possibility of being state Secretary Alexander Haig we hoped that such a thing would not but unfortunately it but Haig and defence Secretary Ca spar Weinberger said the Reagan administration decided to go ahead with the manoeuvres to show it was deter mined to protect its rights and Freedom of the libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy denounced the Aerial Duel As aggression which he said cannot be deterred except by Libya Radical allies called for Cut Ting off imports of libyan which account for about barrels a Day eight per cent of urged to return Home the Reagan administration asked firms with branches in Libya to bring Home More than americans based the dogfight took place Early yester Washington As f14 jets from the aircraft Carrier uss Nimitz were patrolling above a Navy task Force carrying out what the Pentagon de scribed As a routine exercise in the Gulf of Libya has claimed the Gulf As its territory since but the United states does not recognize any territorial claim beyond three nautical the Reagan administration insisted it did not provoke the attack and was conducting Legal interviewed by lbs said the decision to go ahead with the War games was a Clear manifestation of judge Hall to study City pay package Winnipeg City Council has appointed Justice Gordon Hall of the a court of Appeal to study pay fringe benefits and pensions for councillors and the if who called for the said judge Hall has already agreed to take on the review and will provide his services at no after declaring the study to be in the Public Council authorised judge Hall to explore the Index in pensions and other benefits that or should paid to members of Drew Strong opposition from Joe see Hall Page 4 president reagans intention to insist that our rights and obligations in the International Community will be most officials appeared almost ebullient that the response to the libyan attack had been Tough and without loss of lives or the american flyers returned safely to their ship and the libyans Are believed to have picked up one survivor from the two downed we will not be de sense Secretary Weinberger told a cheering convention audience of War veterans in Philadelphia congressional reaction to the inter National incident was mostly support even democratic senator Bennett Johnston of Louisiana i think we sent a Fleet in there to provoke an and provoke an incident we and in i think that very we did it and if wed just draw the line with some of these dictators Well Cut Down their influence in the official protest sent an official protest sent to Libya through diplomatic channels warned that any further attacks against forces operating in International water and airspace will also be resisted with Force if soviet reaction was radio Moscow reported Libya claim that its planes had been attacked but also took note of the american the soviet ambassador to the United nations said the air piracy should somehow be who was in los Angeles at the was one of the the last to know about the shooting Down of the libyan he was awake when the White House first Learned of the dogfight but went to bed without being by the time he was informed six hours word had gone out to the Vic president and administration officials from Maine to California and at least one key member of Congress As Well As the country through the news Media and world leaders through Deputy White House press Secretary Larry Speakes said top Reagan aides decided not to disturb him because there was no need for any presiden tial Hail agrees to take on study 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