Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Gimli to Host Antiterrorist driving school in by Kevin Prokosh although far the eau intrigue and the Small int Flake Community of Gimli been chosen As the site of an anime Florist driving school designed to teach the wealthy and powerful How to elude the first group of students enrolling in the ctn use taught by american Tony Serotti Are eight employees of the Dian external affairs department in South America who corporate businessmen and govern ment officials from around the Globe Are expected in Manitoba to take part in Scottie Security one school in Gimli will join ones in Florida and Connecticut in teaching executives and their Drivers How to react to saults and Serotti is a graduate Engineer who was trained in by the air Force and who subsequently became a successful race ear mis intensive five Day course easts approximately for each of the i Muff eight students per his school also has Mobile training units which have taught executives in Guatemala and some critics of Serotti dismiss his school As worthless skills used Only by James Bond on the movie Chris Gray of one of the organizers of the driving school in said Serotti has received testimonials that his course has practical Gray said a sceptical student from the Middle East told scout that he thought the course was worthless and believed hed forget everything within months later he turned a Corner and found the Road blocked by two men armed with machine Serotti without even thinking he did a fast turn and escaped with Only a couple of Bullet holes in the rear said Gimli won out Over other areas be cause of its geographical location and Access to a ear Racetrack and said me 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 Gimli very Low said see Drivers Page 4 Stuart it trans efforts Avert Manitoba loss at summer sunny today 30 Clear tonight 14 August vol 1 no 220 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 Dell Hwy 9s70580 Clit thied second cuss Mah registration number 0286 Wayne free press denies provoking libyan fight Bullseye faces of pedestrians show concern after a steel beam by unidentified woman left the beam fell from the top weighing 27 kilograms fell five stories yesterday and crashed of the National Cash Register undergoing through the Windshield of an automobile owned at 1619 Pembina no one was Kent report sent to new task Force multiculturalism minister Hopes Cabinet will see recommendations by fall staf Canadian press Ottawa 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 not be tied to a fixed deadline for action and he 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 dropped will Likely be the idea of forcing divest 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 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 general for newspapers whose assets represent less than half the owners total business the committee would discuss the objectives of the paper and the role of see Fleming Page 4 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 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 or eight per cent of 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 dotted line shows 200nautical mile limit claimed by interviewed by lbs said the decision to go ahead with the War games was a Clear manifestation of 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 americans 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 reaction supportive 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 see Page 4 traders expect Bank rate to hold Medicine Man gets flood of requests by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Cross Lake John Daniel Black Smith is getting a Little bit sick of the Healing since a Story appeared in the free press a year ago about his local reputation As a Medicine Black said he has been inundated with you Guys really got me into some trouble when you published that first Ive had More than 100 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 me on some Money for All this pile of Blacksmith As he sorted his Way through a Kitchen table full of the letters come addressed to Medicine Man or they come from most areas of Winnipeg and All across Rural Manitoba and most letters Are they Tell of Long endured pain v and chronic medical problems which the individual has All but Given up Hope of having cured often the letters have a note of pleading As they ask help for a a grandparent or a some correspondents Send Blacksmith air fare to come and see their ailing loved ones a Winnipeg interviewed this week by Telephone on the Condi Tion that her name not be said Blacksmith cured her 18monthold baby who had been suffering from diarrhoea for two the doctors kept telling us to change the they gave her pills to prevent but they didst seem to know what to to to Stop the damned the who had read of Black Smith in the had the Medicine Man Fly to he stayed in our in two Days we had a totally new she All he did was to take the baby in his arms whenever she was awake and talk to her in i told him the baby understand Cree or much of any other he but her spirit he was so great to have around we didst want him to but from the moment he arrived the Telephone see Medicine Page 4 Ottawa up the usually Vola tile Bank rate is expected to remain stable participants in the weekly auction of Treasury Bills said yester the trendsetting which slipped fractionally last week to per cent from a record per is set a Quarter of a percentage Point above the average yield on 9way Federal sury Bills auctioned the rate is being among other to prevent the Dollar from Sho but in the last two weeks the Dollar has strengthened against the Dol climbing about two cents to the mi483cent the Central Bank is Able to influence the rate through its bidding for trea sury Bills in the weekly the Bank rite in turn the move ment of other interest asked if the stronger Dollar would allow the Bank of Canada to permit the rate to one trader said if i knew Why it was Strong i could that but i dont think knows what exactly is going last weeks dip in the Bank following three weeks of increases to record was credited entirely on a slight strengthening of the the move was too Small to prompt Banks and other ing establishments to lower their i or4 High interest and the Royal Bank of Canada this week announced it was raising its inter est charges on visa credit cards to 24 per cent from 21 per cent while the increase is not effective until it is an indication that the Royal 4oes not expect any appreciable drop in rates for some Airstrip death a woman who survived an ambush by Peoples Temple cultists on a Guyana Airstrip says the shooting seemed to last an fresh Start Michael future head of the Canada Post says he believes theres an Epport until for a fresh Start now that inside postal workers have a new q blood matches police say bloodstains found on a Winnipeg Street match the blood Type of a Man missing since monday putts away Kate Johnsons deadly putts gave her a yesterday and the Lead in the Canadian open Amateur Golf champipnshjps74t Ann 21 33 7 13 40 Jumble Mclroy on 4 33 sports s ;