Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba False alarms land Security guard in jail a Security guard who broke the bore Dom of his Job by phoning in bomb threats or fire alarms against his employers was sentenced to six months in jail Paul Raymond pleaded guilty in provincial judges court to 28 charges of committing Public mischief by calling in fake bomb threats and 19 counts of causing false fire the Telephone Calls were made Between and july i know it is the wrong Way to take it out on somebody else or something else when i get frustrated or have nothing to he told police when he was arrest Crown counsel Rob Finlayson told the court that while Mcdivitt was employed at the uni City fashion Square on Portage Avenue Early last he called the mall owners and numerous stores in the shopping Complex with bomb threats from his Security in one Case typical of How Mcdivitt said the the Security guard called the shoppers drug Mart store in the mall and said theres a bomb in the it will go off in 15 the store was immediately evacuated while police and store staff searched the the Monotony of Midi Pitts Job was broken As joined in the search for a bomb he knew didst the Calls became frequent enough that when one of the stores received a bomb they decided it was a hoax and remained Mcdivitt was also responsible for 16 Calls to the City fire department report ing nonexistent fires Between june 10 and july 24 of this 13 of them to the 911 emergency three other false alarms were called in of an emergency teletype line for deaf peo he also called in three false alarms reporting fires at the Continental motor hotel on Mcphillips Avenue this year while he was employed there As a Security Finlayson called the false alarms at the hotel a make work to keep him employed at that Mcdivitt was arrested in late july and has been in custody since Mcdivittt Richard said his client made the Telephone Calls because he was judge Charles Rubin said his main concern was that the numerous bomb threats left the owners of uni City stores to play russian Roulette by deciding to keep their businesses if Mcdivittt hoax corresponded with someone actually planting a bomb in one of the there could have been an awful said judge Clear tonight 7 sunny tomorrow 15 october 1981 109 Levesque likes common Market plan for Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final with supplements Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 pm seeks action by Australia up prime minister Trudeau said today the Canadian government expects the British parliament to act without delay on the Federal constitutional package because the supreme court of Canada has ruled it he will meet Margaret Thatcher on monday and plans to ask the British prime minister for a realistic timetable for the Resolution to be approved in the British House of 53 favor Trudeau told a news conference at the Commonwealth conference that Ottawa wont stand by without acting if British backbench ers decide to take up the of the dissenting while he didst spell out what action Ottawa would it Likely would involve intense lobbying to convince the backbench ers the package is indeed Trudeau reiterated his statement made in South Korea at his first news conference after the supreme court ruling that he is willing to meet with provincial premiers to discuss possible changes in the Constitution he stressed he will not emasculate the charter of which he still considers essential to the pack if pressed by the in he said he would not like to see an opting out provision for the provinces who oppose the Trudeau said he expects pre Mier Bill now consulting the premiers on what action the provinces should take in Light of the court to return with some new proposals that might break the current stalemate with Quebec caucus concerned Trudeau spoke by Tele phone with members of the Quebec Federal Liberal caucus who have been concerned that Trudeau is acting unilaterally to bring Home the Constitution in the face of opposition from eight prov including Premier Rene Levesque called a Spe free press Ottawa plans Transfer cuts 4 1 my of billion by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa finance minister Allan Maceachen has refused a unanimous provincial plea and will go ahead with cuts in provincial Transfer payments Worth billion when he brings Down his fall at Issue is Money Ottawa sends the provinces for a Host of share Cost projects varying from welfare to crop for Manitoba it is a spending loss of million Over two years on a billion provincial finance min ister Brian random said in an inter View from his suite in the chateau Miller angry Ontario treasurer Frank Miller was so angry last nigh that he said in an interview he might not go to a further round of talks with Maceachen at secluded Meach provincial ministers told Maceachen last night that if he goes ahead with the they will make of the various provinces find out who is responsible for cuts in Ransom said in hopeful that Well have some that when his budget comes out he will not simply have imposed that arbitrary until Ive seen his in not going to jump to the final conclusion and say that if he does certain things Are going to tried to make Ransom said most of the provincial ministers would be a lot happier if they thought Ottawa was tightening its Belt the Way they Are tightening we tried to make the Case with him that when we see that you really Are applying the same sort of stringent controls that we Are trying to then we can get the plan to Cut Back Transfer pay ments is part of what critics Call the third prong of Hydra headed attack on the provinces that started with the Oil fit and expanded itself to the constr Miller said he did not know what to he said he might return to talks today but would have to decide whether it would make More sense to stay in Ottawa or return to in thinking about he in taking overnight to give it some i think in being used and i think the other people Are being the provinces have been unanimous see provinces Page 4 electrical research Centre planned at u Captain video Rinji Yerkene Levesque canes a Spe Small boy watches yesterday As a Winnipeg motorcycle waiting for Wladyslaw Cial session of the Quebec National Cardinal Rubin to conclude his interviews at Winnipeg International Airport tries his reflexes at a this week to introduce a video the officer was part of the cardinals escort when he arrived in motion condemning the Reagan rebukes lobbying by Israel wont permit revolutionary coup in saudi president warns Washington a president Reagan said yesterday the United states will not permit saudi Ara Bia to fall victim to revolutionary take and indirectly but unmistakably rebuked Israel for lobbying against the proposed Sale of american Azacs radar planes to the the president defended his plan to sell Worth of mis Siles and other equipment to the Mideast country As vital to protecting the vast saudi Oil Fields that play a major role in the economies of the Western without mentioning Israel by Reagan said american Security interests must remain our internal re it is not the business of other nations to make american for eign reagans remarks were at a Broad cast news his first formal meeting with reporters in More than three Welcome to my annual news he said Jok the president also d vowed to use his veto against spend ing Bills that would bust the budget and violate our commitment to hold Down Federal d defended his Campaign to slash spending for social programs and said the safety net to protect the poor is still in he said every one totally dependent on the govern ment is our obligation and Noth ing is going to happen to fiscal year begins d noted that yesterday was the Start of the Federal governments bookkeeping year when most of his budget and tax cuts officially took our programs wont be he the mistakes of four decades cant be turned around in eight Reagan defended the Azacs Sale As state Secretary Alexander Haig Testi fied on Capitol Hill in an Effort to save the which Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker has said lacks enough votes to pass the con i have proposed this Sale because it significantly enhances our own vital National Security interests in the mid dle Reagan the Sale will greatly improve the chances of our working constructively with saudi Ara Bia and other states of the Middle East toward our common goal a just and lasting replying to concerns of Israel and its congressional the president said the package poses no threat to Israel now or in the by contributing to the Security and stability of a it serves israels Long Range he said chances for Senate approval of the Sale Are Good As a result of negotiated arrangements with the saudis about joint Man Ning of the but he did not go into detail and there was disagreement in Congress Over whether those a outlined by represented anything not an Iran asked whether he could assure that the Azacs would not by taken Over by an enemy if the saudi government fell in a revolution similar to the upheaval that deposed the late Shah in Reagan asserted i can make that guarantee that it will not Compromise our Security i have to say that saudi Arabia will not permit to be an although he refused to spell out what the United states would Reagan said there is no Way we could stand by and see saudi Arabia taken Over by anyone who would shut off its by Ron Campbell a million High voltage direct current research Centre will be set up at the University of Energy minister Don Craik announced yester the minister said a sponsors agree ment has signed and the first Board of directors headed by Manitoba Hydro president and chief executive officer Laurie the provinces twin 630kilometre direct current lines from Hydro Radisson converter station at Kettle rapids to the Dorsey station near Winnipeg in the Rural municipality of Rosser represent the largest working do transmission system in the in the next two a second set of do lines from the henday converter station adjacent to the Limestone generation site on the Nelson River to will also be Blach Ford giving a total megawatt do carrying the electricity is generated As alternating current and then converted to direct current for be cause do cuts Down current loss Over Long transmission distances and is More stable than when it reaches the Dorsey Sta the current is switched Back to a for the Manitoba Hydro system and for Hydro will provide up to Mil lion for the project by March and the provincial government will pay the balance will be contributed by the other sponsors and by income from research said Board member Donald chairman of one of the sponsoring Eshmont consultants Craik said the Federal minister of mines and resources Marc Lalonde seemed receptive two weeks ago to the idea of Federal financial since Manitoba will be exporting its High voltage do re after its initial five year the research Centre is expected to be woman crushed car a British Columbia woman under went nine hours of surgery yesterday after she was crushed against a vacant building by a car that went out of control at Portage Avenue and Donald Street during heavy noon hour pedestrian Anna of Powell one of three pedestrians injured in the Accident was reported in fair condition today at health sciences Centre with internal a broken left Arm and left leg and a crushed see woman Page 4 big nothing astronomers have found a big nothing an empty Hole in the universe big enough to hold galaxies the size of the Milky earths regime exile Abolhassan Banisadr is president of a newly formed iranian Karpov Victory Anatoly Karpov of the soviet Union has Defeated challenger Victor Korchnoy in the opening game of their world chess championship in expos hold on Montreal expos Are still at the top of the National leagues Eastern division after a 52 Victory Over Pittsburgh pirates last 1 Index Ann 18 33 19 28 7 35 19 28 8 19 Jumble 33 49 sports to i ;