Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba False alarms 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 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 on 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 a nitty 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 Levesque likes common Market plan for sunny today 17 Clear tonight 7 Winnipeg october 1981 109 no Sun rises am sets Moon rises sets final with supplements Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 02o8 pm seeks action by Australia up prime minister Trudeau said today he will meet Margaret Thatcher Onmon Day and Tell the British prime minister that because the supreme court of Canada has ruled the Federal constitutional package Ottawa expects the British parliament to act without Trudeau also plans to ask Thatcher 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 cause of the dissenting provinces and try to Block passage of the to 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 nip Leader de Broadbent announced wednesday that his party would withdraw support for the pack age unless Trudeau holds another Trudeau spoke by Tele phone with members of the Quebec fed eral Liberal caucus in what one source described As basically a Pep James Haq Samv free press Ottawa Transfer cuts of billion Captain video a Small boy is an eyewitness As a Winnipeg motorcycle awaiting the arrival of Wladyslaw Cardinal Rubin at Winnipeg International Airport tries his hands at a video the officer was part of the cardinals saudis get Reagan Protection pledge israelis receive rebuke for lobbying against proposed Sale of a was 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 fuelling 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 first annual news he said Jok would use veto 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 g 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 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 a Cassale 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 we 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 Oil sex 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 its tax Money Ottawa sends the provinces for a Host of share Cost projects varying from welfare to crop for Manitoba it is a spending loss Worth five provincial departments or million Over two years on a billion provincial finance min ister Brian Ransom said in an inter View from his suite in the chateau Ontario treasurer Frank Miller was so angry last night that he said in an interview he might not go to a further round of talks with Maceachen at secluded Meach arbitrary Gap provincial ministers told Maceachen last night if he goes ahead with the they will make sure that the people of the various provinces find out who is responsible for cuts in ser 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 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 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 fight and expanded itself to the constr Miller said he did not know what to think in being 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 from the Miller the Ontario treasurer said he does not believe the budget is already writ ten but he believes that Maceachen has Little room for Maceachen said the budget is not final and Miller said he believes the Federal Ransom said he would return to the talks but last nights dinner meeting was filled with Frank and straightforward translated from political that Means there were Miller and Ransom said separately that Maceachen comments on pro posed cuts were not absolutely final but were their assessment of what the Federal finance minister Maceachen careful wording is leg end in Ottawa and Miller said he found it hard to believe that the Federal budget is not already he simply said that he said last year there be billion in cuts and that his Miller my answer is whats left to negotiate see Ransom Page 4 Snow storm Cut Power to Ignace by Joe Rubin a Power outage caused by a Prema Ture snowstorm which dumped 26 centimetres of wet Snow on a number of Northwestern Ontario communities yesterday forced the citizens of Ignace to Camp inside their own we live in the North were used to Ignace mayor Joan Barnes said were a Hardy we got out our camping equip ment and we a town of located about 100 Kilometres East of was said to be the hardest hit Community in the affected area which stretched Between Dryden and Thunder the storm began mid afternoon wednesday and ended yesterday morn Hydro spokesmen said about customers were without Jim general manager of Ontario Hydro Dryden office said the widespread outages were due to the accumulation of wet Snow on see storm Page 4 voltage research gets boost by Ron Campbell Energy minister Don Craik has announced the establishment of a million High voltage direct current re search Centre to be based at the univer sity of the minister said yesterday a Spon sors agreement has been signed and the first Board of directors headed by Manitoba Hydro president and chief executive officer Laurie Craik said the object of establishing the a the University electrical engineering is to develop Manitoba acknowledged expertise in the High voltage direct current Field into a marketable the provinces twin 630kilometre direct current lines by pole one from Hydro Radisson con Verter station at Kettle rapids to the Dorsey station near Winnipeg in the see million Page 4 big nothing astronomers have found a big nothing1 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 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