Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Copy intruders Rob couple was by David Obrien Phillip and Florida Hebert thought they had retired in a Safe neighbor but that dream was shattered tuesday night when two men burst into their vital Home and robbed them at said the hour Long ordeal has left her a nervous wreck and she has been unable to sleep fearful the thieves May her 80yearold was tied up and his eyeglasses smashed during a hopeless struggle with the armed with a handgun and Hebert said she begged them not to Hurt her husband and feared she was going to have a heart my heart was beating so i thought it was going to i didst know what was going to the couple were watching television in their Bernadette Avenue Home around 8 when Hebert answered a Knock on the front two claiming they had been in a car Acci asked if they could use the Tele he opened the door and showed one Man to the Hebert said he returned to the other Man and found him with a gun in his hand and his sweater pulled Over is police later said the men wore i made after him when i saw that Hebert but the other Guy grabbed me around the head and broke my i see very Well after he said they tied his arms behind his Back with tape and forced the couple into the he i dont want to Hurt if you cooperate you wont get Hebert recalled in an interview Hebert said he want afraid and continued to verbally defy the i in old enough to be a but youre old enough to be behind Hebert said he gave them his but they didst take the in they asked if i had a Hebert i said no and they believed see not Page 4 sunny today 8 Clear tonight 2 november 1981 1 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class registration number 0286 Constitution pact so yet so by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa prime minister Trudeau and Canadas premiers meet today in an attempt to Salvage a constitutional agreement after being on the verge of an Accord yesterday afternoon Only to see it in tatters by last the reversal was Over a crucial Trudeau proposal which had been accepted at noon by both Quebec Premier Rene Levesque and Ontario Premier Bill at the end of the agreement was almost plebiscite appears inevitable by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Canada will face a referendum on the Constitution in two years no matter what the premiers decide in today final hours of federa Provin Cial talks on the the free press has prime minister Trudeau told the premiers yesterday that if they do not agree to his latest proposal to hold the charter of rights in limbo for two negotiate improvements and then put it to a popular vote he will go ahead with the referendum and delay the charter according to participants at the private Trudeau said he would Rise in the commons and Promise both the referendum and to hold the charter in limbo and then inform the British of his indicating that if they vote for his package they will not be helping him to ram something unacceptable Down the throats of Quebec Premier Rene Levesque told Trudeau that he thought he could win the referendum in under tru Deaus proposal a majority against in either the the on Tario or the West would kill he also has a proposal for an Amend ing formula which would face stiff opposition in the West and the because it gives veto Power to Ontario and opposition Leader Joe Clark has called for a referendum on the Constitution several tires and May agree with provincial participants the Only thing that would Stop the Trudeau plan is a totally new offer accepted by All participants in okie hour of scheduled talks Levesque had agreed to the referendum and delayed charter proposal at noon but in the afternoon session he opposed it because the complexities of its wording left too Many Ontario Premier Bill Davis agreed with the but said Little during the answering questions directed to him in almost terse the remaining provinces opposed the referendum idea in the private meet sources said that to a Man their see some Page 4 the proposal was to bring Home the 1867 British North America act with a full charter of rights but to subject both the charter and a constitutional amending formula to a nation Al referendum in two until the charter opposed by a majority of premiers would be held in Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon missed both the main proposal in yesterdays round of constitutional talks and the negotiating session which saw it he had returned to Winni leaving attorney general Gerry Mercier in Mercier said he had been dealing with the constitutional Issue since was Well versed in every aspect and had spoken to Lyon several times Dur ing the Day by most of the remaining premiers Are to meet today to see if something can be fibbing at its last Levesque did not Rule out a possible Accord but he added i would say the Odds Are rather loaded in the direction of he said Between the time he agreed and the time last nights talks had Ottawa had loaded the proposal with technicalities so Complex the document had become a chinese Puzzle to in not even sure were talking about the same shortly after noon tru Deau had hailed a new Alliance be tween the Quebec government and the Canadian Leveque had described it As a spectacular predicting he would win a new referendum opposing the but when Trudeau emerged from the afternoon he would not even speak for the he delegated the task to Justice minister Jean care Levesque said the least i can say is the Alliance is very see Davis Page 4 prime minister in an almost symbolic stands alone before yesterdays constitutional retired judge picked to investigate allegations regarding unfairness retired Winnipeg judge Israel Nitikman has been commissioned to investigate the operations of the workers compensation labor minister Ken Macmaster announced the appointment in Thomspon saying it had been approved by Cabinet the former judge is to examine1 re cent allegations regarding the fairness of the boards procedures and make recommendations to the retired from the Mani Toba court of Queens Bench last year after an 18year Federal Yap pointed judges must retire at who Felt the judge might be Able to report within a called the implications of allegations by suspended Board employee Ken Carrol it disgusts and sickens me to think that if Ken Carrol knew of people who were being denied assistance or were not allowed to use the services provided for that he did not come Forward sooner with his Macmaster if he had brought it to my attention six months it would have been dealt with exactly As it was today and a lot of people might have been spared the minister noted that even the three Board members appointed on recommendation of the Manitoba federation of labor were not informed of any problems by he said carrots decision to take his information directly to federation pres ident Dick Martin could Only have political especially in an election Martin said yesterday the compensation Board is trying desperately to silence Board employees by threaten ing to charge Carrol with criminal breach of this is just blatant intimidation of compensation Board said and i dont believe it will simply because Many of the employees Are prepared to keep talk ing until the compensation Board is cleaned up and working for the Benefit of injured Martin said the federation would defend Carrol against such the boards assistant claims was suspended without pay last week for releasing claim file information to unauthorized the federation has already called for his plus an Independent investigation into internal problems at the compensation the injured workers association of expressed its approval of any move to return Carrol to his we Are fully in support of Ken Carrol and his work with injured said association executive director John he has been helping injured work ers get the rightful benefits to which they Are hut Asaid Carrol had to work behind the backs of senior Board members to help with workers claims and was probably fired for that the senior staff of the workers compensation Board cannot accept what he was Huta he said the Board should allow claims officers to give claimants file information and other medical rec see work Page 4 auditor to Check orderly service by Maureen Brosnahan provincial auditor William Ziprick says he will investigate allegations that a company that provides orderly ser vices for Home care patients has billed the health department for Calls it Hast Ziprick said yesterday he would act on a request earlier this week by nip health critic Wilson Parasiuk to investigate the health departments pay ments to Home orderly services limit Bill who own Sand operates the Selkirk yesterday denied Parasiuk he added that requiring patients to sign a form when a Call is made would not ensure Correct since most patients could not sign their Parasiuk made the allegations at a press conference they were later countered by health minister Bud who called them irresponsible and unfair and a Case of blatant organizer of the nip elec Tion was backed in his allegations by two Home care both were confined to wheelchairs and Are clients of the private orderly the two who asked not to be said the orderlies employed by the company Are not properly trained and often fail to show up to assist they said they have complained repeatedly about the Quality of service but with few the company has a staff of 16 and arranges for orderlies to help patients in and out of assist them to the washroom and attend to other duties at see Sherman Page 4 election nip promises Aid to Farmers nip Leader Howard Pawley told reporters in Selkirk yesterday that if his party wins the it will exempt family Farmers from provincial capital gains tax when they sell their progressive party Leader Sidney Green told an audience at the University of Manitoba that an entrenched charter of rights would infringe on individual Rene ays by Pamela Fayerman an attempt by the attorney generals department to Appeal a dangerous driving sentence was rejected by the Manitoba court of Appeal yesterday after a defence lawyer accused the Crown of reneging on bargaining in an lawyer Hymie Wein Stein said he was assured by senior Crown counsel Wayne Moshkowsky that if his client pleaded guilty to the charge and received a heavy the Crown would not Appeal the the Appeal court first reserved its ruling on the admissibility of Wein steins testimony but later later turned Down the crowns Leavet Appeal application without calling the lawyer to testify or elaborating on its an affidavit by Moshkowsky denied einsteins saying he never guaranteed the Crown Appeal the sentence a provincial judge imposed on Douglas Laurie a Winnipeg businessman who collided with three motorcyclists in april after driving through a red after Westcott pleaded guilty to the dangerous driving the Crown stayed a charge of leaving the scene of an Accident and he was fined the Crown counsel at Westcott trial made no submission on the einsteins affidavit said this was part of the Deal he had struck with when the attorney generals depart ment later asked for leave to contest the the Appeal court was then faced with deciding whether the Crown silence meant it agreed with Wein see Crown Page 4 Deal closed independents on City Council cashed in on their Deal with the Independent citizens election committee in annual committee speaking out once silent and mafiosi wives Are now Active testifying against the mafia or taking an Active part in labor role Solidarity appears to be on the verge of winning a new role in Western train signal transport minister Jeanluc Pepin says Hes going to bring an end to the series of piecemeal railway Index Ann 23 39 7 27 50 65 26 50 6 8 8 26 Jumble 39 39 39 59 sports to ;