Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1981 Force gets High Marks London a although four other countries have larger the army forms the major Force in nato and there is no doubt that it is the chief defence against soviet aggression anywhere in the says a new military handbook issued in equipment with the exception of tanks it is Safe to say that designs Are ahead of their soviet con and sometimes very far though the Gap is closing As budget restrictions have hampered re search and development and closed government the handbook the pocket sized reference put out by Janes publishing of is called armies of the it lists the worlds four largest stand ing armies As those of the soviet Vietnam and the illustrated handbook gives army strength at plus the Book was compiled by retired British army John who is also editor of Janes infantry a photos the army has survived a very difficult 10 years in which it has All but lost a major War Vietnam and has changed from a conscript to a Volunteer the handbook it is still wrestling with Many prob not the least being motivation and but a major one is this has led to a number of including the introduction of a substantial proportion of women in noncombatant v the handbook says the vietnamese have one million troops and a Reserve of two including Peoples Mili Tia and armed that puts the vietnamese army third behind chivas and the soviet unions the Book Al though India is almost on a Par with Vietnam with regular the vietnamese army is one of the Best equipped and far and away the most experienced in and currently deploys an occupation Force of in Cambodia and in the Book the 170division soviet army is backed by an estimated four million says the on chivas massive weeks writes it is difficult for Western minds to imagine the size of China and the enormous numbers of men and women involved in the military pleas fail to ground spider man9 Chicago fire and police officials stand waiting on roof As Goodwin approaches the top interest rates big headache Farmers looking for Relief Chicago a acrobat Dan drenched by firefighters but urged on by cheering scaled the 100storey John Hancock Centre yesterday after Chicago mayor Jane Byrne told him he could climb at his own the 25yearold stuntman from san wearing a costume Simi Lar to one worn by the comic Book character spider m i and a coat provided by the reached the top of the 338metre building after More than five hours of negotiations and painstaking an estimated people on the streets applauded when who began his climb at reached the top at police took him into charging him with criminal trespass and performing an Aerial act without a safety he was released after Post ing a Bond set at and a court appearance was set for who earlier this year climbed Chicago Sears the worlds already faces a charge after an unsuccessful attempt to climb the Hancock building Early in yesterdays fire fighters on floors above Goodwin hosed Down the building the climb an attempt to Render useless suction cups they mistakenly believed he was there was no scaffolding beneath the officials refused comment on who ordered the who was climbing with the Aid of was halted for More than an hour while he negotiated through an open 37thfloor window with fire commissioner William Blair and police Richard firefighters removed windows from their frames and used crossed poles to Block the beam Goodwin was soaked and he dangled almost 120 metres above the sip Ping a cup of As officials debated on what to do about Blair demanded that Goodwin be while Brzeczek said he was willing to let him try for the where he would be children out of school for veterans Day let him go let him go inside the 36thfloor offices of an advertising workers held up a hand lettered sign will you join us for Champagne on Friday Goodwin responded with a Broad Grin and a thumbs up Byrne finally talked to Goodwin through the window and decided to let him continue to the we told him he was jeopardizing his life and if he went he would be going on at his own she we told him that it was a foolish thing to but he decided to continue and Blair said Goodwin was Given gloves and a dry jacket before he went using clamps on exposed beams and window washing Goodwin took off at the rate of about one floor every two As he passed a restaurant on the 95th he grinned and waved at More than 100 diners crowded to the window to see him go police waiting on the roof took him into custody and hustled him through a lobby jammed with Goodwin takes line thrown by officials As he reaches continued from Page i the Cape Breton finance minister said earlier this year that the government will avoid economic National ism in the Industrial sector to match activity in the Oil sector taken in the last Bud so called canadians nation of the Oil Indus try worked better than expected and the outflow of capital for Canadian purchases of foreign firms decreased Confidence in Canada among International investors caused the already weak Canad an Dollar to Maceachen big headache is interest and he has been under Strong pressure in the last months to decide in favor of some kind of subsidy program for Farmers and Small Busi if he does he will be in for criticism from the left for subsidizing the Middle class in times of economic crisis by using in part tax Money from Lowe paid workers and renters who will face their own prob lems when interest rates Start affecting them in the form of passed on rent in creases or closed interest rates have been lag Ging in the last few months and critics find it difficult to Point to specific numbers of Small businessmen and farm ers who have lost their businesses and farms specifically because of High Man who set fatal explosion granted immunity in Ontario Toronto up a former mob enforcer who set a bomb that killed a Man and injured four others in 1977 has has been granted immunity from prosecution for that and other offences in Exchange for testimony and information about organized but police have sometimes found it difficult to keep prize informer Cecil Kirby out of jail for subsequent offences not covered by the guarantee of says the Globe and despite a Long record of violent Kirby escaped with a suspended sentence und two years probation for breaking and entering because of his value As a police a month he is alleged to have savagely beaten a former Girlfriend in a Toronto hotel room As his police body guards stood outside and refused to inter he escaped prosecution when the woman refused to press still he evaded his police body surrendered eight Days later on a weapons charge and was released the next the Globe and mail says has already helped police obtain at least five guilty pleas from underworld under the immunity Kirby gets free hotel a leased a month expense a month for Alimony payments to his former wife and a guaranteed in relocation expenses to build a new identity when police no longer need his services As an informer or a member of satan Choice motorcycle club Between 1969 and was an enforcer and explosives expert for organized crime before turning he admits to blasting the Wah Kew chop suey House in Toronto on May killing its Cook and injuring the owner and three he says he thought no one was in the diner when it blew up because he phoned beforehand and there was no the last budget set aside billion for spending and its main feature was a plan to Canad Anize the Oil the canadians nation went but the numbers used by Maceachen for Oil Price increases were changed in the ensuing negotiations with the chief Oil producing this time Maceachen has unspecified new Oil revenues resulting from the agreement which he might use to avoid an earlier predicted tax but he does not have much other Lee the deficit is about billion from earlier but High in com Parison to other Industrial countries As a fraction of Gross National unemployment is close to one million and Lon term forecasts indicate it will go Maceachen is Likely to come out this evening with one form or another of an Industrial strategy and leaks from cab inet indicate it will probably involve in creased spending on research and develop Money for the Western transport system and funding for a National trading Agency to augment the private the budget also is Likely to contain a new list of predictions for the set was at least half Maceachen last time said inflation would be per cent at the end of this its per cent with less than two months to he said real growth in the Economy would be four per it has turned out to be per cent and that not counting he said unemployment would be per cent at the end of this year and it is Likely to average out at per he said the deficit would be but its Down to about and he said the merchandise Trade surplus would be billion at the end of it turned out to be he predicted billion for the end of this but the figures indicate hell be about billion rail service Orchard says continued from Page 1 but the Federal Cabinet and has issued an order which effectively cuts direct rail passenger service be tween Edmonton and Orchard he said Manitoba will lose several him dred jobs because of the cutbacks and rail service is needed for economic develop ments such As the proposed International minerals Potash mine near Macau Orchard said the court should act because whenever rail passenger service has been scrapped in the it has never been on a decision by the cts air trans port committee to allow Northwest Territo rial airways to Fly a direct Winnipeg Rankin Inlet route without touching Down at Orchard said the move could Hurt Churchill and the smaller Keewatin territorial he said carriers now serving these Pacific Western airlines and Calm air May Cut Back their service to a level warranted by the remaining Orchard noted the Manitoba govern ment opposed Northwest territorial Origi Nal application for a nonstop air service Between Winnipeg and Rankin what bothers me is in a time of Energy the Federal government is proposing to chop the one form of passenger transportation which lends itself to the use of Canadas Only Orchard that is the electrification of the rail Way the bid by to delay the cuts goes to court tomorrow in Edmon ton after receiving a contribution from the City of Council voted tuesday to give the Money in support of jaspers court a rare Opportunity pm Trench 10 Linden Woods Waverley Stefn Choice building Sites now available in a distinguished new Community 4754262 land development i i ;