Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Grey cup 81 Edmonton guards save Hinckley from suicide attempt Washington a with the door lock marshals reached in the window of John Hinck Leys prison cell and Cut Down the accused presidential assailant As he tried to hang himself with a rolled up the Justice department Justice department spokesman Tom Decair said the lock on Hinckley cell door malfunctioned and kept marshals from reaching him immediately after they saw him begin the apparent Sui cide attempt at yester Decair credited Alert work by the Cloudy tonight 2 Cloudy tomorrow 4 november marshals guarding Hinckley in the stockade at fort with saving his the spokesman said Hinckley was Semi conscious and suffering from or oxygen when he arrived the Hospital of the army base but was in satisfactory condition with no serious injury of any marshals Are investigating the particular to determine whether the 26yearold Hinckley had disabled the lock on his cell Decair Hinckley has been under 24hour free watch since he unsuccessfully tried to harm himself with a1 overdose of to an aspirin and a a in a Federal prison in last May Hinckley pleaded not guilty to a 13count Federal indictment charging him with attempted assassination of president Reagan in March his lawyers have told the court they will use an insanity defence and will not contest the fact that Hinckley shot and wounded a secret service a District of Columbia police Man and White House press Secretary Sun rises sets Moon rises sets James Brady while Hinckley awaits the Start of his trial 4 in District court in he has been watched around the clock directly and on Televik si6n monitors in his single cell at the nearby army Decair said marshals saw him try to hang himself with a rolled up jacket wrapped around a bar in the cell window and rushed to Stop the would not so the marshals went outside in the exercise Yard and readied through the window to Cut him final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 via cutback takes effect up photo there was sadness and a Little humor saturday As via rail train 9091 pulled into for the test a victim of Federal at the same time in Southern Mani the Canadian press reported that the super Continental passenger train left a Trail of bitterness and ended an Era in passenger rail travel when it pulled out of Winnipeg shortly after noon the Hal full one of a number Cut from Canadian rail service by transport minister Jeanluc was to be cancelled today when it reaches the train left Winnipeg with eight four less than and angry railway workers said it was direct result of government there were also charges the train want full because would be Passen Gers were told the last run was booked in George big shouldering a Large damage to shuttle minimal the Washington Post Edwards air Force despite a dead fuel space shuttle Columbia came through its abbreviated second flying colors that it would require no other maintenance except refuelling the replacement of the fuel cell to be reflow Canadian Arm the vehicle looks so much better than it did after flight one last april that we could press on and Fly it shuttle Orbital test manager Donald Deke Slayton said at a news conference Here damage to the Bird is minimal com pared to what wed seen after the first test Good As this news was to shuttle it was tempered by the fact that the spacecraft is still plagued by so Many nagging mechanical and com Puter troubles that the time it takes to1 get the shuttle ready again for flight is growing longer instead of shuttle managers used to talk of a turnaround time of two weeks Between said shuttle launch operations director George Page in an Well never see a two week turnaround in my at i think were talking about reaching a turnaround time of Between five and eight As Uncertain As the Lon term picture the immediate effect of the Sec Ond flight made shuttle managers optimistic that Many of the problems can be worked Slayton said Columbia lost no tiles on its second flight suffered damage to than a dozen of the More than tile that cover the shuttles fuselage to protect it from the heat of Slayton said that even the damaged tiles continued to protect columbian fuselage from the heat of in after columbian first trip last More than a dozen tiles were missing and almost 400 were see damage Page 4 said the train would be missed not Only by communities along the route but by dozens of trappers who hailed it Down from their i didst really need to go to town this but i had to have a last ride on the said who stopped the train eight Kilometres Southwest of Ive used old 91 Ever since it was put on the line after Thompson started the train arrived at and left for its final return run to Winnipeg 30 minutes most of the travellers came from Thicket a Community of just Over 200 residents about 75 Kilometres Southwest of no roads to Hamlet there Are no roads to the Hamlet and the mainly trappers and Are dependent on the rail the Only alternative is air trans train 9091 has run from Winnipeg to Thompson on thursday and arriving at and return ing a half hour another unaffected by the Cut backs will continue to run from Winni Peg to Churchill on wednesday and arriving in Thompson at southbound run to Winnipeg goes thursday and de parting from Thompson at use of the two trains made it possible for Thicket Portage shoppers to do their business in Thompson with a on night the elimination of Means they will have to two Thicket Portage school principal John with his wife Marion and son were busily loading eight Large Cartons of food and other see via Page a Riding the last car on the super Continental Calls out Farewell As the via rail passenger train departs on its final journey pm offers to meet Levesque Quebec up while prime min ister Trudeau this weekend offered to negotiate a Compromise on the constr Quebec Premier Rene Levesque remained opposed to the agreement Between the Federal government and the nine other Quebec will never accept an agree ment that does not recognize that we Are a nation with roots and a culture with the right to decide our own the Premier told an emergency session of the parti quebecois National Council the first step in the he will be a Resolution to be presented in the National Assembly this Call ing for a return of Quebec veto Power or the reinstatement of an opting out clause with financial liberals fret Over Levesque explained he gave up que becs veto right in return for a common front with seven other dissenting prov inces because the Issue had always paralysed previous constitutional he has been harshly criticized by some supporters for exchanging the veto right for an opting out clause on constitutional amendments with financial the compensation was dropped in the final the pm Resolution says Quebec will accept the inclusion of minority Lan Guage rights and mobility rights in the charter Only if the province can Over Trudeau proposals include limiting minority language rights to the so called Canada allowing que Bec special status on mobility rights and permitting it to receive financial compensation if it opts out of programs affecting culture or the prime minister based offer on proposals made last week by que Bec Liberal Leader Claude the Accord says that prov inces opting out of program would not receive any Trudeau said he would consider compensation on matter the lating to language and Csc poll tory official charges by Andy Blicq the Csc knowingly broadcast an inaccurate election poll last week in what could be a deliberate Effort to suppress and manipulate the results in a Way that could influence Tomor rows the conservative Campaign organizer said senator Nathan Nur Gitz said that cd ctr reported Only partial results of a phone in poll conducted Friday by its local 24 hours news the poll results used by the Csc and picked up by other news said callers supported the com pared with for the 632 for the liberals and 260 for the progressive but in a letter yesterday to 24 hours executive director Marvin Nur Gitz said a Csc source told the tories that the polls final tally had Given them a wide Lead Over the nip Calls of support com pared to with the liberals getting 807 and the progressives perhoch said in an interview last night that the final results of the poll were not but he said this was because of suspected technical problems with a computerized answer ing system set up for the poll by the Manitoba Telephone perhoch also said following a huge increase in pro tory responses in the election election coverage pages 1013 final half hour of the polling he was told it was possible some phone lines had shut Down or he suggested one of the parties had mobilized their re sources to influence the the producer said 24 hours had originally planned to accept Calls be tween 6 and 7 but it was decided to allow polling to continue until because of Strong viewer perhoch said he decided to stick with results of the poll obtained before 7 when he Learned of the drastic change in the later results and the possibility that some Telephone lines May have been shut Down after that we decided to go with what we had at 7 he viewers were invited to Call one of four special phone each Cor responding to a political a taped message then told the caller that a vote had been recorded for that particular the figures were automatically tabulated by a which was capable of handling Over Calls in the callers were billed 50 cents for each to reduce the Chance of multiple Calls from one or More party sup Nur Gitz incensed perhoch said 40 per cent of the Telephone lines were each Given to the nip and 40 per cent to the conserva the liberals and progressives had 10 per cent Nur Gitz said in an interview last night he is incensed that Csc did not release the final results of the in his Nur Gitz said the conservative party is uncomfortable with this kind of unscientific and unreliable polling he added that the though billed As was flawed because the Brandon area was perhoch said the Brandon area was not fully represented because it was not possible to have the 24 hours program aired on a Brandon in his Nur Gitz asked the Csc Why the preliminary results of the rather than the final were presented on abcs lat evening news Fri he said the stations actions were questionable and that inaccurate information had been provided to but perhoch described Nur Gitz allegations As absolute he said the results Given to the Public was the most accurate information i Nur Gitz said he has asked its to make the computer records of the total poll available to news outlets in the he also promised to take the matter to the Csc senior management and the Canadian radio television and telecommunications he charged there is no evidence whatsoever of technical difficulties with the Telephone perhoch said he has no intention of releasing the final results of the although he did not question the results released by the Don director of the abcs Prairie Region said his staff did the prudent thing in not using that info says party got cheated progressives party Leader Sidney Green said his party had been Gyp Ped by the poll when told his party was Given Only 10 per cent of the Telephone lines used for the Manitoban go to the polls Between 8 and 8 tomorrow to choose the provinces 32nd of 57 seats in the last Premier Sterling Lyons progressive conservative party held 32 at dissolution 13 opposition Leader Howard Hawleys new democratic party held 20 the liberals under Doug Lauchlan held one and Sidney greens progressive formed by nip members who bolted their party held there was one vacancy the Winni Peg Riding of whose tory la Bob Wilson was expelled after he was convicted of conspiring to traffic in marijuana and sentenced to a seven year prison among those running in tomorrows election Are two communist party of Manitoba Leader Paula who is seeking election in the Burrows and former Leader William running in Johns four other candidates Are running As Bride by mail mail order brides Are still and will get you a catalogue of foreign women looking for marriage or just a new Riel a Symbol Louis the Metis Leader hanged 96 years ago today for leading has become a Symbol for native rights 3time losers the soviet communist party leadership meets under a dark Cloud for today annual review of economic the nation has had its third bad Harvest in a cant recall first lady Nancy Reagan says she cant remember giving an interview to journalists from a japanese women Magazine last Index 33 19 7 21 39 6 8 Jumble 22 24 39 33 sports 29 to ;