Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Grey cup81 Edmonton j f f go Las is s3 h is is of guards save Hinckley from suicide attempt Washington a with the door lock 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 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 at 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 Hinckley had disabled the lock on his cell Decair Hinckley has been under 24hour watch since he unsuccessfully tried to harm himself with a 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 on 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 James while Hinckley awaits the Start of his trial 4 in District court in he has been watched around the clock directly and on television 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 reached through the window to Cut him Cloudy today 5 Cloudy tonight 2 november vol 109 no 292 free Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 pm offers Compromise for Quebec up photo Quebec up while prime min ister Trudeau this 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 Paisley Calls for protest Belfast a Ian Paisley rejected the British governments plea for Calm and called for a mass antigovernment demonstration in response to the slaying by the outlawed Irish Republican army Mem Bers of a fellow protestant member of the British it will be Ulster Day of action we know who we have to Deal said the militant protestant Leader in calling for the demonstration next monday to protest the murder Satur Day of Robert Paisley told his congregation yester Day there would be a showdown with the British government and that prime minister Margaret Thatcher would be taught a the people we have to Deal with Are the representatives of a treacherous see maps Page 4 clause with financial 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 when it liberals fret 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 speaking to a meeting of the Federal Liberal party Quebec the prime minister based his offer on proposals made last week by Quebec Liberal Leader Claude the 5 Accord says that prov inces opting out of programs would not receive any Trudeau said he would be prepared to consider compensation on matters re lating to language and but even As he made the Trudeau wondered aloud whether Levesque would Ever accept any agree ment to renew since the pcs main goal is to take Quebec out of As for still bitter about the treatment he received at the recent constitutional conference when his seven provincial allies deserted him to sign the agreement with the Federal he agreed with party hardliners that a confrontation Over Independence is not far Columbia almost i ready to Fly again the Washington Post Edwards air Force despite a dead fuel the space shuttle Columbia came through its abbreviated second flight with such flying colors that it would require no other maintenance except refuelling and 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 to 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 and suffered damage to no More than a dozen of the More than tiles 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 damaged badly enough to be re see shuttle Page 4 trains final journey hitter by the Canadian press the super Continental train left Winnipeg for its last run across the Prairies leaving a Trail of bitterness and ending an Era in passenger rail v 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 a direct result of government j one passenger who asked not to be was bitter about the there doing it he they Haven been taking reservations for this they Tell the passengers its they just dont want the other rail employees were upset be cause As Many As jobs will be lost across the country because of there auctions in via rail Canada Senger the super Continental went through Edmonton and Jasper and was to arrive in Vancouver Early gather with placards in where outraged citizens had gathered at the train Sta Tion with placards just weeks before to Send a protest delegation to the platform was empty except for a handful of embarking the same was True in the resort relies heavily on the train for tourist business and the Jasper chamber of Commerce had sent briefs to Ottawa pleading for a the cancellation the train and its replacement by Day liner service be tween the major centres effectively eliminates any Long rail trips along the Northern scheduling changes mean passengers using Dayi Iners will face Long Waits if they try to connect Between for Passen Gers heading to Vancouver frosted Monton face a 24hour Layover in Cal Gary because the Day liner from Edmonton arrives after the transcontinental train to Vancouver has last minute attempts by provincial governments and groups Block the reductions in the courts appeared to have Sill failed a request for an injunction was rejected wednesday in Federal court in see rail Page 4 a Riding the last car on the super Continental Calls out Farewell As the via rail passenger train departs on its final journey the voters make Choice five weeks of political campaigning ends with attacks on the Media after a five week Manito bans will go to the polls Between 8 and 8 tomorrow to choose the provinces 32nd As the 35day Campaign was winding Down on the members of two parties turned their attention to the news the tories accused the Csc of Mak ing a deliberate Effort to suppress and manipulate the results of an election poll while progressive party Leader Sidney Green lashed out at the free charging that his party was ignored during the 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 greens progressive formed by nip members who bolted their 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 the Lyon government came to Power in the general election when a polarized electorate ousted the nip government led by de now Canadas the nip had been in Power for eight in that the pcs took eight seats from the nip and two from the leaving the grits with Only one voice in the Lyon became the provinces 18th Premier and his government the ninth conservative Manitoba has had five Liberal or Liberal progressive party three premiers Between 1870 the year the province joined confederation and 1878 had no party the which first appeared in Manitoba in the 1930s As the co opera election coverage 1014 Tive Commonwealth Power from the conservatives in 1969 and also won the 1973 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 a 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 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