Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba
12 Winnipeg free november 1981 childrens game Sparks wave of protests a photo London a manufacturers of Bombshell childrens game in which a bomb disposal squad is blown up the toy off the Market yesterday after a wave of including one from Prince whose great Uncle was killed by an Ira the heir to the British throne said the game was in dreadfully bad the protest began with the family of an explosives expert killed by an Ira bomb and reached parliament the Waddington House of games of first announced it had no plans to with draw the game but then reversed itself As the protest grew and major department stores began pulling it from the Bombshell went on the Market six months ago backed by a television advertising billed As explosively funny for those aged six and no figures were available from the company to show How Well it players Are instructed to help four Brave but bungling sol Diers Jimmy private Tommy twi cers and Piper Willy Fumble defuse an unexploded along the the soldiers get stick on bandages from head to four injuries and the player is the Winner is the one with the surviving in Northern where 17 bomb disposal experts have been killed since a spokesman for a Londonderry department we have never heard of we have enough trouble with real Prince speaking to re porters yesterday while touring a London said i Hope they dont make that frightful game that i Learned about this its in dreadfully bad his great Uncle and close conf second world War hero Earl Mountbatten of was killed when the Ira bombed his vacation boat off the coast of Ireland in August its said Stephen 21yearold son of Scotland Yard bomb expert Kenneth Howorth who was killed 26 while trying to defuse a bomb planted by Irish Republican army guerrillas in a he was the third person killed in two months in the iras London bombing Howorth said he wrote a letter to Waddington asking the company what led you to believe that 1 bomb disposal is explosively but More importantly 2 bomb disposal is a game youngster puts Bandage on one of bombshells characters ignore leaders urge firebrand minister Calls for strike to protest failure to crush Ira Belfast a business and political leaders urged protestants yesterday to reject Ian Paisley Call for a general strike in Northern Ireland to protest Britain inability to smash the mainly roman Catholic Irish Republican but the firebrand minister and Mem Ber of the British parliament told reporters in encouraged by the vast amount of support coming in for the monday will be just the Start of the we can put Large numbers of people on the Paisley main Industrial support so far comes from 400 electricity workers at the Ballylumford Power station North of largest of the British provinces four Power officials that a walkout would have Little Tomas Cardinal 0 roman Catholic primate of All issued a statement yesterday saying cooperation with the Ira was a mortal he condemned in equally Strong terms protestant paramilitary mortal sin let me therefore state in simple with All the authority at my that participation in the evil deeds of this or any other paramilitary organization which indulges in destruction of property and other Paisley forms of violence is a mortal sin which will one Day have to be accounted for before god in the Cardinal to cooperate in any Way with such organizations is sinful and if the cooperation is substantial the sin is mor Northern Ireland Secretary James the top British official in the toured police and army out posts near the Border with the Irish called Bandit country by Security forces because itis frequented by Ira asked at a police Post in county whether he is satisfied with what he has prior said there is always More that we must try to it of a very difficult additional troops a 600man British army spearhead battalion was flown into the area on reinforcing the troops Britain normally maintains in Northern on major protestant paramilitary led by the Ulster defence declared they would not support the and the Ulster workers Council an Alliance of labor unions and paramilitary groups announced its the workers Council paralysed Northern Ireland in with a 15day strike that toppled the Provin Cial administration of moderate protestants and roman catholics and led to imposition of direct Rule from Lon Council chairman Harry Murray urged the provinces largely protestant work Force to turn your backs on Hes led too Many people too often up the wrong Murray told re Ian Paisley has done nothing for this he is Only out to further his own political Aims and feed his own Union organizers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in East a protestant called on the firms workers to reject mondays Stop the where the titanic was launched in is the provinces largest single James Leader of the protestants official unionist declared we Are not supporting any illegal action or strikes which Only inflict further hardship on our peo a newspaper advertisement by the official rivals of Paisley democratic unionist advised against hysterical and ill advised demonstrations that play into the hands of Republican asked about the opposition to pais Leys strike British prime minis Ter Margaret Thatcher said in London she is heartened by the tremendous what i think is absolutely vital is that Ordinary Folk support the Security Brezhnev May talk privately Washington a president Reagan would be interested in the private conversation that soviet presi Dent Leonid Brezhnev proposed six months ago if it had a High probability of a White House official the state of relations would have to be in such a state that a meeting of this sort would be a Propri said the who asked not to be in a letter dated May 25 and released yesterday by the soviet Brezhnev proposed honest and constructive As Well As a search for mutually acceptable solutions of practically All major questions existing Between these proposals of ours contain no ruse or any ulterior Brezhnev and i would like you to accept them precisely in this Way and with no the embassy said it released Brezhnev letter because on quoted from his own letter to Brezhnev last in his foreign policy speech wednes Reagan said while he was recovering from his gunshot wound last april he wrote to Brezhnev asking should we not be concerned with eliminating the obstacles which pre vent our people from achieving their most cherished goals Brezhnev responded that we do not seek confrontation with the nor do we wish to infringe upon legitimate american what we seek is Brezhnev we wish co opera a sense of Mutual Trust and Benev Olence Between the soviet Union and the United states of among the items that Brezhnev suggested the two leaders discuss during their private conversation were re straining the arms eliminating the most dangerous sources of tension in various areas of the world or Mea 20 Nobel prize winners ask help for Sakharov Washington Asp thirty american including 20 Nobel prize have asked French president Francios Mitter Rand for help in having soviet authorities Issue an exit visa for soviet dissident physicist Andrei Sak Harovas the inter National Sakharov committee announced we ask you to Contact the soviet government concerning Andrei Sak Harovas hunger strike that is scheduled to begin on the 30 americans said in a Telegram to Sakharov committee official Edward a physics professor at the University of verginia who left the soviet Union in said the group also has sent a message to soviet president Leonid who lives in internal exile in the soviet announced that he would begin the hunger strike to support his request for emigration visa for his daughter in Liza sures for Confidence building and developing a mutually beneficial Cooper some administration officials say a Summit meeting Between Reagan and Brezhnev is Likely next but others say no Summit will be agreed to until intensive preparations have been made and there Are indications it would be the president would be interested in such a meeting at the proper the White House official it would have to be carefully prepared it would have to have a High probability of the soviet Leader said Jimmy Carters administration was responsible for the Lions share of the deterioration in relations and for some reason or other Reagan was following the same attempts Are being made to revitalize the military and political alliances new bases Are being added to those which already exist thousands of Kilometres from the and Are aimed against our country the Ameri can military presence abroad in Gener Al is being increased and expanded Large areas of the world Are being declared spheres of vital interest to the Brezhnev Tri Cairo a Twenty four alleged moslem fanatics will be tried by Mili tary court today on murder charges in the assassination last month of egyptian president Anwar conviction carries an automatic death the procedures for the first Public session of the trial include a Roll Call of All the followed by a read ing of the charges facing each defendant and a submission of their a military source the authoritative Magazine october said the procedures include the naming and summoning of and pos Sibly the presentation of the prosecutions four men Are accused of killing and 20 others Are accused of conspiring in the 6 attack in which seven other people were killed and 27 wounded at a military All 24 defendants Are charged with on thursday the newspaper Al gom Huria published what it called confessions of the four alleged Assas sins documents that said Sadat was the sole target of the in which Sadat successor Hosni Mubarak was slightly wounded in the officials had said earlier that other military and government leaders also were the military source said he believed the defence lawyers would ask for a postponement after the Reading of the indictment to enable them to study the the indictment was made Public nine Days ago in a 40minute nationwide it charged Khaled Ahmed Shawki Eli Slambouli with planning and leading the attack on Sadat at a military Ala ram said the prosecutions Case included a copy of a Book entitled the absent pillar of prepared by Mohammed Abdel Salam Farrag who is accused of instigating the the Ala ram distorts the teachings of islam and the works of moslem and says that As Well As the five traditional pillars of islam declaration of alms giving and pilgrimage moslem should undertake or holy against a sinful european firms to build soviet pipeline the Baltimore Sun Western companies will provide the financing and technology to build a pipeline from soviet Gas Fields on the shores of the Arctic to link up through pipelines in Hungary and Czechoslovakia with the european pipeline the construction the longest pipe line in the world be repaid by deliveries of Gas beginning in 1984 and extending into the 21st the contract signed in West yesterday set Price and quantities for the Sale of up to billion cubic meters of Gas annually to West financing agreed six other Western european coun the nether Belgium and Switzer also buy but West will be both the major Cus Tomer and the major contractor for the pipeline the terms of financing already have been and contracts for much of the pipeline and equipment have been awarded to German and other Europe an the soviet West German agreement on the repayment Price of the is the breakthrough Clinch ing the contracts with the other participating countries Are expected to follow the West German the Reagan administration opposed the arguing that it would make Western Europe Overly dependent on world soviet Energy european countries viewed the Deal As a Way to reduce Energy dependence on Middle East the signing came two Days before the visit to West Germany of soviet president Leonid and provided a cooperative setting for his three Days of talks with Chancellor Helmut estimates of the value of the project Range upward from billion in hard with perhaps an equal amount of investment by the soviet Union in providing Gas Field develop ment and a Ruhr Gas spokesman said the total value of the Gas to be purchased would be about 100 billion Marks billion Over 25 in addition to the possible risk that the soviet Union might threaten to withhold Gas supplies for political Rea there is the risk that a major East West confrontation a soviet military occupation of for sex Lead to a technology forcing the Western firms to but there Are political advantages for Western Europe As in addition to the added Energy these include the contracts that recession burdened european industries will win to Supply pipe and com Pressor equipment for the Eaton Bay two company Eaton financial centres downtown 8th floor 9884863 vital upper level 9883805 Bay financial Centre 4th floor downtown financial centres open store hours 7742421 member Canada Deposit insurance corporation a Canadian company sunday specials an popular Sanaa Ian cigarettes m 1 off sunday photofinishing bring your film into us on sundays and save Price 12 398 20 598 24 698 36 99b special sunday 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