Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, November 27, 1981

Issue date: Friday, November 27, 1981
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free november 1981 poles discuss joint Power Warsaw Reuter Poland communist government and the free Trade Union Solidarity held talks again yesterday on the troubled but a Hartline politburo member rejected Union demands for the right to veto government Stefan Olszowski said in an interview in the party daily Tribuna Ludu that proposals for Solidarity to have such Power would upset any possible front of National Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa had proposed the right to veto As a precondition for the Union joining a but Olszowski suggested such Power would paralyse the the politburo hardliner repeated the front could operate Only if All partners recognized communist supremacy in Poland and he warned the alternative was confrontation and Olszowski remarks were published on the eve of another policymaking session of the communist party Cen trial arid As Solidarity and the government discussed rival propos als for giving the people More say in economic a government spokesman said the talks covered both the unions proposal for a no party social Council to Over see economic and the govern ments plan to set up a joint commis Sion which would include both Union and secret talks Solidarity originally demanded the no party Council be empowered to initiate but after resuming negotiations with the government it fell Back to seeking Only a consultative yesterdays talks Between Solidarity negotiator Grzegorz Palka and former Justice minister Jerzy Bafia might eventually be overtaken if the Union is persuaded to enter some form of partnership with the communist party sources said the question was bound to come up at today Central committee but they said the basis for a common is Solidarity partnership was still to be mapped out in High level students remained on strike in about two thirds of Poland universities and but the Leader of Rural Soli Jan called on Farmers to end protest police continued to hold More than a dozen Solidarity members arrested in the Industrial City of Chor Zow on wednesday night after they pasted up uncensored Solidarity Union officials said one of the detainees was beaten by police and taken to a the official polish news Agency Pap said two steel Mills and a major Indus trial Plant in the City proclaimed a strike Alert to Speed up the release of the who were among their a local police commander told the Agency he hoped those arrested would be freed a photo haitian Appeal a haitian Man pleads with immigration officials to be taken from a plane carrying 125 20 haitian men escaped from a refugee Camp none of the escapes had been recaptured Haig to seek Sinai Force Compromise Washington a state Secretary Alexander in a last i Nute search for a Compromise with israels foreign is trying to find a Way around an impasse with the jewish state Over european participation in a Sinai peacekeeping Haig scheduled a mid morning meet ing at the state department with israeli foreign minister Yitzhak who declared before taking an Al night flight from Tel Aviv that Europe conditions Are the israeli government also sent a military team to Washington to resume discussions at the Pentagon on new strategic ties with the United a submitted to the israelis 10 Days called for stockpiling american medical supplies in Israel and some Token military it fell Short of prime minister Mena chem begins Hopes for closer ties Between the two the disputes Over european peace keepers and Middle East strategy Are straining the Reagan administration fears severe damage to the Camp David peace process if the europeans Are shut but the begin government is angry with the europeans for pushing for a role for the Palestine liberation organization in future Shamir plans to return Home in time for a meeting sunday of the israeli which is expected to reject european participation in the Sinai Force unless some Compromise can be worked out with both Israel and Egypt hold veto Power Over which countries join the its Job will be to maintain peace Between the two states after Israel completes its scheduled withdrawal from the Sinai in some observers in Jerusalem speculated that a Compromise might be struck in which the would step up military cooperation with Israel in return for accepting the but Shamir took a Tough stance after meeting yesterday with is not a question of the for eign minister we have our Prin Europe conditions Are unacceptable to and Shimon Peres said his labor party would support a veto unless the europeans amended their which twists the contents of Camp David and negates it in Many Only three countries have Given Blanket commitments to participate with the United states Uruguay and Williams scores upset in us vote los Angeles times London Shirley a foun Der of the new social democratic won a landmark electoral Vic tory yesterday in the parliamentary seat for the Crosby Northwest of the Victory by a 51year old former education minister in labor was being hailed As a Harbinger of a deep change in the nature of British tory District her Victory in what had been a staunchly conservative District indicated that the new social democratic Liberal party Alliance was at least in the minds of the More popular than the ruling conservative party or the opposition labor Williams Defeated the conservative party candidate by votes overturning the enormous Victory margin of votes by the conservative Winner of the 1979 general elec the late sir Graham Williams finished with per of the conservative John Butcher was second with per labor Candi Date John Backhouse a Distant third with per in a cold brisk the election turnout was per cent of eligible which is considered reasonably High in a she attributed her Victory to popular concern Over conservative voter disagreement with government policy and labor voter disillusionment with that party shift to the Williams Victory was the first for a social Democrat and the second for the new social democratic Liberal Alli Liberal William Pitt won a by election in South London Croydon District the Alliance now has 36 seats in parliament and 11 previously elected liberals and 23 social democratic defectors from other political specialists said Williams Victory projected on a National scale indicates that the social dem Ocra Liberal Alliance could win a big majority in parliament in a general Williams was ousted from a parliamentary seat representing another constituency in the 1979 general elec but her return to parliament will put her in a Strong position to Lay claim to the leadership of the social democratic which she along with David Owen and William members of and Roy a former member of parliament and a former president of the european economic Community of the districts they political experts Here say that most of the social democratic Liberal Alli ances members of parliament would prefer Jenkins Over Williams As their Leader thus As their contender for prime minister should the Alliance win in a general Jenkins favored Jenkins experience in the dec Post and As Chancellor of the exchequer in a labor government is most frequently cited As the reason he is favored for the but Williams is Well liked and a Compromise might be worked out whereby she would be chairman of the party and Jenkins would be the Leader in parliament and eventual prime 7 soldiers injured in Ira bomb blast Belfast a a hijacked car rigged with a bomb exploded last night near a British army checkpoint near the Irish Republic seriously wounding seven a Belfast police spokesman earlier in the Northern ire lands police chief denounced the so called third Force vigilantes of protest Tant Leader Ian Paisley As a threat to the whole fabric of he vowed Security forces would step up measures against extremists among the majority protestants and minority roman in a statement issued from his Bel fast Jack chief Constable of the mainly protestant Royal Ulster attacked the private paramilitary Force announced by Paisley earlier this the object of self appointed armies is to seize Power and dictate to the people not Only what they should or should not do but whether they should live or Hermon a protestant guerrilla the Ulster Freedom claimed responsibility for wednesday nights gunshot attack on the Dublin Headquarters of sinn political Wing of the two both employees of the sinn fein Republican were slightly injured in the attack by a Lone gunman who escaped in a the Uff said the raid had not been 100 per cent successful because of the presence of civilians in the area but said the gunman and helpers had returned safely to a photo Jwuc Guini Iii Wim Cut pc escape Battle in hijacked bomb search turns up bodies London up a massive police search of garages in the London area for a 350kilo Gram Cache of Ira explosives has failed to turn up any explosives but police discovered two one body was deemed a Sui cide while the other was being treated As a the search by police men for More than a week has resulted in about 100 earlier this there was a Short live panic when police entered one garage and found a rocket under it turned out to be the work of an innocent the latest find is a garage love Complete with liquor double chandelier and plastic inflatable by Chris Munnion daily London Johannesburg White Mercen Aries who were thwarted in a bid to stage a coup in the Seychelles fought a six hour pitched Battle with Security forces at the Indian Ocean republics International Airport before most of them escaped by hijacking an air leaving about five of their number to hold off government about 40 of the mercenaries lured an air India Boeing 707 with 79 passengers and Crew aboard to land and then forced the Pilot to Fly them to the aircraft was surrounded by a special police anti Hijack squad after More than three hours of the men they were flown in a military aircraft to an air base near Pretoria and taken to maximum Security the passengers and who were allowed to leave the aircraft Seychelles islands to Durban Early yesterday one passenger said that on the e aim not 1srnvbreh an Way South Africa the mercenaries ate and joked with me nue on Board was the body of one of their killed when Security guards at there also was a badly wounded passengers said the men spoke with South african and new Zea land and appeared to include two americans and an the Johannesburg Star reported that the men were former members of the rhodesian selous rhodesian Light infantry and a South african reconnaissance and that they had been recruited in Johan Nesburg to overthrow the left Wing Seychelles government of president Albert according to the the men had been recruited under the auspices of Mike of Congo mercenary who lives in and had been offered More than to sign up and a further if the coup succeeded authorities said the coup attempt began at Cost wednesday when the attackers arrived aboard a scheduled Royal swazi air lines Colin a zimbabwean hotel director on a business trip to the Seychelles on the air India said a member of the group told him that if things had worked James Man the former president deposed by Rene in would have returned to the islands Hendrik South african minister of said that any persons convicted of hijacking would face the strict Laws providing up to 30 years imprisonment on Louis be minister of confirmed that several South africans were among the Seychelles president Rene also sur Vived at least three previous attempts to overthrow his left Wing regime since he toppled exp resident Man Cham in a bloodless coup in president Renes Small army is backed by some 140 tanzanian and cuban military advisers also Are reported to be on the main the soviet Union has supplied the islands military with artillery and sam7 ground air 4 ;