Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pearl Harbor 40years you want to know what i think but you May not want to print says shopkeeper of Experiment with metric coed Deal has that outgoing manner of a storekeeper who knows How to and keep youre on a firs name basis right away with but his easy smile Doest mask his annoyance when you mention one of his special you want to know what i think of metric he ill Tell you what i think but you May not want to print Deal Doest say anything a print but his attitude reflects How he and Many other area merchants re Gard the impending changeover once again to metric a conver Sion they disdained the first time and the fact its their turn to get a reprieve this time Doest Mellow their opposition to its More than just a says manager of Sunnybrook food a min supermarket it Cost us a great Deal of it turned the customers off and we lost their Peterborough was one of three Ca Nadian cities selected by the Federal government to test the metric system in grocery stores for several months in the rest of the country was to Start the next the Liberal government was Defeated and the progressive conservatives postponed introduction of the system on a National basis until still with the liberals Back in it was put off for yet another with an fallout changeover see shopkeepers Page 4 Cloudy tonight 10 Cloudy tomorrow 6 december vol Mono Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 class mail registration number 0286 plane hits atop Hospital one dead Edmonton up one Man is dead after a Light plane crashed into a machinery room atop the Royal Alex Andra Hospital last just above a floor full of Bill of Edmonton died in University Hospital this morning after suffering head and abdominal a second Man in the de also of Edmonton was listed in serious condition with abdominal in its absolutely said Doug a City commissioner who viewed the scene shortly after the Mitsubishi mu2 aircraft buried itself in the Penthouse about 6 10 blocks Short of the runway at Edmon ton municipal Gerry technical director for the said the aircraft smashed into the exhaust ducts for the buildings air conditioning the shattered Orange Cabin Lay inside the machinery tangled in the Tail Assembly sat outside on the one Wing Lay on the machinery room its a Good thing it hit he in the worse a few feet it was in the sixth 120 patients moved about 120 patients on that floor were moved to other parts of the building because of the dangers of aviation Gas leaking from the there were about 600 patients in the the largest in the leaking Gas hampered fire fighters in their efforts to extricate the two it took two hours to pry both men from the twisted the Hospital is located about half Way Between the runway the men were bound for and the cites Down town approaching that a plane flies Over two one of the cites largest High schools and a major shopping Federal transport ministry spokes Man Bill Amolsky said the Airport Tower had Given the plane clearance to land but they didst show up and the plane dropped from the people in the Tower saw a Cloud of dust Rise just Over a Kilometre away in the Vicinity of the Hospital and asked a Pacific Western airlines Pilot see plane Page 4 Oto firefighters inspect shattered Cabin of plane which crashed into an Edmonton bail for molester angers mom by Greg Bannister the Mother of a 10yearold Winni Peg boy who was the victim of an indecent assault 18 months ago says she is frightened and ashamed after learning her sons attacker will remain free on bail despite his conviction on two offences the who asked to remain Anonymous because she fears her com ments might trigger retaliation from the said she Doest know How bail could be granted to a Man like Raymond Charles was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault involving the woman son and another Young Accord ing to evidence cited by the Crown during his bail has 12 previous convictions for buggery and Gross inde Troughton was released on bail by judge Kennedy pending his sentencing on the offences in defence lawyer Sheldon Pinx said Troughton had complied with All conditions of bail he received in 1980 and is receiving psychiatric treat but the Mother of the boy was not in ashamed the Law is As poor As it is instead of saying its Over and forgetting the whole we de possibly at my sons to push the he her son has had recall the event a few times now and something that should have been Over and done with is still being and then i have to read in the paper that this Guy is out on during the court was told Troughton met two boys at a grocery offered them some Money and took them Down to a the younger of the two ran away when Troughton touched him but the older boy escape until Troughton exposed the boy then kicked his assailant and the boys Mother says she is filled with fear the boys attacker could grab my boy or somebody else boy retaliation feared in worried that if this Guy thinks Hes going to jail what might he think of doing in retaliation she said she is also concerned about possible detrimental effects in later years upon her she said she feels that by releasing Troughton until the court has put itself in the position of possibly feeding his she said her son went through real trauma during the he was scared and he didst want to talk about there were Many times he wanted to just forget about but i wanted to show him theres a Law and something should be done about this Man what do i Tell him now this Guys out on after it the attack first happened he even go to the Park by Ive tried to show my son that Law and society Are Here to protect people from those who bring harm to society Ive been made to feel that Ive been let Down by the judicial not the police the police did their they picked this Guy i did my Job and my Little he went to court and did his what lays in our path is a ridiculous it makes it that much More difficult to try and make my son understand How this is i want everybody who reads the paper to know How much Law there is and How ridiculous it i want them to know just How Safe it is for their i want them to know Ive been fighting and worrying about this for two years and then i pick up a paper to read this Guy is out on Levesque threatens to resign by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Montreal Quebec Premier Rene Levesque last night threatened to resign As president of his party and hinted that he might quit As Premier after parti quebecois delegates overwhelmingly voted to hold the next election on the Issue of pure ind Epen Cence without economic Assoc a he said some pm delegates were reacting in an emotional fashion to prime minister Trudeau constitutional move and were obviously playing into his economic the party is risking the loss of an important part of its political he almost the new nation Al executive Council of the party issued a statement of unanimous support in his continuing leadership and asked him to defer any decision until the Council meets in the coming who listened to the speech in stunned reacted with a mix Ture of cheers and Boos when Levesque suggested that he May resign As party we cant let him do it nobody could replace Delegate Yvon Laramee said people didst understand what they were doing when they said we should declare sovereignty if we won a major Ity of but not a majority of the popular i voted against that we cant leave him Levesque in that we cant take away All his David the pm member for the Riding of said the delegates had shown a spirit of blood minded Ness in the resolutions they we could expect a certain Radica living this but the party went too he one of two anglophones in the pm was especially angry about a Resolution calling for the abolition of anglophone school boards in the the which was finally also said Quebec anglophones should Only be allowed English schools where numbers War Delegate Claudette Senecal said she is afraid for the Days that Are if he Levesque Many will weve gone Back 15 years with the decisions taken this people were Only thinking Senecal they wanted to play radically and it was their emotions that came others delegates were less sympathetic to Levesques see Levesque Page 4 hit squad report details puzzling the Washington Post authoritative sources confirm that intelligence has received a very detailed although in some respects puzzling report about a 10man squad allegedly formed to assassinate president Reagan or top including Secretary of state Alexander Haig and defence Secretary Caspar the report is understood to provide the name of each squad member and known aliases used by each in the it is said to include details on where the men were trained and reports that some of that training was in Eastern All but perhaps one or two members of the squad Are said to be the reports that Libya has sent such a team Here Are being taken seriously but nevertheless Are a source of Puzzle ment within the global intelligence and Security the source or sources for information in the intelligence report is said to be described Only vaguely in the re while it would be Normal to provide Only vague references to sourcing in order to protect the informant or in this Case the vagueness is part of the problem in evaluating the information and has caused doubts about the accuracy of the the doubts Are summarized As Fol lows although libyan ruler foam mar khad Afy is viewed As a dangerous and unpredictable some analysts doubt that he would put his name to an assassination plan whether it were to succeed or be exposed in khad Afy viewed dangerous could Lead to an incendiary including a military attack on if such an assassination plan actually were in it Likely would be a most closely guarded be and the ability of an informant to obtain the kind of detailed information on each squad As is now is viewed As highly unlike a 10man team is viewed by some specialists As too offering too great a Chance for slip ups by one or two there also is some doubt about re ports that team members were trained see report Page 4 heritage kept Albert keen conservationist and recipient of the order of is a persevering propagandist for Kab Steps in Liza Alexeyev says two Kab agents grabbed her As she tried to Board a train to visit her Nobel peace prize Winner Andrei wham Mied goalie Doug Soetaert continued his hex on the backstopping the jets to a 52 Victory Over the Stanley cup Button Happy a Survey of participants in recent War games sketches profiles of those most Likely to push the nuclear Button first civilians and Index focus Horoscope Ann 17 Jumble Puzzle 29 18 movies i Roole Cleverley Pettit 7 relax 16 sports record 31 6 20 to 17 3j 21 2 2 1 5c 1 i ;