Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december 1981 Levesque slams pm hardliners Jim Wiley free press continued from Page 1 Michel a Well known party hardliner on Independence who has been at Odds with Levesque in the said the positions adopted at the convention were perfectly Levesque said yesterday he wants several Days to think Over his possible he said without some form of word ing recognizing association he would were he an Ordinary voter have trouble voting for the decision on whether he will re main As Premier depends on the Confidence of the caucus elected Mem Bers of the National Assembly and Cabinet Levesque attacked delegates for passing a motion stating that the pm should proclaim Quebec Independent even if it wins an election with less than a majority of the popular they also voted to fight the next provincial election on the Issue of pure motion rejected and on saturday the delegates rejected a motion which called for free circulation of capital and a common currency and other measures As goals of economic association with the rest of the sovereignty association has been the main pm election Plank since the party was founded in 1968 and in the referendum that option was rejected 6040 by the people of the prov on former front de libera Tion do Quebec Fly member Jac ques Rose called cheers from convention delegates for the release of All former Fly members from fed eral no delegates spoke against the motion and it passed by an overwhelming margin in a show hands Rose was Given a standing ovation when he presented an emergency Reso Lution to the party asking that the Federal government turn the prisoners Over to the Quebec Legal the Resolution says Quebec would then become responsible for their parole Jacques Rose is the brother of Paul who is serving a life term for the kidnapping and murder of Quebec labor minister Pierre Laporte during the october crisis of Jacques was released from prison in after serving four years and two months of an Lightyear sentence for being an accessory after the fact in the Laporte he was acquitted on charges of kidnapping and Plo sends pair to pm convention Montreal up a woman delegation from the Palestine libera Tion organization attended the week end parti quebecois convention Here marking the first time the Plo has been invited As observers to the convention of a North american political the palestinians were among two dozen foreign guests invited to observe the pm Sylvain pm said the invitation to the Plo did not signify direct support for the Palestin Ian the pm and the Quebec government have never taken an official position on the Issue of a palestinian the Federal government does not officially recognize the other foreign guests included d a representative of the kurdish in dependence movement in Iran d Veronique a socialist Mem Ber of Frances National Assembly d Jeanpierre a gaullist Deputy in the French Assembly d Bernard socialist mayor of Abdula the United nations representative for the Polinario a West african guerilla group fighting to establish a Republic in the former Spanish guests expenses were paid by the khad Afy denies sending assassins to kill Reagan new York a libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy has denied sending assassins to kill president Reagan but the state department claims it has Strong evidence Kha Day is plotting the murder of Reagan and other branding the Reagan administrations allegations big khad Afy challenged the United states in a Tele vision interview yesterday to show proof of such a if they have we Are ready to see this he said in the interview broadcast live by satellite from his office in we Are sure we Haven sent any people to kill Reagan or any other people in the world and we want to see these big khad Afy said on the Abc news program this week with David we want investigation to see the truth and let the american people and the libyan people and the Congress of America to know the who is liar Reagan or he i am challenging i am challenging them to make this it is the behaviour of to assassinate to Poison my food and they tried Many things to do he added but gave no that Man was lying to said senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan acting chairman of the Senate intelligence who was inter viewed on the same but Moynihan said Khz Adays de Mand for an investigation to prove or disprove the charge of a libyan assassination plot is a fair i think something like this should be the state in a state ment released after the we have Strong evidence that khad Afy has been planning the murder of american officials both Here and the statement did not lab but said we certainly Hope that Khz Adays denial Means that he will abandon the use of terrorism and assassination As a part of his foreign when he has we will know before the Abc news re ported that intelligence has identified the members of a fireman assassination squad made up of three an iranian and an East Ger it said the Fri is tracking the team which it believes is armed with automatic weapons and under Kha Days direct Newsweek Magazine said saturday that a lebanese terrorist who defected told intelligence he was present at a meeting in Libya six or eight weeks ago at which khad Afy ordered Reagan and other top officials the secret service has tightened Protection recently of Vic president George Cabinet officials and around Capitol report raising doubts Doggie bags Louie the maltese was certainly wrapped up in his work on the weekend As a participant in the North winds dog show at the Winnipeg convention the plastic bags and elastic bands kept louies Loose hair from dangling until it was time for him to appear before the shopkeepers consider metric an Imperial pain in the neck continued from Page 1 in Eastern this refers to the volatility of the Mission and the feeling that no nation in Eastern Europe would take a Chance being associated with on the other Khz Adays internal Security service is trained and run by East As to the source of the the possibilities Are that the information is accurate that it was so called deliberately meant to be inflammatory for some unknown or that somebody wanted to make Money out of a situation in which such information would seem plausible and sources stressed that despite these the report is being taken it is believed that the closest watch on libyans trying to enter the United states focuses on the Canadian Border and on by reputation a place where it is somewhat easier to obtain a visa to the continued from Page 1 scheduled to get started in 21 areas across the country next Peterborough is one of the places exempt until a random stroll through the downtown shopping District shows not every merchant converted Back to but the general consensus is that Peter Borough is not going to be in favor of it the next time theres affable Len owner of Welchs family food after 26 years in the grocery he has a regular clientele com ing to his compact but Well stocked but i lost business two years he regular customers were driving to outside communities where metric want in effect to do their people just dont understand metric and there upset by they look at the Price of my meat and see but there thinking in terms of people like to compare prices these Days and All this just confuses converting to metric Scales didst pose a problem the last time for John who runs the Peter Decarlonis fresh fruit and vegetable he just didst of for Young it May be All right for the younger says who took Over the business years ago after marrying the owners but its not fair for the older folks to have to think in i didst change and i dont want to have to do it the next time were supposed Henry was probably a meat Market proprietor a few blocks away had fits Imperial Scales sealed when inspectors for the Federal weights and measures act visited his store while he was waiting for his new equipment to since it was inevitable metric would return some Day Why the merchants just stay on the system after a five month immersion two years ago Ellie owner of the cheese shop Delicatessen chose to remain with and she says Shes glad she we had to have our Scales changed and it would be up to us to have them changed she it want Worth the its quite simple to up photo understand All my girls employees can do it and our customers dont seem to have any problems with Deal says he collected about petitions from customers wanting to keep metric out of and he says his customers meant Why else was i losing so much business in 79 he i do about Worth of business Here in a when Sally Hayes is organizing a metric we were on metric i was Down to about my customers went they metric commission say were not supposed to think in terms of ounces and pounds any under the regu butter still comes pack aged in on Pound Why cant it be rounded off 450 Grams because then it equal to a much of the vocal opposition to metric has been coming from a citizens group called opera Tion headed by Sally who says its Only Inci dental that Shes also Active in the libertarian political the group is rounding up responses to metric from across the response negative and the response is says who stresses that the complaints Are not so much against metric itself As in the governments method of imposing it it has All been decided by order Council while Parlia ment and much less the pub never Given the Chance to debate she Why anyone thinks that met Ric is going to facilitate Trade with other countries is beyond the metric they Are imposing on us is Only one of 20 official metric systems and it int used there would still have to be More conversions to Deal with metric used in parts of Europe and Ken Peterborough based president of the Canadian federation of retail said in a recent letter to a newspaper that he once worked hard on a committee to try to bring metric into general prac we had been led to believe that metric is Good for Canada and that the United states would be changing shortly after our conversion was the letter noting that the later delayed metric con Price plane hits Hospital one Man killed continued from Page 1 and the Pilot of another aircraft taking off from the Airport to look for the Amolsky he said they saw but a member 0 the Hospital staff apparently reported the people inside the Hospital when the crash occurred said the Impact Shook the whole there was just a loud said Lucy a dust and stuff came out of the ceiling and i was on the second i just heard a said a Man who had been visiting a Friend in the it Shook the whole a resident nearby building said he heard the aircraft engines quit just before it Burrows called the incident an As Sembly of he said from what he saw at the the aircraft appeared to have skewed around just before Impact and rather than nose were very fortunate there was no sex he one of the wings is lying up on the Bolding it looks like it hit on an transport Canada officials were on hand investigating even As the men were 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