Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december 1981 hijackers identity Uncertain continued from Page 1 after a state visit to the libyans say he left their on a flight to italian officials said his name was on an Airport arrival card and his Luggage was found at a Rome but the Rome police said they could find no other Trace of the three venezuelan planes were commandeered during Domestic flights Over Venezuela and were forced to land in a colombian port where Airport officials said the Hijack ers told them they were puerto rican nationalists seeking Independence for the Island but later reports said they were Salva Doran colombian guerrillas or Caracas newspapers reported receiving purportedly from the demanding million and Freedom for 12 prisoners in a spokesman for the news paper Al Universal he said the communiques were signed by the Manuel Rojas Lusardo guerrilla but nothing was known about such an the newspaper spokesman said the communique also criticized the venezuelan government for backing Al Sal Vandors civilian military Junta which is battling left Wing pamphlets Given to the freed Passen Gers carried the name of the Tarabun do Marti National liberation one of the guerrilla groups battling the salvadoran one of the freed passengers said the hijackers on his plane wore White hoods and White armbands with the Spanish Al Salvador will about 10 hours after the planes landed and were refuelled in a total of 67 passengers were said a communique from Colombia minister of government Jorge Mario the planes took off from Barranquilla with a total of 173 people including the Venezuela minister of the Rafael monies de called the triple hijacking an act of agitation against the democracy and against our coun of r a Elm 7 provocateurs influenced pm Montreal up agents provocateurs pushed the parti quebecois during its convention last weekend to reject economic association with Canada in favor of a policy of outright Premier Rene Levesque charged the visibly angered by his party had threatened Sun Day to quit his other Post As pm presi Dent Over the although he said yesterday he would take a few More Days to think Over his the convention was manipulated by a Block of professional protesters agents provocateurs from god knows the Premier said in an inter View with the provincial Radi Quebec television asked where the agents came Levesque flashed a Grin and said it must be some foreign he was apparently alluding to Testi Mony at a recent court hearing that the ramp had been asked in 1969 by a top Federal government official to gather intelligence on the Quebec government As if it were a foreign Levesque also said the fact that pm convention organizers invited two members of the Palestine liberation organization to the party meeting indicated their intellectual pretentious their kindergarten inter nation the Premier admitted he was left open mouthed by the standing ova Tion Given by pm delegates to Jacques a former member of the front de liberation do Quebec who served More than four years in prison for his complicity in the murder of former Quebec labor minister Pierre Rose was selected As a representative by a pm Riding association and had a right to speak at the but delegates who applauded him suffered from verbal delirium and apparently forgot the Fly didst believe in democracy at the the Premier Levesque shocked delegates to the convention and earned some by telling them he even be Able to vote for the radically altered party program or argue in favor of it if it was not in still trying to Analyse the whole thing because its part of my Levesque said quitting politics is something which crosses the mind of anybody after something like 20 its Quebec federalists were Quick to react to the split Between Levesque and the rest of his Serge Federal minister of state with special responsibility for said in Ottawa that a federally admin estered referendum in the province on Quebec Independence would be one Way to Clear the air on the the pm has removed its said Energy minister Marc now it is Clear they want the separa Tion of if anyone had any doubts about that they have any senators continue debate passengers released from one of three hijacked venezuelan planes disembark in continued from Page 1 governing parti quebecois in its bid for i cannot conceive of a major constitutional change of this nature taking place without the consent of said Liberal senator Dan a for Mer party organizer in others opposed the charter of rights for reducing parliaments sovereignty and for failing to protect the rights of English speaking senator Ernest the Elo quent former social credit Premier of called the Resolution a time bomb with the potential of blowing Canada the charter is in sound and contains ambiguous words which will take the courts years to he two senators Are upset with the Lack of rights for the unborn and two More oppose a clause allowing provinces to Block evolution of the territories into profits matter of once Maceachen Hedges demands to curb Bank earnings Ottawa up finance minister Allan Maceachen yesterday said the 40 and 60 per cent profit increases the chartered Banks have been racking up Are a matter of but he offered no hint that he in tends to do much about you in not running the Maceachen told re porters he also skated around questions about nip demands that he impose an excess profits tax on the Banks and put the proceeds into housing and Mort Gage in the Maceachen promised to consider a request from conservative finance critic Michael Wilson that the House finance commit tee be asked to review both the Bank profits and High interest Wilson told reporters the committee should talk to the the finance the Bank of Canada and Bank in he said he supports the idea of an excess profits tax if the profits Are he said he is not sure whether Bank profits Are too High and he doubts the prof its have much Impact on inter est my feeling right now is i dont see them making excess because of the relation ship of their current profits to the size of their asset its on the Low end of the scale for the past 15 or 20 polish regime says tape reveals Union ambitions continued from Page 1 by the Warsaw regional Zbigniew Union officials did not deny the quoted remarks but said the statements had been taken out of context from a in tense while the Circum stances under which the tape was obtained were not sex the portions played on Warsaw radio sounded but distinct enough that the recording could have been made by one of the unionists in the meeting Solidarity leaders scoffed at speculation that Walesa might be there would be a War if they touched said taking obvious relish in printing the taped excerpts from the Radom Zolnierz the polish army declared and so the masks Are and the ends so far pursued through camouflage and illusory and deceptive slogans have been stat All the time these ends were to take Over Power and to overthrow the socialist system in coming at a time of renewed tension Between the Union and the the government action seemed shrewdly de signed to depict Solidarity As the and to divert attention from last weeks police raid on the Warsaw fire fighters Academy and from the emergency Powers act being sought by the the Radom meeting resulted in a strongly worded communique threatening a general strike should the government carry out plans to legislate and implement the emergency the Solidarity leadership also accused the government of going Back on plans for major economic and pressed standing demands for greater Media Access and earlier regional Council sternly the government accused Solidarity yesterday with breaking the a agreements Between workers and the authorities and assuming the position of a political opposition Force embark ing on open struggle against socialist this Drew another statement yesterday from Solidarity deny ing it is trying to aggravate Poland social and political Cli the Union said it is genuinely interested in achieving National but declared that this required solutions to Long standing the Union statement criticized the determination of the government to go ahead with the emergency Powers the Sejm meets Friday to begin debate on the the widening Gulf apparently has scuttled the talks that began a month ago to establish some sort of National front that would cooperate in trying to rebuild the near bankrupt nip Leader de Broadbent dismissed Wilsons suggestion that the whole Issue be sent to saying what canadians want now is Broadbent said the govern ment could pick up million simply by taxing the Banks profits Down to last years he also pressed Maceachen to step in and help the families he said had to renew their mortgages at 23 per cent when interest rates hit their Peak in september and saying the Banks will reap another million a month from that group but Maceachen said he has referred the Issue to a commit tee of government and lending officials he set up last sum the Canadian labor Congress said yesterday it has asked for a meeting with prime minister Trudeau and his Cabinet by thursday to discuss High interest rates and other economic follows protest the request follows a Parlia ment Hill rally organized by the Congress last month at which tens of thousands protested High interest rates and the sluggish but there were More indications yesterday that things will get worse before they get bet statistics Canada said its composite leading an Index of future economic Active shows no sign the economic decline will be reversed in the near the slowdown was worst in sales of furniture and apply which in september took their largest drop on in new orders fell per cent compared with a decline of per cent in suit challenges forced retirement continued from Page 1 Justice Charles Huband said that if older people were allowed to stay on past Young people could suffer from the resulting decline in Job judge Hall said if the government wanted to give its own employees the right to continue it would have said so London said it want necessary to refer specifically to bureaucrats because the Law As it is now written applies to he said Section 6 of the act says every person is to be protected against age discrimination and Section 35 says the and every servant and agent of the is bound by this the Law makes no London its very theres no equiv most of the hearing was taken up by Legal arguments about whether the civil service superannuation which Calls for compulsory takes precedence Over the subsequent human rights Ronald the governments Law cited past cases where it was found that a specific Law like the superannuation act takes precedence Over a general Law such As the human rights London argued the other saying the human rights passed in must have been meant to override the superannuation which goes Back to because the two Laws Are clearly the later statute repeals or overrides and is Paramount to the earlier he Section 3 of the civil ser vice act says the mandatory retirement clause will continue in Force unless explicitly provided to the contrary in another he its been changed by the subsequent said Justice Mon adding this must not have been under stood by the which makes it he theres a bit of stupidity at the Bot Tom of 9 after with proof of Purchase from Eaton place i use lots indicated on map Only St Eaton place enclosed parking Eaton South s1ak shopping hours monday to saturday a Rani h i ;