Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 9, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Charge after Holdup too much for jeweller by Murray Mcneill enough is says a jeweller who was charged by police after he chased two would be robbers into the Street and fired two shots into the air during the second Holdup attempt at his store in As Many even though the Crown has dropped the weapons charge against Theo Dore said yesterday he not Only plans to get rid of his but his Ellice Avenue store As whats the use said Neumann with a you work and work and Cloudy tonight 12 Cloudy tomorrow 3 then they come in and take it away from and then they want to punish me because i want to protect its just not Worth senior Crown attorney Wayne mesh Kowsky said yesterday he is satisfied Neumann was defending both himself and his property when he fired two shots into the air with his following the aborted Holdup from which both bandits managed to police had charged Neumann with possessing a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the Public Neumann fired the shots outside the front door of his shop at Ellice Avenue at about two men had entered the store minutes earlier on the pretext of wanting to look at some when Neumann took a tray of jewelry from his one of the men grabbed Neumann scuffled with the who dropped the tray bearing about Worth of jewelry and As a clerk ran to get Neumannn the second Man broke free from Neumannn Neumann said he ran outside with his saw the second Man running Down the Street and fired the shots into the All i wanted was to get attention for he mondays incident was the second time in two years that Neumannn store has been the target of he also lost Worth of jewelry to shoplift ers last Neumannn agreed it May be time to quit the every time the door opens we Shiv thinking it might be another Rob she youre in constant fear for your progressives to carry on with Green december 1981 vol no no 9 final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class Maii registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets att Constitution reaches London Senate Okay removes last hurdle in Canada prime minister Trudeau and Lily Schreyer watch speaker Esmond who is carrying the Constitution Jean Marchand present Senate Resolution to de Resolution to stands at Centre in hijacked Jet on Way to Turkey seized libyan plane Heads West after Stopover at iranian Airport by the associated press London Reuter a hijacked libyan Airliner with More than 30 passengers aboard left Tehran today and headed West of Iran towards tur Tehran Airport officials told re porters by officials said the jetliner took off after negotiations broke Down Between iranian foreign ministry officials and the lebanese hijackers who claim Libya is detaining their moslem religious the planes departure was confirmed later by the official iranian news Agency Iran radio had reported that iranian government officials were negotiating with the hijackers follow ing the planes Landing on the radio said the authorities had granted a request for the Passen Gers on Board the Boeing 727 had informed the control Tower through the Pilot that they were All the three engined Boeing 727 put Down in Tehran following repeated pleas by the libyan government to let it said Tehran monitored in Tehran Airport officials told the associated press in Beirut by Telephone the commandeered plane was resupplied soon after Landing from it was hijacked Over Italy and so far has flown More than i Haven any nerves Rene the Pilot of the libyan Jet radioed last i cant take any indicates khad Afy made aware of dire consequences los Angeles times Washington the govern ment was reported last night to have contacted libyan strongman foam mar khad Afy through a third country and warned him to drop his alleged plan to assassinate president Reagan and other a Reagan administration official pointed out in this connection that Belgium has been looking after interests in without confirming reports of a Contact with a third the official said he was certain khad Afy had been made aware of what would happen if Libya went through with any assassination earlier in the White House communications director David Gergen told a press briefing that we have been in Contact with the allies on the libyan big joke to Arab Gergen did not Belgium has been representing interests in Libya since the United states withdrew All personnel from its embassy in Tripoli in reports of the warning to khad Afy began circulating in washing ton several hours after the White House persuaded the Senate to hold off on calling for a halt to Oil imports from so Reagan would have a free hand in dealing with Gary denouncing Libya As an absolutely intolerable introduced a Senate Resolution urging the import he called for stopping As soon As Possi ble american financing of see assassination Page 4 the nerves of All my passengers Are please give them what Ever they want and lets get it Over and done while the hijackers held the exhausted passengers and Crew prisoner on the Tehran Airport they demanded that the iranian government negotiate with the libyan government to solve the mystery of the disappearance three years ago of Imam Moussa the spiritual Leader of the lebanese Sadr vanished in 1978 at the end of a state visit to Lebanon shiites say Moa mar Libya sunni moslem has kept him prisoner Ever but the libyans say he boarded a plane for Rome at the end of his visit and they dont know what happened to three lebanese shiites hijacked the libyan Airliner monday night on a flight from Switzerland to Tripoli and forced the Pilot to Fly to there they released a pregnant libyan woman and her two Small demanded a in investigation of Sadr disappearance and took aboard two More armed shiite after 10 hours in the Hijack ers made the Pilot Fly them to then to Back to Beirut in the evening and to Tehran Early the return of the plane to Beirut touched off a dispute Between the Leba see hijacked Page 4 by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Canadas Constitution has arrived by air Force Jet in London after the Senate gave it overwhelming approval Justice minister Jean Chretien and Esmond Secretary to de were carrying the resold which Only hours earlier was ratified overwhelmingly by the sen it was presented to the governor general by commons speaker Jeanne Sauve and Senate speaker Jean mar Chand in a Madero television Cere Mony at government i for transmission to the these historic Schreyer pm readies shortly after at Gatwick Airport at est Butler boarded a helicopter bound for Buck Ingham so the Queen could be Given the Battle scarred constitutional proposals that will make Canada a truly Independent state 114 years after but butlers appointment at Buck Ingham Palace had to be delayed by at least three hours because foggy weather prevented his helicopter from land ing and prior commitments prevented the Queens private Secretary from meeting him until later in the senators voted 5923 for prime min ister Trudeau Resolution to Patriate the 1867 British North America enshrine a limited charter of rights and include an amending Only approval by the British com Mons and the House of lords is now required before the country gets its technical and the Liber als expect few but last nights Senate vote occurred amid dire predictions from Quebec senators and some others that tru Deaus plan would wreck the the Quebe cers were angry that the province has been isolated by a 5 constitutional Accord signed by tru Deau and the nine English speaking this Resolution contains a germ of the fruit of which we will not have to wait too Long to predicted Senate opposition Leader Jacques it will be no Surprise if an Ever growing number of Quebe cers see no place for themselves in Conedera he Liberal senator Daniel Lang South York was one of numerous senators who broke party ranks vote their he said he opposed the new Constitution because he believes it spirit of Christmas the Economy May be Down and interest rates May be but Manitoban show there Are other important things on their minds with their response to the spirit of Christmas moves the country to a different style of Halifax tory senator Richard Dona Hoe also warned that the pact is the first ring of the death Knell for the country that you and i have Quebec senator Arthur constitutional adviser to progressive conservative Leader Joe was at worried about the implications of the i Hope that the worst Doest he but this will mean much More radicalization in see Quebec Page 4 sitting on buns 0 rapped Ottawa up the Federal government is making Progress in get Ting its spending under control but some civil servants Are still sitting on their auditor general Ken Neth Dye said after his first report As auditor Gen eral was tabled in Dye said he remains generally impressed with senior Levels of the civil but some civil servants didst share his sense of urgency in pressing ahead with spending Post office fails while Dye was also critical of some departments for initially refusing to divulge certain information to his Audi he be More my Job is not to Embarrass the he my Job is to give parliament an Dye said he wants to establish a Good working relationship with government using the big stick Only when although he warned interest alone costs the government 20 cents on every Dollar of the billion National he was careful to add the deficits Are at least partly due to government policy outside the Purview of my among the juicier titbits in the re port were d the government and its agencies produce 900 million photocopies a year at a Cost of at least d the Canadian National railway collected million in overpayment due to Sloppy d a building in Ottawa bought for million in 1976 remains Savard joins jets Palm up Winni Peg jets have obtained defence Man Serge Savard from Montreal Cana Diens and the former National hockey league Allstar will come out of retire ment to become the jets club general manager John Ferguson said he said the jets obtained from the canadians for future considerations after having selected him in the waiver draft the Day before the current season Ferguson said Savard will report to the jets immediately and he is expected to play within 10 to 14 grits gang up the majority Liberal government easily Defeated the combined opposition parties yesterday to endorse the much criticized 198283 Reagan Chat former Winnipeg Ger Allan Canadas new ambassador to the United had a Chat with president Reagan an open Field the second of two original candidates for the Post of United nations Secretary general has withdrawn his name from the Monkey Shine a Canadian witness at the creation evolution trial in Arkansas yesterday termed the creation scientists As 1 Index Ann 26 43 30 50 26 57 6 8 31 Jumble 33 40 7 67 sports to 6 ;