Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 9, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Charge after Holdup too much for jeweller by Murray Mcneil 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 then they Corne 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 it v to carry on with Green pledges sunny today 8 Cloudy tonight 12 final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second cd fuss mail registration number 0286 december 1981 no no 9 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets up photo prime minister Trudeau and Lily Schreyer watch speaker Jean Marchand present Senate Resolution to de Esmond who is carrying the Constitution Resolution to stands at Centre in Leanne lebanese shiites hold 38 exhausted hostages aboard libyan Airliner by the associated press Iran shiite moslem government negotiated today with militant lebanese shiites in an attempt to end their hijacking of a libyan Airliner and free 38 exhausted radio Tehran three other hijacked airliners from landed in Cuba the hijackers and the planes and More than 100 hostages wore to be returned to Venezuela i Haven any nerves the Pilot of the libyan Boeing 727 radioed last 24 hours after his plane was taken i cant take the nerves of All my passengers Are please give them whatever 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 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 Beevi 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 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 Nese government and the Leba Nese shiite militia and one of the country 40 private Airport officials twice tried to Block the Landing by turning off the runway lights and parking service vehicles on then an estimated armed amal militiamen took Over the the runway was and the plane Airport officials then refused to re fuel the As members of the Airport Security Force trained their rifles on the hijacked the shiite militiamen pointed their guns at the but a Middle East airlines Jet arrived from the militiamen intercepted the passengers and threatened to put them Back aboard and Hijack the and the officials re versed a lebanese official who boarded the plane before it took off for Tehran said there were seven armed men see hijacked Page 4 Okay removes last hurdle in Canada 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 shortly after arriving 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 pm readies 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 to vote their he said he opposed the new Constitution because he believes it 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 least As worried about the implications of the i Hope that the worst Doest he but this will mean much More radicalization in three Manitoba progressive conservative senators broke ranks to vote in favor of the former Premier Duff Sena Tor Nate Nur Gitz Winnipeg North and senator Paul Tuzyk fort Garry voted with the see Quebec Page 4 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 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 speaking to reporters after his first report As auditor general was tabled in 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 government spending re forms As recommended by previous auditors Post office while Dye was also critical of some departments for initially re fusing to divulge certain information to his he declined to make his criticisms More my Job is not to Embarrass the he explaining his Cowkey my Job is to give parliament an Dye said his criticisms May seem More muted than those of previous auditors general because he wants to establish a Good working relation ship with government using the big stick Only when one example was the Way he Drew attention to the billion National although he warned that interest alone costs the government 20 cents on every he was careful to add the deficits Are at least partly due to government policy outside the Pur View of my his criticism about civil servants refers to government management and spending reforms known by the acronym As of May Dye 20 per cent of the reforms were behind schedule and Progress was disappointingly 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 Bill conservative member for Vancouver quadra and chairman of the commons Public accounts commit supported one of dyes recommend that Crown corporations should be fully audited by the auditor general As grits gang up Reagan Chat t the majority Liberal government easily Defeated the combined opposition parties yesterday to endorse the much criticized 198283 former Winnipeg Ger Allan Canadas new ambassador to the United had a Chat with president Reagan an open 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 31 Jumble 74 33 40 7 43 67 sports 53 Ann 26 43 30 52 57 50 crossword 26 57 6 to 8 6 ;