Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Thief finds key to Christmas spirit by Ron Campbell Kaye Watson will have to make two Christmas shopping trips this year for her she thought once was enough tues Day night when she went to Polo Park and bought Worth of one of them for her daughters after hours of gift buying she de posited two shopping bags of presents and her sweater in locker number 123 in the customer service area on the malls East Side and left for about 45 minutes for More but when Watson returned to the she said it was open and there was a key in i was just her locker was opened with a key to locker number six and Only her sweater was left Watson first told the malls customer service officer about the theft and a Security guard was she said the guard told her that before anything could be the thief would have to return the stolen when Watson arrived at her Sher bum Street Home and told the her 20yearold and a Friend went to Polo Park to take a they didst find a were not responsible sign in the but did find a very Small sign claiming limited Lia Watson said she called the mall Man Ager she called the loss a minor amount of she said she Hopes her Story will make others cautious using mall mall manager Don Knight said if the locker had been broken there would be nothing the company could do because articles Are left at the owners but in this when a key from another locker was apparently there May be some limited Knight he said the locker keys have been recycled so often its possible the same Cut was used on two Knight said All the locks were being checked yesterday and Watson should have an answer i r h l Mubarak new style of leadership welcomed in brisk wind today 3 Cloudy tonight 6 december Sun rises sets rises Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 a photo to budget gather Force chief sol Sanderson in London to lobby for Indian presents Chretien with native version of Chretien reports Queen pleased that we had found grounds for agreement London Queen gave an unofficial Blessing to Canadas pro posed new Constitution yesterday Dur ing a 40minute meeting at Buck Ingham Palace with Justice minister Jean she asked about the constitutional Resolution and expressed pleasure that we had found grounds for agreement in Chretien told reporters at Canada the minister made a Point of saying that French was the language of communication during most of his audience with the Ive always marvelled at the Way she Speaks Shes a Good exam ple to there was no comment from Buckingham Palace on the meet ing with we do not normally say a Palace spokesman ministers of the Crown Are also usually reluctant to mention the sub stance of the Queen because of the cautious apolitical role she plays in the affairs of but Chretien appeared pleased his talks and allowed himself the Opportunity to Bend slightly the rules of Chretien and the Queen discussed the opposition of Quebec and some native groups to the constitutional which still must be passed by West Minster before it can be proclaimed in the minister told the Monarch que Bec agreed to four fifths of the package and that Only three areas of Contention prevented the province from joining the other nine provinces in endorsing the Handiwork of More than a year of intense political the Queen was quite pleased at being told Quebec was not opposed to All measures in the Chretien native groups Are continuing a Strong lobby in London against the constitutional the Indian association of Alberta lost a bid in the High Queens Bench yesterday to begin a Challenge of the similar attempts Are being launched by Saskatchewan and British Columbia native Chretien and the Queen indirectly touched on the possibility of the Mon Arch visiting Canada to proclaim the Constitution next year when Westminster passes the possibly in Westminster has Given no firm Date for passage of the proposals and the Queens schedule is often booked up Many months in it would be difficult for the Queen to accept any invitation to deliver the new Constitution to shortly after arriving yesterday from Chretien visited Francis government Leader in the com to discuss the timing of the constitutions journey through West Pym repeated assurances made last week by prime minister Margaret Thatcher that the measures would Likely be Given first Reading before Christ second and third House of lords approval and Royal assent would wait until after the the constitutional package was Fer ried across the Atlantic tuesday night in a Canadian armed forces Jet by Esmond Edward Jet departed from Ottawa few hours after the Senate passed Chretien had appeared particularly delighted with what he described As the Queens excellent her French is quite i dont know if she can stand my the minister joked in his heavily accented but she always feels it is a Good occasion to practise her French its Ottawa up business lobbies moved in Force yesterday to warn of dire economic consequences unless the Federal budget gets major and opposition maps vowed to spend the next two weeks pressing the government for Relief from High interest soaring unemployment and Mas Sive manufacturing and Auto Industry progressive conservative and new Democrat weary of the constitutional wrangling and Energy de Bate that dominated the commons for almost 14 plan to make the Economy the number one priority until the Christmas scheduled to begin Early in the Day business groups announced they have United to oppose the while two More stepped in separately later to escalate the Battle against governments fiscal strategy both prime minister Trudeau and finance minister Allan especially tried to play Down the new but speaking to Al fundraising dinner in stressed he is ready to hear a Good Case from business on some sections of the budget and was looking Forward Toa meeting today with the Canadian federation of Independent business part of the 23member coalition and one his strongest in there is room for discussion on certain aspects of his decision to reduce tax deductions for interest investors pay on Loans to finance new investments a move business says will discourage invest ment and drive up he urged business to keep it in on the basis of the latest available three quarters of those who interest costs would not have increases in taxable in come and less than one per cent of the total would have additional taxable income of More than he also reminded business that he has lowered most marginal rates the rate applied to every additional Dollar above a certain level of income a move which helps mainly High in come also repeated washes View that much of the budget controversy is based on misunderstanding or wild but the businessmen would have none of they called the budget devastating and among the worst in see Economy Page 4 hijackers end Odyssey with Salute route rap giving Victory salutes and shouting death to libyan Leader Moa mar the three hijackers of a libyan Airliner surrendered in Early today after a Odyssey across the Eastern med terran the three shiite moslem who seized the Boeing 727 Over Italy monday in route from Zurich to Tripo surrendered to syrian peacekeeping troops and lebanese Security dressed in jeans an chanting Allah Akbar god is the three Young hijackers were hustled away into a car by syrian and lebanese soldiers while the 36 passengers remained on the Pilot insisted on leaving Beirut immediately and the plane flew on to the syrian at the end of a 60hour Hijack that had taken it to Beirut and syrian officials and libyan Ambas Sador Abdelsalam Ben Khayyam were at Damascus Airport to receive the tired but smiling the gunmen hijacked the libyan Boeing to publicize the Case of a Leba Nese islamic Leader who they say Dis appeared while on a visit to Libya in see hijackers Page 4 War of words rages Between communist leaders Warsaw Reuter Poland Soli Darity Union and the communist authorities remained locked in a War of words today despite mediation efforts by the roman Catholic state in line with the rest of the official Media depicted the country As confronted by growing a Long list of incidents read out in the main evening news bulletin included the detonation of nonlethal explosives in Railroad Solidarity in Southeast Poland also was accused of having instructed its members on How to stockpile supplies and set up a workers militia if the government declared emergency the continued offensive in the offi Cial Media against the free Trade Union movement followed a Day of intensive consultations in Warsaw in which Soli Darity Leader Lech Walesa spent More than three hours with polish primate archbishop Jozep the talks were to pave the Way for a possible meeting with communist party Leader Wojciech Jaruzel a Catholic Janusz who met yesterday with both the primate and was reported to be acting As but no meeting materialized and aides said Walesa was scheduled to leave Warsaw Early today for Gdansk where his unions National commission was holding another major meeting starting Solidarity Warsaw information service published a letter sent by the primate to the primate see primate Page 4 o s spirit of Christmas the note accompanying the Cheque was Brief and to the Point list us As then there Are the residents of Boulton Bay seniors who raised and issued a Challenge to All other seniors residences to match their these stories Are Only two of Many behind a soaring Christmas pipeline faces new test touted held up in Congress from the news services Washington the Alaska Natu ral Gas pipeline Long touted As an Industrial and Energy Bonanza for took one step Forward in the Congress yesterday Only to be immediately driven Back one step to face a crucial test that it had already passed once overriding the opposition of consumer the House yesterday approved 233177 a measure that would allow the natural Gas Industry to charge its customers for the costs of building a pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48 because of a complicated parliamentary snarl that dragged into the night the House must debate and vote again on the probably opponents said they would Aga into defeat the measure despite the 56vote margin in its the trouble arose because the House and Senate passed separate versions of the same the House approved a measure yesterday bearing a House while the Senate previously had passed a Bill bearing a Senate due to objections by opponents the the House was unable to put its Bill under the Senate number or title and Send it on to the White House for president reagans the House rules committee decided the chamber should vote this time on the Senate waives regulations the measure would waive existing Federal regulations to permit Gas users to be charged for pipeline construction As each segment is backers of the proposal said the waivers were necessary because Pri vate investors would otherwise be reluctant to take the risks of backing the the pipeline would run from alaskan North slope Oil Fields through then Southeast through Canada to a Point near it would Fork with one leg going Southwest to san Francisco and one going Southeast to in Ottawa approved Striction of Southern Canadian sections of the based on assurances that the entire project would eventually be government and congressional officials have said win or the presentation of the legislation to con Gress fulfilled obligations to Cana a 1976 agreement to build the controversial Resolution provided that if the Canadian pipeline Section were completed on but the Alaska pipeline or a Gas conditioning Plant were the Canadian would be Able to Start collect ing their full costs plus a in the reverse american sponsors would be Able to collect debt costs but see pipeline Page 4 empty rooms a study says enrolment in 23 schools in River Heights and fort Rouge will drop to 47 per cent of capacity by Sakharov Fate Uncertain the Fate of Andrei Sakharov and his wife remains Uncertain even though the Kremlin says the couple have ended their hunger provocateurs in Marc Lalonde asked the ramp to spy on Quebec As if it were a foreign Western below Border an alleged five member libyan hit team aiming to assassinate senior White House officials has been reported to be in Index Ann 24 39 7 22 25 52 6 8 Jumble 3j 39 59 sports to ;