Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, December 10, 1981

Issue date: Thursday, December 10, 1981
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december 1981 a photo opposition to budget gains Force armed soldiers guard White automobile carrying three shiite moslem hijackers who surrendered today in hijackers of libyan Jet rejoice continued from Page 1 is in detention in Tripoli has denied the the Secretary general of the shiite paramilitary told reporters amal leaders persuaded the hijackers to give up we told youve done very Well but now its Nabih Berri around him several dozen heavily armed amal gunmen mingled with syrian and lebanese whose organization was founded by said he believes the Imam is still alive because he has no proof to the the people cannot forget Berri the Only Way is for khad Afy to release Berri said he supported the Hijack ers Aims but would not say whether he supported their amal leaders and a shiite Clergyman were at the Centre of the talks with the hijackers during the planes three lengthy stops in amal sources said Sadr sister also took amal militiamen took effective control of the Airport building and fanned out Over the apron and runways As the turbaned Clergyman negotiated from the control last night syrian troops in armoured personnel carriers sealed off the air but As the negotiations reached their 18 cars loaded with amal gunmen arrived at outside the terminal other militants hijacked three venezuelan airliners Over Venezuela Mon Day and forced them to where the air pirates surrendered the planes and More than 100 freed hostages arrived in Venezuela yester Day under a 1973 cuban authorities the identities of the hijackers who took Over the venezuelan airliners still had not been determined but Passen Gers freed during various stops before the planes were taken to Cuba said there were the cuban news Agency said 11 hijackers were aboard when the planes arrived tues the cuban Interior ministry said the hijackers will be placed at the disposal of competent continued from Page 1 besides interest other major sore Points Are sharply slower tax write offs on the Purchase of new plants and equipment and an increase in interest rates on Small business development James chairman of the Cana Dian chamber of Commerce and a coalition told reporters the interest restrictions Fly in the face of the governments stated aim of encouraging Canadian investment in the Petroleum Industry because they will discourage investment massive changes John president of the Cana Dian federation of Independent Busi Ness and another spokesman for the said the tax changes Are so massive it would be the equivalent of taxation without representation if the budget int referred to Public hearings because politicians alone dont have the expertise to assess the budget new democratic party Leader de Broadbent said yesterday the econ omy is going to be the number one the conservatives have chosen the Economy As the topic of debate the final opposition Day of the housing critic James Mcgrath said he will propose a no Confidence motion condemning the governments perpetual excessive and ineffective Reliance on a High interest rate poli recession cited he says this policy has created the worst economic recession since the de threatens the survival of thousands of Small worsens unemployment and confronts Home owners and renters with the worst housing crisis since the second world the which overhauls the in come tax system and chops Federal payments to the was approved 134 to 115 late tuesday night in a rare recorded the final approval principle on the budget is usually by voice but tory House Leader Erik Nielsen demanded maps names and positions be it is usually the custom on the sixth Day of budget debate to allow the budget to be adopted on Nielsen but this is an unprecedented Bud unprecedented in the misery it is causing millions of it is the worst i have Ever seen since i have been couple suing Over Healing up an Okana Gan couple has sued a travel Agency Over a Faith Healing visit to the Philip Pines during which they found them selves naked and covered with animal Donald an Okanagan Valley and his wife Valerie have filed suit in supreme court asking for the return of the Cost of the they also want landmark travel of Vancouver to pay damages for emotional suffering and assault and Bat their statement of claim said the travel Agency told them about filipino Faith healers with miraculous Powers who could perform surgery without incisions or the Douglass said they found during their two week escorted tour last january that the Agency claims were false and deep they said the Faith healers told them to then sprayed blood on them and performed tricks by sleight of hand using animal tissue and the writ contends the travel Agency should have known its alleged promises were false and should be held liable for the healers a spokesman for landmark was not available for pipeline Bill takes step Back continued from Page 1 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 would Fork with one leg going Southwest to san Francisco and one going Southeast to in Ottawa approved construction 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 Canada under 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 school study predicts a 50 vacancy rate continued from Page 1 Public meetings Are to be held in mid january at Grant Kelvin and Churchill High and the school Board is scheduled to make a decision on the matter the school Board ordered the report compiled last Spring after shelving proposals to change Mitchell Junior High school to a kindergarten to Grade 9 John Dafoe school to a French immersion secondary school and Grosvenor school to an immersion elementary the Overall which several other school boards is that Gener Al division enrolment is declining while the popularity of French immersion is Winnipeg division has about French immersion including about 600 who attend Al immersion Sacre Coeur school in downtown win the remainder attend several other the report said Board policy now says the division will continue to pro vide immersion facilities in English environment schools and Endeavor to provide facilities for French Environ ment schools As demands require and As facilities become available in the it also said the Board will provide a second elementary French immersion school and an immersion High school in South Winnipeg As demands require and As facilities become available in the the main political problem is that most French immersion parents want a total immersion while English program parents do not want their children turfed out of their neigh boyhood schools to make Way for implant were the Canadian builders 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 no Canadian Gas is now flowing through the Western leg of the from Alberta to the the Eastern through Southern is expected to be completed next the pipeline is scheduled to bring Gas from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to the Midwest and West coast by Canada stood to gain in provid ing massive quantities of steel pipe and other elements of the proven Gas reserves on the North slope total about cubic and geologists believe that potential resources May amount to cubic under provisions of the Legisla Consumers could have the Cost of building segments of the line added to their Gas even if the pipeline is not or if the Gas turns out to be too expensive to critics of the measure contended that some 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