Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Right to latest purse snatching victim by David Obrien a 76yearold Wom aft was brutally assaulted monday by a and statistics so far this year indicate such crimes May be on the Rise in win Emily needed seven stitches to close a head wound and both eyes were swollen shut As a result of the attack around in front of Mcclure 533 Greenwood a senior citizens such incidents were 10 years but police say purse snatching and Fobb Efy incidents involving old people Are becoming Deputy police chief de Igelski blamed the trend on alcohol and there were 21 purse of latching in the first two months of compared with Only four for the same period last crime Herb Stephen said it is too Early to say whether the increase indicates a trend for the remainder of the there were 132 purses Alch Ings in Down from 202 in said her assail ant followed he Otto a transit bus in the downtown me followed her off the bus and trailed her to the seniors t want really worried until l was almost she said in an interview daughters the Man punched her in the knocking her to the where her glasses broke against her he took her purse and pursued by a wit Ness who catch police later recovered the purse with Money and credit they interviewing a suspect but no charges had been Many attacks occur in the downtown and they often come from youths looking for Money to play video said staff Cal Hughes advised older women to carry clutch purses in Stead of bags with straps to avoid being pulled to the ground during he said women should carry Money and identification in an inside pocket and never resist a sunny today 5 Cloudy tonight 14 March 1983 h vol i no96 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Ottawa up several Federal government offices Are in almost con Stant violation of the new Constitution by failing to provide bilingual services to the says Max official languages failure by a Federal office to provide services in French or English where there is significant demand for them is in breach of the Constitution and an Canada has lost a great Canadian James dead at inti Iii by Mike Ward employment and immigration min ister Lloyd Axworthy has ordered his staff to look for a qualified Canad an to fill an executive position Given to an american by the Manitoba horse racing the request follows an admission by commission chairman Ron Keenberg that the americans appointment ratified by Muriel minister responsible for the Manitoba horse racing Industry was officially con firmed without first checking with a worthy unfortunate oversight Keenberg said yesterday the unfortunate oversight Lias been corrected and employment and immigration officials have been asked to support the commissions he said the commission was asked by Axworthy department to hand Over its Canad wide advertise ment for the along with letters from More than 250 Axworthy executive John expressed Surprise when told by a reporter the com Mission had a news March 11 Anoum ing the hiring of arizon Aborn i Maui Freeman As Mani Tobas rating Conlin said he hoped they have a Good explanation for doing be cause the had let asked to intervene on Trie s Iceni press report hum the i i unit want to know As sure min hum our see Canadian v 4 action for redress can be brought be fore the Yalden says in his annual report n leased As the following sections of this report will there is no Lack of substance for such an action a Good Many Federal offices Are in almost constant violation of Hose in linguistically mixed regions of for services to the French speaking minority remain anaemic and if not downright Yalden in Quebec Gaspe Anglo phones Are a Long Way from being Able to take services in English for Grant West of French services Are in the poort nonexistent among dozens of specific deficiencies cited by Yalden Are the refusal of the government Oil com to make jts French Only signs in Quebec bilingual and a refusal by air Canada to install French speaking staff at its operations in where per cent of the residents Are attempts to secure rights guaranteed in the Constitution for bilingual govern ment services and minority language education could Herald a new Era of judicial football for language Yalden having been told often enough that their linguistic future hinges to a Large extent on the Law and its our minority language communities Are impatient to find out what that there already Are signs of that in the supreme court of Canada has been asked to Rulo whether the City of Montreal can legally Issue a parking ticket in French costs High Ontario courts Are expected to be asked soon to Challenge the provincial governments refusal to establish francophone school but there is also another Side to the the Canadian human rights com Mission is investigating 13 complaints that overzealous Riess by some Federal departments to increase staff has resulted in ethnic Diuri meation against English and Yalden Points out the costs associated with Many Lan Guage programs Are bound to seem provocatively High in hard economic times and everything must be Dune to hold them in for Yalden perennially criticizes the Cost of the bilingual Bonus paid annually to Public an average sized government department spends million to j3 Mil lion annually simply to administer its official languages program about 25 million words Are translated Many unnecessarily by the government each year at a Cost of this cents a excluding is paid to provide six months of full tune la Guage training to one employee Yalden says moves by the government to gradually eliminate language training Lor its employees Art As Long As the schools and universities m tins country Are unable or unwilling to do the a is quite unrealistic to suppose Ria e Vlf he entering the Public service Din any be bilingual simple that quite a few of us in it Juire language Glenn free press dark economic Clouds the planned abandonment of the rail line in the Fisher Branch area scares but it int going to make that much difference to the tiny Community of Broad it will be just one More economic storm the town has had to says Myroslaw Mechanic and grocery store concerns patient death to be probed by Bob Lowery and Fred Youngs flin flon residents of this Northern mining City expressed con Cern following the death of a heart attack patient who was being Transfer red to Winnipeg because the intensive care unit at the flin flon general Hospital was this whole thing is a hell of a Price to pay to get Peoples said Dallas area representative for the United steelworkers of if we have a facility there can be no valid reason Why it be the unit was closed from March 1014 because qualified nurses were not Alvin Nystrom died March 13 after doctors have him admitted to the and transferred him to he died in health minister Larry Desjardins said yesterday a report will be ready this week into circumstances in the units closing and Nystrom he told the legislature the Manitoba health services commission had not been notified the flin flon Hospital was planning to close its intensive care unit for four and it had no idea at All there was a shortage of nurses at the outside the the minister re see flin flon Page 4 Safeway buys two Winnipeg Dominion stores by Tom Goldstein Dominion stores of Canada began liquidating its Western Canadian operations yesterday with the Sale of six stores including two in Winnipeg to Canada Safeway the Sale is expected to be completed this spokesmen for each Chain refused to disclose terms of the sales employees at the stores affected will be Able to keep their the Winnipeg stores Are located at the Polo Park and uni City fashion Square shopping and will give Safeway 33 Winnipeg plus two food Bam discount Dominion is continuing to negotiate see Dominion Page 4 to terran shuffles French Cabinet the Washington Post Paris president Francois Mitter Rand last night put together a drastically smaller socialist led government to steer France through a period of economic austerity following the third devaluation of its currency in less than 18 the outgoing prime Pierre remained head of the new which contained 14 senior ministers As opposed to 43 in the Previ Ous communist representation in the Cabinet was reduced from four ministers to reflecting the party continued decline in elec toral the announcement of the govern ment just before ended uncertainty and speculation Fol lowing a setback Early this month for the left in municipal elections and a crisis last weekend Over currency realignments within the european com the 66yearold president is due to make a nationwide television broadcast today to explain How he plans to Cut Frances huge Trade deficit and nine percent annual inflation super minis by key figures in the new government included Jacques who adj lurid the budget portfolio in addition to that of minister of finance and Delors negotiated the anti by realignment in a Fuhuei top Ante to Pitrot was named to Uno Thoi newly created super ministry to coordinate social the major casualty in the reshuffle is Jeanpierre the controversial minister of Industry who Heads a left Wing splinter group within the socialist the Choice of Mauro to head the new government represents an attempt by Mitterrand to reassure his left Wing supporters that their interests will continue to be looked after despise what political analysts said was a slight shift toward the Centre in the composition of the new As prime minister since when he became head of the first left Wing government in 24 Mauro is one of the few politicians acceptable to both the communists and All segments of Mitterrand own socialist the genial 54yearold prime minis Ter has cultivated an image of an economic realist no is at the same tune a Man of Uki ii with a Strong attachment to his working class Ori together with he was believed to resisted pressures irom socialists to Lake France out monetary system he River in currency realignment i such a step undoubtedly would have led to of f Rendl lies to Europe and the of protect i Nibi Trade ban urn its advocates said that it would have helped promote economic growth and Cut a employ no promises prime minister Trudeau refuses to Promise hell bring up the missile Issue u vice pro Dent George House probe commons committee investigate allegations that Liberal my Bryce Mackasey a paid Ottawa 1 Byest Tor a Quebec olympic plan Sam chairman of Canadas olympic hockey yesterday outlined the plan for Canada s involvement in the 84 Ift sex Canada is an innocent victim of the subsidies Battle Between european economic Community and the in the Grain Trade 748 36 Ann 21 34 4b 24 to 3d Spuill Lieo Iii 57 49 o 33 40 in 21 7 wit Iii i i ;