Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Al Toh Titi i fes offer to i foftonf0 up Paff of slain filipino zip position or Lam Fie Aquin says the Philippines government offered him to kill his Lett few if Gens Ifim a Mechanic at a Toronto said in an interview that he was offered the Money to kill Aquino by Prospero head of the philippine metropolitan in i Olivas is in charge of the police investigation into Aquinas death Many at Manila Airport was arranged by the government of de Iii it offed to Canada from the Philippines in 1974 after Spaw Flohl a year in a military detention Campi said he went Home in 1981 to determine How Safe it might be for Aquino to when filipino government officials heard through one of his friends that he was in the Fronda said he was summoned to the military head quarters in i 30 anything i know they Art going to kill me if refuse to Ken Fronda acknowledging that no one in the meeting had tend his i just accepted the he they said the reason t am killing Aquino is to avenge the death of my brother who died in 1 was supposed to Kilt Aquino in the they left it up to me How to do it and they told me the moment that t killed Aquino t was to collect the Moftey from a senior filipino official in Fronda said he was appointed sent Auve of the filipino government for Butterfly distribution in Canada so that he would have a reason to shuttle Between Canada and the he said he told Aquino about the assassination offer in he also said he could not accompany Aquino to the Philippines because immigration officials would not allow him to Cross the peace Bridge at fort Cloudy today 27 Clear tonight 15 250 August Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery classified 9562330 second class mail registration num96h 0286 doors remain closed by Catherine Clark Premier Howard Hawleys Promise of open government has done Little to open boardroom doors of Crown Agen cies and provincially funded boards and of 24 provincial boards surveyed by the free Only three said they would allow the Public and news Media into their and most said meeting minutes also Are confident that the Way its always been said Stanley chair Man the clean environment com which spends about in Public Money its just the methodology the com Mission has always Eagleton adding that while the commission holds private its minutes Are available to the chairmen of three boards said they did not know if their meetings were open to the news Media because they had never been Many others said reporters were banned Only because no precedent had been in an interview after he was sworn into office in Pawley said his government would address the feeling of alienation he found among the electorate during the Pawley said if there was one thing he wanted to accomplish after four years in it is to give Manitoban a belief that they can be that government is but the three boards that allow re porters into meetings the Manitoba labor the health sciences Centre Board and the liquor control commissions licensing Board few people attend meetings the health sciences Centre Board deals with sensitive matters in Pri and a Board spokesman said if reporters Arent the entire meet ing is but a spokesman for the premiers office said having closed Board meet Ings is not a specific government poli its not government policy one Way or said the who said she would comment Only if her name want each Board has adopted its own set of nobody has sat Down and looked at the Issue in a comprehensive but Many boards keep their doors closed because of she the spokesman said the proposed see secret Page 4 Ken Effiee press Rebecca Garrett says she has spent the last weeks just waiting to go Home to Florida woman stranded in City after Border crossing refusal by Tom Goldstein Florida resident Rebecca Garrett and her four children Are stranded in Winnipeg after immigration service officials decided the children could return Home after visit to but their Mother a Canadian who has lived with her american husband in Tampa for six years has hired a lawyer in her fight to return but for now she and her children who Are citizens Are living in a City hotel on i never cried so much in my she said last but in All she said her problems began when she and her Young children overslept and missed their bus from Winnipeg to Florida 11 Days the ranging in age from 2 to 7 can reenter the United states with no problem because of their american but a native of North Western still holds Canadian who is part said her problems started when she was asked whether she was a native american by the Border patrol at when she tried to Cross on a greyhound native americans can travel across the Border without husband is told the Border patrol she want an american nor did she have she said she lost them last Winter in she said she was told she enter the country until she had proof of birth and who has lived in the Tampa suburb of Gibsonton for about six was i that not Ive been crossing the Border for six seven youre telling me i cant get across now the which had spent two months visiting relatives near Ken returned to they hired a lawyer through Legal Aid and began the fight to return Garrett said she has no idea How much longer Shell have to stay in where she met her Hus band about eight years she said her husband has sent documentation to the immigration service in but officials there said they had received nothing As of last she said immigration service officials have told her the matter could take weeks to Garrett said she has spent most of the past weeks just sitting and just lets go she said the situation has been difficult for her and her children 6 also 6 4 and they really miss their i dont blame they want to go so do said Garrett who celebrated her 27th birthday last the two older girls were to have started school in Gibsonton last suicides prompt statistics change by Doug Speirs concerned about High numbers of native Manitoba chief medi Cal examiner has ordered his office to begin recording the religion and country of origin of suicide i would certainly say it appears to be 21 compared to suicides among Peter Markesteyn Young native people Are out standing in the number of his precedent setting move to record information has drawn Praise from native group spokesmen and concern from human rights and a suicide expert warned the new practice might do More to mask than reveal the extent of the problem among Markesteyn said the personal data is being added to the coroners annual statistical report because otherwise there May a fact that will go unnoticed if you dont record the reports include the sex and cause of death of a suicide victim and whether the death was alcohol related or occurred in an Urban or Rural if it the new data Doest have any bearing our statistics will show it Doest have any How can you Point out that things dont have any importance unless you incorporate it in your he whose office recently released its 1982 report on Manitoba said he was unaware Why the religion and country of origin of suicide victims were not recorded be fore he assumed the top coroners Post last John director of crisis intervention and counselling services for clinic which operates one of Winni pegs three suicide prevention lines offered qualified support of the new i think that breaking Down the statistics by including native is a real Good idea because that will increase Access to Griere he said the revamped reports might not reveal the stunning severity of suicide on Indian reserves because Many of the incidents Are never re Lena executive director of the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre of applauded the decision to add racial information to Manitoba suicide How else Are we going to find out who needs help she i cant see any problem with that because i think if were going to help people we have to find out what race commits whose organization plans to see suicide Page 4 after meeting from Reuter sap Jerusalem israeli prime min ister Menachem begin decided today to delay submitting his resignation until tonight or a spokes Man the announcement followed a three hour meeting Between begin and his coalition education minister Zebulun Ham Mer said today there is Hope that begin May change his mind about if the prime minister has not re signed immediately As he originally a Gate has been Mena chem Porush of the coalitions Gudat Israel party ministers said begin sat quietly throughout most of the meeting and at its end said he would give them a final decision on his political future by his press Uri said begin had listened to All the reasons raised by his coalition partners for staying in he said he had been deeply impressed by what they had begin was expected earlier to offer his resignation to president Chaim Herzog today unless members of his coalition could persuade him to reverse his he surprised his political allies and opponents yesterday by announcing briefly at the end of the weekly Cabinet session that he intended to step Down after six years in i feel that i am not functioning As a Man with my responsibilities should Israel radio quoted him As telling his Deputy prime minister David Levy said begin was resigning for personal reasons but did not who looked frail and solemn after the has a history of heart trouble but there was no Indica Tion he was Hammer said yesterday we received the news with sorrow and a refusal to accept associates said begins decision grew out of an accumulation of person Al and political the 70year old Leader has been despondent since the death of his last no vember and by continued israeli casualties in its protracted involvement in the final blow May have been a bitter political Haggle Over proposed see new Page 4 2 marines killed in combat Beirut a two marines were killed today in the first combat of american troops in Lebanon when their position was shelled during intense fighting Between the lebanese army and defiant shiite moslem Mili a Marine spokesman six other marines were wounded during the second Day of fighting be tween the two identities of the dead and wounded marines were not immediately Bob Jordan said one Marine was killed instantly in the shelling of a Marine position near the Beirut inter National Airport in the zone of the lebanese the Sec Ond Marine died a hour later from wounds received in the same bombard associated press photographer Don who was in the marines said he saw a mortar Shell hit the position of Alpha company of the Marine contingent beside a runway at see Palace Page 4 hijackers threaten 17 hostages Beirut a four Arab hijackers Are threatening to blow up an air France jetliner and 17 hostages in the iranian capital of Tehran unless France ends its support for the Chad government and stops Selling arms to iranian broadcasts the four armed hijackers commandeered the Boeing 727 on a flight from Vienna to Paris and made several stops in freeing close to 100 before forcing the Jet to land in Tehran yesterday and setting a 48hour deadline for their demands to be Tehran monitored in said the remaining hostages Pas sengers and seven members of the French Crew in Good an air France spokesman in Paris said the passengers included three Ameri six French citizens and one but did not identify the gunmen also were demanding Freedom for several lebanese held in French jails and a change in French policy in where France has an army contingent in the multinational peacekeeping the broadcast the gunmen wanted Iran to endorse its the radio but iranian Deputy foreign minister Hossein sheikholesla condemned the Hijack ing As an inhuman he said his government would not agree to the demands under any Cir Tehran radio iranian Premier Mir Hussein Musavi said officials would negotiate with the but added that any demands were conditional on the release of the remaining Iran official islamic Republic news Agency report Jean charge affaires at the French embassy in who spoke with the gunmen on said they have said they Are but this is not it seems that they Are arabs from the Middle they didst speak to me about austrian officials said the hijackers were carrying tunisian passports is sued under the family names of Haton and who was interviewed by a French radio network in said he also talked with the planes Rene and he told me that the situation was going As Well As possible although the Crew was very duty bound governments have a duty to adequately treat retarded and mentally ill prison says a tory Reader Brian Mulroney finds out today whether he will get the seat in parliament crucial to his plan to become the next space tabular challengers countdown headed flawlessly today toward what should be the most spectacular space Uto winning numbers bongs super million winners 2291136 2128124 1619177 2757807 Index Ann 16 27 19 27 17 7 16 Jumble 31 16 35 sports 13 to 23 ;