Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free monday August marines killed in Lebanon fighting the body of a the first to die in action in is carried to open government is myth Survey shouts Only three boards would allow Media continued from Page 1 although there Are 157 boards and commissions listed in the government phone a 1978 report ton govern ment organization and dec Nomy Esti mated the number at bet Jen 250 and the review pointed to the need to Weed out redundant and useless such As the film classification meet Only when there is a pressing Issue to be although the classification Board has had three meetings since the previous Board Only had two meet Ings in its fou year Many Board spokesmen said that since the boards Deal with confidential with some companies competing in the the meetings should remain were like any other said Saul Board chairman of1 Manitoba Telephone adding that its appears before legislative Jeff chairman of the Mani Toba police said no Mem Ber of the Media had Ever asked to attend a Board were not a Clandestine Organiza Tion that meets in he that question has never been but in my View the meetings should be open because this committee is appointed by the government and the government is elected by the said Iram Page 1 the marines and gunships from a Navy St Juadon off the Beirut coast would fire on specific targets from where we Are receiving Jordan Jordan said one Marine died in in the shelling of a Marine position near the in the zone of the lebanese the end Marine died a hour later from wounds received in the same he said the marines did not return fire but shot Only four illumination rounds to let them know that we know where they a correspondent Schehle Reade faramarzi reported from the Marine base that shelling escalated shortly before midday with an average of six to eight rounds crashing in and around the Airport each witnessed shelling a photographer Don who was at the marines said he saw a mortar Shell hit the position of Alpha company of the Marine contingent be Side a runway at he said Marine vehicles took the casualties to Marine Headquarters at the where they were evacuated by helicopter to the Navy squad Ron off the Beirut Marine warrant officer Charles Rowe of san Francisco said a rocket propelled grenade exploded near a Marine position at the Airport at 7 he said one rocket Tore through the Fence around the marines Basket Ball another landed across the Highway from the Marine Headquarters and a third crashed just East of the Marine maintenance he said the marines were on Condi Tion their highest state of holed up in Foxholes and sorrow the latest incident brings to three the number of marines killed and 15 injured since the peacekeeping Contin gent first arrived in Lebanon 11 months a Marine was killed when he stepped on a landmine last in Santa president Reagan expressed profound sorrow Over the death of the two the vacationing at his Mountaintop was awakened with news of the Marine deaths by William his National Security administration sources said the Leb anese government committed three lebanese brigades to the Battle against number of Young native suicides brings change in statistics system continued from Page 1 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 open Winnipeg first native crisis Centre to curb Indian said self inflicted death has reached frightening proportions among natives in the City and on we tried to get these statistics but nobody had she i think it will justify our need for expanded services in the com Larry executive director of first nations confederacy also praised the decision to expand the scope of the medical examiners an Nual crisis intervention Centre to combat native suicides a native group is preparing to launch the cites first crisis intervention Centre designed to curb what its members believe is an intolerable number of suicides in Winnipeg native Lena executive director of the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre of said her group Hopes to buy a House in North Winni Peg for the Friesen said the Centre will offer a 24hour Telephone hotline and on premises counselling for native rape victims and natives threatening Sui she said staff at the India Metis Centre realized the service was needed after polling themselves and Dis covering each worker knew about 10 relatives or friends who had commit Ted we have a weekly staff meeting and the staff kept on i know this person who committed we found out that theres too Many people committing suicide out she it the Centre has been a Long time its John clinics director of crisis intervention and counselling said while statistics Are the suicide rate among a particularly on is Likely Well above the National aver age of about suicides per Friesen said a native run Centre is essential because Winnipeg native population will not use the cites other crisis intervention programs offered by clinic and the salvation for our i think it would be Good to find out what the actual numbers Starr adding the statistics would Aid Indian groups in their Battle to gain increased funding for social i think its always been known that Indian people have always had the highest fatality rates in each of the areas in accidents or Abe executive director of the Manitoba association for rights and warned the new Statis tics could be used to discriminate against certain the problem is this this info it seems to could be used to have an Adverse effect on insurance Arnold if it the information was simply used in support of studies of social problems and the need for improved suicide prevention among different that one he Dale chairman of the Manitoba human rights said recording the demographic data would contravene human rights legislation Only if it was presented in a discriminatory or derogatory Man it the practice is certainly the sort of thing that could be brought to the commission in the form of a com he the fact that you identify a particular individual As Black or White or Over 65 Doest necessarily mean that you discriminate against according to 149 Manito bans committed suicide in com pared with 154 in about 76 people have committed suicide in the province this males dominate sudden deaths Manitoba males continue to suffer More sudden deaths than females whether at behind the wheel or at the according to Statis tics from the provinces chief medi Cal of the cases handled last year by Manitoba 69 medical involved compared with 803 the annual statistical re port under the fatality inquiries chief medical examiner Peter Markesteyn office is called in when it is suspected someone died by undue Means or culpable negligence or in an unexplained or sudden manner a spokesman for the provinces department of vital statistics said Manitoban died last including men and in people died through out the including men and the gender of three skeletons discovered in 1981 could not be Ken Deputy registrar of the College of physicians and surgeons of said males have a higher death rate than females be cause they Are More susceptible to disease and tend to be a Tad More of those cases investigated by the medical examiners last natural particularly heart were by far the leading causes of claiming men and 629 according to the motor vehicle accidents were the second leading cause of killing 106 men and 54 almost half the fatal car crashes in 1982 involved Lebanon presidential Palace was shelled As gun Battles and artillery exchanges flared throughout there was no immediate word on damage to the which is about 500 metres from ambassador Bert Dillons rival Christian and druse militias were exchanging artillery fire in mountains near the Palace an area where the lebanese army Hopes to assert control when israeli troops move out As part of a the lebanese army imposed a few on Beirut Southern hoods and sent in troop to Battle the shiite militiamen of the prot Ranian amal As the fighting flared on the Southern fringe of the shiite militiamen armed with Sovie Flade rifles and rocket propelled grenades swarmed into the mid City so called Green line that divided Beirut into moslem and in the last eight years of civil Israel prime minister delaying resignation continued from Page 1 the final blow May have been a bitter political Haggle Over proposed austerity measures to Cut israels High a three member threatened to Bolt from begins liked coalition last week Over pro posed budget cuts and reduce the blocs 64seat majority to 61 in the 120mem Ber or begin was scheduled to meet with Heads of the coalition parties today before submitting his resignation to Israel would face three possibilities if begin stepped Down the Knesset could Convene in special session during its summer recess and set a Date for new Herzog could choose either begin or opposition labor party Leader Shimon Peres to form a new or begin could announce his retirement from political life and other liked Leader would be named As a foreign minister Yitzhak was viewed As the most logical defence minister Moshe although favored in could not succeed begin unless new elections were held because he is not a Knesset also mentioned As candidates were a moroccan born former construction worker popular among sephardic jews to the Middle finance minister Yoram who firm Power base in begins governing and for Mer defence minister Ezer who remains popular with the Public after his expulsion in 1981 for rebelling against the prime Arab hijackers threaten to blow up Jet in Tehran continued from Page 1 were conditional on the release of the remaining the Iran official islamic Republic news Agency 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 Palestin 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 planes Rene Levacher and he Tolof me Khattre situation was going As Well As possible although the Crew was very he was asked about the threat to blow up the plane and said a lot can happen in 48 i think the negotiations will continue through the this is up to the iranian if they need they know where to find an iranian foreign ministry spokes Man said that radio Contact ended late yesterday Between the control Tower at Mehraban Airport and the hijacked Tehran radio the plane was reported to have 114 people aboard when it was hijacked the gunmen released Many of the passengers during refuelling stops at 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