Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Post office claims late mail almost licked Canada Post claims it has an near perfect be told of but Tiffoe delivery of local mail in something thousands of its customers might find hard to according to second Quarter figures released by Canada Winnipeg achieved a 98pefcent Success rate in May and june for on4ime delivery of firs class mail which the crop Fri corporation promises til arrive the Day after it is fat the rate was 96 per the figures represent a on Point decline for april and a on Point in crease for while Mays rate remained the same As in 1981 the Winnipeg Post office handles about owe million pieces of mail each and a two percent figure for late mail leaves a lot of irate spokesman f in dodgers that two per cent that late int always the same two per he it cuts across the at some 1 everyone gets he its the mail that Doest get through that we hear he Roagers comments were echoed by spokesmen at other postal we always get a spokesman at the of Timity postal station adding the complaints were we also get a lot of porn tents about How fast the mail he in terms of mail Ieav Fig Canada Post claimed an of Clement Success for onetime delivery two Days of May and and 82 per cent in Overall oh4ime delivery for class mail during the second Quarter of this year was it per we Points higher than the National Ottawa had the a bust perform afire do firing the Survey with an time rating for outgoing mail in May and june of Only 45 per its top rating was n per cent for local service in Fredericton had the Only perfect score during the Survey claim ing 100 per cent efficiency for local mail service in the rate dropped to 9 per cent in Clear tonight 18 sunny tomorrow 32 free August vol 111 no 230 250 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery classified second class mail registration number 0286 Lebanon army opens fallout War on rebels Beirut a ten thousand Leba Nese soldiers launched a three pronged attack in West Reimt Flushing out rebellious druse and shiite moslem militiamen in House House the military command police reported at least 18 people killed and 37 an army communique proclaimed an indefinite curfew As tank columns thrust West across the mid City Barbir and Sodicio intersections at with helicopters hovering overhead to direct tank three French soldiers in the multinational peacekeeping Force arid a French paramilitary policeman at the French embassy were among those two marines were killed airborne lebanese commandos landed beachhead facing the cad mos where embassy personnel and army advisers have been living for and pushed North and marines in the multinational peacekeeping Force went on full Alert citizen says Simmons to face prosecution Ottawa up a Justice depart ment file on former mines minister Roger Simmons has been marked a meaning a recommendation for a front Page Story in today Ottawa citizen the paper says it got its information from an unnamed senior Federal government Mac leans Magazine also reported earlier this week that a Revenue Canada tax file includes a recommendation that Simmons be the citizen says its source could not confirm whether the recommendation of charges was made by Revenue can the Justice department or but the tax department routinely turns Over such matters to Justice officials for a kind of second the source the newspaper says the official would not give any hint when the Simmons investigation night but the matter was being pursued with some Simmons did not return Calls to his Home last night when the newspaper sought the who resigned just 10 Days after his Cabinet appoint is in Newfoundland the citizen says the investigation is said to focus on income received in the late 1970s while Simmons was a Mem ber of the Newfoundland House of he was elected a Federal my for Georges in the citizen says government sources told the newspaper they cant confirm the tax probe is the reason Simmons resigned from but an official said if theres another we dont know about Mulroney expects to face Trudeau in next election by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press new Brian Mulroney said yesterday he believes he will be a gating prime minister tru Deau in the next he clearly considers himself the Best of that group and i cant dispute Mulroney the conservative Leader said party is going to take a lot of care picking Mulroney said he will not Tarn Cit owned building firetrap by Cecil Rosner civic officials Are allowing a Gar ment manufacturer to occupy a City owned main Street even though an Engineer has called the Structure a firetrap and an invitation to the 75yearold Kaplan building at 661665 main Street was acquired by the City in a tax Sale Early in since administration officials and councillors have been trying to decide whether to demolish the building or renovate the building is occupied by Bess Borough merchandisers a manufacturer of sporting goods which employs 11 City Engineer roman Christik in see City Page 4 per with decisions by local constituency associations across the country but he Hopes choose Strong candidates and Many with immigrant he said italians and various other newcomers Are working hard contributing to the building of a great nation and it is not fair they should have so Little say in How it Mulroney was speaking at a news conference in Central Nova yesterday in the Wake of his landslide see Mulroney Page 4 and some of their positions were sprayed by errant gun and Shell but there were no new injuries among the marines and a spokesman said no peacekeeping troops were engaged in today the lebanese army said its Garri sons on the Hills overlooking Beirut As Well As in the capital were being shelled from the Syria controlled upper men mountains in Central Leba residential neighbourhoods in East and West Beirut were randomly bombarded from these positions and the army artillery returned fire to silence the sources of the the army communique the state radio said the three Leba Nese brigades were about to link up and tighten the noose around moslem Mili Tia insurgents of Nabih Berris shiite amal group and druse Leader Walid Jumblatt progressive socialist denounces crackdown Jumblatt issued a statement in a denouncing the army crackdown As a new similar to the Sabra and shatilla massacre of last september and called Christian president Amin Gemayel a hundreds of palestinian civilians were killed in the massacre by Israel Allied lebanese Christian amass office in the syrian capital also issued an Appeal on Berris behalf to All Arab Heads of state for collective intervention to Stop what he called the massacre of moslem in Lebanon radio said Gemayel and prime minister Shafik a mos were supervising the sweep from the defence ministry compound in sub Urban eight Kilometres East of dialogue urged Gemayel also asked moslem and Christian leaders to begin a National reconciliation dialogue at once and Chart Lebanon future within the framework of territorial integrity and total an official state ment snipers fired from West Beirut roof tops at the advancing and the army communique said armed pedestrians would be shot on fire from rocket propelled grenades and automatic rifles was almost con Stant in Many families in neighbourhoods where Street Battles raged huddled in base ments and bomb Gerry Pree press Clifford Wood says City is giving him a raw Deal for his but its a Deal he cant Deal paves Way to woes Norwood Man gets offer from City he cant refuse by Christie Mclaren City Hall has offered a Norwood Man a Deal on his new a Deal he cannot Clifford Wood wants to say but unless he signs on the dotted his new garage is the Cor Plains is Sim he pays the City a year to lease an Alley leading to the garage behind his but there Are some strings he must also maintain and per haps pave the Alley at his own expense and to the cites liking agree to absolve the City of responsibility for any damage City workers or equipment May do and buy a 000 insurance policy covering both himself and the a letter he received from the City lists nine other i believe said a diesel Mechanic for Canadian National i know it int a for Wood and his neighbors on Rue Saverer Edrye have been using the Cit owned Alley behind their houses to get to their City Crews routinely collect Gar Bage and scoop up Snow from the even though officials say they Are not obliged to provide these ser vices because it is not a Legal last Wood sought a build ing permit for a new garage behind his House at 155 it was they told me there was no Back he said he wryly surveying the Simme treide 20foot dead end strip of Hardtop behind his is our nonexistent it is better than some of our City a City bylaw says no one can build a garage without adequate Access to it via a Lane or he was eventually granted a build ing permit in october after he re Quested an or right of through the Alley from the cites land surveys and real estate he knocked Down his old garage and built the new on monday months about 500 poorer and with the building 75percent Wood got the cites answer a letter from land surveys said it would not be in the cites Best inter est to Grant him a it did not see Norwood Page 4 a convict gets Back into Law school City continues to rent main Street firetrap by Larry Hill a former Winnipeg Law student who jumped bail on three criminal charges in 1977 before being convicted of rape has been readmitted to the University of Manitoba Law Saul Edward who was enrolled As a Law student at the University at the time of his arrest will graduate from the faculty next year if he passes his third and final year of Law but Engel plans to Complete his de Gree by taking third year courses at the University of Saskatchewan in Engels record did not affect his application to study said Dean of Law Daniel we put him on an equal footing with everybody else when he a said who noted it would be ironic to deny Engel a place while allowing convicts to take the University of Saskatchewan runs courses in the Prince Albert ish you should not deny them econ vices Access to University once there out of Engel fled Canada in 1977 while on bail and was convicted of rape Fol lowing extradition from Israel nearly three years he began serving a fou year sen tence for rape and Gross indecency convictions 1980 at Stony Mountain he was later transferred to Drumheller institution in Alberta and then to a maximum Security institution in Prince it was from Prince Albert that Engel received Day parole after serv ing eight months sixth of his sentence behind Dean Jack of the u of m Law confirmed Engel would obtain a u of m degree if he passes his last year in he would not comment Arthur chairman of the admissions committee at the u of m Law said that in order for Engel to study Law As a Transfer student in he certainly had to be currently recognized As a u of m Arena Issue remains Snag in Portage redevelopment by Dave Roberts City Council will decide 14 which of three concepts it prefers the massive million redevelopment of North Portage but despite a new proposal yesterday for a downtown Arena a contentious Issue in the both mayor Bill Norrie and executive policy committee chairman Jim Ernst said it was unlikely any Arena plan would the Arena Issue is still a said Ernst in a series of meetings executive policy committee heard proposals both for and against building an Arena the committee Learned that the orig Inal Winnipeg Jet Fairweather prop erties plan for a downtown Omni plex had now been endorsed by its former the Norco group of the Arena plan is now also backed with Money from greatest life Assurance see Arena Page 4 reassessment the childrens Aid society of Winnipeg plans to define its change its style and maybe hire a new contender Tuxedo la Gary Filmon is expected to announce today his intention to seek the leadership of the Manitoba pc Hijack ends hijackers of an air France Jet surrendered at Tehran Airport today and the 15 hostages were 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