Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, September 01, 1983

Issue date: Thursday, September 1, 1983
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Previous edition: Wednesday, August 31, 1983

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg few september 1983 0 b to be chosen today a note on one of 26 its computer terminals taken out of service reads do not staff under any terminal shutdown reduces service its baffled at source of shocks from directory assistance computer continued from Page 1 requests for Eastern including and Lon distance direct Ory assistance requests from outside Schneider said the walkout reduced at Calls to the 411 directory assistance number yesterday Drew Busy he said its respects employees rights to refuse to work on the until problems Are following the Szunyog 27 workers unplugged their equipment at for about 75 deciding to go Back to work Only after they received assurances they would meet with management to discuss the machines but by 3 no meeting had been arranged and workers slowly started refusing to work on the in not going to sit around and wait until i get a Debbie one of the said shortly after deciding to refuse to work on the computerized Telephone workplace safey and health officer Ivan Sabesky said staff from his office began investigating the matter yester Day it was not known How Long it will take for the department to Complete its report and make a recon Ray who Heads the depart ment charged with maintaining the computer said his staff has been trying to determine the cause of the shocks since the first weve done a variety of tests including recording the level of Power flowing through the outlets which ser vice the computers and checking the headsets used by the operators and we cant find the he adding the manufacturer of the Northern has also been Noti fied of the he said while some trouble can be caused by Static electricity due to the dry air and carpeting on the no a photo one is sure that can be blamed for the shocks received by the its officials have decided to remove the carpeting As soon As As its has decided to try to isolate some of the Power outlets which service the but a recorder on the Power lines yesterday failed to detect any fluctuations in the Power flow when the incident there by eliminating the Power outlets As a potential the new computerized equipment has been in service for about three years and no safety problems have been reported until this f Al Aviv a party colleagues of resigning prime minister Mena chem begin meet tonight to elect a new but the Winner of the closely contested woman race is not expected to veer from begins the Centra committee of the governing Merit Patty will cast secret ballots in choosing Between for eign minister Yitzhak Shamir and Dep Uty prime minister David the new Leader would then be in position to succeed begin As prime if Herat can maintain its coalition in levys chances appeared to have been boosted by the decision yester Day to have the Central committee make the rather than he ruts Cabinet levys support is stronger in the committee than among the party leaders who Back defence minister Moshe Arens said no matter who wins the we will continue the policies that have been followed under a key to the outcome was whether would endorse either Candi in the he has preferred who was his Comrade in the underground fight for a jewish the leadership race was set in motion tuesday when begin said he was resigning the Post he has held since he announced the move Sun but gave his backers time to try to talk him out of his caretaker begin has delayed submitting his resignation to president Chaim her apparently to give his party time to pick a although Arens said begin did not indicate How Long he would postpone the begin and his Cabinet remain As a caretaker government until the new Herat Lead or labor party Leader Shimon Peres puts together a Shamir said he ruts Central commit tee was being convened after eight Cabinet ministers of begins faction failed to decide on a candidate during two Days of intensive supporters of Shamir argued the longer the the greater the risk that the opposition labor party would lure away enough begin supporters to put together a majority and take Over the Shamir and Levy were Given equal chances by Israel television yester under the when begin submits his Herzog must ask the parliamentary faction considered most Likely to Muster a majority to form a governing his resignation also Means the Cabinet is considered to have although labor has 50 of Paglia ments 120 seats and begins liked bloc holds Only liked is closer ideologically to More of the smaller but As the political crisis entered its fifth nervousness heightened among begins coalition partners and enhanced labors chances of wooing some of them into its labor was reported in Contact Ter Day with several coalition part the National religious an ethnic faction of sephardi Oriental and members of the Liberal they have nine seats and a centrist Shin i with also could support a labor govern giving it a majority of Solidarity protesters attacked continued from Page 1 water the demonstrators retaliated with stones and police charged them with rubber Batons in a Street fight lasting More than two Western witnesses said at least 20 people were injured and Many a but official figures were not in the southwestern City of police turned Back a crowd of Solidarity backers trying to March to a Union plaque at the main Streetcar the demonstrators then tried to gather at the grave of a worker killed during a protest a year More than steel and automobile factory workers marched without Inci Dent from 2 to 4 in but later police forced a crowd of marching toward the old town into Side streets and arrested several Lead hundreds of riot police were concentrated in downtown Warsaw through out the keeping 200 to 300 Soli Darity supporters in the Church of Ann for several several thou Sand people milled around the normally empty streets until late but there were no new video South korean jumbo Jet reportedly followed this route after departure from new Blip disappears from radar cml mid from Page 1 in the United Pentagon and White House spokesmen said they had no information to confirm or dispute the South korean there was no soviet comment on the plane other than a dispatch from the soviet official news which reported the aircraft was miss ing and that japanese authorities had launched an Asyet unsuccessful a report from Tokyo mentioned the possibility of an inflight the report also said the network had Tele phoned Airport officials in Sakhalin who denied the Kal plane had landed the last radio Contact was at cd when the Pilot reported his position As 182 Kilometres South of a Kal spokesman he said the Pilot gave no indication of any trouble and that the weather was reported Good in the area at the japans defence Agency said its radar showed no plane South of hokkaido at the but did show what might have been the jumbo Jet about 182 Kilometres North of hokkaido West Beirut sweep seen As crucial test and 42 lebanese at least 413 people were troops in tanks and armoured person Nel carriers were in full control of the cites Oceanside All intersections and Public shops were beginning to open and lines were forming in front of bakeries and Gas marines and civilians at the embassy overlooking the Mediterranean sea said they had no trouble during the and All was reported peace Ful at Beirut closed International air the base of the Marine contingent of the multinational peace keeping spokesmen for the British and italian contingents of the peace keeping Force also reported no new officials said the last of six electric Power Supply lines that feed the capital broke Down last night and they warned the City would have prolonged daily Power repairs of the cites crippled water system also were under they privately owned radio stations said at least 12 tenants were believed buried in the rubble of a Western Beirut House that collapsed Early today from dam age suffered in bombardments yester during yesterdays 18 civil ians and 21 lebanese soldiers were officials the army said it captured 50 including seven palestinians and four the state radio said the sweep was a crucial test of whether president Amin Gemayel government was to be or not to there was also fighting yesterday 80 Kilometres to the North in where police said 25 people were killed and 60 wounded in skirmishes Between rival moslem militia senior lebanese pleased by the performance of the army in West said they now Felt the Force could move into Lebanon contested Central mountains and establish order when israeli troops pull Back israeli who invaded Lebanon in 1982 to try smashing the Palestine liberation plan to vacate the Central mountains before 7 and move to Southern near Sakhalin the defence Agency said the plane was flying at an Altitude of metres feet when it vanished from the radar screen a amt nine minutes after the radio and acknowledged that this raised the possibility of a midair an Agency who asked not to be also said radar detected two other planes in the Vicin Ity flying in the same direction As the first the Kal jetliner was due in Seoul at local time cd the South korean foreign ministry said it was trying every Means Avail Able to ascertain facts about the miss ing including the alleged Landing at Kal flight 7s last scheduled Stop was in but it was not Learned if any passengers boarded or debarked South Korea state run television network lbs gave the following break Down of nationalities aboard the plane 72 22 34 112 of other nationalities and 29 Crew Vic foreign minister Roh Jaewon said no details about the plane had been another foreign ministry source said there was an unconfirmed account that the plane might have been he declined to South Korea and the soviet Union have no diplomatic the maritime safety Agency of Japan said radio contacts were being made with about 100 japanese fishing boats operating in the general area of the Boeing 747s last reported Posi eight patrol boats and four planes were sent to search for the the Agency two 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