Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg Fyffee september 1983 lebanese militiamen accused of butchery a the fights icon trolled voice of Leeafton radio said today that leftist druse militiamen butchered 40 Christian villagers in retaliation for a lebanese army sweep of moslem shiite and druse militia strongholds in West the allegation came As the lebanese army mopped up scattered pockets of militia resistance in West Beirut after the which the government viewed As a crucial test of its the voice of operated by the Christian phalanges said the horrible massacre took place in the Village of in the syrian pro trolled upper men mountains 30 Kil metres East of the broadcast said the druse Fenili Tiamen stormed the Homes of the vile Lages few remaining christians Ani butchered about 40 elderly person and children with including the towns Gergis it Sai Only one resident in the sporadic Rifle shot echoed in the streets As the Ken free press its directory assistance computer terminals sit operator gets terminals turned off continued from Page 1 she said in an interview from her Home i dont know How it began just seemed to keep increase i pulled my Headset but it was still pinned to i stood up and stepped finally i ripped the Headset Cord out and jumped Back and Shook for she adding the incident was Over she said she was in a state of Shock As its officials questioned her on what had happened and then called an ambulance to take her to where she was checked and she was then inter viewed by its safety officials and Given the Day Szunyog said she haunt thought about the computers posing a safety problem until while she says she is More concerned about them she said she know whether she would use them until she went to work this morn i dont feel too badly in apprehensive about but i dont know How apprehensive ill 1 might have to let somebody else plug in the Headset and take a few Calls but a spokesman for the communications workers of Cana said other workers Are upset by the there Are three preg Nant women working what j happens if one of them gets a its spokesman Glenn Schneider said the Crown corporation knows three operators have received shocks while working on the equip ment since but a series of its tests failed to determine the about 32 operators on each of three shifts handle All directory assistance requests for Eastern including and Lon distance directory 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 system 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 Termi 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 offi cer Ivan Sabesky said staff from his office began investigating the mat Ter yesterday it was not known How Long it will take for the department to Complete its report and make a 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 service 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 he said while some trouble can be caused by Static electricity due to the dry air and carpeting on the no 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 trained army troops flushed out a few remaining rebellious militiamen from hideouts in residential the City was generally quiet a Day after troops with tank and artillery support moved through druse and shiite strongholds in House House residents were outdoors after a 24 hour taking Stock of the destruction caused by four Days of fight ing and heavy bombardment that left at least 94 including two marines five French 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 no trouble reported 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 the peace keeping Force also reported no new officials said the last of six electric Power Supply Ines that feed the capital broke Down last and they warned the City would have prolonged daily Power repairs of the cites Crip pled 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 called crucial test during yesterdays 18 civil ians and 21 lebanese soldiers were officials the army said i captured 50 including seven palestinians and four the state radio said the sweep was a crucial test of whether president Amin Gemay eps 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 fighting Between rival moslem militia israelis picking new pm continued from Page 1 the leadership race was set in motion tuesday when begin said he was resigning the Post he has held since he announced his decision to his Cabinet but gave his backers time to try to talk him out of his 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 Leader or labor party Leader Shimon Peres puts together a Coli Shamir said hearts 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 Anci Levy were Given equal chances by Israel television late we Den Day and Israel radio said sup porters of both candidates were campaigning in a frenzy last under the when begin submits his Herzog must ask the parliamentary faction considered most Likely to Muster a majority to form u governing his resignation also Means the Cabi net is considered to have crowds fight polish police continued from Page 1 Cognize that polish problems can be solved not by intimidation but Only on the basis of reconciliation with this proud and courageous he also said Solidarity challenged the whole might of a totalitarian Pap said reagans statement proved again that he is not going to give up interference in Poland inter Nal reagans statement showed his ignorance of contemporary polish his tory and polish political process and deviates from the Pap police Early today cordoned off the area around Anns Church in War saws old town Section and removed a Floral Cross used As a Solidarity rally ing the Cross was a memorial to the late polish Stefan card Ninal riot police charged about Soli Darity supporters marching through the Baltic port after mass at the Church of beating some of them and firing tear a number of marchers were arrested and and several people were a police official the most intense violence erupted in the Southern Industrial City of Nowa Huta where riot police blocked a March by about steel workers by firing tear Gas and spraying them with water the demonstrators retaliated with 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 arrest but 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 has Sles from 2 to 4 in Warsaw but later police forced a crowd of marching toward the old town into Side several were hundreds of riot police were concentrated in downtown Warsaw through out the keeping 200 to Solidarity supporters in the Church of Ann for several several thousand people milled around the nor Mally empty streets until late eve relatives of passengers on a korean airlines 747 weep on hearing it was Likely shot jetliner feared shot Down at least one Canadian aboard lost korean plane continued from Page 1 soviet Lee said efforts o con firm an attack but if proved a it would constitute a grave violation of International Law and an i humanitarian japans foreign minister appointed a group to carry out contacts among the soviet South Korea and the United a foreign ministry spokesman in Tokyo soviet ambassador Vladimir Pavlov was summoned to the foreign ministry where the japanese asked him to expedite All information the soviet Union has on the the spokesman the plane disappeared and japans air defence Force said a radar analysis showed a Strong possibility that the jetliner had crashed in the Japan sea South of a soviet Island East of the Northern Japa Nese coast that is ii major outpost of the soviet defence All the soviets have said so far is that the plane did not land on As was claimed earlier by korean airlines in japans air defence Force said the radar analysis showed that what could have been three soviet Jet fighters scrambled from Sakhalin at about the same time the jumbo Jet was thought to have been flying Over the area yester a japanese foreign ministry offi Shiro pinpointed the area where the Boeing 747 might have gone Down As West of Moderon a Small piece of land 30 nautical Miles off southwestern the earlier South korean claim that the Jet landed on Sakhalin was denied by soviet and called a cock and Bull Story by Tommy an aide to is also chairman of the John Birch his staff said he was going to South Korea to attend a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Korea defence there was no word on How Many other North americans were aboard the the Kal flight 7 was due in Seoul at local time cd it made its last scheduled Stop in there was no soviet comment on the plane other than a dispatch from the official soviet news Agency which reported the aircraft was miss ing and that japanese authorities had launched a in a korean airlines with 110 people was fired upon by soviet aircraft and forced to land at a soviet the soviets alleged the korean Jet had violated their air space while in route from Paris to two a korean and a were killed and 13 others injured in the South Korea state run television network lbs gave the following break Down of nationalities aboard the plane missing since yesterday 72 22 34 112 of other nationalities and 29 Crew the last radio Contact with the air Craft was at cd when the Pilot reported his position As 180 Kilometres South of a Kal spokesman the spokesman 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 snowed no plane South of hokkaido at the but did show what might have been the jumbo Jet about 180 Kilometres North of hokkaido near Sakhalin the defence Agency said the plane was flying at an Altitude of More than metres when it vanished from the radar screen about nine minutes after the radio in the dispatch from its Tokyo Tass said a South korean Boeing 747 Passen Ger aircraft on a regular flight from new York to Seoul has been on Board there were 269 passengers and Crew the plane was last heard from when it was 80 Kilometres East of japanese search efforts have turned up Cihiy Price Buster Bicsi free lifetime membership in Adis video club with a Caver Purchase movie rentals anytime for club Only ii err m j i ii i Lllan i i 8hour Var with 10day picture search and free Remote control 1icluic h Iris you visually bum it action it Imri i of Tai not i control of no St sch lion 10 free movies with 1 a Caver i purchased weekdays x selection of in free 6 hour Blank tape with Purchase of Tuxedo store open till 12 Midnight Friday saturday Cidio video loh6mo Waco Jose Quiem shopph6 be Hebe 6h80m Cut puce 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