Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 6, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Police patrols please Portage merchants by Patrick Mcki Tilly bbl patrols by City police the edit and loitering on Post age Avenue and Are teasing the be the be refit affect of a fraud artist trying to u9fe a of left credit card was cited As cite exdffi0je of How regular fool patrols have merchants said lit recent interviews that the foot which they had re Quested for Are also responsible for a general cleanup of Pottage the undesirable element just dont want to be seen by the said Jim downtown Winnipeg association in the stolen credit card incident an employee of the leather 345 Portage phoned a credit card company to make a routine said store manager Mike the company asked the store to stall the customer until police Vidal said it used to take police half an hour to respond to such a but officers from the foot patrol were there less than 10 we got the people and the usually we just get the Vidal the City introduced a regular on of finer patrol 1 from 1 to 5 and a two officer patrol from 5 to six constables Are assigned full time to the beat on Portage from Donald to Spence whose store and car were both vandalized before the regular foot patrols said there is less Vandal ism we the downtown Winnipeg association have checked with the Mer chants and there is a substantial reduction in the numbers of panhandlers and bums who have been on the Street All Bill co owner of the Happy Penny restaurant at 417 por said people who create disturbances Are being arrested and loiter ers Are being asked to move Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Clear tonight 8 sunny tomorrow 24 250 september Home delivery 9570560 classified 9562330 class mail registration number 0288 Canada halts soviet flights into Montreal Reagan unveils sanctions by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa has suspended soviet airline flights from Moscow to removing the soviet unions Only commercial airline link to North in Washington last presi Dent Reagan mixed Tough talk with soft sanctions and unveiled a number of diplomatic and aviation restrictions against the soviet the president unveiled a series of Reagan speech blasted by the associated press Japan today said there is Cleat proof the soviet Union deliberately shot Down a South korean jetliner last week with 269 people radio Moscow English language service today said president Reagan made an hateful speech about the destruction of the plane and claimed his last night remarks blam ing the soviet Union were an attempt to exploit the disaster to bolster his Mili tary while not acknowledging that Kore an air lines flight 007 was shot the soviet unions communist party newspaper pravda said today its Bor Der defenders could have destroyed the plane if they deemed such action Neces and it did not specifically deny the pravda also specified Tor the first time to the soviet Public the Western claims that soviet Jet fighters downed the South korean but the pravda account did not comment on Rea Gans charge that soviet planes deliberately shot Down flight 007 knowing it was a passenger soviet government said the fighter that intercepted the South korean flight fulfilled its duty in protecting the it was the closest the Kremlin has come to conceding its forces downed the in the South korean govern ment today said it welcomed measures announced by Reagan against the so Viet Union because of the see Reagan Page 4 restrictions against Moscow cancellation of an agreement on transportation he said the United states has Reaf firmed its ban of soviet planes at asked other countries to adopt similar restrictions and is examining additional Steps we can take with regard to Aeroflot facilities in this this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of said this was the soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people Canadas 60day suspension of Areo Flot flights takes effect external affairs minister Allan Maceachen called upon other nations yesterday to take similar delay signing Maceachen said Ottawa will put the Issue on the table when the inter National civil aviation agreement is discussed at talks in Montreal later this he Canada also will signing a recently negotiated agreement which would have provided for regular soviet refuelling stops at transport minister Lloyd Axworthy Maceachen said the Canadian embassy in Moscow would make arrange ments through other airlines to take care of any canadians stranded in the soviet air Canada earlier can celled its Moscow run for Lack of about 700 to 800 canadians Are in the soviet Union at any Given time but some take land routes canadians killed the suspension of twice weekly Aeroflot flights to Mirabel lasts either the 60 Days or until gets an explanation for the destruction wednesday of a korean commercial air plane by soviet eight canadians and two landed immigrants were among 269 killed when soviet fighters shot Down korean air lines flight 007 after it passed Over soviet we Are taking this action an aggrieved party and certainly we would Welcome similar actions by other Maceachen Reagan applauded Canadas action in suspending Aeroflot Landing rights in a televised address to americans last see Canada Page 4 two More marines killed in Beirut shelling Beirut a rockets and mor tar shells slammed into positions at the Beirut Airport killing two marines and wounding two others in the third Day of Lebanon renewed Christ Andruse civil Marine spokesman Robert Jor Dan announced the casualties As Chris Tian forces conceded the fall of the Central Mountain Highway town of Bham Duun to what they called syrian and palestinian backed druse at the first major druse Victory in the fighting touched off by the israeli army pullback to the they druse have entered Bham said the voice of Lebanon radio station in admitting the fall of Bham 20 Kilometres East of the station is operated by the Christian phalanges they Are committing massacres and crimes unprecedented in the history of two television journal one of them a were reported to be in stable condition after being wounded while two technicians remained missing in the Chou mountains Southeast of tvs Lon Don Bureau chief Clark a native of Saint was wounded in the Chest by shrapnel yesterday and was being treated at a lebanese army Abc sound Man Nick Ludlow of Lon see Page 4 Gerry free press the Forest in no Poming Park near Eagle nest Lake is obscured by a thick Blanket of smoke from one of the Forest fires burning out of control people forced to evacuate reserves at Ontario Border James Hogart Winnipeg free press by Dave Roberts and Larry Hill six massive Forest fires continued burning out of control Early today in Eastern Manitoba and Ontario Park sphere campers and about indians were forced to evacuate Parks and reserves Over the hundreds of firefighters Are working Roundt Hemlock battling the which cover about hectares acres along the Manitoba Ontario no in juries have been fires Force at least 4i Forest fires burned in the province Over the by last four fires North of no Poming provincial Park which earlier had merged into a massive Blaze around Beresford Lake burned out of but fire officials hoped yester Days rain brought some much needed help in bringing the fires under three cottages were lost yester Day at Beresford Lake but 82 others were saved after 157 firefighters built and held a said District supervisor of the natural resources Lees estimated the size of the Beresford Lake Blaze at Hect ares while a hectare fire raged fur ther South in the Park at Flintstone Lake and an acre Blaze burned at cat As of 410 men were fighting the Manitoba firefighters at the Beresford aided by 11 numerous Caterpillar tractors and six made Little headway were actually fighting six Lees we have one at Little grand rapids two in no Poming provincial Park and see Forest Page 4 helicopters on standby in Case Airlift is needed people of All Ages wait for medical attention in Gimli after being evacuated Early yesterday from the fire threatened Grassy Narrows Indian Reserve near Gimli while an emergency Airlift from the Little grand rapids Reserve is considered unlikely by fire iwo armed forces Chinook helicopters remain Here in standby just in the giant from 450 Squadron Ottawa and 447 Squadron flew from their Home bases to Gimli sunday they Are awaiting further instructions from provincial emergency measures organization Crews were to have had the Heli copters ready to Fly at 6 this morn if officials smoke from the dense Forest fires around Little grand rapids made a Legal Landing at the Reserve said helicopter Pilot Don we tried four or five ways to get the ship in he but visibility was Down to about one Quarter mile or less in some places it was thick As we were flying at about three Miles Kilometres an hour try ing to find our Way in there to Little Edgar Edgar said his Crew had to Wear goggles and oxygen masks because of the thick smoke the armed forces have seven stationed mainly in East Ern Canada and shuttle Down space shuttle challenger makes a near perfect Landing after a six Day fabulous Mission in Agency hit consumer crusader Ralph Nader accuses the occupational safety Agency of giving in to City of fear the 14 murders near Haven been any help in a City hardhat by the Tough economic suspended quarterback Dieter Brocks suspension is Uto s winners 2575368 2428485 1643959 1461210 2153288 Index Ann 22 31 43 62 43 6 26 7 25 Jumble 47 27 35 55 sports 6164 21 to 35 i ;