Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 6, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Foot patrols please Portage by path Iek Mckinley stepped up foot patrols by City police have Cut vandalism and loitering on Pottage Avenue and afe increasing the likelihood criminals will be downtown merchants the recent arrest of a fraud artist trying to use a stolen credit card was cited As one example of How regular foot patrols have merchants said the foot which they had requested for Are also responsible for a general cleanup of the 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 in less than 10 we got the people and the usually we just get the the City introduced a regular finer patrol 1 from 1 to 5 and a two officer patrol from s to 3 six constables Are assigned full time to the beat on Portage from Donald to specie a whose store and car were both vandalised before the a Scalar tools said there is less Vandal the downtown Winnipeg elation have he eked with the Mer chants and there is a substantial reduction in the nut fliers of panhandlers and bums to fed have been on this Street All Bill of Jar Happy Penny restaurant at 417 said people who create disturbances Are being arrested and loiter ers Are being asked to move Cloudy today 19 Clear tonight 8 250 Home classified Euitae mail registration number 02m september vol n i no 234 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Canada halts soviet flights into Montreal by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa Canada has suspended soviet airline flights from Moscow to removing the soviet unions Only commercial airline link to North the 60day suspension takes effect external affairs minister Allan Maceachen called upon other nations yesterday to take similar Ottawa will put the Issue on the table Reagan outlines sanctions Washington a presi Dent mixing Tough talk with soft unveiled a number of diplomatic and aviation restrictions yesterday against the soviet Union for last weeks Downing of a South korean saying this crime against humanity must never be using a tape recording of a soviet Pilot announcing to a ground controller that the target is Reagan demanded an accounting and an apology from the soviet speaking on radio and television from the Oval Reagan referred four times to what can Only be called the korean air line our immediate Challenge to this atrocity is to ensure that we make the see spy Page 4 when the International civil aviation agreement is discussed at talks in Montreal later this he Canada also will delay 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 officials the suspension of twice weekly Aeroflot flights to Mirabel lasts either the 60 Days or until Canada 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 As an aggrieved party and certainly we would Welcome similar actions by other Maceachen president Reagan applauded Canadas action in suspending Aero lots Landing rights in a televised address to americans last i am pleased to report that Canada today suspended Aeroflot Landing and refuelling privileges for 60 Rea Gan said of the action taken ind Epen see soviet Page 4 s s s s x v v x u v v s s s s s t v v t f j As Xiv the Forest in no Poming Park near Eagle nest Lake is obscured by a thick Blanket of smoke from one of the James free press two More marines killed in Lebanon Beirut a rockets and mor tar shells slammed into positions at the Beirut Airport killing two marines and wounding two in the third Day of Lebanon renewed Christian druse civil Marine spokesman Robert Jor Dan announced the casualties As Chris Tian forces conceded the fall of the Central Mountain Highway town of Hamdoun to Syria supported druse they druse have entered Bham Shamir faces difficulties Tel Aviv a foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir faced growing difficulties in putting together a new govern ment yesterday after one of his Poten tial coalition factions was reported holding talks with the opposition labor Likus Ultra religious Gudat Israel faction held talks with labor party labor spokesman Yossi Beilin he said two other liked coalition the National religious party and which have a total of nine seats in the 120seat had see labor Page 4 said the voice of Lebanon radio station of the rightist Christian Pha Lange party in admitting the fall of 20 Kilometres East of they Are committing massacres and crimes unprecedented in the history of two television journal including a were re ported to be in stable condition after being wounded while two technicians remained missing in the Chou mountains Southeast of ctr London 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 London received a shrapnel wound in the Jordan said the Airport bombard ment started at cd forcing the marines to scramble for the source of the barrage was Bui marines responded by firing 155mm illumination another Marine warrant officer Charles said the marines did not return fire because the fatal barrage came from a densely populated shiite moslem neighbourhood North East of the it was the first deadly attack on the marines since 29 when two sol Diers were killed during intensified see Page 4 six massive fires burning Park at Ontario Border Reserve evacuees people of All Ages wait for medical attention in being evacuated Early yesterday from the fire Grassy Narrows Indian Reserve near Gimli after threatened by Dave Roberts and Larry Hill six massive Forest fires continued burning out of control Early today in Eastern Manitoba and Ontario Park where campers and about 450 indians were forced to evacuate Parks and reserves Over the hundreds of firefighters Are working Roundt Hemlock battling which cover about 28000 hectares 000 acres along the Manitoba Ontario no injuries have been report at least 43 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 yesterdays rain brought some much needed help in bringing the fires under three cottages were lost yesterday at Beresford Lake but 82 others were saved after 157 firefighters built and held a fire said Brent District supervisor of the natural resources Lees estimated the size of the Beres Ford Lake Blaze at hectares while a fire raged further South in the Park at Flintstone Lake and an Blaze burned at cat As of 410 men were fight ing the Manitoba firefighters at the Beresford aided by 11 numerous Caterpillar tractors and six water made Little headway yester were actually fighting six Lees we have one at Little grand rapids two in no Pom ing provincial Park and two More to the North outside the he the Only one weve really made any Progress on is at cat Lake where weve had some weve constructed and held a five mile eight Kilometre break at that about campers were evacuate 24 by from no Pom ing saturday when fire threatened to trap them inside the Herb a Winnipeg said he and three friends had left Davidson Lake in the Park Early saturday to begin a weekend of fishing when the fire roared Over their Camp see fires Page 4 helicopters on standby for Airlift Gimli while an emergency Airlift from the Little grand rapids Reserve is considered unlikely by fire offi two armed forces Chinook Heli copters remain Here on standby just in the giant from 450 squad Ron Ottawa and 447 Squadron Edmon flew from their Home bases to Gimli sunday they Are awaiting further instructions from provincial emergency Mea sures organization Crews were to have had the Helicon ters ready to Fly at 6 this if officials smoke from the dense Forest fires around Little grand rapids made a Legal Landing at the Reserve said helicopter Pilot Don see smoke Page 4 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 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