Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 3, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Landlords Champion takes on All Comers by Gary Hunter he has a Public speaking voice Only a Mother could appreciate and a cause ranking in popularity with Mosquito he is As introduced at a Manitoba landlords association meeting one and Only Sid Cabinet Gener Al contractor since a Winni Peg is still putting in Long Days at a North main Street office for a cause that Fang his Bell in Silverman spoke for six until 2 in Early 1970 at a provincial Law amendments committee the subject the landlord and ten ant i was very upset about that Legisla i Felt i came up the hard Way and it want the governments Busi Ness to Tell me How i should invest and How much i should be Silverman the Man had found his cause and mercy on bureaucrats and deadbeats who stood in his As president of the landlords Asso ail organization he launched in 1975 with 29 Silverman has swung at All and sundry and become one of the most quotable characters on the Winnipeg during nine years of running fire he has called for the resignation of both Community services min ister Len Evans and tory housing minister Frank he has said officials ill the rental sans office Are biased and has called for some of their Hes threatened a sleeping at the a landlords strike and Legal action on a dozen fronts including a threat to take the City to the supreme court if it named landlords failing to meet building Hes also threatened to publish the names of Deadbeat to form a Black list of undesirables and to take unspecified but ominous drastic action if the province imposed a Maxi mum six per cent rent association meetings have been see Silverman Page 2 Cloudy tonight 0 sunny tomorrow 10 free april 1984 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Maceachen steers Clear of Al Salvador Washington up external affairs minister Allan Maceachen headed for Central America today to find out whether Canada can lend a hand to regional peace efforts and help prevent the spread of civil strife and Border Maceachen 10day tour of four latin american nations including Nicaragua follows two Days of closed talks in where he publicly maintained his distance from involvement in Central America and avoided any hint of accepting strike puts vegas in the dark Las a tourists continued to Gamble and casinos pledged to stay open despite threats that a strike by workers which darkened showrooms and closed restaurants along the glittering Las vegas strip could last a Long the strike that began yesterday by four unions at 32 luxury hotel casinos reduced food service and hotel room and forced cancellation of shows by such stars As Shirley Mac Rodney Dangerfield and Suzanne most gaming workers Are not unionized and continued to and at least one resort hired hundreds of replacement workers at Mccarran International Airport said terminals remained Busy As and arriving tourists said they had no plans to curtail their vacations in Here to Angle Cooper said shortly arriving from gambling comes eating comes in sure somebody will be running the strikers walked picket lines in front of the hotels occasionally blocking traffic into the Las vegas police reported three arrests for vandalism but said most pickets were striking workers include food drink Bell Casino change bus Cooks and at the Las vegas guests were Given 30 per cent off their Bills because food was limited to but Fet style serving and Skeleton staffs see vegas Page 4 Maceachen turned Down a request from state Secretary George Shultz to add Al Salvador to his a move that would have demonstrated Canadas support for political forces conducting an election amid opposition from in surgent leftist Maceachen and in their seventh quarterly meeting in 19 also signed a treaty settling an old argument about water Power on the British Columbia Border and talked about a wide Range of including Central both sides played Down the significance of the Shultz request on Al Salvador and Maceachen attributing the decision to Maceachen inability to change his Garrison project who said he reiterated Canadas opposition to outside military intervention and its support for a negotiated settlement in the added that my not going to Al Salvador is not a political statement of any but a senior american official expressed disappointment that Maceachen had rejected a written Appeal from delivered to add Al Salvador to his tour of three Central american countries and neighbouring a sponsor of a regional peace in sorry about the official said yesterday of Maceachen i think it would have been a Good exercise to show Canadian sup port for free free elections Maceachen told a news conference he favors free and proper but Canadian authorities indicated it would have been difficult to accept the Shultz suggestion without appearing to be acting at Washington fur it would have been hard for Maceachen to avoid meeting Salva Doran election candidates and thus appear to be the visit to Al Salvador might have endangered any future Canadian role As part of a Neutral body overseeing a peace authorities unanswered directly by or Ca Nadian officials were questions on Why Shultz had made the request in writing on the eve of meeting Maceachen in person and before the Central american a official said Only it was thought it would be a Good idea to show support for the elec asked by a reporter what was being done to bring Canada on see Maceachen Page 4 natives losing Metis Leader charges by David Obrien about 100 families have been evicted from their Homes in Metis communities in Northern Manitoba and Many More May soon join their the president of the Manitoba Metis federation said the evictions Are the work of the Federal and provincial governments through their respective Canada mortgage and housing and Manitoba housing and renewal Don Milvor said at a news of 900 houses administered by Milvor said 200 have been placed in the hands of government yers Over the past four while another 300 homeowners Are in arrears and face possible of 766 Homes managed by about half Are in arrears and another four per cent of the homeowners Al ready have been he the vast majority of those affected Are Metis or Milvor he said the evicted families either move in with other families or take Over shacks and which they fix the problem stems from excessive monthly mortgage demands and from the shabby construction of the which has induced Many not to make see Metis Page 4 a photo a wounded Man receives help from medics after a terrorist attack in Jerusalem yesterday v in which 48 people were eighteen victims Are in one Hurt one of the attackers was killed and the other two City woman ducks bullets As terrorists strike in Israel by Tom Goldstein a Young Winnipeg woman emerged unscathed after a Bullet exploded above her head during yesterdays terrorist attack in Jerusalem which left 48 people we were lying on the ground outside a store when a Bullet smashed the Glass above our Judi Greenberg said in a Telephone interview from Jerusalem last if we would have been standing we would have been said she and her israeli Naze were walking near the crowded intersection of Jaffa Avenue and King George Selling when the firing they were accompanied by Esme Fuller of Lon Border All of a sudden i hear a it sounded like a Flat she i didst know what it was so i was just looking id never heard gunfire Well acquainted with the threw Greenberg to the he did the same to a group of finnish also unaware they were in the Middle of an Greenberg she said they waited inside the store after the Bullet had narrowly missed her until police said the area was one of the three terrorists involved in the incident was shot to death by a former police officer who happened to be in the his two accomplices were the democratic front for the ration of a Moscow oriented Hartline has taken Greenberg narrow escape responsibility for the although Greenberg was Dabbour suffered a minor Cut on his stomach when hit by flying he was the first person to be released from she i was terrified but i want Hys i want shot but other peo ple so i had to be she Greenberg said terrorist attacks Are just a part of life for most when you Tell people about yesterdays they they say is that All that happened they dont think its a big they take it with a Grain of she this is Green bergs second pro longed visit to a University of Manitoba she is taking her third year in hebraic studies at the University of Jeru she arrived last july and plans to return to Winnipeg this july to Complete her she spent four months on a Kibbutz two Summers there were bomb shelters but nothing she yesterdays harrowing incident has Given her second thoughts about emigrating to she said the terrorist attack is something she Doest want to her grandchildren i Hope i will have forgotten it by she said with a nervous Greenberg said she telephoned her mothers Garden City Home yester Day morning to say she was All i knew they her parents would hear about it on the news and would she family worried she said her Mother and grand Mother were worried because they haunt heard from her after a bomb exploded in the jewish sector of Western Jerusalem last killing six people and wounding 44 Greenberg said she want even aware of that incident until the Day after it had despite the Lois Greenberg remained anxious about her Daugh ters she said she was i Hope she was telling me Greenberg she said she plans to visit her daughter in Israel next a trip which has nothing to do with yester Days the Young woman lawyer Lawrence said he haunt heard from his having Learned of her safety from his sex bilingual demand feared by Doug Speirs the jobs of Manitoba unilingual teachers Are being threatened by the soaring demand for French language says the president of the Jame Assiniboia teachers Assoc a Jame Assiniboia is especially concerned because we Are an Anglo phone association presi Dent Bev Reeves said in an interview there is something that Doest rub the right Way about unilingual English teachers losing their jobs or being transferred because they dont speak Reeves my reaction is that its unfair Dis in an anglophone the philosophical question is should this be happening Jame Assiniboia superintendent George Buchholz has said 12 unilingual teachers in the division May be Laid off and More bilingual teachers hired to meet the demand for French language but Reeves predicted yesterday the jobs of up to 17 unilingual English teachers in the division May be in Reeves said the association has writ ten education minister Maureen hem Phill urging the government to ensure the Job Security of English Only teach we strongly urge government that when they Are doing education financing and language that the rights of unilingual teachers Are not ignored or sacrificed in the name of Progress or she see layoffs Page 4 pharmacists compile list of abusers by Maureen Brosnahan the Manitoba pharmaceutical association is compiling a list of known and suspected drug abusers to be made available to Stewart registrar of the Manitoba pharmaceutical said yesterday the information is being compiled from records and reports from pharmacists who suspect custom ers of being drug abusers or of illegally obtaining inordinate amounts of Wilcox said the move to computer ize the associations list will help cur Tail the illicit trafficking and use of it was getting so rampant we had to do he he said practices such As double where a patient obtains drugs from several different physic and forgery Are increasing at an alarming rate in a ramp spokesman in really astounded at the extent of this said John Van Mulligan of the ramp drug Intelli gence Wilcox said in one recent a customer obtained More than pain killers in one the person was caught after he filed a claim for the drugs to the Manitoba Pha Macare to add insult to the taxpayers Are paying for Wilcox the information will be fed into a see drug Page 4 ramifications an adjudicator goes ahead with a sexual harassment hearing despite the profound ramifications of a constitutional innocent nurse Susan Nelles denies she either accidentally or purposely administered fatal dioxin overdoses to sick Protection the charter of rights ensures episodes such As the wartime internment of japanese canadians cant happen Trudeau Competition proposed legislation requires prior government notification of major business mergers or Index Ann 21 10 36 letters 6 23 7 22 Jumble 25 movies 24 27 43 sports record 48 17 to i i ;