Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 5, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mother awaits sons return from sect Turners meeting by Gary Hunter a Winnipeg woman who spoke with her son yesterday for the first time since he left for a Quebec religious sect in january says she wont rest easy until he arrives in still kind of Mariane Chartrand said after arranging to Send her 16yearold son Jeff bus tickets so he can return to Chartrand spoke with her son by Telephone at the monastery of the apostles of infinite love in less than an hour after the free press contacted the religious order to ask Why he want allowed to speak with his relatives in she had contacted the paper to com Plain she and her husband Hector had been duped into signing forms that allowed the breakaway roman Catho Lic sect to take Jeff to Chartrand said since Jeff had left she had been rebuffed in her attempts to reach him by she said when she called Jovite she was told her son would not be allowed to she said she tried another number for the sect and was connected with someone who spoke Only when the free press called the Mon Astery Mother Aimee at first said it was prohibited for Mem Bers of the sect to come to the Tele we have 300 people Here and it int possible to have them All coming to the even his Mother Doest have the right to phone its against the about half Way through the conducted in Mother Aimee again asked who was when told a second time that it was a reporter from a newspaper in she shifted position and said Jeffrey would Call the newspaper in a few Jeff called a half hour later and sounded surprised when asked if he knew his Mother wanted him to return shortly he called his Moth see Mother Page 4 Clear tonight 2 sunny tomorrow 14 april 1964 i vol n 2 no 1 of Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 a striker run Over a striking Las vegas hotel worker was run Over by hotel workers strike is in its fourth there have trying to enter Caesars Palace the Man suffered been incidents of violence and clashes with a broken Collarbone and Chest and Back the Las about 100 people have been Young offenders act put to the test judge orders boy to reapply for Legal Aid denied him before new statute by Larry Hill Manitoba Legal Aid system faced its first Challenge under the offenders act yesterday when a Juve Nile court judge ordered a 13yearold boy to reapply for free Legal advice denied him before the act took immediately after the Winnipeg boy pleaded guilty to attempting to break into a grocery store last family court judge Marvin Garfinkel halted the court i think i have to remind the boy that he has the right to apply for a judge Garfinkel i applied for a but they Legal Aid officials turned me his Mother told the the act a Young person has the right to retain and instruct counsel without delay at any stage of proceed Ings against him the Federal statute has replaced the juvenile delinquents which was silent on Legal rights for judge Garfinkel remanded the Case to april 18 to give Mother and son time to reapply for a executive director of Legal Aid said later the boys second application would probably be accepted because the Agency changed its appointment Cri Teria after the acts Legal Aid used to appoint counsel to children of financially trapped families when accused juveniles risked being committed to an institution upon conviction or transferred to an adult court for but decisions to Supply Juve Niles with Legal advice will be based on the same principles used for Layoff threats doer says by Fred Youngs More than 40 civil servants some with More than 25 years experience have received what amounts to threats of the president of the Manitoba government employees association said Gary head of the said the Union is aware of 43 letters that have been sent to civil he said that three versions of the letter Are being mailed out by govern ment but each is Tanta mount to a Layoff notice unless the workers can be were not going to sit idly by and let someone with 26 years be Laid doer referring to one longtime employee who has received a doer said it is hard to pin Down the exact number of letters sent out because of the confusion surround ing the governments proposal to phase out 273 jobs this we still dont get a sense that theres a Central doer Treasury Board chairman Jay Cowan confirmed the letters most Likely have gone but the cutback plans Are in a state of flux at the departmental jobs that were to be phased out were decided upon when departmental spending estimates were drawn he adding that discussions with the Mega on a number of departments have taken although not on specific he said basically its up to departments to decide which jobs will be our focus during estimates consideration was not on positions or i divid he our focus was on see civil Page 4 minority Media protest and placements by Bob Cox the House of commons special com Mittee on visible minorities came under fire yesterday for not Advertis ing its activities in Media aimed at visible representatives of newspapers such As the carib a Black monthly in and the new a monthly for filipinos in the criticized the committee for Only advertising its hearings and meetings in major daily i think we should have a portion of the advertising said Ted Al former editor and publisher of the new i think that advertising on issues concerning visible minorities should be directed to their Al cuistas the committee is holding Public briefing sessions in nine Canadian cities to explain and publicize its report on visible minorities in which was released last a session on the report held yester Day at the fort Garry hotel was advertised Only in the free Liberal my Bob committee said the committee spent to advertise its activities nationally in daily i think what we attempted to do was to maximize the number of people we could Daudlin committee member Laverne Lewycky River said briefing sessions were advertised in Large circulation newspapers because see committee Page 4 this Means that juveniles who Are charged with indictable offences and those facing summary charges which could Lead to committal will generally be eligible for Freedman Freedman and Crown counsel Eliza Beth Sellick said it was the first Case they knew of in which a refusal to Grant Legal Aid in Manitoba was challenged because of the new i expect therell be a few More like Freedman a Legal Aid letter 27 to the boy shows the first application was refused because there is no indication the prosecutor is seeking Transfer to adult court or committal to a juvenile inst if and while it is in our opinion based on information it is not the boys Mother said in an inter View the letter had disappointed the Mother said she was afraid hed get sent away if no lawyer was in court to defend the new Powers i was going to Tell the judge that if he was going to Send the boy away he should Send me away too because what else have i got to live for the new act empowers judges to instruct the attorney general to appoint counsel for children in conflict with the Law if Legal Aid senior family court judge Edwin Kimelman said earlier this week he would not hesitate to do the act allows the Public to attend juvenile court cases unless a judge rules but bars the Media from publishing offenders in another Case the judge and Sellick disagreed about whether the act allows judges to Grant conditional discharges after a boy pleaded guilty to 21 counts of the had been a passenger in a vehicle 19 whose Driver smashed it into 21 other causing in Sellick see Legal Page 4 tory fortunes soar in poll after pm quits support for the Federal progressive conservatives has increased since prime minister Trudeau announced his plan to while Liberal support has fallen a Gallup poll released today the poll indicates conservative sup port among decided voters has climbed to 54 per cent from 48 per cent in february and Liberal which had risen to a two year of 36 per cent in the previous has slipped to 32 per the which reached a 13year Low of 13 per cent in dropped to 11 per cent of voters in March the party worst showing since june when it was called the cooperative Commonwealth thirty one per cent of those polled were compared with 24 per cent in interviews which conducted interviews with eligible voters Between March 1 and says samples of this size Are accurate within four percentage Points 19 times out of the new figures appear to reverse a trend in recent polls showing the liberals slowly recovering from an Al time Low last when Gal Lup put the conservatives at 62 per cent and the liberals at the latest poll is the first since then in which sup port for the conservatives the liberals had narrowed the Gap to 12 Points in last months employment minister John a candidate to replace Trudeau As Liberal said the Only conclusion he could draw is that the drop in Liberal support reflects a wave of respect and sadness at the prime ministers impending below expectations its not so much i would have expected Given the enthusiasm and excitement within the party and what he in his travels across the said the following table shows intention among the total electorate March intended to vote Liberal 22 27 pc 37 37 nip 8 10 others 2 2 31 24 Liberal preference has slipped in All with the exception of where voter indecision was in the question asked was if a Federal election were held which party candidate do you think you would favor Gallup poll lib pc nip oth Gallup studies March 84 32 54 11 2 36 48 13 2 32 52 15 2 83 30 53 15 2 27 56 16 2 23 62 14 1 july 27 55 16 2 1980 election 44 32 20 3 pm Duel Over Aid by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa opposition Leader Brian Mulroney promised yesterday his party would immediately ratify a Bill to help Cash Short Western but prime minister Trudeau refused the Trudeau said he would Only bring in such a Bill if the tories would agree to Quick passage of a variety of Bills already on the order the head Ohead clash Between Mulroney and Trudeau in the com Mons yesterday was Over a Liberal throne speech Promise of reforms to the Western Grain stabilization Mulroney called Trudeau a Jokester for dodging the Promise and Trudeau accused the progressive conservatives of goofing off during last years Bell ringing suggesting the offer was not i asked a question on behalf of Western whose bankruptcies were up 110 per cent last and All you get is a Jokester hamming around with a piece of Mulroney we want answers on behalf of Western but Trudeau said he was not Ham Ming it up with a piece of he was discussing an order paper with a list of All of which Are import there Are Many Bills of great importance to All which have to be moved Trudeau the prime minister said Mulroney was asking for action on behalf of one interest whereas the govern see pm Page 4 mass grave found filled with murdered victims san Salvador a a mass grave filled with murdered peasants was discovered in Western Al Salvador and officials said the country presidential election is triggering an in crease in political in san Costa Canadian external affairs minister Allan Mac Eachen said yesterday he is against foreign intervention in Central Ameri Ca and in favor of the Contador groups peace efforts in the Maceachen arrived in Costa Rica on tuesday on the first Day of a 10day tour that will also take him to colom Nicaragua and founded 15 months the Conta Dora group of Colombia and Panama has been trying to defuse the regions growing conflicts by pressing for arms reduction and the removal of foreign military in san a member of Al Salvador human rights commission said remains of murder victims Are being found almost daily in areas North of the the human rights observer said 20 bodies were discovered last week in a mass grave site located West of the because no candidate won a majority in the March 25 there will be a Runoff Between the two top vote get ters Jose Napoleon Duarte Roberto allegation Winnipeg prostitutes say they have been victimized by police officers who have demanded free a Federal committee has been jets stumble in playoff old relative anthropologists have found a Fossil Bone fragment of a human like creature which dates Back five million High Marks the Federal Deputy Energy has praised the National Energy Western winners 2054075 1740821 2208858 Index Ann Landers crossword 23 35 40 22 28 50 49 50 6 24 7 23 Jumble 66 35 55 sports record 60 29 21 to 35 i r ;