Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Debating War crimes is it time for us to forget the sunday sports May the Day the red went on a oilers Bury Hawks with 11 sunny today 18 Clear tonight 0 Winnipeg free press vol 113 no 143 1985 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets real Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class registration number 0286 news watch ukrainian protest several Hundred demonstrators lit sparklers and Sang the ukrainian National Anthem in front of the peace Tower in Ottawa yesterday in a protest to win the release of political prisoners in the demonstration was held to coincide with the opening in Ottawa tuesday of a Confer ence of officials from the 35 countries that signed the Helsinki accords on human Steve Fonyo Home Steve Fonyo is the on legged runner brought his Cross country Campaign to raise Money for cancer re search Back to where it All ending his Days run on Friday six Kilometres North of where the Fonyo family has lived for the past two Metis form regime the Metis 100yearold struggle for recognition from Ottawa took another turn yesterday with the peaceful Crea Tion of the Metis government of Saskatchewan in Bruce was acclaimed president of the Metis John Dorion of Cumberland House was elected Secretary general and Dwayne Pelletier of Yorkton auditor death toll rises the death toll in an out break of legionnaires disease in Britain Rose to 29 equalling the number killed when the disease first appeared in Philadelphia in two elderly a 79year old woman and a 65yearold died in four More people were sent to hos bringing the total under going treatment to four Are in critical bargain Winner spend a Ridden by Angel exploded out of the starting Gate yesterday and ran away with the a Lith Kentucky Derby at the a bargain base ment buy in this Era of Multi million Dollar was a Clear Winner Over Ste plans who came on to take the place position from favored chiefs Crown just be fore the spend a Buck Winner Etc Etera the party May be Over for soviet among the worlds fondest of the cup that the word around mos cow is that the Kremlin is about to impose Vodka ration quart per Comrade per month raise the Price so High a bottle from the current that people cant afford to get stiff new penalties for drunkenness Are alcohol abuse is severe and endemic in the shift eyed smugglers dont have a Chance by Cecil Rosner customs officials have made about seizures from people crossing Manitoba Bor Der Points in the last five grabbing everything from underwear to expensive jew a sampling of seizure reports obtained by the free press through the Access to information act provides a rare glimpse into How Glenn toe press customs officials do their As it shows How travellers try to conceal a number of reports place special emphasis on whether a traveller makes Eye Contact with a Border if its officers tend to do a More thorough customs also relies on information supplied by informants in some each seizure report specifies if an informant was used and whether he wants a Reward which the department will pay depending on the information provided and the Circum in describing a seizure made at Emerson last customs officer David Johnston wrote prior to the arrival of names removed at the information had been received from a puddle jumping a woman Dodges raindrops and puddles while running metres of rain fell during a two hour period in the late across the intersection of Portage Avenue and Carlton the downpour caused some flooding which Street the weather office said Mill subsided businessman fears scam taxable Revenue Canada reluctant to Clear company in Grant fraud Case by Paul Moloney a Man whose company name was used by a businessman to fraudulently obtain government Grants says he wants an Assurance from Revenue Canada that he int liable for taxes because of the Fred owner of Stoneridge gravel said he fears he could face future income tax com plications unless the department gives him a clean Bill of Ignat said his problem arose after businessman Charles Abramson obtained provincial government Grants of in 1980 and 1981 to subsidize wages of workers ostensibly employed by Stoneridge while the government cheques were made out to they were sent to Abramson and deposited in the Bank account of his Compa Rob Eva holdings after pleading Abramson was recently ordered to pay restitution of for fraudulently obtaining the Stoneridge Grants and other wage Rob Eva hold Ings was fined Ignat said he Han delivered a letter last november to the Winnipeg District taxation office requesting that it be made Clear in writing that Revenue Canada acknowledges he want he said he was assured his letter would be Given to District director Arthur but he has received no All i want from you is a letter saying that i am in the Clear As regards these Grant monies so i do not have problems with the tax department at a later the letter Ignat said that while the Provin Cial attorney generals department is satisfied he was an innocent Vic Tim in the Revenue Canada appears reluctant to make the same see owner Page 4 Brigham guilty in bomb deaths Montreal up Thomas Brigham was found guilty yesterday of first degree murder in the bomb ing deaths of three French tourists at Montreal main railway station last september and has been sentenced to life defence lawyer Pierre Poupart said his a 65yearold native of will Appeal the under Canadian Brigham would have to serve 25 years of the sentence before being eligible for Brigham looked at reporters seated in the courtroom and shrugged his shoulders when the verdict was read at cd by the Foreman of the Quebec Superior court jury of six men and six the jury had deliberated for nearly 17 in a 30minute rambling speech in which he said he was directed by cosmic Brigham told the court he Hurt a i even set off fire crack Brigham if i were a would i have gone Back to help people he then repeated earlier state ments that Montreal was the site for the second coming of our lady of Fatima is off and Fatima is on a High Speed express without the we would not have had Brigham had previously claimed the world Headquarters for Fatima would be established in Montreal Sun life Assurance the Grey haired for Mer Salesman then proclaimed he was Only the Advance Man for cosmic forces and that the key person was his youngest i with All due respect for the i am particularly sad at the Deci said Poupart after hugging a tear eyed Brigham gets life reliable source that the above named gentle men would possibly be attempting to smuggle an unknown Quantity of As a result of this information i notated on the form that a thorough examination of the vehicle be done once duties and taxes had been collected on the declared amount of an inspector asked the car owner to see officers Page 4 prance stymies Reagan from the news services Bonn president reagans hard fought struggle to persuade the economic Summit to set a Date next year for beginning a new round of global Trade talks ended in failure yesterday when France refused to Budge from its opposition to starting the talks in the seven nation Summit adopted a final communique saying Only that a new round of talks under the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Gatt should begin As soon As possible and that most of us think that this should be in protest at French president Francois Mit described by Reagan officials As the Odd Man out at the flatly rejected reagans Trade talk then also announced that France would refuse to participate in reagans defence initiative or Star wars pro Gram of research to develop a space based defence against nuclear under Gatt a new round of talks cannot begin until there is general agreement by All contract ing there have been three rounds of Gatt talks each re Quiring several years since the Reagan administration officials say another which would involve More than 100 is urgently needed to lower tariffs and remove Trade barriers that seriously impede International the Trade while not unprecedented at such was unusually Public and officials told reporters France had been isolated from its Mitter Rand they say i am isolated but i have a lot of friends outside this the impasse Over Trade talks was see France Page 4 City police split on Hooker Law senior officers within the Winni Peg police departments vice Divi Sion appear to be divided whether controlling prostitution is a Pri vice division staff Tony Cherniak said if a Bill proposed by the Federal government is it will Stem a growing problem of Street solicitation in prostitutes speak Cherniak said the Law would be enforced the head of the morality Bob Paquin said there is a Lack of priority placed on control Ling prostitution because his Section is Paquin said extra staff would Lead to More resulting in see severe Page 4 a jockey killed in Domestic dispute by Tom Goldstein a six time Assiniboia Downs racing Champion was shot and killed Friday night by a Minnesota Deputy Bobby was killed after he arrived at the Home of his estranged wife in Lake after being released from jail earlier in the Stewart was armed with a Rifle when he met Kittson county sheriffs officers at the Home located about 130 Kilometres Southeast of at one Point the suspect levelled his Rifle at an a fellow officer then fired one Shotgun mortally wounding the the Minnesota Bureau of criminal apprehension said in a news a Bureau spokesman said the incident is under stewarts said the former jockey had served about 30 Days in jail after attacking a sheriffs Deputy who served divorce papers on Stewart came to his Brothers Home see warned Page 4 photo Ann 29 30 21 dateline 2 30 6 27 Micro 35 sports 38 sunday 23 to 26 lotto i ;