Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Michael Jackson faced tense negotiations for beatles9 Public help lifts a Winnipeg family burned out of its Home saturday has received furniture and the offer of a rent free in really proud of Barry Friesen said last we feel a whole lot better about things his wife and their son had to flee their rented House at 649 Jubilee Avenue on the fire erupted when the boy sailed a paper air plane into a the Fri Sens lost practically All their including new furniture that had not been paid they had rented the House a Day earlier and didst have the family has been staying at the Westminster hotel since the fire and Friesen said there has been a Stream of visitors and phone people have been bringing cloth ing and food and Little pieces of we have 12 pages of names of people who have among those who phoned was a Man from Vancouver who lost his House in a fire in september and a disc jockey from there have also been Cash donations by last Friesen said a woman called yesterday to offer a House ten free until the end of the she said it be ready until but told us to come around and take a look at the thoughtfulness of Winnipeg Gers has surprised a woman phoned us who lived on Jubilee Street and said if we wanted to have our son continue going to he could have lunch each Day at her he its amazing someone even thought of Nathans Friesen said the fort Garry Pound is taking care of the family two dogs until they can he said one sour note sounded when his wife called the downtown furniture store where they owe to ask if it had any credit insurance which would cover their they didst even ask How we were they just told my wife wed still have to pay the Snow today 2 Cloudy tonight 3 october 1985 free press Sun rises sets Moon sets final 2 5 Home do Ivory 9570550 classified 0562330 hegi3tra7iuu p66 inquest evidence conflicts lifeguards and a teacher contradicted each others account yester Day of when a six Earold drown ing victim first went missing in Birds Hill provincial i dont think they really knew what time it the drowning Hap Hong sen Nguyen said after hearing confusing testimony about his sons july 16 lifeguards who were at the Beach when Van Hong Nguyen slipped unnoticed under the water told an in quest judge they were first told the child was missing at but a teacher supervising the group of 25 children said she notified a lifeguard shortly after the Young sters were called from the water for lunch and counted at Van was found unconscious and not breathing after a swimmer kicked up the boys Heel in metre deep water at about provincial judge Charles Rubin was the Outing was part of Winni Peg school divisions summer enrichment program for Cor Earea who arrived in Canada from Vietnam just three months before the knew Little English and could not teacher Beverley Braga said she last saw Van at the Waters Edge at about 11 shortly after the Chil Dren were called for the first head she said she told him to stay close to a teachers who was also in the Braga said the among about 160 from John King school at the were called from the water at for this was when she noticed one of the children was not among those sitting see lifeguards Page 4 British riot police Given arms London Reuter London chief of vowing to meet Force with authorized use of tear Gas and plastic bullets yesterday after a police officer was hacked to death with a Machete sunday in the worst rioting Ever seen in police chief sir Kenneth Newman said he is reassessing his depart ments traditional policy of Minu mum Force and considering taking the offensive against police officers Are human beings who look to me for reasonable he told a news Confer they must and will have Newman said he has reluctantly authorized the use of tear Gas and plastic bullets to quell future an Deputy assistant com missioner Richard said the time has come for britons to pre pare themselves for tougher of police have used tear Gas on Mainland Britain Only once 1981 against rioters in the Toxteth District of have never used plastic although British troops have employed them in Northern rioting mobs of Black and White youths used gasoline bombs and other weapons in running Battles with police in the North Lon Don District of Tottenham overnight see riot Page 4 Phil free press Pat Defehr hides from sleet while walking her say it int Winnie Peers Wail Winter arrived in a flurry yes Gross just was one woman reaction to wet Snow on Portage Winnipeg Hydro reported downed wires in fort Rouge last night and scattered disruptions of Power in other parts of the in most service was quickly restored with no major problems a Manitoba Hydro spokesman said there were reports of minor distribution problems throughout Southern its a Case of one customer Here and one customer but no Large in most cases lines were being brought Down by tree still in breaking off under the weight of he a Winnipeg police traffic spokesman said Snow had not caused an unusual number of major accidents last but he predicted there would probably be a number of fender benders reported in the next few Between 10 and 15 centimetres of accompanied by brisk Northeast was expected in the City another five centimetres was expected to be added by flurries travel agent Cathy Smith said it was outrageously Busy at the Bay travel just about everyone was look ing for a hot spot for Winter she she said customers complained about the including the summer that never see warm Page 4 cruise ship hijackers vow to kill 413 aboard from a Preuter port Egypt hijackers seeking the release of 50 prisoners from Israel seized an italian cruise ship off the egyptian forced it farther into the Mediterranean and were reported to have threatened to kill 413 hostages on Byone unless their demands were italian warships were reported steaming to the Israel quoting a Shipto Shore conversation in arabic be tween the hijackers and maritime officials at port said today the hijackers threatened to begin killing their hostages unless egyptian radio broadcast their the demand was made shortly after the ship was hijacked last Israel radio the report said nothing about a the hijackers also were reported to have threatened to blow up the ship if they were the hijackers identified them selves As members of a dissident Palestine liberation organization the Palestine liberation officials at port the Northern terminal of the Suez said Early today they had lost radio con tact with the ship Between 4 and 5 apparently because it had gone too far out into the med terran they said the ship apparently was no longer in egyptian but did not have a precise an israeli official in Tel Aviv said israeli officials were in close Contact with italian Israel has made no response to the demand that it release Italy state run radio reported today italian warships and a recon Naissance plane headed for the egyptian coastal there was no official confirmation of the report that an air Force plane took off from Sicily and that several ships were diverted from the ionian sea off the Southern tip of italian defence minister Giovanni Spadolini had placed his country armed forces on Navy spokesman Ken Dell peas said in Washington military ships were in the Eastern but he refused to say whether they were were ordered moved because of the Canadian officials said All five canadians on the list of passengers aboard the Achille Lauro had disembarked in Alexan Dria for a tour of Cairo and the pyramids and were Safe in the canadians were reported from the Lauro owners of the Achille said 78 americans were listed As passengers on the but the italian foreign ministry said 72 americans were among the passengers who left the officials said they Learned of the hijacking about 30 nautical Miles West of port said in a radio report by the hijackers who identified himself Only As an official at the italian crisis command said we dont know How it the Crew apparently was but we dont know if the hijackers boarded in Alexandria or from the in Plo representative Fuad Albitar issued a statement saying it had expressed our full readiness to offer All our collaboration to shed Light on this episode above has hit the the italian Agi news Agency said Plo chairman Yasser Arafat condemned the hijacking in a Telephone conversation with italian foreign minister Giulio italian news agencies quoted the foreign ministry As saying the hijackers were armed and had a Large Supply of a spokesman for the cruise com Pany said the ship had enough food and water to last until the passengers seem to be treated Well on the basis of what weve Learned from egyptian the official said first radio Contact with the ship was established last night by the italian naval attache in port who became worried when the ship did not arrive As Abdulrahman Deputy chairman of the Suez canal author said a Leader of the palestinians on who had not identified said shortly after the hijacking that ship should not be approached under any news of the Achille lauras Sei Zure came As Israel ended the religious Holiday of Sim hat Many israelis were attending late night parties when state radio interrupted its services to announce that the country was embroiled once again in a hostage millionaires on list for Deposit payout staff up Ottawa at least two million Aires and a number of foreign and Domestic Banks will be among the hundreds of individuals and institutions to recover All the Money they had on Deposit at two Western Banks that failed this figures tabled by Barbara minister of state for show one individual each at the Canadian commercial Bank and Northland Bank with deposits of More than the information was tabled in the commons yesterday As Mcdougall presented for second Reading a Bill asking for million to be used to compensate uninsured depositors at the two Canada Deposit insurance covers depositors up to in a Bank but the government has decided to compensate everyone this the two millionaire depositors will receive a total of million under the Federal there was a total of 71 individuals with More than the insurable limit on Deposit at the cab and an additional 131 at the Mcdougall said the payoff pack age is aimed at struggling Western businesses and financially strapped municipalities and credit but figures released later in the Day by the finance department showed that More than half the uninsured deposits in the Canadian commercial Bank belonged to for eign and Domestic financial institutions and of million in uninsured depos its at the failed Edmonton based the figures show million belonged to foreign Mil see Estey Page 4 nip seeks probe of tory spending by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Ottawa the nip has called for an ramp investigation into the progressive conservative party election Campaign last fall following reports it failed to pay a Bill for transportation to a rally for prime minister Manitoba my Rod Murphy said the National office contravened sections of the Canada elections act if reports that the party failed to pick up the Bill Are the Bill was apparently paid by John Campaign manager for former communications minister Marcel who resigned his Post after ramp began investigating spending irregularities in his per Sonal election Vincent apparently picked up the Tab after the National office failed to pay bus Drivers who took Masse sup porters from Thetford to nearby Plessisville for a Mulroney rally on outside the Murphy said reports that Vincent paid the which should have been picked up by the require immediate the tories claimed they spent million during the Campaign last about Short of the Legal limit for see Page 4 Crosbie faults pms aides for missing tuna smell Ottawa up prime minister Mulroney top aides Are not astute politically because they did not smell the political danger of the rancid tuna Justice minis Ter John Crosbie said Crosbie said Mulroney senior staff should have taken immediate action to withdraw the million cans of tainted tuna from supermarket shelves As soon As they were told the fish was not fit to he was asked during an interview on radio station voc in if the governments handling of the tainted tuna affair shows the prime ministers office is run by a Bunch of Well that As Good As possible Crosbie i say its staffed by dolts but perhaps you could say they Arent As astute politically or As politically tuned As they should for when that tuna fish business first came to the attention of anyone in the if they were astute political types they would see pcs Page 4 reprimand two Winnipeg police officers Are reprimanded for collecting to pay a pawnbroker for a stolen hoopla Lynette Captain of the olympic basketball is to become the first woman to play for the Harlem not so secret the space shuttle Atlantis ends a secret Mission in which it is believed to have launched military aspersions Deputy prime minister Erik Nielsen recant aspersions of Index Ann 30 17 7 49 36 48 crossword 36 6 34 7 Jumble 40 35 17 17 sports 55 50 29 to 17 7 7 ;