Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pay your Bills using the Telephone touch pts 9479300 a division of com chef services limited 298 a dry r3c1h3 Winnipeg free press 198 pages 1118 Grace Kellys Secrst we by Jim Fuller Minneapolis Star and Tribune Grace later Princess Grace of was one of those Nice girls who in her with numerous part including some of her leading her most recent James has documented the sexual adventures of the supposed ice Maiden beyond reasonable he writes of her affairs with Gary William David Ray Bing and a number of both famous and More than 30 years after her last film appearance and five years after her death in an Auto Accident at the age of one might reasonably who cares the is a whole lot of Spades Grace the secret lives of a published two months ago by was ninth on the new York times list of nonfiction bestsellers a few Days the author said recently that sales continue to be Strong and that his contacts with readers show he has reached a much wider audience than he had Antici i thought the buyers would be women her own people who remember Grace from the Spada but obviously its much More than you dont get on the times list with just Middle aged Accident he attributed the books unexpected commercial Success to the fascinating Story he found almost by stars biographer documents Long string of sexual adventures unday writer links Kellys affairs with unsuccessful struggle to gain her fathers has written Showbiz biographies of such As Robert and Marilyn barbra was published when he was just All his Previ Ous works have been heavily illustrated coffe table nicely crafted but adding Little to the lore on their he was planning another such picture Book on Princess Grace until he interviewed Don Richard who had been one of her instructors at the american facade my of dramatic As it turned Richardson also had been one of her lovers one of several who remained her friends Long after their love affairs were Richardson told Spada details about the former actress private life that surprised the Grace Kelly was the daughter of a former Philadelphia bricklayer who by the time of her birth had become a wealthy Brick manufacturer and several family were rigid and domineering people who cared More about appearances than hapm1658 their a Milf almost Assoon As she left Home at Grace Kelly started breaking the rules but always she kept up appearances by As suming a Public character that was proper and almost Spada said he accepted the pub Lic image until Richardson began talking about her highly Active love i asked Richardson Why he was telling me All and he said it was because Grace was a much More interesting person than peo ple and he thought they should know Spada so Spada decided almost immediately to do an investigative re porting lacking a journalism he even took a week end course for private i Vestiga he picked up some pointers on uncovering hidden he he also determined to use Only information confirmed by at least two Independent he said i was Damn i knew i was changing the image of this Vii drunk g the Spada Hada Long string of love affairs before she married Prince Rainier of to she liked to get drunk in drank far too much toward the end of her according to Spades she was unhappy in the rarefied atmosphere of the Palace at Felt frustrated at being Cut off from and although she was a Loving Mother she was not a very Success Ful although she had risen rapidly to stardom in Hollywood she won an Oscar for Best actress for the country girl Spades evidence shows she was insecure and less than impressed with her own per she wanted to be a great actress and knew she was he Spada also makes a Point of demonstrating How she tried unsuccessfully All her life to gain her fathers love and and he links that Effort to the fact that most of her affairs were with much older Spada admits his Book has of fended some who knew including Many he suggest that Many who Are offended Haven read the i did it with what i Hope is he in the Book is not Long on salacious and the second half is concerned with her unhappy life As a a life that apparently never involved extra marital Monaco Royal family refused to cooperate with big to Row brewing Over whopping overtime Bill by Alex Sutherland and Rowena Webster the sunday London Britain breakfast television station team is facing a Row about huge overtime payments claimed by an Engineer for three weeks intermittent work covering the Zeebrugge ferry tragedy in the who supervised transmission of film from Belgium to the breakfast television com pants London is said to be claiming in which he is entitled to under agree ments Between the technicians the association of Cine Mato television and Allied technicians and the Independent television the claim is in addition to his regular annual teams management is under stood to have offered him a com Promise it is has been it is believed that the company will eventually be forced to pay up the entire because insiders say they have recently backed Down Over similar Large overtime claims for overseas these include claimed by a cameraman for four Days work in Libya and claimed by a camera Man for six weeks work in one technician told the sunday times that there was widespread anger among team staff that the management has been prepared to meet such High claims like these Are disgusting and greedy but we blame the management for letting the situation get out of he Bruce teams Mana Ging would not comment on the he said there was some talk about someone claiming a lot of overtime but i refuse to talk about confidential company mat the Engineer in Zeebrugge worked a shift from to almost 11 according to inside he was actually Only working for a few hours but could claim so called massive Golden hours overtime under this if staff do not have a break of at least 10 hours Between they can claim a greater hourly this is based on the overtime rate they were on for the last hour of the previous shift multiplied by the overtime rate for the next this complicated system Basi Cally Means that the More disrupted Breaks staff the More Money they insiders believe the Engineer reached an hourly overtime rate of As much As 64 times the Basic the Engineer Only had a supervisory role in transmit Ting teams Zeebrugge film be cause International agreements re quire foreign companies to use the Host country technical equipment and Alan general Secretary of the act said i know nothing about i am sure if he a claim of that he would nearly be dead from chernobyl agony seems worlds away by Felicity Barringer new York times chernobyl before the bus leaves from Here to take visiting journalists the 18 kilo metres to the nuclear Power Plant that made this town everyone is asked to fill out a dual russian and English language promising not to open bus step off the roads or while Moscow reporters should need no reminding of the Radia Tion about which they have written the form does seem strangely a Propri until the bus arrives at the line of dead and dying Pines within three Kilometres of the it takes reminding to remember the place was bathed in invisible Poi sons that linger there Visi tors need no reminding if they look at the roads filled with army trucks and White masked Earth removal trucks and All cleaning up but the ukrainian Bright Green with their summer Plum make it hard to remember the explosion at the reactor and its widespread looking at the Fields and a Lone Stork flying Low above last years most incongruous stories of farm workers who resisted evacuation until their cattle had been taken of the two old women who hid out in the town of Prip Yat Long after the evacuation suddenly become the chernobyl nuclear Plant existed in a separate universe from the Rural land around the world it destroyed on april Little in common the Plant is a late 20thcentury Industrial Crea its Skyline is dominated by massive Power stanchions and huge webs of Power its vocabulary is drawn from the International language of science and Industry Chain Iso control fuel is the aside from the 14yearold plants town of Prip Yat and the old Market Center of chernobyl the 179 evacuated villages and settlements Are lilliputian bits of 18thcentury they have no unless you count the Pines or Poplar their vocabulary is drawn from the farm their fuel was they lived among tangible Between april 29 and May civil defence troops came with Geiger counters and told them they would have to not because nazi troops were coming with tanks and guns As in 1941 but because a invisible Poison called radiation was spewing from the reactor and failing on it does not seem incongruous that some people it seems incongruous that More did it it it Pyotr the head of the Leninist Way or collective was dressed in a suit to Greet the group of foreign journalists who arrived in his town of Kolons China to visit the new Community of evacuees that had been grafted onto the each refugee stayed with his local counterpart Kolk Hoz director with Kolk Hoz tractor Driver with tractor new vocabulary As the journalists walked through the new streets of to several old peasant women wearing head scarves showed that they had Learned the vocabulary of the nuclear age they talked about medical surveillance and the need for world it it it perhaps the most surreal scene in All the Square Kilometres of the evacuated zone is behind the empty High Rise apartment buildings in the City of Prip Yat it is a giant still in once it grew food for the stores that served the residents of in the hours after the sex much of the soil was contaminated with radiation that fell through the broken Glass now it is called an experimental visiting journalists saw it in the midst of a new growing cucumbers and Straw berries have sprouted in the contaminated in experiments Likely to prove useful if attempts Are made to re cultivate the abandoned some in White Laboratory Are try ing to see which plants pick up 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