Lethbridge Herald (Newspaper) - April 21, 1982, Lethbridge, Alberta single shot ends man charged LEFT HAND CORNER Soviet about face GENEVA - In a surprise the Soviet bloc today joined the West and states in backing a proposal for a special working group to break an impasse in talks on a nuclear test Louis the U.S. ambassador at the called the Soviet move significant for the future of arms The 40-state Geneva disarmament talks have been deadlocked for two grounded WASHINGTON - The U.S. Air Force today temporarily grounded 60 per cent of its fighter planes as precautionary to inspect wear in a wing A total of 240 of the air force's 400 fighters will be restricted from flight until the inspections are Energy dip Calif. - A small but persistent dip in the sun's energy output may lie behind the ice storms and bitter cold that brutalized much of North America this a scientist said Physicist Richard Willson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it's not clear whether the slight solar cooling was a previously unnoticed part of a normal sun cycle or the beginning of a long-term trend that raises visions of a new ice Satellite measurements found that the vital solar energy that bathes the earth decreased of one per cent during the 18 months from February 1980 to August 1981, Willson By the time the most recent readings were obtained at the end of the he output was increasing but still short of is a very small change in the total energy output of the he has great potential significance for the fragile Rig may have shifted BOSTON - The giant offshore oil rig Ocean Ranger may have shifted its ballast into a fatal list after water splashed though a broken porthole in its control a U.S. Coast Guard inquiry into the sinking was told Testimony at the inquiry's opening day also revealed that the Ranger kept drilling during a furious North hours before it reported trouble with its flotation system and then sank with its crew of 84 men on Feb. 15. Sixty-seven Canadians died in the sinking off the coast of 53 of those lost were TODAY Question of support The United States has no interest in the survival of the Galtieri regime in Argentina and support Britain in the says Joseph On the spot A few local farmers and others put representatives of the Environment Council of Alberta on the spot saying the EGA has no effect on provincial government Index Weather LOW TONIGHT NEAR 4; HIGH THURSDAY NEAR 18, SUNNY SEEN AND HEARD About Town Folk club president and guitar player Doug Snelling saying during a concert that fellow musician Jim who sometimes plays the will play The Herald - 110 ALBERTA - APRIL 21, 1982 30 CENTS Israeli rockets blast holes in 9-month truce BEIRUT - Israeli jets blasted Palestinian strongholds south of Beirut and downed two Syrian MiGs in dogfights ending a truce in a hail of bombs and The Israeli air attacks were mounted after an Israeli soldier was killed by an mine in southern Israel confirmed the raid and the Lebanese government and the Palestine Liberation Organization said the jets set off fires and drew heavy anti-aircraft Lebanese government sources said at least 19 Palestinians were killed and more than 40 The Israeli command in Tel Aviv said its planes downed two Syrian The Syrian government in Damascus said its surface-to-air missiles and planes enemy jets in a The result was the hitting of one Israeli plane and two Syrian The Israeli command said all its planes returned safely to The Christian Voice of Lebanon radio said the Israeli jets downed Syrian that scrambled after the Israelis rocketed Syrian missile sites in the Bekaa But the Moslem Voice of Arab Lebanon radio said Syrian missiles downed two Israeli jets in the east of The Christian radio also said the Israeli jets dropped decoy balloons south of Beirut to lure away the There was no immediate indication that Israeli ground troops were involved in the The PLC said 60 Israeli and planes pounded the Douha and Naameh townships south of Beirut in a Lebanon's state radio and television said the jets flew in four and that thick palls of black smoke billowed from the bombed The attack began at 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 a.m. MST - and continued for more than 90 Lebanon's army Gen. Victor and the PLO said in separate statements Israeli helicopters patrolled an 80-kilometre stretch of the southern Lebanese coast from Beirut to Tyre as the jets went to Government sources said Syrian and Palestinian radar stations on the hills of the fashionable Douha neighborhood on Beirut's Inflation index holds steady during March OTTAWA - Consumer prices were 11.6 per cent higher in March than they were a year Statistics Canada said today Opposition MPs blame the government for the continuing high rate of The agency's consumer price the most widely used measure of was unchanged from February when a three-month decline in the magnitude of price increases Michael Progressive Conservative finance critic and MP for Etobicoke said the glimmer of hope at the start of the year that inflation would ease has Wilson blamed government especially what he called its inability to control its own spending for current Ray New Democratic Party consumer affairs critic and MP for called it ironic that Finance Minister Allan MacEachen is waiting for inflation to ease before dealing with other problems in the economy and yet government policies are adding to Skelly noted that the built-in energy price increases were largely responsible to the 1.3-per-cent increase in prices last month over The delayed impact of the Jan. 1 crude oil price increase raised housing and transportation costs because gasoline and fuel oil became more the agency Food prices moderated significantly as the cost of fresh vegetables and some pork cuts But higher prices for selected beef dairy some cereal and bakery products and fresh fruit raised the overall other price increases singled out by the agency were for vehicle insurance bus and air some clothing and charges for dental and eye The index shows food prices rose 6.5 per cent during the year and items rose 13 per cent. The latter includes personal tobacco and The based on 1971 prices equalling 100, was 255.9 in up from 252.7 in February and 229.4 a year That means a standard basket of goods and services that cost in 1971 cost in in February and a year On a consumer price increases for the year ranged from 9.9 per cent in Winnipeg to 13.4 per cent in southern flank were devastated in the The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv confirmed its jet fighters struck deep into Lebanon on bombing runs against Palestinian guerrilla It also said an Israeli soldier was killed and another was seriously wounded today when their jeep hit a in the Christian enclave in southern Israeli sources said the land mine blast was the most serious violation of the which also prohibited hostile action in Christian The ceasefire was mediated by the United States in July to end weeks of Israel has been contemplating a strike into Lebanon for weeks and Israeli jets have increased their spy flights over Lebanon sharply in the last few On Monday and Tuesday Israeli jets were fired at by Palestinian gunners in southern Lebanon and Syrian gunners close to the Golan Sinai evacuation under way From Occupied Sinai - The Israeli army launched its massive evacuation operation in this Sinai town today and ran into furious opposition from shouting and weeping opponents of Israel's withdrawal from the desert all be fighting the Egyptians here in two one Sinai settler yelled at the sentencing yourselves to The army delayed beginning the evacuation until Prime Minister Menachem Begins cabinet completed a meeting in Jerusalem affirming its to the Sunday deadline for completing The thousands of troops in were under orders to use utmost restraint and they made no immediate attempt to force any of the 2,000 settlers and squatters into waiting trucks and One family was seen leaving voluntarily but the rest of those in were resisting and a few threw objects at troops and Most of the settlers have departed but squatters have moved vowing to resist the The return of tlie Sinai to Egypt had appeared threatened last week when Israel claimed Egypt was violating the peace But since then there has been a steady shuttle of Egyptian and Israeli officials between Jerusalem and view of these the government of Israel has decided that it shall on its part carry out all its commitments in accordance with the treaty of peace and will evacuate the Sinai of Israeli forces and civilians by April 25," Cabinet Secretary Dan announced in At the designated hour for starting the hundreds of settlers mounted that were strewn with stones and They set fire to the tires and shouted at troops massing in the gardens below to get Police who knocked on one door to serve an eviction notice had a bottle and handfuls of sand thrown at The activists sent up a chant of prayers and bellowed at the troops over a do Let Jews live in the land of One bearded Israeli shouted at the out of You are creating a very dangerous Begin had earlier talked with relatives of a dozen extremists who have locked themselves in a threatening to commit suicide if the troops tried to remove Their Rabbi Meir founder of the Jewish Defence arrived today from New photo by MICHAEL DREW Successful rescue John 83, was the last of 11 residents of the Hungarian Club to be rescued Tuesday night after fire broke out in the boarding house operated at 410 2nd Ave. S. by the Hungarian Association of Fero is in stable condition In the unit of St. Michael's Fire department officials continued their investigation today of the blaze which was contained In the causing damage plus extensive smoke damage on upper Full story and more U.K. says proposals would legitimize LONDON - Britain's foreign who has the next move in the tense diplomatic duel over the Falkland told the House of Commons today Argentina's latest proposals would merely legitimize A government source the British were being careful not to flatly reject the Foreign Minister Francis Pym is to take British to Washington on when he will confer with U.S. officials who are trying to defuse the explosive The two sides apparently remain far apart on the central issue of whether sovereignty over the South Atlantic islands will be The Falklands were seized by Argentine forces April 2 after 129 years of British The Argentine presented to U.S. State Secretary Alexander Haig in Buenos continuing efforts by Argentina to establish by her aggression what could not be established by peaceful Pym told the Commons He said any negotiated settlement must deal with three key arrangements of the Argentine the nature of any interim administration of the islands and the framework for the negotiations on the long-term solution to the Various press reports have said the Buenos Aires plan calls for an Argentine military withdrawal from the recall of the naval task force Britain has sent to reclaim the and joint interim administration of the After the interim Argentina would retain A British government speaking on condition he remain said the press reports not reflect the of the Argentine The source have been very careful not to reject Prime Minister Margaret was quoted as having told a party guest Tuesday hope sincerely that we do not go to But who Earlier the British Defence Ministry said an Argentine naval support ship and one or two other small Argentine vessels are inside the harbor at Port capital of the A ministry spokesman said the support vessel was being treated as a But the vessel been in Port Stanley for a long well before we put into force the Military Exclusion Defence Secretary John Nott has warned that British including submarines believed to be in the war would open fire on any Argentine warships or support vessels inside the zone after it was imposed April 12. EDMONTON - Edmonton Police Chief Robert Lunney has commended the officer who disabled the gunman following a 12-hour hostage incident Tuesday at the home of millionaire sports entrepreneur Peter Lunny said today the gunman gave police few Pocklington was in very real danger Lunney said in an suspect was armed with a revolver and he gave us no doubt our discussions with him that he had every intention of using Mirko 29, has been charged in the Police said details of the charges against him would be later Lunney said made threatening statements about Pocklington throughout the was a situation where he was taking Mr. Pocklington with him where ever he went in the holding the gun on Even though there was danger of a more serious Lunney said the shot that freed Pocklington was fired by an expert constable involved is a marksman and has been trained for just these kind of What he attempted and we had every confidence that if we could get one of our crack team members in a position where he could get a shot that the shot would be and in this case it The Injuries to both Pocklington and were not police The bullet passed the right hit Pocklington in the left arm and nicked his Police were able to overpower the lone gunman after sneaking into the couple's home through a secret entrance revealed by wife The single shot was fired when the was lured from a bedroom with Pocklington in tow to collect million ranson Police credited Eva courage and her information about a secret entrance to the home for helping to end the The kidnap attempt began about 9:30 a.m. MST when a lone armed with a handgun and knife and wearing a surprised Eva while she was on the phone to a Police spokesman Lance Beswick said the friend heard bursts of conversation before the phone went She immediately called The gunman tied up Mr. a female a live-in male babysitter and took Eva into the garage She said the identified by police only as being in his 20s and with a European planned to put her in the trunk of a But she managed to escape and was running barefoot across the front lawn as police a very gutsy said Bruce McMorran of the Edmonton police department's public information It took police nearly three hours to establish telephone contact with the man and after about four hours of negotiation Carmen 55, and Joseph 21, were released The man demanded million in cash a safe route of The ransom collected from a number of banks was placed in the in a containing about 8:30 as instructed by the Police had power to the house cut off so no lights could expose their four men inside or the more than a armed with rifles and wearing surrounding the A single gunshot was heard shortly before 9 p.m. minutes later the four tactical squad members who had been inside the house for a number of hours walked back to the police command money was in the said man had remained upstairs in tlie bedroom all When the gunman came down the dragging Mr. Pocklington with a gun pressed into liis an officer fired one shot from close Although the was Beswick said the officer fired the single shot the opportunity arose to take the action to save Mr. 40, was taken to University Hospital spokesman Hugh Tadman described injury as and He said Pocklington was with his wife and son and was in Additional Scientist reports new birth control pill PARIS - A French scientist says he and two other researchers have developed a birth control pill that has to be twice a but it needs more testing and won't be on the market for about three Dr. Etienne Baulieu said he was confident research would show the pill is safer than present oral contraceptives and doesn't produce the side effects associated with of the pill's main advantages is that a woman needs to take it only two days a month instead of three he said in an interview she is exposed to a much lower amount of It will give a woman more A woman will be able to decide at the end of her monthly cycle whether she wants or needs five Picture Butte residents stunned by deaths By BRENT LANNAN Herald Staff Writer PICTURE BUTTE - An apparent Monday involving a local elderly couple has stunned local residents from coffee row to the centre where the couple once joined afternoon rummy Residents expressed disbelief Tuesday at the shooting deaths of 80-year-old Martin Wieland and his 77-year-old wife Neighbor Marie Sorgard said they absolutely devoted to each The were found dead in their Picture Butte home by a neighbor who came to call at about noon RCMP Brian Thorstad said police believe Mr. Wieland killed his wife and then himself about 4 a.m. that Autopsies were to be performed Local residents deny any suggestion the man who shovelled walks and visited the infirm could have had any ill those who knew the call the incident a tragic way out for a couple that ever since Theresa got Sorgard said Mrs. Wieland suffered a severe stroke about one year ago and was left an unable to even speak It was at about that time Wieland dropped out of the afternoon social circle to care for his who eventually came home after spending a long time in Despite the no one expected such a desperate was certainly no inkling of something like Sorgard thought there was anything wrong when Mr. Wieland was visiting people over at the just don't expect that it can happen just at the end of the she Others echoed the observation that the coped although one said couldn't stand to see her in He suffered with The moved to Picture Butte to retire in the after farming near Iron The couple and their only child immigrated from Hungary in the early 1930s. Their Martin farms in the Caroline district west of They are remembered as being painstaking in caring for their those people who couldn't get he would go and cash cheques for them and buy their Sorgard was a charitable While Picture Butte RCMP Cpl. Al Carlisle said the police investigation is the reserved conversation between hands of rummy and cups of coffee shows a lingering lack of understanding of the fate of a couple who celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary 22, A joint funeral service will be held Friday at 1 p.m. in Southminster United Church in
