Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 12-4-1970 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1970). Winona Daily News. 1030. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1030 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Light snow or Oil pai ntings freezing rain for sale tonight, Saturday classified section Captors flown to Cuba Cross thin but well MONTREAL (AP) - Cu- this condition was not af- a good collection of revolu- ment worked out between ban Intermediaries handed fected by his ordeal. They tionary literature, but it's Canadian officials and the over a kidnaped British dip- said they expected him to very unlikely he was con- kidnapers. lomat early today after the remain at the hospital •'for verted,'' Mrs. Cross said. The negotiations took Canadian government flew at least a day" and a more "Two men with subma- place at the Expo site and his captors to political asy- thorough examination would chine guns guarded him day in a house in North Montreal lum in Cuba. be made. and night, and he said he where Cross had been held British Trade Commission- His wife, waiting in Bern, kept hoping they were well since he was kidnaped Oct. er Richard Cross was turn- Switzerland, for news of trained in controlling them." 5 by members of the FLQ, ed over to Canadian authori- her husband said she hoped , Mrs. Cross said her hus- or Quebec Liberation Front, ties at the site of the Expo to be reunited with him a terrorist group that de- '67 -world's fair and was Saturday in London band "did not seem bitter" . toward his kidnapers. v mands independence for the driven immediately to the "I am. deliriously happy French-speaking province of Jewish General Hospital in after these long weeks of "He was so buoyant," she Quebec. LOOKING TIRED Montreal for a checkup. tension," she said. "But I said. "He told me he got The terrorists threatened . Cross' doctors said he lost never gave up hope." the impression his captors to kill him unless the gov- James Cross, British trade 22 pounds during his two Cross telephoned her were not very keen on the ernment freed 23 FLQ mera- commissioner to Montreal, months of captivity in a Thursday night after he idea of going to Cuba but fcers and paid a ransom of looks tired and is unshak- small, windowless room. was delivered to the Cubans. it seems they had ho 5500,000 in gold. When the en after his release from They said he was in good He told her "he had seen choice." government refused another ' , his kidnapers in Montreal physical and mental condi- 162 French films on tele? The Cubans released the FLQ cell kidnaped Quebec Thursday. He was kidnaped tion, however, although suf- vision 49-year-old diplomat after ," and this improved Labor Minister Pierre La- from his home Oct. 5 and fering from minor vitamin his understanding of;' the receiving word that two of porte on Oct. 10 and murder- released when his kidnap- DEALT SETBACK ... Senate Thurs- the nation's global jet fleet. This is an ar- deficiencies that could easi- language. But he said he his abductors and five other ed him a week later. The ers left for Cuba on a Can a- day dealt a stunning and perhaps fatal set- tist's conception of what the plane would ly be corrected. spoke very little with his French - Canadians exiled Cross has high blood pres- captors."" (Continued on page 2a, col. 5) dian Forces planea (AP back to the supersonic transport, the plane look like in flight. (AP Photofax) with them had arrived in sure, but the doctors said "The kidnapers gave him Cuba under a ransom agree- Cross thin Photofax) President Nixon wants as Uie flagshi p of Senate against SST 52-41 Unemployment In return for joint meeting 59 Vief Gong Nixon hope f or g/obo/ highest in Sovietis asked to ease said dead in K years W. Berlin resfr ictions forest clash flag ship crushed By NEIL GILBRIDE _ fleet (AP) SAIGON South Viet- (AP) - The for- leaders are resisting. hope current Big Four negotia- WASHINGTON (AP) - Un- BRUSSELS namese infantrymen hacked By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON million appropriation orig- most observers found only employment rose to 5.8 per cent eign ministers of the North At- After agreeing on the sub- tions over West Berlin would WASHINGTON </Pi — More ' inally earmarked to con- one basic explanation : of the nation's work force last lantic Treaty Organization stance of their final statement, end in a "mutually acceptable their way deeper into the U concerned with the environ- tinue work on two SST pro- An overriding concern month, the highest level in 7% agreed today at their annual the ministers took the1 unusual agreement, appropriate to the Minh Forest today and reported ment than appeals to tech- totypes. with protecting ttie environ- years, the government reported winter meeting to join the com- step of going into a restricted interests of easing tension in the 59 Viet Cong killed in the first ment in an atmosphere in nological progress, the , Sen- It was a personal victory today. munist powers in a European session. One report was that center of Europe as well as the three days of the 7,000-man ate has dealt a stunning for Sen. William Proxmire, which the SST has become, At the same time, average security conference only after they were considering whether needs of the populace of West and perhaps fatal setback D-Wis., who in two previous rightly or wrongly, a sym- weekly earnings of some 45 mil- the Soviet Union joins the W£st to meet in Portugal next spring, Berlin and the legitimate inter- drive into the enemy stronghold to the supersonic transport, tries could muster no more bol of unplanned progress lion rank and file workers in an agreement easing restric- a site* that would probably let ests and sovereign rights of the at the southern! end of Vietnam. the plane President Nixon than 23 votes to stop Ythe and misplaced national pri- dropped 66 cents to $121.07 per tions on West Berlin. : , NATO in for extra criticism be- (East) German Democratic Re^ Field reports said only ona wants as the project he has called an orities. week because of shorter work- cause of Portugal's colonial pol- public." The debate that preceded The 15 foreign ministers South Vietnamese infantryman flagship of environmental monster, an ing hours, said the Bureau of stressed the importance, un- icy. The statement also said ac- economic ship of fools, and the vote was a catalogue of of had been killed!and six wounded the nation's Labor Statistics. hinde'red access to Berlin, 110 In their final statement, the ceptance" of East Germany as in the sporadic, light contacts. global jet a flying white elephant. potential environmental, ec- an equal to West Germany in in- political criti- miles inside communist East ministers expressed satisfaction The mangrove swamps and fleet. And it was a personal onomic and Although the average pay- ternational relations, in the cism. check was more than 5 per cent Germany. with the letter from President forbidding jangle 140 miles Backers of defeat for the President who Nixon Thursday promising that United Nations and in other in- had mustered his personal Scientific fears were aired larger than a year ago, the na- They also want improvements southwest of Saigon have been a th e SST ? the United States will maintain ternational organizations "are major Viet Cong influence and the weight of that the SST s sonic boom tion's continuing worst inflation in the situation within the city, hideout baso project , try- would cause avalanches and its present strength in Europe vital demands of the times and for a decade. Repeated at- ing to rally the executive branch to in more than 20 years cut pur- divided by the wall the commu- an important contribu- kill sea birds; that its ex- chasing power 2 per cent below until the Soviet . Union reduces would be tempts to clean out the area from the save a program he called nists built in 1961, and they'want tion to European and interna- essential to the future of haust in the upper atmo- a year ago, the bureau said. its forces. have failed. shock of sphere would change global acceptance of the ties between The ministers also welcomed tional security." T h- .' u r s- the American aviation in- ¦ Total employment dropped West Berlin and West Germany. dustry. weather and cause chemical 165,000 during the month to 78.7 the resumption of talks betweteri Before' the ministers' meeting Before the campaign started Hnv's 52-41 reactions that could increase They said as soon as satisfac- the United States and the Soviet Tuesday, U.S. B52 y bomber* Proxmire The lossYwas particularly million compared with a nor- today, U.S. Secretary of State vote to kill the cases of skin cancer on tory Berlin arrangements have Union on restriction of strategic William P. Rogers met with De- pounded the area in two raids. $290 million in federal S-ST bitter for two powerful mally expected rise in Novem- earth; and that its noise ber. The report blamed in part been made, they would be ready nuclear missiles and the treat- fense Secretary Melvin R.