Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Debating War crimes is it time for us to forget the past sunday 1950 the Day the red went on a rampage sports what George Steinbrenner needs is a Friend the other Side forty years after its second world War remains a haunting presence in soviet life 763 for hockey is a Chance to boo the russians win win win a share of up to Bonus game weather Cloudy today 28 thundershowers tonight 7 sunny tomorrow 15 Sun rises sets Moon rises i f sets m Index Ann Jumble Jumble saturday to 26 37 28 12 38 29 28 28 17 45 28 33 35 7 24 37 61 37 81 13 67 37 the Prague up the czechoslovakian passion for hockey is far More than a Well versed love of a game at which their National teams the fans who jammed the Julius Fucik sports Hall yester Day and nearly lifted its massive curved rafters with their thunderous noise we rent shy about displaying their True they howled just As loudly for team during its Bench Clear ing Brawl with the soviets As they had earlier in the afternoon for the Home Side during a 53 win Over Canada that brought it the coveted Gold medal for the first time since its More than the Heady few months of the 1968 Prague Spring when unheard of liberalism swept this country Haven been nor has the Ham me fist response of which sent tanks rumbling through Staro Metske Square in the capitals Beautiful old we hate the says a echoing a sentiment made obvious every time a russian walks into a we cant get rid of but six men on the sur rounded by is at least an equal so yet so so they cheered team Canada in its 31 Victory wednesday Over the despite the niceties of the Warsaw pact and they chanted Usa As fighting broke out Between the soviet Union and the yester Day during the lost 103 by the to decide the Bronze even the shy eyed youngsters Lin Gering about the Arena eagerly Swap their soviet pins for Canadian sport is one of the few Arenas in which the soviets satellite states can show their deep seated dislike of the but the soviets dont pass up a Chance to make a few Points in the crowd was a hand painted Banner Reading nato equals nazi a common theme in soviet next soviet tanks will take to the streets of Prague again this time As part of the Commemorac they wont be Welcome but czechs have few opportunities to publicly express their Seething anger to wards hockey provides just such a so winning the Gold medal int just a proud sporting its a Chance to vent frustrations and also a rare Opportunity for the czechs to get their own saturday free press Mav 1085 win Nippo Frap or for Vii 11 a to final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 st Ono class Wail registration number 0286 Winnipeg free press vol 113 no 142 officials fear abuse of jobs fund Ken free press position one for the Money the 1985 thoroughbred racing season got out of the race of opening Adkins piloted mostly manners to Gate last night at Assiniboia Downs and Tom Adkins the getting the season off on the right foot for was the winning jockey in the second the feature both of Bonn Summit deadlocked on Trade France refuses to set firm Date for talks on reducing barriers by Michael Dobbs the Washington Post Bonn Western leaders adjourned yesterdays economic sum Mit deliberations deadlocked on How to achieve the Reagan administrations key objectives of launching new Trade talks and maintaining growth in the world French president Francois Mitterrand turned Down appeals from president Reagan and other participants to set a firm Date for a new round of negotiations to reduce barriers to world a French spokesman said his primary concern was defending the interest of euro Pean Farmers in maintaining protected markets for their with Only one Day left in the there was also no Indica Tion that any participating country plans specific such As cutting to Speed up their eco nomic growth this year to offset the slower expansion in the United West Japan and Britain were All resisting Calls for them to take extra Steps to encourage except for increasing the Lon term flexibility of their senior officials worked through the night to draft a communique that would preserve an appearance of but one official acknowledged that nothing has been Given on either Side hot reception for the French appeared so Adamant in their opposition to setting a firm Date for the proposed talks within the framework of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade Gatt that they muted their Previ Ous insistence on parallel negotiations on International monetary re in briefings French spokesmen put the emphasis on the need to preserve the european com munits highly protected agricultural Mitterrand stubborn stand left France almost can West Germany and Britain now support the demand for talks to begin in Early and Only Italy continued to give lukewarm support to the French the Reagan administration wants to begin the which would be the first global Trade negotiations since to counter protectionist pressures in the United states and other even the French agree in principle that a new Gatt round is but insist that a detailed Agenda be agreed upon be fore a specific Date is set for the French officials said they were determined to maintain the common agricultural policy that they regard As the Linchpin of the european the costly which guarantees european banners a fixed Price for their has been attacked As protectionist by the United states and was a major sticking Point in the 1979 Gatt French presidential spokesman Michel Rauzelle said the United states was pushing for a new round expecting that agriculture would be at the top of the Agenda this this charge was rejected by Ameri can who said they wanted balanced Trade talks on All issues including an area not co Vered up until billion subsidy we will defend the gains of euro Pean Farmers tooth and Vau Zelle said at a at France is estimated to earn a total of billion a year in exports of subsidized agricultural mainly to developing see France Page 4 no checks on dishonest employers by Paul Moloney the Manitoba government is pow Erless to prevent abuse of its annual multimillion Dollar subsidy pro Gram enabling employers to hire Young officials its expected that some employers will cheat the program which since 1978 has operated from May to october the Assumption is that most Are they its possible for any participant to falsify a Dale manager of the program in 1980 and to a Large you have to rely on program participants being Watson approved Grants in those years to one employer who recently admitted bilking the program of the former program manager admitted the government had no effective Way to uncover Watson said the 15 civil servants assigned to the program had their hands full processing up to applications for about million in Grants in each of those Gary current manager of the called said its impossible at this stage to go Back and review the 1980 and 1981 Grants for other instances of youre talking about thousands of employers and looking Back at files that people even re member Magrel the Case came to Light after the owner of Stoneridge gravel Supply Learned through an employee of businessman Charles Abramson that Abramson had used Stone ridges name to apply for Grants in 1980 and Fred sole owner of Ston said he informed Magrel in 1984 of the an ramp investigation led to fraud charges being Laid against Abramson in after pleading guilty in provincial judges court 10 Days Abramson was ordered to pay full his Rob Eva holdings was fined according to forms signed by see officials Page 4 up air staff work for free Vancouver up ground workers in Calgary and Toronto were working for free yesterday in a bizarre twist in their labor dispute with up company spokesman Gerry Man Ning said the members of the inter National association of machinists and aerospace workers were work ing on their own they want to work and we dont want to lock them Manning they Are not being paid because we feel they Are on the action ground workers re see up air Page 4 at the Crossroads Banks fear Law will depress land value Manitoba Farmers Are at the Crossroads As they begin Spring economic times Are but they Are digging in their mustering their resources and hoping for the starting Laura Ranee books at the Mure of agriculture in the her series continues on Page 2 tomorrow she looks at the stress farm families Are by Laura Ranee Bank officials Are worried that provincial legis lation barring corporations from owning farm land will result in thousands of hectares being dumped on to the they say that would Send land prices into a tailspin and cause More financial problems for Royal Bank spokesman Stu Bond said some lending institutions have asked for an exemption from the Farmland ownership which makes it illegal for corporations to own More than four hectares 10 acres after septem Ber we just want an exemption from the act to allow us to sell what land we have in a responsible Bond Ray spokesman for the Bank of said falling prices makes existing Farmers less financially stable because they erode their borrowing if the value of their main asset obviously their borrowing Power Gam Mon the farmlands ownership designed to prevent nonresidents and corporations from owning was proclaimed by the Manitoba government in lending agencies have reclaimed an Undis closed amount of land in recent years through Riding out the economic or debt Ridden Bor rowers turning Over title to their Low commodity High interest and a drop in already have pushed prices Down an average of 21 per cent since according to farm credit corporation the decline has been up to 35 per cent in southwestern Manitoba which has suffered unusually dry conditions in recent acc spokesman Charles Koch unless conditions prices could drop an additional 20 to 30 per University of Manitoba economist Daryl Kraft Bank officials contacted refused to divulge the amount of land they but said the recently reported figure of hectares is too disclosing the hectares for could have an Adverse effect on the Gammon agriculture minister Bill Uruski appears to be in no Rush to Bend the he said the Farmland ownership act is the Only stick he can Wield to encourage lenders to be More sensitive to Farmers without Federal the Only area that we have some is this whole he who unsuccessfully suggested to Banks earlier this year they write Down interest rates on farm Loans and threatened provincial legislation giving debt review panels that said he is using the act to see province Page 4 r ;