Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 2, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Balloonist set transatlantic pressure turned on to s by Don Retson a 105yearold male bastion petted to crumble next year As the City launches a major Campaign to get women to join the Winnipeg fire Sharron the cites equal employment opportunities said her office is doing everything in its Power to crack what has been an Al male preserve since the year the department was far from digging in their senior fire officials Welcome the idea male bastion of bringing in Gould several women groups will be among the 165 organizations receiving copies of a sept 6 newspaper and inviting firefighter she As Gould said her office is helping to set up a training program for women interested in dousing fires As Ca the Core area initiative program will be similar to a Effort established in april to upgrade the academic and language skills of eth minorities for police and corrections the City has agreed to hire five graduates of the oneyear which pays students a week to attend Gould said the programs main purpose will be to increase women upper body most of the few women who have tried to become firefighters in the past failed be cause they lacked sufficient strength to hoist hoses and she were not talking about Lipfung a million Gould adding the departments physical requirements Are the same As in other Canadian they successful women cants Are going to have to be stronger than but certainly its within the realm of How Strong women can Sharron program a elopement coordinator for the Core area training and employment said 12 women Are being see male Page 4 drizzle tonight 14 Cloudy tomorrow 19 september Freer Sun rises sets Moon rises freeway pileup kills injures finales Home det Vety 9670560 classified 9562330 second cuss Mai we registration number 0286 Manitoba woman among dead As 20 cars collide in dense smoke Keith rach by Julia Necheff and Catherine Bainbridge the labor Day weekend ended in horror for dozens of most of them after a pileup of More than 20 vehicles on a smoke blanketed stretch of North Dakota Highway yesterday 79 dead As soviet ship sinks Moscow a seventy nine people Are known to have 319 Are missing and 29 Are in Hospi Tal because of the of a soviet passenger liner in the Black a maritime official said the official said people were aboard the soviet ship that collided with a freighter and Sank the 61yearold Admiral Nakhli mov Sank about nine nautical out to sea around Midnight sunday night about an hour after leaving port at Igor external affairs director at the Mer chant Marine told the associated press by earlier the official news Agency Tass said Only that there was loss of life in the collision and that help was being Given to the there were 884 passengers and 346 Crew members aboard the Admi ral Rakhimov when it he describing the Accident As a real said the liner went Down very he said no foreigners were on the Domestic cruise Between the Black sea ports of where the Admiral Nakhli mov was and near the turkish he said he did not know How Many Crew members were aboard the soviet search and Rescue operations continued last about 20 hours after the liner went said officials in the Black sea ports of Odessa and foreign radio monitors said they did not hear a distress signal after the sunday night collision Between the Admiral Rakhimov and the soviet news Media carried a Brief see Black Page 4 two women were killed and 21 others injured after cars loaded with returning hol dayers slammed into each other in the northbound lanes of interstate about 20 Kilometres South of the Manitoba it looked like someone had dropped a huge said Winni Peg resident Murray the destruction was Ive never seen anything like it in 10 added North Dakota state patrol officer Keith the first officer on the Ogden said the Chain collision occurred at about 2 after motorists drove into a Wall of dense smoke caused by a stubble fire in a six killed in the fire burned to the Highway and spread for almost two reducing visibility to he Drivers slowed to a near Stop and were rear ended by police said one of the dead was from Manitoba and the other from no names were six of the injured were held Over night in Canadian and hospitals and the remaining victims were treated and police and eyewitnesses say 21 vehicles were hauled from the and at least 10 others were driven away with some witnesses described the scene As a carnage of twisted death and screech of tires Accident victims milled around in Shock on the unable to see and choking on the dense smoke As vehicle after vehicle drove into the smoke and slammed into other vehicles and Oliver and three friends ill never forget the said Andrews resident Keith every few seconds we heard a screech of tires and then then crash Over and Over Winnipeg resident Shawn lips and Roger Martini of Lockport were returning Home from a weekend in Minneapolis when they became involved in the they said they managed to avoid hitting any of the cars already at the but their car was hit saw a Wall of lips it was unbelievable How far it All of a sudden there was a car right in front of Ogden said he came upon the see Page 4 ambulance attendant cares for crash victim at the Side of interstate Highway 29 in North Dakota yesterday California air collision toll climbs to 85 18 die on ground controller distracted private Pilot had heart attack poll shows Canada wants another pm Ottawa up just two years after the progressive conservatives were Given a massive a poll shows that three of every five canadians think this country would be better off with a new prime at the same the poll con ducted by Telephone for Mac leans Magazine by Decima research 18 and indicates that a majority of the electorate is Only loosely committed to any political party or the published today in a special report in the prompted Decima chairman Allan Gregg to conclude that the next six months will be crucial for govern ment and opposition but the which Decima says has a possible margin of error of three percentage shows a pattern of antipathy towards the conservatives and doubts that the other two parties could do any bet about Canadian households were fifty nine per cent of respondents said Canada needs a new prime but the poll also shows that the degree of indifference to All three party leaders is twice As Strong As commitment to any one of prime minister Mulroney and nip Leader de Broadbent were tied at 21 per cent in ratings on prime ministerial Liberal Leader John the Man who took his party to a record Low of 28 per cent of the votes in the trailed with 16 per cent of the More people 30 per cent of the total to have their own see new Page 4 a eighteen people on the including 15 apparently at a party in a single were killed in the crash of an Aero Mexico a fire depart ment spokesman has confirmed in a published the fatalities reported today in the los Angeles times raise the total death toll from sundays disaster to madness follows in another officials disclosed late yesterday that the air traffic controller guiding the jetliner when it collided with a private plane was apparently distracted by a third aircraft in the Pilot of the Small plane in the crash suffered a heart attack moments before the the coroners office los Angeles county fire spokes Man Garry Oversby told the times that the dead included 67 people aboard the two planes and 18 residents of the neighbourhood devastated by flaming wreckage of the fifteen of the victims on the ground were in one apparently at a Oversby found in the same Home were the bodies of three of the jets he the bodies of three other peo ple who had been on the ground were found in a second previously confirmed deaths included 64 aboard the Aero Mexico dc9 and three on Piper the air traffic controller will take a drug test today not because there see death Page 4 a photo dc9 jetliner was photographed As it fell after Max reported shipping to Sheik Plunkett filling orders by Radha Krishnan Thampi Max telecoms services continues to ship products to a saudi arabian Sheik who owes the Manitoba Telephone system subsidiary millions of dollars in unpaid a former executive Don the recently Side lined Max says equip including Telephone and com Puter is being sent almost every week from Winnipeg to saudi those shipments Are to meet the previous Plunkett he said he Doest know the Dollar value of those the Legislatures regular business has been stalled for More than a month since the opposition started pressing the government for a Public inquiry into Maxs saudi arabian Al minister responsible for told the House last month he was suspending ail new initiatives by Max until an audit of its books is completed by the accounting firm Coopers and the government also has called in the ramp to investigate criminal charges raised in affidavits by two former Max employees who had worked for saudi arabian data com a 5050 venture Between Max and Sheik Abvdullah Abdel Aziz Al Bassam of data com and two firms fully owned by the owe Mil Lions of dollars to Max in unpaid some of them dating Back to Maurice its Vic president for has told a legislative who was the operating officer of Sadl for 14 months after its inception in told Las last week Max could lose million if it decides to withdraw from saudi an its source said the loss would be at least most of that loss would result from unpaid Bills by data com and Tele see supplies Page 4 unprotected Manitoba ticket holders have no guarantee of refunds after last weeks Frontier airlines separation Winnipeg Blue bombers place Pivot Tom Clements on the 60day injured list with a separated right Rich lawyers tory lawyers Are starting to earn big Money from the government in bomb blast a bomb blast injures 18 Blacks and Whites in South super million winners Index Ann 28 17 7 24 35 20 35 6 32 7 Jumble 39 34 17 17 sports record 49 27 to 17 ;