Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 22, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Doug Speirs a Winnipeg Man got More than he bargained for when he paid for a used leather briefcase at a salvation army Thrift Michael said he was shocked to discover the Case contained a stack of private financial papers belonging to the Cross Lake Indian the Case had been donated by a City taxi firm and was among items Drivers had received As payment from fares lacking Cash for 1 found in Thrift shop briefcase the lady who was working there was about to throw them but 1 hold this stuff looks import Kritzer said of his 12 a clerk at the Martha Street Thrift shop said the Case arrived several weeks ago and was clearly marked As having been Given to a cabbie As payment in lieu of this one i recall had on the handle fare said the who asked not to be to they documents looked pretty they were just recently some of the papers included private band an unsigned Bank account document and photocopies of cheques Given to the band by the Northern flood including one for also among the documents were a list of wages paid to various band financial records belong ing to the flood travel expense records and copies of re ports on proposed housing and sewer developments at the most of the which were Over to the fret press and have since been returned to the related to the installation of a sewer and water system on the Northern Baptiste manager of the bands water and sewer confirmed he was the original owner of the but denied having Given it up As payment for a Robinson said he took a cab to the downtown bus depot during an a gust visit to but upon arriving at the depot discovered the see taxi Page 4 jets surge earns Clear tonight 8 sunny tomorrow 1 december 1986 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class Mai registration number 0286 Ken free press soul on ice Daryla Christie left and Caroline Wong Are transported As they soulfully twirl around the Assiniboine Park Duck Pond Christie and Wong Are former students of the Winnipeg Winter figure skating the two joined thousands of Winni Eggers out enjoying the above Normal temperatures for this time of secrecy of City land Deal criticized by David Roberts a City councillor has complained about secrecy in the Way civic finance committee spent about million to buy an old downtown paint Plant and its Riverbank Bob Rose Gle Lawn said the process of buying the Guertin coating and sealants Plant at 270 Assiniboine Avenue should have been adding he believes the City paid an inflated i dont like the amount of secrecy on these land Rose in really the cites got to quit in opposed to them buying that Rose said he thinks the City paid too much for the 75yearold build ing and located next to Bonny Castle Park on a 40metre by 75 metre i know of one consultant who estimated Assiniboine River property at an it looks to me like the City paid Over million an acquisition of the Guertin Plant was approved at a closed meeting of finance committee on the advice of the cites Board of finance committee chairman Harold Macdonald Macdonald Corydon said the Riverbank property was purchased for Between and adding the Deal did not need full coun cil approval because it was authorized under the Riverbank acquisition frivolities Cost welfare family by Mary Ann Fitzgerald a family on welfare in Portage la Prairie has been forced to forgo of its child tax credit payments because the Money was spent they blew said Lynne love of the towns social assistance de the one of 31 on welfare in would have been allowed to retain the full Benefit of the tax credit As Well As full welfare benefits if the expenditures had been justify she was squandered on unnecessary personal love refusing to Portage is one of at least two Manitoba municipalities with a policy allowing a share of the Federal child tax credit prepayments to be taken from welfare under a Federal policy announced last families with a net yearly income of less than receive a tax credit prepayment before Portage mayor Bill Mcmillan said his towns policy allows families to keep the first of the tax they May keep the rest if they spend it in a sensible we Arent doing anyone any he if they can justify the they can have we have to be fair to the taxpayer and the Selkirk mayor Bud Oliver says Council was to review at a meeting today the towns Long standing policy of considering the child tax credit As income and Al lowing some of it to be deducted from welfare so the town Hast made such said Linda its acting welfare see tax Page 4 however the Riverbank program did not have enough Money for Pur Chase of the building and so the funds will come from the cites capital Macdonald land deals often Are conducted in camera to avoid the risk of outside speculation on the he Guertin recently received a Federal Grant to move to a new million Plant in Boni face and no longer needed the Assiniboine Avenue spokesman Tony Guertin he said the City bought the build ing 4 with a Possession Date of next Macdonald agreed with Rose that the Price for the Assiniboine property was i think were paying a High but necessary he he added the City has several options available with respect to the property Macdonald refused to but executive policy committee chairman Guy Savoie said Council lors will look at demolishing the building for Parkland or Selling it to private possibly for development As if the building were sold to private a 21metre wide stretch on see consistency Page 4 arms dealer flees to Canada son of Iran speaker left Belgium with newspaper says London App the observer says the eldest son of the speaker of the iranian parliament is believed to have fled to Canada from his belgian Home in november with at least million us in commissions from arms deals with when secret iranian arms Pur chases from the United states were made Iran president Ali Khamenei ordered an investigation and sent an investigator from Tehran to question Mehdi Bahre the weekly newspaper reported adding that Bahre Mani fled to Toronto on learning about the a spokesman at the iranian embassy in the British capital categorically denied the observers the observer report could not be confirmed in an external affairs department spokesman said yester Day night he had no record of Bahre Mani having entered Canada in the past and indicated the depart ment would Check today whether the iranian had entered the country ear As the observer the Reagan administration in Washington has said it made the secret arms deals primarily to woo iranians it believed were looking to the Day when the islamic fundamentalist Khomeini regime was no longer in the quoting what it said were unidentified iranian sources in said that Bahre Mani left his Home in Brussels on 15 after being tipped off that the investigator planned to question him about allegations he was involved in buying weapons for a son of iranian parliamentary speaker Hashemi then fled to the newspaper if it is established that Rassan Jani lined his own and his family pockets with Money from the arms his political position could be come seriously the observer it said Bahremand is a close associate of Manoucher identified As the head of Iran intelligence network in Thor ban far is suspected of playing a key role in buying millions of dollars of the paper the observer said Bahremand collected More than million in com missions on arms sales Between july 1985 and last september and was worried the dealings would Embar Rass his who is close to Iran revolutionary Ayatollah Ruhollah immunity for truth option in Iran probe Washington a the sen ate panel investigating the arms sales to Iran might consider limited immunity for White House officials and seek help from Iran to learn the truth about the transact the committees chairman in not closing any of the senator Daniel Inouye Hawaii said yesterday on abcs this week with David if it takes a Grant of immunity to get to these be Inouye panel is looking into the arms sales and the diversion of profits to the nicaraguan he also said he intends to proceed cautiously because the integrity of the president and the Are at i think the potential we have before us can be very he the former member of the Origi Nal watergate panel said channels will be opened at the appropriate time with any other country to Aid the i dont see Iran being out of the picture at congressional investigators from both parties agree that testimony from the two people Oliver North and John Poindexter is the key to determining what happened to the Money and How the plan was North was fired from the National Security Council staff and poin Dexter resigned As National Security both refused to answer questions about the matter before congressional citing their constitutional rights against Selfin last president Reagan asked Congress to Grant limited immunity to Poindexter and North to compel them to Congress members differed on the question of whether immunity should be Vic president George in a speech in also said he and Reagan should have been better informed about the activities of their i think to the degree there were i think every body should share in the see Impact Page 4 Toronto furrier defies Law the Canadian press with about 250 charges already on his Paul Magder want about to let another possible charge Stop him from opening his Toronto fur shop the last sunday before so it was business As usual at the outspoken businessman downtown shop despite a supreme court of Canada ruling thursday upholding Ontario sunday closing Law and pleas from his lawyer to obey the and like they have Over the past Toronto police promptly Laid another charge against the fur my lawyer is advising me to Magder told who outnumbered customers at Marders shop on the Spadina ave nue shopping ill keep fighting the Law As see sunday Page 4 6jhat Are Vou Little re haired 6irl this just my Christmas i undvin6 Devotion shopping Days to Christmas resort riots troops Are called out to quell languages riots in the popular Indian Seaside resort of Goa that killed two Security Boniface Hospital Vic president Jack Litvack says thefts have prompted the Hospital to Rekey All its silence the soviets initial silence about chernobyl angered the super million winners 10679071829470 Index Ann 17 49 34 7 22 34 6 31 7 Jumble 38 33 17 17 sports 46 27 to 17 ;