Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, December 22, 1986

Issue date: Monday, December 22, 1986
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 22, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Impf Impact worries Bush continued from Page 1 Bush said in an interview published by the Washington Bush also acknowledged that the controversy has Hurt him saying in no longer the front runner among potential Republican contenders for the presidency in representative Lee head of the House of representatives intelligence said Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh should get a Chance at deter mining whether criminal acts have been committed before any decision on immunity is Republican senator David Duren chairman of the Senate intelligence said on the lbs program face the nation youre not going to get an answer to this until you get Ollie North in because he was the one who ran the whole the state reacting to a Washington yesterday denied that the Reagan administration has asked other nations to pass messages to Tehran on its behalf since the revelation of secret arms a senior official that As recently As mid november the administration communicated to a Large number of governments its desire for improved relations with Iran Over the Long Rivers teenager Dies after crash a Rural Manitoba teenager has died five Days after he was injured in a Road crash in which two other Manitoban were ramp said Daniel James of who was a passenger in one of two vehicles which collided near died Friday at Boniface two other motorists died in the Broadbent rated biggest asset by poll Montreal up two out of three canadians believe new demo cratic Leader de Broadbent is an asset to his far More than feel that Way about progressive conservative Leader Brian Mulroney and Liberal Leader John suggests a Gallup opinion the conducted in the first week of indicates 66 per cent of canadians believe Broadbent is an asset to the forty one per cent said Mulroney is a plus for the while 47 per cent said Turner is an asset to the the poll is based on personal income the Gallup organization says such polls Are considered accurate to within four percentage 19 times out of the sharpest regional difference is in Ontario where 70 per cent found Broadbent an 45 per cent Turner and 36 per cent the Gap among the leaders is smallest in Quebec where 52 per cent found broaden an 51 per cent Turner and 46 per cent pee Ettar standing behind door of says sunday shopping is a victimless sunday closing bylaw defied continued from Page 1 Long As i until the government puts me out of said who initiated the supreme court Magder was among Only a handful of businessmen charged most Large retailers across Canada remained except in Alberta and British where sunday closing Laws Are decided municipal and Large grocery chains like a and p and lob Laws shut their doors for the first yesterday in months because of the court who already faces fines of up to for each joked with the officers As if they were longtime suggest ing they give metropolitan Toronto police chief Jack Marks a copy of the statement the furrier prepared for the i cant afford to pay in Magder when he finally gets to court no dates have been set Magder will fight the charges against on grounds that the Law violates the Equality provision under 15 of the charter of rights and said his lawyer Tim the furrier has already spent challenging the ban on Sun Day the sunday closing Law is complicated in Toronto by a municipal bylaw that allows businesses in designated tourist areas to open Sun although Magder furs is in the tourist District of the business is not exempt because the bylaw Doest mention furs As one of the products that can be sold in the area on a its intellectually repugnant that Selling imports from Hong Kong and Korea is acceptable but Selling a 100percent Canadian product is said calling the Law discriminatory and responsible for Breeding people Are fighting sunday shop Ping on so called religious said after stopping to take a Call from someone who accused him of destroying gods calling sunday shopping a victimless Magder said he would obey the Law Only if it was applied to All with Christmas closing and shopping Days running Magder said closing yesterday would have Cost him up to 60 per cent of his forcing him to Lay off 20 per cent of his in metropolitan 13 Small businesses mostly fashion and stereo retailers were charged with opening Jack Webster elsewhere in at least 13 other stores were Many supermarkets tried condoning off All but a 223squaremetre space in efforts to meet exemptions under the retail business holidays in the Crown attorney will review the Case today of earths population to reach billion by study says Washington a in the next 14 the earths population will grow by More than the total number of people who inhabited the planet in the census Bureau projected by the year the worlds popu lation will have grown by billion to a total of the Bureau and the vast majority of the growth will occur in the poorer with developing countries growing at a rate More than three times that of the developed countries at the end of the 20th said the bureaus world population pro file about 90 per cent of world popu lation growth is occurring in poor countries that can least afford to Cope with rapid increases in Popula commented Joseph Speidel of the private population crisis its not the absolute size that a country achieves that is causing it is the rate of change that prevents countries from catch ing up in terms of agricultural pro creating new deliver ing health care and All the other advances needed for the new report comes just a Day after another private research group reported changes in world Popula Tion Are threatening to trap the poorer countries in a Cycle of rapid population growth and dwindling re in just Over half the world time is running out in the Effort to slow population growth by reducing birth wrote Lester Brown and Jodi Jacobson of the world watch inst More and the Choice will be Between a vigorous family plan Ning program or declining living they said in the our demographically divided released the worlds population has nearly doubled since 1950 when it was the new census study although the rate of in crease has slowed somewhat in re Marc charged with opening his City lights Book Emery took a unique approach yesterday in an attempt to make a Point while keeping police from laying charges he gave away his books instead of Selling before police turned he gave away about Worth of the police told him that by allowing people to browse in his he was technically breaking the Law and he was in Edward Borins held a Readin at his Edwards books and Art store in celebrities from the literary and publishing such As Margaret Don Herron and Jack As Well As lawyer Edward were in the store to support Borins fight to have Book stores included in the list of Busin esses that May open on even a government of Philis of moral lightweights and Cul Tural Basket could hardly dare Challenge the place of Reading in today Borins told a dozen reporters crammed into the Back of his in Nova where some stores had threatened to defy the supreme court an Iga supermarket in lower Sackville just outside Halifax was the Only major retailer in the Region open yester police Quebec courts rules against language Law Montreal up the Quebec court of Appeal ruled today that a provision of the provinces language Law prohibiting the use of languages other than French on Public signs is assemblies ban from the news services Shanghai up authorities posted notices today Banning assemblies without a but Stu dents demanding democracy still milled about the cites main Square after three Days of boisterous rallies involving tens of thousands of Stu the posted citywide and signed by the Shanghai communist party said demonstrations disrupted traffic and that an element was trying to use democracy to disrupt social foreign sources several Hundred students Gath ered today at the Peoples where at least protesters ral lied but the students said today were badly some student leaders wanted to regroup and Calm things while others apparently were ready to take to the streets the government said when the student protests began Friday that they had a constitutional right to but it since has sharply rebuked the official Xinhua news Agency accused a tiny number of people today of writing inflammatory and illegal it quoted a Shanghai official As saying some demonstrators Are at tempting to disrupt stability and Unity and derange production and social order by taking advantage of the patriotic Zeal of the students and their longing for democracy and at Siaotong officials using loudspeakers urged students to attend there were no signs of a Boycott threatened by some demonstrators at City three Large Metal doors were chained and wired a video camera that police used Over the weekend to film protesters remained set up on a third floor bal students began rallying in Shang Hai on Friday in the latest of a series of student protests around the coun try this the protests have targeted the slow Pace of democratic Lack of representation on local bodies and poor Campus living at least people gathered in front of Shanghai City Hall and called on the mayor to respond to their the num Ber of demonstrators was difficult to estimate because the area always is crowded with shoppers and tour taxi left with official says continued from Page 1 Only Cash he had was a he said he asked the Driver to safeguard his Case and other lug Gage while he went inside the depot to get smaller Bills for the i told him to look after my stuff until i got the proper but he took off with my he Robinson conceded he didst report the incident to police and said he was unable to recall for which cab firm the Driver Cross Lake chief Etienne Baptiste Broth said he was unaware any band documents had been missing until he spoke with a Baptiste runs the business for us and i Trust Hes careful with those the chief adding Baptiste didst inform band officials the briefcase had gone sure it bothers me and i want to know what went missing and for what he i want to know Why he never reported tax credit deduction shocks poverty group continued from Page 1 earlier this Brandon City Council dropped a similar the Federal and provincial governments frown on the but spokesmen say they Are powerless to Force municipalities to drop there is nothing we can do at a legislative level to influence their said Michael an aide to health and welfare minister Jake All we can do is make Public under the Canada assistance plan Ottawa has agreements with the provinces which prevents them from adopting such it has no jurisdiction Over municipal hat Field said from a spokesman for economic Secu Rity minister Len Evans said the existing municipal and social allow Ance acts prevents the province from forcing municipalities to change their but social services spokesman Janice Little said most of the major including already have dropped such National Antipoverty organization Debbie Hughes said the organization has asked Epp to Stop the the intention of the child tax credit legislation is not to take Money but to put More in recipients not in municipal Hughes said from she said she was shocked to hear of Portage la Prairies policy of requiring justification for spending the tax credit that is very Hughes no one tells a Busi Nessman How to spend his tax credit she said Napo will apply pressure by Telephone to any municipalities it discovers with such an estimated 760 Manitoba families May have to wait until after Christmas to get the due them in child tax credits because they failed to notify Revenue Canada they had spokesman Brenda Scarcella its very she they represent about two per cent of the Manitoba families eligible for approximately Mil lion in the tax Scarcella said the cheques to Manitoban were mailed out beginning in late anyone who Hast received the expected Cheque should Contact Rev Enue Canadas Winnipeg office and provide written notification of the new Scarcella it will probably be too late to get the cheques delivered before Christ but the sooner the address is the sooner we can verify it and redirect the Scarcella cent both birth and death rates have consistency demanded in Riverbank planning continued from Page 1 the Riverbank behind it would re main a Public Extension of Bonny Castle Savoie so what said Chris chairman of the cites plan Ning and services seventy feet int very much i Lorenc Sisler said that under the new downtown rezoning if the Guertin building were designated for the process would be my personal preference and i think the preference of most Council lors would be to see that Guertin building torn he Rose said the City has to develop a consistent policy on Riverbank Here we Are buying riverbanks downtown and Selling riverbanks in North he refer ring to a plan to sell off Cit owned Riverbank lands near Whittier Park to a private in that Developer Alain Hogue paid for an option on the lands while he sought to have the area Savoie said he did not see any in consistency in the cites position on the two weve got the Riverbank being protected in he adding Hogue must keep a portion of the Riverbank accessible to the pub Savoie and two other councillors of the vital Community committee voted 9 to sup port Hogues zoning Rose voted against but the number of people in the world continues to the Bureau South of the currently has the worlds highest rate of growth at three per cent a the Bureau at that rate the population of the Region will double in 23 the study second in growth is the near East and North Africa at per followed by latin growing at per growth is at per cent in per cent in per cent in North America and per cent in Europe and the soviet currently almost on half the worlds population live in four coun tries the soviet Union and the United the study by the year 2035 Nigeria could climb to third place on the list and India will Likely top China As the most populous the census report nearly three quarters of the 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