Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 27, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba News quit How Well do you remember the events that made news in 1986 a quiz taken from this years front pages picture perfect spaciousness highlight a local photographers dream Home Showbiz 36 free press reviewers and columnists take a critical look at the world of entertainment in 1986 jets Defeated the jets returned to their losing ways last falling 42 to the North stars ill of la parents of mentally handicapped angry at province by Maria Bohuslawsky the provincial government is giving men tally handicapped people leaving institutions first crack at scarce Day programs at the expense of those living at some angry parents already burdened with a difficult Childs the parents also Are bitter their jobs Are made tougher because their children receive fewer services than those living in institutions or group Ray Edwards is the single Parent of a who has always lived at Home and has no Day if a doctor told me today that i had a week to id take my son with me knowing whats out id give him a bottle of i can see no Edwards said government seems uninterested in their an unwelcome i talked with the Community services they pretty Well leave it up to they say what do you plan for your son now if i chose to be absolved of All emotional and financial responsibility it would Cost taxpayers a Day and my daughter would be provided with All the supports she Doest have single Parent lit that what in bitter the provincial Community services depart ment pays group Home operators Between a Day per depart ment spokesman Dale Brownlee Joe assistant Deputy minister of Community said it costs about a Day to keep a mentally handicapped person at the Manitoba developmental Centre at Portage la which does not include capital those who live at Home get social allowance at age 18 based on Siemens daughter Brenda gets a month or about a if she was to live in a Home other than mine that would automatically until Siemens has been supported by a s6n who just received a Layoff notice Canada if she were to go on she must undergo a Means test and a Lien would be put on her House neither of which would occur if her daughter went into a group All were asking for is to live in the dignity As those who put their children in Siemens is one of several Winnipeg parents see parents Page 4 december 1986 final s1 Homo delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Winnipeg free press vol 115 no 27 Phu free press business was brisk yesterday As Thrift shoppers flocked to Polo Park and kept Cash registers boxing Day bargain Hunters storm stores they they they thousands of Winnipeg Gers braved the crowds for yet another shopping Day time in search of pos Christmas bar its certainly As Busy if not busier than in previous years when we opened on Terry store manager of the downtown about 600 people were lined up at the doors when the department store opened at he a lot of people Are off work he there buying the cards and wrap and decorations at and there buy ing the dresses and such for new years Winnipeg is really Carol manager of Braemar in Polo said yesterday As she took a breathless minute from punching brisk sales into the Cash the women clothing store Fea tured everything at Hal Price yesterday and people were really Reid they were saying i cant i was at Polo Park at and the parking lot was Al ready waitress Elizabeth its busier than we said roots manager Lois it seems like everybody is out most downtown and Polo Park retailers interviewed said boxing Day business was and in Many cases up from last and while much of the traffic was re turns and most retail ers noted with Relief it was less than we expect to do 20 to 30 per cent better than last said Bob merchandising Man Ager of the Advance audio video store on Portage he attributed the riot of com Merce to Good the Sale was billed As a crazy promising yearned in i came Here because of the customer Cornell but i dont really think i got a they claim it was see bargains Page 4 sunny today 2 Clear tonight 10 sunny tomorrow 1 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Ann Landers 23 26 24 57 27 26 40 27 6 answers Bridge classified comics crossword deaths editorials entertainment 43 26 Home finder Horoscope jumbo pii77lf 49 52 Jumble entry legals letters 7 movies 23 7 relax Russell saturday plus 53 42 38 23 35 sports sky watch travel to listings Warhaft the provincial terror in sky recalled by Patrick Tyler the Washington Post Amman two jordanian Pas sengers gave the most detailed account so far yesterday of the 20 minutes of midair grenade explosions and panic that ended in the fiery crash thursday of an iraqi statements of sources and conflicting claims by five shiite moslem organizations in left it unclear who performed the Hijack ing or it also remained unknown How the hijackers managed to smuggle Pis Tols and at least two Pear sized Gre Nades through a triple Security Check in which notoriously thorough iraqi police allowed no More than a pack of a a pen and a Book for each if you had they looked inside the Box if you had a they inspected it and if you had a they looked at every a photo saudis subsidy queried Khash Oggi loan a coincidence Khight Ridder newspapers Washington less two weeks after Iran received a second shipment of weapons financed by Adnan the depart ment of Energy approved an unusual million loan guarantee for an alternative fuel company controlled by the saudi the timing of the approval on 1985 13 Days after the second shipment of Tow misses was delivered to Iran has attracted the attention of the House com Mittee on Energy and investigators for the committee chaired by John Dingell d say they Are looking into the coincidence of Khash Oggis involve ment in the arms deals and the loan since the Energy department alternative fuels program was created during the Energy crisis in the mid the Agency has approved Only three such loan troubleshooter the Reagan administration has consistently opposed such arguing they Foster unnecessary involvement in the firm that won the loan Guaran agr fuels refining of new had first applied for the assistance in before Khash Oggi had a financial interest in the com Energy department officials say Khash Oggis became a Large stockholder in Agri fuels by and the firm became part of Adnan Khash Oggis holdings shortly after that though the loan guarantee want extended until Energy department officials could not explain the five year delay be tween the application and awarding of the loan Canadian securities officials Are also investigating a Complex web of Khash Oggi companies with ties to see Khash Oggis Page 4 passengers Suleiman and Salam Salim with Jordans Prince said jordanian businessman Saleem Adel a firs class even the pen they have to said for this the i like to Fly iraqi Dado said he was the last Passen Ger to Board the Airliner at Saddam International and took his seat in the firs class Cabin behind former jordanian Interior minister Suleiman array and his brother across the aisle from Dado was an armed iraqi airways Security officer and an unidentified iraqi Dado recounted that the departure was shortly after the plane took the Pilot announced that the twin engined Jet would cruise at feet for the lhour50minute Dado said he had just finished snacking on two oranges after lunch when he heard the screams from the Back of the a youth came running fast up the aisle with both hands raised with said the Young about wearing a dark Green was a a a a Dado without see hijackers Page 4 baby boy pregnant Ankara spa a 4 Mont hold turkish baby pregnant with the dead fetus of his malformed was relieved of his two Pound the Istanbul daily Mil Wiyet reported surgery was performed after the Hasan and Pembe told doctors that the had been in constant pain Ever since his birth and that his Abdomen had grown doctors at the Hospital of Cornu in the Kardag West of were quoted As saying that a Case like known medically As occurs about once in a million born again landlord beams to preachers to tenants by Maria Bohuslawsky a Pembina Highway landlord has replaced his tenants Cable to with evangelical Chris Tian making most of them madder what weve got on tenant Dan Brown said but landlord Peter Warkentin was unrepentant about the programming he has chosen for his should someone see it and be come then All we want to do is Praise the he the crts and the Manitoba rentals mans office Are investigating complaints by about 240 of the its a Legal Bill lawyer with the Federal government regulatory said in an interview from Well have a reply in the first week of the new John Deputy director of the Provin Cial rent regulation said his office is proceeding slowly in its investigation which May Lead to an order to Warkentin to pay damages to this is a major Case for Bracey we know it will have ramifications Down the Road and we want to use this Case As an exam frustrated tenants in 210 units in six apart ment blocks on Pembina Highway have presented owner Peter Warkentin with a petition bearing 240 signatures demanding the return of their Cable which is included in the rent according to their they Are asking for compensation and a guarantee that no capital Cost be charged to i Felt violated and i Felt tenant Bonnie we we rent even asked our Dan another said the land lord wants to impose his beliefs and values on the a self professed born again said he bought the system for several reasons to save provide better programs and provide Christian pro i think As a Christian there is an invitation to us christians to support the Christian he he said buying a satellite system represented an while paying escalating costs of Cable was Money this will save tenants rent in the Long he Videon general manager Jack Baigrie Den see tenants Page 4 ;