Winnipeg Free Press

Sunday, December 28, 1986

Issue date: Sunday, December 28, 1986
Pages available: 32
Previous edition: Saturday, December 27, 1986

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo music Heads the life Nathan Zassman sports inside Russia assessing life under the soviet Anonymous athletes shone on the 1986 local sports sunny today 1 Clear tonight 8 Winnipeg free press vol 115 no 28 december free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets real Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second cuss Mai registration number 0286 elderly theft victim locked held prisoner by her fears news watch Hansen stalled wheelchair athlete Rick grounded since tues Day with a bladder will remain in for at least another Day before resuming his Westward a Crew member said was treated briefly in Hospital which disrupted his plans to reach the Terrace Bay 175 Kilometres Northeast of Thunder by Cable cars plunge a Pylon snapped at the French Alpine ski resort of Les Orres sending two Cable cars crashing 12 metres Down onto a parking lot and injuring 36 12 serious people were screaming with fear and a witness six helicopters and a Fleet of ambulances took Vic Tims to hospitals in pm Brun and passengers drown five persons drowned when pirates seized a the Bangladesh coast and threw into the a band of 15 pirates travelling As passengers seized the ferry about five Kilometres off the they hurled about 25 passengers into the Bay of and All but five Man aged to swim to nearby is jewelry takeover Peoples jewellers yesterday completed its lion us takeover of Zale the worlds largest jewelry store after a lengthy Battle that began last Toronto based Peoples and its Swiss Swaro ski International holding now own 94 per cent of Zales out standing common to Mark the shift in the Zale Board of directors met saturday morning and elected Peoples president Irving Stein As president and chief executive officer of Aquino chosen philippine president Cora Zon Aquino was named woman of the year yesterday by time Magazine for what it called determination and Cour age in leading her country Back to time said who took office last february when Ferdinand Marcos was ousted in a near bloodless popular had been chosen by its editors As the person who most influenced world events in Aquino gets Salute Etc Etera tourists visiting China will have a Chance to try out Chi nes made arms from assault rifles to machine guns and antitank rockets at a new shooting Range to be opened in peking next the official Xinhua news Agency it will have a selection of targets including Chest Tilhou Concrete works and bal visitors will be offered a Chance to try out assault Summa antitank rockets and sporting by Andrew Duffy victimized by a purse snatcher in Josette is still afraid to walk to the Corner store Smith not her real name lives in her Charleswood bolted and locked against a City she feels is rampant with violence a City she feels is no longer Safe for a senior citizen and afraid to talk even to her paralysed with Smiths Home has become a self imposed but her experts is largely in Smiths Story is an extreme example of the debilitating effects of crime and the fear of says Dorothy personal services director of Winnipeg age and Opportunity senior citizens Are particularly susceptible to the effects of she the fear affects their Quality of life they dont go out and do the things they like to do because of the fear of being mugged or according to a 1985 sponsored by the solicitor general of a Survey of seven Canadian cities found people in the 16 to 24yearold age bracket the highest risk 12 times As Likely As people Over 65 to have been the Survey measured All types of violent and property Marguerite president of the Manitoba society of said seniors Are not afraid of crime so much As the violence that can accompany but we Are very much we dont go out at and that unfortunate because we ought to be Able to walk in our own neighbor she said the fear can be fostered by the medias preoccupation with things i think weve probably come from a period where a lot of the violence we Are witnessing both on television and around us today was perhaps not As it May have been but these were things we didst talk about and hear about As it always makes the headlines when an 80yearold has been bludgeoned to death by people who have walked into her House but it Doest happen that about 80 per cent of seniors live ind Epen Chown often heightening their sense of its a lot easier to be fearful when see caution Page 4 by Maria Bohuslawsky As of new years Gahms mighty big is an the rare Pooch licence expires 31 and contrary to City of Winnipeg newspaper advertising new licences Arent available until my dog will have to go owner Lillian a Winnipeg joked the seven Earold dog is a Dandie Din Mont said she thinks there Are 200 Canada Only one other in the problem is a mysterious City policy that prohibits the Sale of dog licences until although there available now and newspaper ads urging dog owners to pick them up at a Community office or City Hall have been running for i try to be la abiding and i really believe in dog licences but they take my Austin she said she went to a Community office last tuesday but was told to come Back i offered to leave a Cheque and my dogs vaccination certificate with them so they could mail it to me but they said she i found it very i work shift work and its hard for me to get to those last year was a hassle As she they had licences but no dog they mailed the tag about two weeks a City Pound who didst want to give his said he didst know Why the City Doest sell the licences until youd have to talk to administration about he were just following the All the licences Are at the Community offices waiting to be Pound supervisor Doug Smith could not be reached for another unexplainable policy was this you can mail in a Cheque but you cant bring it in and leave the Pound keeper he said dog licences Are or for spayed or neutered failure to pay could result in a warning notices go out in he along with the one gets a tag so an owner May be traced in Case of All dogs in aged at least six must be Glenn free press Doggie Lawt not easily obeyed Lillian Austin did her Best to licence big but Cut the red fired civil servants get jobs Back Toronto up two senior Federal Public servants fired for an alleged conflict of interest after forming a private consulting company must be the Public service staff relations Board has Michael Deputy chairman of the ruled this week that Jack a former assistant Deputy minister in the National reve nue and John former transport ministry Branch should be reinstated with full pay and benefits lost since their salaries for Federal assistant Dep Uty ministers Range from to senior management salaries run Between and the men were fired in May Days after a report was published in a Toronto newspaper on the activities of a private company they myst management the reason Given for the dismissal was that the two had allegedly Vio see fired Page 4 the write Ann 10 20 23 22 dateline 2 23 6 13 7 Micro 14 12 Puzzle 12 sports 29 sunday 9 to 12 lotto winning numbers 34 Bonus number 32 afghan exiles protest kill marchers shout App More than afghans chanted death to Gorbachev in a protest demonstration yesterday in the pakistani capital of Islamabad on the seventh anniversary of the soviet invasion in kill the shouted the who included Refu gees and Pakistan based anticommunist guerrillas fighting the so Viet backed afghan it was the largest of the annual pro tests in Islamabad since soviet forces rolled across the Border into Afghanistan on thousands of afghan refugees demonstrated in several iranian cities As said Iran official islamic Republic news which was monitored in other demonstrations including one in Ottawa protested against the presence of an estimated see soviet Page 4 possibility guards aided hijackers the new York times Amman the iraqi authorities have started an investigation into the possibility that Security officers at the Baghdad Airport aided the hijackers who tried to take Over an iraqi Airliner that was on its Way to Amman on according to a senior jordanian the plane crash landed on a re Mote saudi Airfield and burst into flames after a shootout on Board Between the hijackers and Security the saudi authorities have said that there were 107 people on the plane and that at least 62 were other sources have said there were fewer and reports on fatalities unconfirmed reports yesterday said the death toll might have risen to the senior jordanian whose information is based on re ports from survivors and contacts with Iraq and saudi said Security at the Baghdad Airport was normally very making it Vir see hijackers Page 4 old time religion requires High tech collection by Maria Bohuslawsky at Grant memorial Baptist Church they speak of goal setting and computers and they Bill themselves As a Church with a that vision is expansion and to help reach it they recently paid to a Christian firm from fort Worth that specializes in Church fund Ais the reason a Church exists is for Doug director of said in a recent in what keeps a Church from growth is some like not enough parking with seven acres of the administration of Grant memorial has circumvented that particular and following the consultants Blitz last about 400 have pledged to give or Over the next three years towards a debt on their new the free press recently studied the finances of 10 one synagogue and one Christian to program in Winnipeg to find out How they get and spend their the answers were As varied As the religious although regular Church Atten dance in Canada has declined 32 per cent in the past 40 finances appear generally Reginald sociologist at University of its a myth that people Are Leav ing the according to who is writing a Book on religion in Canada due out in theres an ongoing Core that keeps the financial picture in god we rabbi Ephraim of Herz Livadas Yeshurun the Dol Lars and cents dont always but somehow god helps rent due on gods his Confidence was echoed by most of the clergy Bud gets for hundreds of thousands of dollars Are set and million Dollar building projects Are often undertaken on prayer and financial the Church of the open a Little storefront Church in Winnipeg North expects to Start building this Spring a Church that will Cost up to Treyve got 43 Mem Bers and in the were just saying god can provide that for us too some How its going to come were not quite pastor Norman bar we May have to postpone it but were and in most cases the Fidelity of churches is even the Banks our experience with churches has been Neil manager of commercial develop ment at the Canadian Imperial Bank of see manuals Page 4 ;