Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 29, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sick Days urged for parents of ailing kids the Manitoba medical association wants employers to allow workers time off to stay Home with ailing executive director John Laplume said the associations child health committee looked at the question of whether parents with acutely ill children should be allowed time off work to care for the Mma Board accepted the committees recommendation at a meeting earlier this la plume a Winnipeg chamber of com Merce subcommittee also has accepted the concept in its aimed largely at single Par Laplume it can create quite a hardship for parents when a child is very Laplume said Manitoba physic ians have been urged in an Mma newsletter to lobby employers to allow parents sick leave so they can be with their acutely ill he said Many Union contracts allow parents to take sick time to care for ailing Laplume said the Board didst discuss specific circumstances under which such sick time should be it gets to be a bit of a predict there Are degrees of you have to have sensitivity on the part of the employer and honesty on the part of the chamber of Commerce president John Doole socially conscious employers have allowed parents time off under such in glad the Mma int going for legislative change on Doole one of the problems is that we have socially conscious employers who face so Many regulations there forced to become hard Doole said the Chambers human resources subcommittee suggested employers voluntarily allow parents of ailing children time when you have a child with rag ing Scarlet fever or you look at the employees record of honesty and All that kind of youd be hard hearted As hell if you didst make allowances in those jets end december drought at Cloudy tonight 5 Cloudy tomorrow 0 december free press Sun rises sets Moon sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class Mah registration number 0286 Wayne free press Larry Weber wanted to do something a Little different when he proposed to his Karla sign of love Points couple to altar by Shane Minkin when Karla Walter asked her Boyfriend for a sign that he loved she didst expect him to take her but Larry Weber popped the big question saturday night using a Mobile sign he arranged to have parked in front of his girlfriends i was pretty shocked when i saw but now in pretty Weber said when he decided to ask for Walters hand in he wanted an original i wanted to do something differ ent and proposing Over the sign was about As different As i could think he said he planned a romantic saturday night for his girl Friend of 14 saving the bes for we went out for dinner and when we came Back to her place the sign was All set he Karla was stunned when she saw she didst know whether to laugh or Walter said she had no idea what trick her Boyfriend had up his sleeve until she saw the sign in front of her parents Rouge Road As soon As i saw the sign in the f knew what was going she said yesterday from re Gina where she is visiting rela she said she was expecting Weber to propose today her birthday but figured his sign was a sign that he wait until she returned from it was a pretty different Way to which i dont think any body can Weber said the sign was Worth the rental As Walter accepted his it worked and were getting married during the thanksgiving Lon weekend next Iraq names lebanese in Hijack bid Baghdad raises death toll to 65 in Christmas Day airline disaster Nicosia a Iraq yesterday identified two lebanese it said tried to Hijack an iraqi airways plane that crashed Christmas Day in saudi Arabia after a shootout in the planes Cabin and said 65 people died in the the official iraqi news monitored in said 23 22 14 two Jor two palestinians with Jor Danian passports and two hijackers with lebanese passports were saudi arabian officials investigating the disaster previously said 62 of 107 people aboard the Boeing 737 were the Agency did not explain the Reuters news Agency quoted Iraq As saying yesterday 67 people died in the crash near the Northern saudi town of Arar during a flight from Baghdad to the iraqi news Agency identified the two would be both reported killed either in a midair shootout with sky marshals or the subsequent As Elia Georges Hana and Ziad Hana it soviet shift on dissidents predicted London a the sunday times of London has reported that soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev will release thousands of political prisoners next year in a major change of Kremlin policy toward the newspapers Moscow Corre Edmund quoted unidentified senior soviet soviet officials could not be reached to comment on the the newspaper said a commission consisting of representatives of the Kab state Security the communist party and the governments Legal department has been set up to organize the mass the newspaper said the first sign of the policy change was last weeks release from internal exile of Andrei the physicist and human rights Larissa a dissident jailed this year for peace Campaign is also being it Stevens said his sources Are nor Mally authoritative and appear to be talking with official soviets leave the reporter added there is widespread and open debate among soviet intellectuals and the two groups of the soviet elite who most favor a relaxation Over human that Gorbachev intends to launch the most dramatic reforms since the Days of Nikita Thrush Khrushchev is the former soviet Leader who launched reforms after the death of Josef in former National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said yesterday Sak Harovas release was evidence of a major shift in soviet policy which could Lead to increased instability in that appearing on Abc tvs this week with David Brzezinski said the fact that he Sakharov comes Back in Triumph is a source of enormous encouragement to every would be dissenter in the soviet what is happening that Gorba Chev is trying to renovate the sys to rejuvenate to make it More without reforming it that a very dangerous you set in motion forces which ultimately you cannot your self did not say if they were related or give any other but the names indicate the men were lebanese the news Agency said the plane crashed after an armed confrontation in the air with gunfire and it gave no other details of thursdays the Bloo Diest in the annals of air a jordanian official in Amman said he suspects the hijackers be longed to a dissident iraqi faction and May have been Security officials who could have dodged Security checks at Baghdad Airport to Board the plane with the who spoke on Condi Tion of said that scenario could explain Baghdad reticence in giving details of the hijacking beyond blaming what Iraq earlier called agents of he scoffed at iranian claims the hijackers were transit passengers who had spent the night at the Security heavy Airport in Baghdad after flying in from Yugo Iran and Iraq have been at War since september five terrorist groups in Lebanon see pro iranian Page 4 Hopes slim for settlement in lumber fight Washington up there is Only one Chance in 10 that a longstanding lumber dispute be tween Canada and the United states can be settled in time to Avert a pending Trade ruling in the Bill a lumber Industry said yester Canadian and government officials were to return to the bargain ing table today in an Effort to negotiate a Deal before Midnight the deadline for a final ruling on whether to impose a penalty duty on lumber imports from i think were just going to go through two Days of Marathon Nego said spokesman for the coalition of lumber companies seeking the penalty i think theres one Chance in 10 of Lange said there Are too Many outstanding issues to be resolved to be optimistic about an agreement before the deadline today meeting was to be the first session since the talks broke last wednesday for the Christmas at the heart of the which has soured Trade rela is the lumber Industry Contention that Timber cutting fees charged by the provinces Are so Low they constitute an unfair subsidy under Trade the Commerce department upheld the Industry complaint in a preliminary ruling in in a 15percent duty on the Worth billion can last the Las minute negotiations Are aimed at avoiding a final subsidy ruling that Canadian officials say will Likely go against Canada and thereby jeopardize other natural re source exports to the United the Trade Case can Only be halted if the coalition for fair lumber imports withdraws its petition for a penalty the negotiating on behalf of the and Ottawa have agreed Canada should impose a 15percent Export tax on lumber shipments to the United the negotiations Are stalled Over Canadas plan to gradually eliminate the Export tax As the provinces raise Timber Cut Ting the Side wants assurances the Export Price will not slip below the 15percent increase guaranteed under an Export tax and has not been satisfied so far with what Canada has offered at the bargaining see dispute Page 4 exodus for jobs turns East by Catherine Bainbridge a traditional Manitoba Export is showing an unwelcome increase they Arent leaving in droves but for the first time in several years More people Are packing up and leaving in search of work than Are coming into the a Federal official this time the movement is not West to Al but East to said Jim an economist with the department of employment and immigration in the number leaving is still relatively but dim prospects for growth in Highway ing jobs is expected to drive increasingly More people out of the province in the next few he the reason is that Manito Bas Short economic Boom is coming to a Treller and the manufacturing sector will never regain the jobs it had before the last the big one to gain Here is he jobs in manufacturing have increased dramatically because they Are very people tend to gravitate while people worked in manufacturing in Manitoba in Federal figures show the sector will be Lucky to employ by see economic Page 4 visiting iranian student killed in traffic Accident by Shane Minkin the death of a visiting Grade 9 student from Iran in a traffic Acci Dent saturday has plunged Johns Raven court school into its headmaster the whole school is in John messenger said last Babak of Tehran was killed at about Satur Day As he crossed Pembina Highway near Markham in Winnipeg on a Stu Dent was standing on the Centre median when a southbound car went out of mounted the Boulevard and hit he was driven into northbound traffic where he was hit by a second he died at the police said charges have not been ruled out in the the irony is that Khoras Hehs parents Felt he would be safer Here in Given the situation in messenger adding they had a difficult time getting their son out of the War torn to have someone with such Promise struck Down at such a tender age is a tragic the headmaster described Khora Sheh As a Happy student who made the schools Honor Roll after his last set of he had a very Bright he was a year ahead of himself and he was destined for his death comes As such a messenger said Kho Rasheh came to the school in september 1985 and see iranian Page 4 digging deep churches and synagogues seeking contributions use everything from tithes to personal Calls from no thanks Chrysler chief Lee Iacocca rejects a presidential bid because of what he warns is a looming economic not guilty Mordechai a former israeli nuclear pleads not guilty to treason and espionage in the genes a Childs genetic makeup is a stronger influence on personality than a study Index Ann 13 18 27 38 27 6 24 7 Jumble 31 26 13 13 sports 37 21 to 13 ;