Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 31, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free december layoffs forecast As result of tax on Export it tiber continued from Page 1 will be retroactive to merrithew conceded the Deal will Cost the Canadian Industry but said it protects the right of prov inces to manage their own Natu ral keeps Money in Canada that would have gone to the Treasury if a import duty had been imposed and will avoid arms Swap revealed continued from Page 1 the Washington Post quoted informed sources saying that Early last an iranian gov emissary told representatives he would arrange for the release of an american hostage held in Lebanon if the United states would sell Iran 500 Tow antitank the who had direct a Cess to officials of Aya Todah Truhol Jah Khomeini said Tehran would pay in Advance for the weapons and that he also would work corf getting a second hostage the Deal for release of the hostage was made final in late october at a f meeting in West when the iranian emissary appeared with a Check for the sources the Mainz meeting set in motion a Chain of events that included a tithe Deposit in a Central Intelli gence Agency Bank account in Swit of to cover the Cost to the Pentagon of replacing the 500 missiles that were sent from Israel to Iran on 31 o the unpublicized release on 1 hostage David who was kept at the embassy in Beirut if or his personal As last i Nute efforts were made to encourage iranians to arrange for the re lease of another hostage another in Geneva on after the washingtonian arms deals had become where further hostage releases were discussed but set aside for the time being because of the setting precedents that could dam age Canadas Trade he said Ottawa plans to meet the provinces Early in the new year to try to work out a Way for replacing the Export tax with some other provincial the which either party can set aside on 30days will result in an estimated tax of up to million a year on softwood Lum Ber exports to the United the Money Ottawa collects will be Given to the provinces and merrithew said he Hopes they will use it to improve their Forest new democratic party Trade critic Steven Langdon said the Deal removes some of the that has plagued the but will Cost to Premier Bill Vander Zalm of Brit ish which exports much of the called the agreement its Good news for and it at a Adam president of Macmillan Bloedel one of can Adas largest lumber was not in one step it creates an Industrial paraplegic out of the lumber in said who is also chairman of the Canadian for est industries the estimated tax bite is More than the Indus he said v Zimmerman and other Industry As Well As the Ontario gov had called the com Merce department ruling politically motivated arid asked Ottawa take it to an International seeing Eye dog still missing a seeing Eye dog remained at Large yesterday after disappearing from a fort Garry Home Friday a Niney Earold husky Ger Man went missing from a backyard on South the woman looking after him the dog belongs to a Blind Winni Peg couple on vacation 4n Irig the 70pound Ani Mal in several different parts of the including fort Gary and near the Poja Park shopping aut Opac increase to net million continued from Page 1 Calgary to buy taxicab Buck Laschuk said the additional Premium charged motorists found at least 50percent responsible for two or More accidents in a year will increase by 20 per cent to a year from he said this and Accident sur charges will encourage Good driving the aut Opac rate increase will net about million next enough to offset the expected 1986 the loss is million More than originally aut Opac recorded a profit in Buck Laschuk said the 1986 loss was due to a dramatic Rise in claim vol ume and partly because of snowstorm accidents last aut Opac claims Rose by 10 per cent in 1986 to a record compared with filed last he at the same the Cost of claims Rose by about 20 per cent to million from million in Buck Laschuk opposition Leader Gary Filmon said the Crown corporation should have brought in smaller rate in creases Over a longer it looks As other than in an election we can expect aut Opac rate increases every Filmon nip government froze 1986 premiums be cause of the March Silver said the yet unspecified general insurance increases will bring pics rates to More realistic in line with those charged by private general insurance has been a Money loser for which com petes with private firms for Busi the division lost about Mil lion in 1985 and Silver said he expects a similar los for we dont Wantt compete with the private sector in Premium he Well increase the rates could be anywherefrom110percent to 20 per highlights of the aut Opac Premium increases include d premiums for extended third party liability coverage will in crease by a maximum of d premiums for extended Al peril deductibles and underpin surer Motorist coverage will stay at existing rates d additional premiums for motorists with six or More Demerit Points on their licences of per the new premiums for bad Drivers will Range from to fire at its office doer says co tinted from Page 1 ii not be tied to the losses incurred of the governments failed Max 5oecom services Coopers and Lybrand consulting which advised the govern ment to fold the marketing Arm of its in said the losses could Cost Manitoban doer said All the numbers Are not in on Max but the firms losses would be written off against retained earnings of he refused to say if its made a profit this doer said he expects to get an internal report soon on a fire that destroyed documents at an its office last i a report from the fire commissioners office said the Blaze was deliberately set in the let floor storage room at the Triec building last month he said doer said v few copies of an employees expense detail ing personal expenses such As Busi Ness were burned along with promotional pamphlets and brochures stored in the the photocopied expense sheets had been cleaned off the desk of an employee who had been sent to work with Max in saudi he the records did not belong to any of the five senior its and Max managers fired recently and Origi Nal copies of the expense which dated to were stored in a separate he the storage room should not have been unlocked and the employees records should not have been put in the he doer said he has not heard if police have steeping bags and Coats lie beside overturned bus in which four hockey players four Junior hockey players killed continued from Page 1 and personal hems littered the among the debris was a Book titled deadly its pages fluttering in the wind at the rear of the battered Brian sports editor of the Swift current was among those the bus when it Slid off the icy Highway and rolled on to its in an interview from the where he stayed on the Job to write his account of the costello said Snow was blowing and the Road was becoming he said the bus failed to negotiate a left curve after driving Over a railway about four kilo metres East of Swift the roads were a Little bit slip he it had been raining and snowing All Day and just As we got out of town it looked As though the bus was skidding on the Highway a bit and we just went off the the bus went Down the embankment at pretty High hit a couple of signs and ran into an approach said like suffered cuts and it took off like it was on a ramp and flipped Over on to its right Side and Slid a couple Hundred feet Down the Side of the he costello said that after the crash at there didst seem to be any panic among the aged 17 to everybody just realized what those that were of got up and tried to help and Comfort the people beside the people who were sitting in the Back of the bus received the most maybe they flew out the window or just got underneath the bus in not league president de Chynoweth and assistant Rick Doerksen met last night at their Calgary office to discuss the Broncos future this the teams schedule has been postponed an announcement about a memo rial service for the victims was expected bus Driver Broncos coach Graham assistant coach lome club publicity Man John costello and an unidentified substitute Trainer were on the bus with 22 Foster suffered a dislocated two other people regular Trainer Gord hawn and underage Junior player Danny Lambert of Malo we rent on the trip because they were in Winnipeg for the Esso International tour 86 soviets look for trades continued from Page 1 Canada and its he they Are so shy and Over they cant look people in the he if they went into a big store they know what to the owner of a Small souvenir shop at the Viscount Gort said she had numerous curious visitors in her store during the teams stay at the they were so Shelley Irv ing they didst buy any basically what they wanted to do was she said they were mainly interested in rubber erasers with Dollar signs on them and Canadian Emblem which she traded for soviet Alik one of two Star players on the team selected to participate in an said he could not Tell How Canada was different from the soviet Union because he had seen so Little of he did say the cities Here seemed much smaller than those at in my there Are Many More people in comparison and the cities and towns Are very much bigger As he through a russian translator trav Elling with the Stanislav another said he found the Canadian style of play too violent and Indi there is a difference Between the two Tuy Ulukov Canadian hockey is characterized by the Power its the favorite style of your As for the soviet it is it is is characterized by team doctors Settle for per cent increase continued from Page 1 were very concerned because of the we cant Deal in a vac we have to Deal with the civil servants Desjardins Mma executive director John la plume also refused comment last saying a news conference has been called for this morning to Dis cuss the arbitration the doctors sought a cent pay while the govern ment was offering per after mediation failed to resolve the dispute during Mcnichol the doctors insisted on binding arbitration in under a fou year signed in july the parties can seek binding arbitration after 25 Days of discussions if they feel no Progress is being according to the said the government is considering an immediate termination of the second and third years of its Experiment with binding arbitral the fee increase is retroactive to april i and remains in effect until april Derek a past president of the medical said this morning Manitoba doctors would oppose any government attempt to reduce the the reason we went into the arbitration is that both sides agreed to live with fewer if they tried to Back out of it sure would anger fewer also said doctors Likely wont be pleased with the size of the arbitrated i think most people were hoping for something higher than per he the arbitration award would pro vide for an average increase of for every doctor in Desjardins is quoted As the average physician has a Gross in come of about the medical association 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