Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january news Roundup to storm sweeps islands from the news services Cook islands Hurricane Sally blew out to sea yesterday after devastating Raro Tonga with 10metre Waves and 135 Kilometres hour winds in what prime minister sir Tom Davis called the worst storm in living the Hurricane left one out of nine residents homeless and Davis said it could take the Island capital years to recover from the he declared an emergency and estimated damage at the equivalent of More than million Davis said the storm wrecked Rarotonga main damaged resort hotels and ruined banana and Coconut he said no casualties were reported in the polynesian Island group nautical Miles Northeast of new Rarotonga is Home to about it is the largest of the Cook a self governing territory in free association with new almost people live in the governor Steps Down governor of Pak stans volatile Southern sind prov Ince resigned yesterday in the Wake of last months ethnic riots in Kara Chi in which 186 people were government officials a government statement said president Mohammad Ziaulhaq Jeha dad khans Resigna Tion and appointed businessman Ashraf Tab Bani As his the announcement coincided with clashes in the sind Between police and demonstrators demanding release of a detained ethnic Motahir witnesses survival celebrated Ivory coast a French Rescue worker said yester Day it is a Miracle two passengers survived when a brazilian Varig Jet liner disintegrated and burned in dense the 49 other people aboard the Boeing 707 37 passengers and 12 Crew members were French and Ivory coast soldiers searched yesterday for the aircraft Blackboy flight Kohn said his group of four French marines found the two survivors sitting upright near a badly burned but Indian Leader Dies a Funer Al was held yesterday for Bill Wah an internationally known in Dian rights activist who worked for More than 20 years developing Agen cies to help native a member of the Kickapoo and Sauk Fox Indian was he died Friday while being treated for stomach ulcers and Dia betes at a friends the Oklahoma native was a Leader of the International Indian treaty Council and the american Indian which created the coun cil to represent 99 dissident detained Belgrade Vladimir Mijano one of six dissident Yugo slav intellectuals charged in 1984 with ant state was held for several hours saturday at Belgrade Airport As he waited for a flight to his wife said adding that the delay forced him to postpone a planned trip to a Well known critic of Yugoslavia was one of the Belgrade a group of six dissident intellectuals detained in 1984 in the Case against a was dropped in january supertanker attacked Nicosia iraqi planes attacked a supertanker Laden with iranian Oil and set it afire Marine Salvage executives while Iran reported it intercepted eight foreign ships in the persian the state run iraqi news monitored in said iraqi troops killed 36 iranians in the Southern sector of the Iran official islamic Republic news also monitored in said iranian Jet fighters pounded iraqi positions in the same inflicting considerable dam it did not rabbi protests ruling Jerusalem israels Interior affairs Ultra orthodox rabbi Yitzhak submitted his resignation yesterday to protest a court ruling ordering him to Regis Ter an american convert As a the synagogue state dispute Over registration of converts pits the civil judicial system against a religious establishment that considers jewish religious Law the supreme authority in matters of civil the resignation takes effect to but prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and other officials Are trying to persuade Peretz not to Reagan proposes budget Zia accepts resignation Washington a president Reagan is proposing a record trillion budget making Sharp Domestic cuts and boosting defence programs without raising income but congressional leaders Are voicing deep 1 dont like to Call it dead on but its obviously going to be reworked said House of representatives Republican Leader Robert Michel of reagans budget for fiscal year which begins next represents the first spending plan greater than trillion us Ever submitted by a it is by far the largest single year budget Ever considered by any the new to be formally unveiled Calls for cuts and program eliminations similar to those in other recent Reagan Bud that were largely ignored by today budget document was to be an abbreviated version of about 300 since this year the budget is being submitted a month Advance information made Avail Able by the administration and other sources shows the 1988 budget Calls for Sharp cuts in farm Price sup College student food medicare payments to phys housing and government backed mortgage programs and mass transit at the same it seeks to move toward balancing the books by sell ing to private investors a variety of government held including part of the Amtrak rail passenger the Bonneville Power adminis Petroleum reserves in Cali fornia and and billions of dollars of government it would boost defence spending authority to the smallest military spending increase yet sought by but still above the current level appropriate de by who now control both Chambers of indicated the new budget faces the same struggle that its predecessors the first thing we need is Coop said House budget com Mittee chairman William the second thing we need is some realism and and senator Robert Byrd the new Senate majority said he May seek an Early floor vote on the even though one int to demonstrate How Little political support it even though the new Reagan like All presidential budgets of the last two was written with deficit in it Calls for a giant plunge in deficit spending to the level specified for next year by a budget balancing that Down from the record billion deficit of last year and from the billion estimated shortfall of the current fiscal the budget is a spending blueprint with Many of its proposals requiring 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