Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free july prisoners with aids isolated continued from Page 1 impaired driving she Felts Kerry Pearl told the court his clients drinking problems were in part symptoms of another medical prob which he did not court sources later confirmed the Man has tested positive for the aids forester said if the heading Ley in mate is found to be infected with the he will serve his sentence in a quarantined Section of the jails in he said the prisons actions Are based on an aids policy drafted earlier this year by the corrections department for provincial in addition to being the guidelines require than an aids infected inmate use separate bed linens and clothing than the rest of the jail victim protected those materials Are washed and laundered in separate the isolating nature of most of the precautions were designed to protect the victim from other for Ester forester said infirmary employees and guards have been told How the disease is transmitted and Are provided with gowns and rubber gloves for occasions when they come in Contact with an infected a heading Ley guard who asked not to be named said the jails measures do not fully protect Security How Are rubber gloves going to protect me if someone wants to bite the guard or what do i do if i find someone slashed up do i let him bleed to death while i wait for a nurse or doctor the guard pointed to a recent example in a Minnesota jail where an inmate who knew he carried the aids virus was found guilty of at tempted murder after he bit two we have to live with inmates 12 hours a he were the ones at something tragic is going to happen unless were Given better Crystal helps her get a Cool drink in Kildonan Park after the two children enjoyed an afternoon of play under the marching summer our prices have never been lower than right now on classical Glass lighting fixtures from Fredrick Ramond and choose the timeless Beauty of the elegant etched styling of no romantic or the new forecast collection of chandeliers with Bevelled Glass and Light up your for at Robinson Robinson lighting 167 Sherbrook Street 7833277 spending increase continued from Page 1 initial estimate Wilson made just prior to the Start of a unexpectedly Tough fiscal year in which prices and in turn tax reve Nues from the Energy and agriculture industries the initial figures show that per Sonal income tax revenues Rose by billion or per cent from the previous year while sales and excise tax revenues increased by billion or per while the increase in personal tax revenues was in part due to the fact that More people were working and earning More Money than a year a finance department offi speaking on condition of Ano said that from a Quarter to a third of the increase was due to tax increases of previous budgets such As the partial de indexation of the tax plus deficit reduction sur taxes on taxable As with the increases in income tax the Rise in revenues from sales and excise taxes reflected both increased spending by con Sumers plus a variety of sales and excise tax tax Breaks for the Energy Industry partially offset other tax corporate income taxes last year Rose by a modest million or per although that was consider ably higher than expected Only last a breakdown of the initial figures shows prior to yet to be paid yearned Bills and still to be collected the government spent billion and collected billion from april 1986 through March that compares with initial expenditures of billion the year before and revenues of the conference a private nonprofit economic forecasting is currently studying the Impact of the tax measures on the Economy but will not be releasing the results until later this the forecasters on average predicted the Economy would expand by an after inflation rate of per cent this year and three per cent next the fifth and sixth consecutive years of economic growth since the end of the 198182 unemployment will average per cent this year and then ease to nine per cent next the inflation rate will Rise from per cent to per corporate pretax profits will surge by per cent and then Rise by per cent in housing starts will reach 000 then ease to the Dollar will slip from cents us to cents and the deficit on Trade in goods and services will slip from billion to but should the dramatic surge in interest rates which occurred in mid april carry into 1988 this would Deal a serious blow to the Outlook for the next 18 phoney letters North admits continued from Page 1 your office to review you wrote false and misleading letters to the Congress of the United you received personal financial Ben you were operating Covert funds without knowing where they came from million in operating funds were handled in a manner where you didst know what Hap the reference to personal Finan Cial benefits brought a pained expression to norths Nields explained his reference was to a Home Security system in stalled in norths the subject of lengthy testimony earlier in the North testified that he made the grossest misjudgment of his life in creating phoney letters to conceal that he had not paid for the system but said his family had to have it because of death threats from the worlds bes known that was the first time in my life that i accepted something that i haunt paid said the Marine after threats from terrorist Abu he he accepted the Security which other testimony has shown was paid for by his main Ira Contra opera Richard a retired air Force this lieutenant colonel was not offered at that time any Protection by the government of the United North he said he was told All that could be done for him was a Transfer to Camp looking straight at the array of senators and congressmen in front of North urged them to change the Law to make such Protection possible for others in his situation because this kid wont be around much longer Asim sure you he did not he did say that he under took a risky Mission to Hencia director William Casey suggested he might face torture if captured and should be prepared to take his own North said Rea Admiral John the former National Security adviser Robert Poindexter and Casey All knew of the diversion of funds in he said Casey was very enthusiastic about the North acknowledged spending travellers cheques from the Iran Contra operation on personal expenses but said he was Only paying himself Back after using his own Money for the he said he kept meticulous records of the trans actions but destroyed the account Book to protect people named in it from retribution by North denied that president Rea Gan told him last the Day the diversion was publicly that it was important that i not know about the diversion mean ing that Reagan not be seen As having known he said he could not recall that former White House colleague Robert Earl had told him Reagan had said North said state Secretary George Shultz praised him last fall for the remarkable Job i had done keeping the nicaraguan resistance North said the which came a few weeks before Reagan fired him from the National Security indicated wide spread awareness about his activities at the upper echelons of the it was fairly Well known what i was North there is no doubt that they knew what i was North heatedly denied that he had known about a death Bene fit set up for his family in a Swiss account known As Button or that he profited from the arms sales but he said he did have his wife meet with a lawyer at the suggestion of a Secord associate who had promised to help norths family if any harm came to Noth ing came of that North nobody Ever told me that a single Penny was set aside for my for my what said i never heard of buttons or belly buttons until these hearings he said i never took a single Penny that didst belong to North said he did write backdated letters that purported to make Finan Cial arrangements for the Security system that had already been in stalled at his Home in great by Glenn a former Cia Robinette testified earlier that he was paid by norths main apparently with Money from the Ira Contra ill be glad to meet Abu Nidal on equal terms anywhere in the As an even Deal for him the former combat officer but i am not willing to have my wife and my four children meet Abu Nidal or his organization on his Abu a Libya backed palestinian is accused of carrying out a series of terrorist at including shootings at the airports in Rome and Vienna in december armed standoff ends peacefully Winnipeg free press a five hour standoff Between ramp and an armed Man who had barricaded himself inside a farmhouse ended Here peacefully Early this police moved in on the House and arrested a about 10 minutes after the standoff came after ramp received reports of a Man firing a Shotgun at neighbors shortly after Rita said she and her son were in a Field next to the mans residence about when she heard a single All of a sudden i heard a Perron i count Tell How close it came to me but i just called my son to the truck and we called to she said the Man went Back inside the House and waited for the gunman refused to respond to police although he was seen moving about inside the an ramp source negotiators finally talked to the Man shortly after Midnight and arrested him a few minutes he was to be committed under a mental health act police garage fire blamed on careless smoking careless smoking is believed to have sparked a fire that caused damage to an apartment garage on Arlington Street last the fire began shortly after at a workshop in the garage at 340 said a fire department no injuries were opposition maps demand hearings on Trade talks continued from Page 1 this is a time for for Tough for he in Liberal and nip maps agreed Mulroney seems ready to offer too Many concessions in his Zeal to sign a spokesmen for both parties also demanded that Mulroney and the premiers Tell canadians More about whats going on in the talks and hold hearings to gather Public after they parted ways with a in Turner said the first ministers comments rein forced his conviction that Canada should pull out of the i say to the prime minister that if he cant do better than Hes if he cant Tell canadians where he he ought to pull out of these Neotia Turner Langdon said the nip wont make the same he Distri buted a letter to the premiers urging them to use their influence to pre vent Mulroney from making too Many concessions and to support holding Public hearings next fall before a Trade treaty is approved by Langdon denied the party was changing its position on the Trade he said the nip was still opposed to a Trade Deal in but realized it cannot Stop the government from signing one and decided to try to minimize the damage a Deal might the reality is that these negotiations Are going the reality is that were not the we cant Stop As much As wed like he what we have to fight for at this stage is the Best possible Chance for canadians to have input and the Best possible leverage to be exercised by the premiers so that we dont get hosed too the new nip position was greeted with guffaws by Liberal Trade critic Lloyd who called it a double backward somersault inspired by a lust for Power and the Dps recent Lead in some Public opinion they have been All of a sudden seized by the worst of All political diseases and that is called the zest for which immobilized and paralyses he 1 speak from Axworthy said the first ministers meeting made it Clear Mulroney has Only two real options left in the free Trade he has to make substantial con Cessions to get a Deal with the americans or he is going to have to pull Axworthy its to get out or give those Are the two i i i i ;