Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 7, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Shapiro legacy Rainbow stage scandal shakes the cultural Community Road to ruin Hotelier Malenfant must overcome Sutof therway location 753 on the move Akman family eyes new ventures in flying High jets cruise to 63 Victory Over but Maloney is fuming weather Clouds today 5 Clear tonight 7 sunny tomorrow 3 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Index Ann entertainment Horoscope Jumble Puzzle Jumble entry saturday Plu 35 65 34 63 65 6 21 68 69 7 28 43 7 51 43 93 36 57 the provincial crime victims assistance fund cant give Money away by Radha Krishnan Thampi a fund set up to Aid the victims of crime has sitting Idle in a provincial Trust account because there Are few set up 10 months Manitoba victim assistance fund is growing every Day As courts slap a 12per cent surcharge on fines for Provin Cial Steve a University of Manitoba professor of criminology and chairman of the victims Assis Tance which is responsible for administering the said Only one Grant has been Brickey said there Are three or four More applications now before the 12member he said the approved three months was for and went to Winnipeg age and Opportunity Centre Dorothy a Centre said the group uses the Grant to fund a program which provides emotional and support services for crime Vic Tims who Are Over the age of Robert the centres executive is a member of the victims committee comprised of representatives from Crown and defence lawyers and Community Manitoba is the Only jurisdiction in Canada which has legislation empowering courts to impose a 12per cent victim assistance surcharge on fines involving provincial Viola traffic and liquor Law Manitoba Justice for victims of crime passed in also gives courts the Power to impose a Flat Levy on convictions with no the provincial Law does not cover criminal code violations which Are under Federal John the provinces assistant Deputy attorney general responsible for the Justice said the surcharge has netted about during the last nine we Are a Little surprised there have been Only four or five applications for assistance so Guy his department is studying Why the response rate has been i dont know maybe its be cause of the newness of the pro Guy he said the surcharge system is working very Well in the sense it has netted a lot More Money than Origi Nally Guy said the response rate would have been better if the program was better publicized and if there was a full time staff member to run Brickey said the committee and see publicity Page 4 press final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0296 november Winnipeg free press vol 115 no 335 Gerry free press pm to keep Trade Issue from Senate constitutional crisis predicted Rob Ocop chief Herb Stephen welcomes the newest member of the a talking Shorter than most other police Robins badge number will travel to schools and spreading safety tips and publicizing rebel priestess escapes on bicycle after Battle with ugandan soldiers Kampala a ugandan soldiers wounded rebel priestess mama Alice in a rout of her holy spirit fighters and she fled on a bicycle pushed by a few followers who the government newspaper new vision said her warriors have died by the thousands since singing hymns As they marched into Battle believing she could turn stones into grenades and bees into army commander Shef a told new vision we will capture her maybe tomorrow or the Day but not Long from the 27yearold rebel whose proper name is Alice was believed to have taken cover in dense Bush some 30 Kilometres North of Sganga which lies about 130 Kilometres East of Uganda she was reported wounded in the leg during the Battle new vision said Tim Latwenas chief com and nearly All her followers were killed in the see rebel Page 4 by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa in an attempt to avoid a direct confrontation that could Lead to an Early prime minister Mulroney has decided not to put a Resolution supporting the free Trade pact before the Liberal dominated the move could spark the biggest constitutional crisis since the Federal government tried to Patriate the Constitution alone in Canadas most prominent authority on Legisla Tive procedure a spokesman for International Trade minister Pat Carney said a Resolution supporting free Trade will be put to a vote in the commons on the final Day parliament sits before the treaty is officially signed by Mulroney and presi Dent but Tim Ralfe said the govern ment does not plan to Send the Resolution to the crisis predicted the intent is to have a vote before the official signing which Means before the Ralfe technically we dont have to get approval from anyone to sign the agreement and its my understand ing it wont go to the but Gordon clerk of the privy Council from 1963 to 1975 and recognized As the leading expert on legislative said bypass ing the Senate could cause a constitutional crisis that could Only be decided by the supreme he said the Federal government does not require parliamentary approval to sign the Trade but in the last 50 years the Federal government has customarily passed a Resolution of support in both houses before entering into historical he a 1981 supreme court which decided if former prime min ister Pierre Trudeau could Patriate the Constitution without the Blessing of the two stated that constitutional convention requires passage of a Resolution by both the commons and the since this is a very important it would be absurd for the government not to follow that Robertson i would fully expect them to seek a Resolution of approval from the commons and the when asked if an election could result if the Senate refused to pass the Robertson said that i suppose they the Senate might try Ralfe said the House will debate a parliamentary committee report for four Days before voting on a Resolution to support the in order to have a vote before the Christmas the government will have to use some measure to limit he see senators Page 4 two Price system to change by Stevens wild grains and oilseed minister Charles Mayer said yesterday the government would change the two Price wheat system in response to the recently concluded free Trade agreement Between the United states and though the minister would not specify what the changes would he said they would Benefit both producers and Consumers of Many observers have predicted the two Price system which establishes different wheat prices for Domestic and Export sales have to go because the free Trade agreement allows entry of Grain into Canada when subsidy Levels in the two countries Are there Are concerns that the two Price system is causing problems for the Domestic manufacturing Indus Mayer told reporters after a speech to the annual convention of Manitoba Pool those concerns Are there even see Mayer Page 4 Tunisia president deposed in coup Tunis a president Habib Bourguiba was deposed today by his prime minister Zine Al abiding Ben who named himself president of the North Afri can Tunis radio in a statement read Over the National Ben Ali said the 84 year old Bourguiba was deposed for Ben Ali said that based on his Faith in a medical report he was removing Bourguiba from office under article 57 of the country Bourguiba named Ben Ali prime minister on prominent alcoholics sent to for care Minneapolis Star Tribune photo by Kathleen Engman the province is paying for alcohol ism rehabilitation for some prominent Manitoban in centres because it affords them privacy they cant get at the centres allow family members to live with the addict and participate in an option unavailable in said Bill the physician who re views requests for government fund ing for the medicines dark Jacyk said he approves 12 refer rals a year to centres in North Dakota and the addicted Manitoban Range from Farmers to doctors and judges and include men and Jacyk said the treatment of some people would be thwarted if they were rehabilitated in Manitoba be cause they could be in group therapy with people who knew the Hazelden rehabilitation Centre in Minnesota has treated Manitoba alcoholics we have the kind of situation where an individual whose treat ment would be jeopardized if he ran into people who had an axe to grind with Jacyk for i put a judge or a Crown attorney into a program where i know there would be people who had gone through the judicial he Jacyk also works for physicians at a Manitoba medical association program that deals with addicted doctors and gets them to join self help groups like alcoholics Anonymous or gets them into one of two Manitoba Rural hospitals for he said the Rural Hospital treat ment deals with physical withdraw Al and some psychological but when doctors need i depth coun Selling with family members they can go to the he said the centres have been used for treating eight addicted four addicted spouses of doctors and two addicted adult children of Doc tors since the Manitoba program began in a medical consultant to the alcoholism foundation of said family involvement in an Alco Holics rehabilitation dramatically see province Page 4 ;