Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 8, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1987 to fall of x i 1 i t j v father killed in Accident before family could be reunited continued from Page 1 i Haven seen you in such a Long you dont remember everything will be youll be Safe missing from the Happy scene was Olgas who had remained in the Ukraine with their he died in a drowning Accident during a Farewell party in Early Ginsburg target of More criticism in Cable decision continued from Page 1 Only a year and for conflict Fin Terest questions focusing on his involvement As a department of Justice official in a Cable television Industry Case while he had Stock in a Canadian Cable television in his Ginsburg said he had been looking Forward to Shar ing with the american people my views about Justice and about the role of the courts in our unfortunately All of the attention has been focused on our personal lives and much of that on the events of Many years he said he planned to resume his career As a District of Columbia appeals court he said he hoped to serve on the circuit court for Many years to Ginsburgs which came before the nomination had even been officially sent to the sen apparently spared the administration yet another contentious formation but still left a deep scar on reagans the stinging embarrassment of another failed nomination so soon after Borks Senate rejection tends to reinforce an impression among his detractors that Reagan is weakened and increasingly ineffectual As he approaches the final year of his it also underscores Sharp critic stemming from the Iran con tra that Reagan is not sufficiently attentive to some executive Branch decisions and is susceptible to bad counsel from his and he picked Over the opposition of White House chief of staff Howard after less than 20 minutes of sources have democratic hopefuls admit marijuana use during College years Miami a democratic presidential candidates Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt admitted yesterday that they smoked marijuana in three other democratic Candi dates for the presidency said they never used the illegal drug and two of them said such disclosures should not affect the party Campaign leading to the november 1988 a senator from Tennes see and at 39 the youngest of the democratic said he smoked marijuana in College and in the army but has not used the drug in the past 15 he made his announcement at the Florida democratic party Conven Tion in Miami withdraws name hours later in appeals court judge Douglas who admitted thursday that he had used marijuana in the 60s and said he asked president Reagan to withdraw his name from Senate consideration for the vacancy on the nine seat supreme in Des former Ari Zona governor Babbitt also said he has used i was a College student in the 1960s and a civil rights lawyer Down South i tried Babbitt in a Telephone interview with the associated the Only possibly relevant ques Tion Are you a drug abuser now and the answer is obviously democratic presidential Candi dates Michael Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson said they had never used any illegal but Dukakis and Jackson said Gores disclosure should not affect the Cam Gore said he wished he had not Ever used the but he also likened its use in the 1960s to people drinking Moonshine in the he said his also tried marijuana while she was a Dukakis said it has nothing to do with your Ive never used but 1 certainly understand Why some people try Gores announcement created such a stir that a scheduled three hour forum featuring the four Candi dates on hand was delayed nearly an hour at the Florida i would Hope it would not have a significant but the Ameri can people will judge Gore he said he first tried the drug at the end of his Junior year at Harvard in 1968 and used it at the beginning of his senior year the next Gore also said he used the drug once or twice while of duty Dur ing an army tour at Bien and on a couple of Occa Sions while he was in graduate school at Vanderbilt and an employee of a new spa Agency funding woes Spur provincial review continued from Page 1 was handed Over to the agencies to administer Schellen Berg the government still directly funds group Homes and Basic Foster care Schellenberg said Agency executive directors have met officials from the department of Community and social but Are still waiting to hear about receiving More were convinced that our depart ment is going to Bat for but its a matter of Cabinet Schel Lenberg earlier this Community services minister Maureen hem Phill announced she is reviewing Basic Foster child care with an aim to increase Drew assistant Deputy minister of Community said his department is reviewing the agencies financial situation because of the recent funding we thought that if agencies had a Grant and flexibility within the they be Able to make some changes to keep within their Perry insufficient he said the funding crisis is a combination of including insufficient funding and an unwillingness by agencies to stay within their he said the department has not decided How to fix the nor whether the agencies will get More the idea was that through the agencies would have in creased flexibility to manage costs and lower total amounts of Money would be we feel there is a need to limit the total amount of the Dave executive director of child and family services of Eastern said his Agency started with a but will be in debt if More special needs funding Doest come through for next sometimes you get into extraordinary special needs kids that blow your whole budget out of he Walters said the solution is a big Ger budget and provision for extra Grants if unusually expensive Chil Dren come referrals Rise he said agencies Are being forced to refer children Back to institutions because their budgets Are not High enough to pay for their Schellenberg said department officials have told the agencies the referral rate to group Homes and institutions has risen since septem Ber but would not say by How said Schel who said he warned depart ment officials this would if my Agency is out of special needs the Only other option for High needs children is to refer them to group Homes or simply for funding the agencies Are government funded bodies that can borrow Money As separate but can use coming government Grants As guar Schellenberg he said 70 per cent of the prov inces Foster children use some special service three Days before he and the children were to leave the soviet Union to be reunited with who after arriving in Winnipeg had pleaded with soviet officials for her family she had come to Canada on the pretext of visiting a sick aunt for 30 six neighbors and friends accompanied Olga to the the family members embraced wiped their tears and slowly made their Way out of the Termi now we go Olga More friends were waiting for them when they arrived a photo veil of Security a grimaced South korean helped by threads her Way through lines of riot police guarding the Entrance of souls main roman Catholic Only wedding parties were allowed into Myon Dong Cathedral yesterday after riot police set up human barricades to prevent an antigovernment rally at the Ira had brought with her some Salt and a loaf of bread she had baked before leaving she gave both to her sister traditional while Ira told Olga stories about friends and families still in the Peter and Irena watched their mothers color Olga said she plans to enrol the children in school in a few in the soviet authorities announced they would allow 22 Fame including the to leave the country and rejoin rela Tives in Olga said several times during the past seven months she was never really certain her family would join her in Canadian officials said her Hus bands death in june caused fur ther the soviets refused to allow the children to leave the country unescorted and they were reluctant to allow a relative to accompany them for fear they would not both Olga and Canadian embassy staff in Moscow requested no Media coverage during the saying they were fearful any publicity would Harden the soviet Posi in Early the soviets issued an exit visa for the children and a 15day visa for their the three were originally scheduled to leave Moscow but a heavy fog blanketed the Airport for More than a when it flights out were overbooked and they had to wait arranged flights the Toronto based world con Gress of free ukrainians helped arrange the flights out of Moscow and connections from Montreal and Olga said no one told her when her family would be arriving in ukrainian Congress officials in Toronto refused to release any de tails on the flight times to Winni the travel Agency in Toronto which handled the bookings released the arrival times in the late after noon Only after several Telephone Calls from a free press requesting Olga be Given some in she said it want until Friday that ukrainian Congress officials telephoned her and confirmed her family would be arriving later that at the Winnipeg the flight was delayed an Olga said she managed to steal a couple of hours away from the Telephone during the Day and did some Las minute grocery i bought ice Cream and Choco late she said she decided against buy ing her children any new the Only photograph she has of them is three years i dont know How big they i can Only Naimark administration raises concerns continued from Page 1 a who asked not to be said there have been con Cerns Naimark runs the University like a business instead of an academic the vote of no Confidence is pretty the faculty does not easily do something like he if anyone looks at the history and evolution of universities it is that All authority really stems from the fac More specifically the faculty and the administration is there to not to Lay Down the Law As to what the University is All at an 21 bargaining the association gave in to the administration on the requirement of hav ing Senate and faculty consent to declare teaching positions redux Naimark said negotiations with the faculty Deal with difficult issues in a time of financial restraint in higher Tudiver said the faculty associations contract expired last talks have not broken he but you can draw your own conclusions from the fact that were in the delegation to seek Sakharov visit a delegation from the Boni face general Hospital research foundation left yesterday on a Mission to Moscow to persuade soviet officials to allow Andrei Sakharov to visit Winnipeg to receive an foundation chairman Camp Bell Maclean said he and three directors will meet members of the politburo and the Academy of As Well As Sakharov during their five Day the acclaimed physicist has been offered the 1987 International award by the research found but it wants him to pick it up in the information we were receiving from the Canadian pm was it looked like hed probably be Able to a clean so we decided to go there to finalize and see if we can persuade the Powers that be to let him come he said the foundation Hopes to have the Nobel peace prizewinning scientist hold a symposium if he visits soviet officials have been stonewalling on a decision to allow Sakharov to visit Canada since the request was made last sum he would be the Lith recipient of the a dinner in his Honor had been scheduled for Lith month of Bob Secretary of the Board of said the Board passed a Resolution Friday confirm ing its Complete Confidence in the president and his colleagues and in fact has full Confidence in the University bargaining Raeburn said at least two previous presidents also got no Confidence motions by the faculty during bar gaining or employment related Dis Naimark said concerns about his commitments outside the including chairmanship of the Northern Portage development Are misunderstood and do not detract from time spent run Ning the there int a significant in fact it enhances my role As presi Dent of the he inevitably you take on related responsibilities and try to help not Only your institution but other inst tunisian takeover runs smoothly by Stanley Meisler los Angeles times Tunisia Zine abiding Ben a 51yearold army general serving As took Over the presidency of Tunisia smoothly and peacefully yesterday after removing an aging president Habib Bourguiba at Dawn from the nearly absolute Power he had held for 31 citing a report by a medical com Mission that the octogenarian Bour Guiba was senile and Ben appointed Premier by Bourguiba Only month announced to the nation that the politician who had led Tunisia to Independence in 1956 was absolutely incapable of assuming the duties of president of the re pub a few hours Ben Ali was sworn in before parliament As the new president of the Tuni Sian Constitution provides for the Premier to succeed to the presidency upon the resignation or physical incapacity of the but it lays Down no rules for determining Bourguiba health failing that Ben Ali solved that problem by quietly appointing a medical com Mission of prominent doctors to examine the health of the commission issued its report at 6 i yesterday and Ben Ali announced the removal of Bourguiba a half hour this constitutional which met no ended a historic Era in which Bour a nationalist lawyer educated in led the North Afri can Colony of Tunisia to Independence from France and then won International recognition As one of the most pro Western and reformist leaders in the Arab reign deteriorates his reign deteriorated in recent years into imperious and erratic he engineered his elec Tion As president for life in it was not Clear where the new regime was keeping Bourguiba after his removal from troops had surrounded the presidential Palace near Carthage just outside Tunis after Midnight the presi Dent was believed still there when the troops while the troops and an armoured car remained on guard last diplomatic sources said they believed that he had been taken to another of his Homes else where in the although Ben Ali treated Bourguiba with some respect in his address to the praising him for his enormous sacrifices in liberating and developing it was Clear that the new regime does not intend to look government television devoted its main evening news almost entirely to the Days activities and life Story of Ben hardly a word was said about at first Many analysts do not see Ben Ali As a sweeping re he has retained Many of the Cabinet technocrats from the Bour Guiba regime and is looked on As in his first statement to the Ben Ali promised democratic including constitutional changes thai would prevent anyone from Ever again being elected pres ident for life and would prevent the automatic like his of a Premier to the ;