Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 8, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba A photos Romanow leads Saskatchewan new democrats politician vows to beat tories the Canadian press Regina Roy Romanow officially took Over the leadership of the Saskatchewan nip yester the 48yearold a 20 year Veteran of the provincial was the Only Candi Date to succeed Allan More than chanting delegates packed the Centre of the arts to acclaim Romanow As the affable Politi had worked the convention despite the foregone conclusion of his he circulated constantly through the Dele shaking slapping and telling people to Call me he has been heir apparent in the party since he lost to Blakeney in the 1970 leadership and became his chief when Blakeney announced his retirement after 17 years As Lead Romanowsk candidacy was eagerly once he entered the his political strength was so obvious that would be rivals scrambled to offer Romanow heir apparent in a 50minute speech after the delegates officially ratified his Romanow told them the party must offer Saskatchewan a blueprint for the Saskatchewan families have a dream of a new in which working will undo the damage of the conservative years and build a new Saskatchewan full of Opportunity and he said he will stump the prov Ince to seek ideas from Ordinary he urged the delegates to pre pare to topple the progressive conservatives in the next elec expected within three Romanow has spent two dec Ades As a mover in Saskatchewan nip he came to National attention in the late when he and then Saskatchewan played key roles in Forg ing the Compromise that settled the Long running debate on the his career suffered a Jolt in when he lost his seat in Saskatoon Riversdale to a Politi Cal he spent four years writing and teaching before a successful comeback in last years provincial the Lack Ofa real race took some of the steam out of the but organizers tried to inject As much hoopla As Possi ble into yesterdays delegates and spectators packed the tiered rows of the Centre of the while the party caucus was introduced to the Tempo of upbeat there were signs promoting Romanow waving aisles As the televised live went through its Romanowsk acceptance speech was repeatedly interrupted by standing ovations and rhythmic applause and finished in a Shower of Romanow is a baseball compulsive information Junkie and Workaholic whose vacations Are often impulsive four Day journeys to new York or we Klong retreats to a1 Caribbean he is fluent in English and switching As easily from one to the other As he does from hammering the progressive conservative government in the legislature to chatting about fast Holiday his work patterns can be exhausting and 17hour Days Arent but he can drop everything on the Spur of the moment for a fast friends Marvel at his knowl Edge of world events and the Way he digests information from reams of newspapers and Maga Zines each de Broadbent still wants Blakeney to be an nip candidate in the next Federal elec Tion and the retiring Saskatchewan nip leaders response is the Federal Leader confirmed yesterday that Blakeney had Al ready turned Down one request to run federally in i asked him to run some time ago and for personal reasons his response was Broadbent told reporters after a 45minute speech at the he seemed to be but i have a political Agenda which is to give Blakeney some time for retirement and then in going to talk to him Blakeney stood a few metres away As Broadbent chatted with reporters and didst close the door on entering Federal politics after 27 years on the provincial i have no present intention of standing for Federal Public office but clearly once Ive had a break and a rest and an Opportunity to reassess what in going to then i will consider All the former Premier Winnipeg free november 1987 news Roundup Hussein left shakes hands with Assad while Masri briefs Arab Summit seeks Accord on Gulf War Amman Reuter the Arab worlds deeply divided leaders were to meet in Jordans capital today for their first full Summit in five called primarily to close ranks in the face of iranian threats in the persian iraqi president Saddam Hussein was among the first arrivals yesterday for the emergency called by his ally jordanian King Hussein to seek an Arab consensus on efforts to get Iran to accept a ceasefire in the seven yearlong Gulf War with Summit spokesman foreign minister Taher Almasri of Jordan said Only Libya among 21 invited Mem Bers of the Arab league has so far failed to say whether it would be libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi has said he would not attend because he charged the Summit had been called to justify the naval buildup in the but it was not immediately Clear whether a Lowe level libyan delegation would take part in the expected to last at least three Masri told a news conference a unanimous decision is the Ideal aim of the Summit from which Only Egypt has been excluded for its separate peace treaty with a unanimous position from the Summit will help Iraq tremendously and help Iran to reach a decision on in Security Council Resolution he Iran has so far refused to implement last july in ceasefire but Masri added there Are different Points of i dont know what 4s the consensus that will Masri said the Gulf War is the summits main concern but Heads of state Are free to raise any other Arab sources said King Hussein would try once again to reconcile Syrias president Hafez Assad and the iraqi who have been at loggerheads for More than 20 the King brought the two together secretly at a Remote jordanian air base earlier this but they remained deeply divided after 12 hours of intensive according to accounts of the meeting by the iraqi Boycott threatened persian Iran main Arab threatened to Boycott the Summit unless its Agenda was expanded to include the Ara israeli dispute and has adamantly opposed saudi backed Calls for an Arab diplomatic Boycott of Delegate sources said the proposal to Cut relations with Tehran had been quietly dropped to ensure Syri an cooperation in trying to persuade Iran to accept the in ceasefire the sources also said Syria was expected to veto an iraqi bid to invoke an Arab defence pact which envisages military support for an Arab country attacked by an Bation urged for assault Quick and dirty Legal dispositions fail to solve City commissioner says i Tkv Violt t the by Glen Mackenzie the courts should Stop handling minor matters like prostitution and common assault through a Quick disposition system and Start using probation to solve Winnipeg Protection commissioner said yes the courts dispose of them in a very legalistic Bob Lunney they use the Quick and dirty disposition of a minor the message is that there not interested in there saying we have a big caseload and were so dont bother Lunney said use of probation could mean counselling prostitutes and their clients or offenders committing minor and that the counsel Ling could prevent he told the Manitoba safety councils annual meeting that minor matters such As neighbourhood Dis Putes and landlord tenant problems might be better handled by a Good mediation service than by police and a former Edmonton police said that City has a mediation group which resolves minor disputes outside the formal Legal and he would like to see such a system in Small scale he said he had heard such a system exists Here on a Small Edmonton police chief during the violent gainers said mediation might be used to avoid picket line rather having enter against their will and be manipulated by both he said management sometimes considers police their private army or provokes strikers by driving strik Breakers through their picket lines when alternate routes Are Lunney also said strikers some times deliberately and unnecessarily Block the Way to make police appear agents of management try ing to help break the several West fair foods work ers were charged by police in Inci dents during the strike this but the Manitoba food and com Mercial workers had to use private prosecution to prosecute those it said assaulted Lunney said it is up to a Crown not to decide if charges will be he said management tends to be better at using video cameras and other devices to gather evidence to support its last Chance introductory adult beginners Only Ken Mathews dancing school Call 9423292 for appointment Marble Marble Marble open sundays 15 police crackdown fails to keep hookers from residential Street St James Street super savings on reprints and enlargements at scoters n 12 locations in Winnipeg 7758188 2091 Portage 1070 Pemba in 243 Portage f 805 Henderson 1840 Grant 4895702 135 Marion 263 Kennedy 9434190 main 5825723 7833587 Marble Marble Marble Sony Mitsubishi in Cal 54 free movie rentals free with any new Var Purchase Cicily video with 12 locations to serve you better Winner of the Best business Gold award for video shops Panasonic a Mitsubishi by John Lyons a police crackdown has failed to eliminate prostitutes from a residential area East of main prompting a Call to Block Access to the weve been talking to the councillor in the and theres a Good Chance we might be Able to get the Street blocked off at Argyle Street and Macdonald one area property owner Magnus Eliason Redbone said the Issue should be resolved at the works and operations committee meeting in determined to do something to Lessen traffic on the Elia son weve asked streets and traffic to investigate it and bring us a maybe we can make it a one Way area residents have Long complained of prostitutes and the traffic tie ups caused by men driving around to pick them one Macdonald Avenue resident who presented a 132name petition to City Hall said the number of prostitutes is but they can still be found in the neighbourhood 24 hours a Alex Swiridenko said police chief Herb Stephen wrote to him saying provincial Laws must change for police to do More in the the Only Way they can clean it up is if the Manitoba government makes a Law that prostitutes should not walk around in a residential Swiridenko 23 charged police charged 23 people with communicating for the purpose of prostitution As of thursday police Are concentrating on customers because the prostitutes Sim ply go Back on the Street when they Are released on a police spokes Man undercover police officers have helped arrest 16 Johns in the area this seven of those charged Are police a spokesman for prostitutes said charging a Hooker forces her to work on the Street to make Money for fines and Legal Shanon Collin of prostitutes and other women for equal rights said that organization is upset customers were Given notices to appear in court 25 while some of the prostitutes had to appear in court the next Day after arrests this any Law should affect any person the same Collin prostitutes Are no different than anybody other than the work they they have people that re Spect they dont want every one to for one reason or there in a situation where they have to be out its not fun out if you get in a you dont know if youre coming legalizing the Trade wont solve any she sixty per cent of the clients prostitutes i see Are under she they be Able to because they probably have to be old enough to what would happen to these kids the pimps would and it would be a More dangerous famine crisis grows poor rainfall fuels crop woes from the news services Kenya Ethiopia faces a worsening food crisis with almost total crop failure in some areas following poor rainfall in sep tember and the United nations food and agriculture organization said Fao director general edouard Saouma said in a statement issued in Nairobi that the below average rain fall of the last two months would exacerbate the serious food shortage already predicted for next millions face starvation in several areas of Northern and Eastern ethic he Beki gets apology Johannesburg Black nationalist Winnie Mandela apologized to freed african National Congress Leader Govan Beki yesterday that South african Blacks had not rid the country of apartheid during his 23 years in we Are almost ashamed to Intro Duce you Back to the same conditions you fought against Over 23 years wife of Bekis jailed Anc Nelson Man she was speaking at a news con Ference which was Bekis first Public appearance in Johannesburg since he was released from Robben Island prison thursday after serving 23 years for plotting to overthrow White minority nuclear Pioneer Dies deep George Craig a physicist and Pio Neer of Canadas Early work in nuclear has died at the age of 82 at his who joined the National research Council in 1930 to study Radium and died Friday in his Laurence played a major role in developing Canadas nuclear capabilities and much of his career focused on the safety of nuclear in Union Battles Charity Edmonton Albertas largest Union will continue boycotting the United Way despite a study rejecting claims the Charity is stealing Union John president of the Al Berta Union of provincial employ said the Union wont lift the Boycott until the United Way refuses to fund Volunteer groups that do work which would normally be done by government sikhs attack report Vancouver Punjab stale police fabricated a Story about a Cana Dian sikh delivering Large sums of Money to militant sikh separatists to discredit the world sikh Organiza a spokesman for the Canadian Arm of the group the organization was to news reports from Friday that police had arrested Balkar Singh of who they said had Given the equivalent of about can to each of four militant leaders since arriving in India two weeks passengers injured Mexico an Aero Mexico dc10 jetliner with 112 peo ple aboard crash landed at Tijuana Airport after its Landing gear Nul functioned Friday officials said seven passengers suffered minor injuries As they Slid Down an Emer gency Chute to evacuate the said David chief of Security at the Enesco chief named Paris Federico mayor of Spain was elected director general of in Esco yesterday and pledged to open a new Page in the life of the troubled emphasizing renewal and who begins a six year term replaced controversial Amadou Mahiar Bow of who led the in scientific and cultural organization for 13 years and whose efforts to win a third term defections increase Turkey the soviet Union has increased surveillance along its rugged 650kilometre with Eastern Turkey to prevent defections by troops and turkish Mili tary sources reported the sources said the soviets recently started installing antipersonnel radar in More accessible areas of the to supplement look out posts and mines triggered by the sources said two or three soviet soldiers have managed to defect each ;