Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 soviets take Gold the soviet hockey team takes top spot by beating Sweden 71 in Calgary Best of new River Flats squatters say their lifestyle mixes Best of old and new Long wait ends daughters of the country finally makes it to Csc to stones bullets israeli army searches for right tactical tools to quell violence my weather sunny today 5 Cloudy tonight 10 Cloudy tomorrow 1 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Index Ann pm 45 102 46 36 67 102 102 67 g 21 102 Jumble 70 Jumble entry n 7 28 45 saturday 53 y travel 3 the provincial by David Roberts lawyers in every major Canadian City help the soviet Union earn hard Cash by putting a bite on the estates of dead the Money ostensibly goes to de serving relatives in the and other East bloc but sometimes a Lon lost rela Tive with questionable credentials feeding suspicions that the biggest beneficiary is the soviet Union i would say million has left Here Manitoba for the soviet Union in the last 20 maybe said Winnipeg lawyer Serge Rad to my the russians operate this in 70 Moscow top Canadian Robert Price of estimates million to million a year goes to soviet citizens from the estates of dead Canadian about on Quarter of this is from local officials but Price and Andrew Moscow main lawyer in insist theres nothing untoward in their efforts to obtain bequests for soviet they say heirs get at least 80 per cent of the Money left to after Legal and banking fees Are but other Winnipeg lawyers familiar with estate work say they suspect the soviet starved for Western inevitably wangles a big part of bequests destined for its that because beneficiaries Are officially encouraged to Swap their inherited Canadian or dollars for coupons redeemable at so called stores rather than soviet citizens can buy discounted consumer goods such As perfumes and jewelry at one shop says a soviet pamphlet that advertises the by exchanging coupons for inherited foreign Moscow is a double Winner it earns foreign currency without having to pay out this is How they earn the dollars to buy Canadian said one source who has handled hundreds of such inheritance Moscow is almost too keen to help its nationals claim some Winnipeg lawyers the russians seem to be follow ing the Radchuk then they v Supply the see lawyers Page 4 Home delivery 9570550 classified second class registration number oj86 february Winnipeg free press vol 116 no 88 tax grab so d to Cut deficit tobacco tax up 230 tax increase on a package of 25 effective March 28 leaded Gas up mine taxes up per litre increase in surcharge on leaded automotive effective july 1 increase in general mining tax to new 7 refundable end to investment tax credit tax adjustments costo living tax credits and reductions to be based on Dollar amounts to Aid lower incomes debt swells finance by Patrick Mckinley the spiralling Cost of servicing Manitoba Public debt has knocked the education department out of its traditional spot As the second big Gest government department after interest charges of million will help push the finance depart ments budget to million in the 198889 fiscal year which begins april according to spending Esti mates released yesterday with finance minister Eugene Kostyra for the first finance with the biggest increase of any govern ment department will outstrip the million the government plans to spend on Only the health department with a budget is expected to spend More than finance in the coming interest costs on the Public debt have leaped by 481 per cent Over the past eight although Overall government spending is to Rise per most government departments can expect cuts in their real spending Power next fourteen of the 25 government departments and the Manitoba jobs fund Are getting spending increases below the inflation the estimates Kostyra said government debt Rose largely because of the govern ments decision to preserve social services in the recession of the Early Kostyra said the government is seeking ways to reduce the growth in health costs increasing at twice the rate of he pointed at governments Suc Cess in cutting its projected at million next year compared to million two years he said government borrowing is estimated at billion in the Corn Sec Kostyra Page x judge vows to release transcript of police questioning Over tickets by Greg Pindera provincial court judge Frank interviewed by police yesterday in their ticket fixing invest said he tap recorded his statement to officers and will re lease it to the Allen confirmed he was called in to a police department office and after receiving a police caution was questioned about four traffic tickets for about 40 minutes before yesterdays morning court in two cases i went to a Justice of the who is duly authorized to Deal with these nothing i did was Allen adding he had no knowledge of the two other tickets police asked about during the Allen said he voluntarily made a statement to giving a full explanation involving two tickets with which he had been the judge said he tap recorded his statement and told police he intends to release it to the Media next week once it has been Tran acting Deputy chief Paul Johnston refused yesterday to say whether Allen had been interviewed in the ticket fixing unless he was charged with i Tell you about it Johnston weve talked to All kinds of peo ple from All walks of on any number of Allen said police wanted the inter View kept quiet by having him come to their office before provincial courts morning the previous Allen had invited police to come speak to him in his just two floors Down from police offices in the Public safety the officer who phoned requesting the interview refused the Allen see tape Page 4 spending Rise double inflation by Catherine Mitchell the Pawley government is steer ing Clear of new tax grabs this year while trimming the provincial Defi Cit to a seven year Low and ear marking big Bucks for health finance minister Eugene introducing his 198889 budget yes said the governments plan to spend billion increase twice the rate of inflation leave a if it meets the the deficit will be million below last years estimated shortfall of million and the lowest since the deficit was the budget leaves untouched corporate and personal income As Well As sales but increases built into these taxes last year will dump an additional million into government coffers this raising a total of City slam there was Little bad news for income earners and Consumers in the As predicted by opposition critics who said the midterm Pawley government has taken All the beating it can Over recent in creases to aut Opac i think its a Good and reasonable Kostyra conceding that last years measures were Tough for Middle and upper income earners arid i would not have any difficulty defending this budget in the Legisla to my constituents or to the people of liquor prices remain the same while smokers will pay about 23 cents More for a pack of 25 As of March leaded gasoline will jump almost one cent a litre on july Kostyra said the leaded fuel tax penalizes Drivers whose cars pollute the noting the new tax should bring the Cost of leaded Gas up to Par with unleaded locomotive and aviation fuel taxes will increase by and two cents per litre respectively april the province expects to bring in an extra million from the retail sales tax this for a total he overestimate finance department officials who predicted the seven percent sales tax would bring in million last year overestimated by Kostyra the mining Industry will give the single largest percentage boost to government coming off a prosperous year in which production passed the Mark for the first he because of natural growth and tax increases retroactive to Manitoba will pull in million from mine compared with million last on the spending a third of the budget will go to the health depart with pledges for programs to improve Community services and see province Page 8 women duped into bogus sex surveys by Allison Bray unsuspecting women Are being duped into giving explicit details of their sex lives Over the a University of Manitoba psychology professor John Mclntyre said men posing As psychology researchers and professors Call women randomly out of the phone Book and ask them to take part in a research Survey on they usually ask one or two innocuous questions then move on to questions such As do you masturbate believing the questions to be the May not realize the Survey is a hoax Usu in the get out of hand or they think about it he people reveal some pretty important things about themselves in these inter Mclntyre said women suspicious about the interview Call the University and realize Treyve been people take part in the Survey thinking they will help scientific researchers but Only end up being i got a Call this week from a woman who was very Felt very foolish and was worried about her he Mclntyre said he gets Between five and 10 complaints a year Over the bogus but believes those who Check up on the Calls represent a Small minority of the women Tak ing part in such Ron chairman of the University of Winnipeg psychology said his department has received three similar com plaints since i dont know if us someone who is disturbed or adolescents getting their he but Mclntyre said he thinks the callers Are a few years for a Man posing As a u of m researcher somehow got the keys to a University lab and was soliciting women to take part in an Mclntyre hed bring them into a leave the room and then return nude and Tell them he was testing their reaction to seeing a naked a 30yearold Winnipeg who wished to remain said she fell victim to a bogus researcher while a student at the University of new Brunswick in the woman said a caller claiming to be a psychology student from that University asked numerous explicit questions concerning Liei sex he started by asking me fairly questions and then he moved on into forbidden 1 knew something was wrong when he told me he found the conversation physically Gratifying and then i Hung Mclntyre and who both head ethics committees at their said under no circumstance would a research department conduct such a you dont simply Call up people on the phone and ask them questions about their sex Mclntyre adding anyone receiving such Calls should ask for the callers phone number and his supervisors Lois registrar of the psychological association of said a participant in a legitimate Survey is fully informed of its nature and must sign a release form for the information to be we conduct no Public she ;