Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus Tempo sports jets hit red produce abuse on Green top Prospect Ted Green pulls out of the race for the Winnipeg jets head coaching Job improper handling of fresh veggies exacts toll for shopper looking for jobs employment May now be a nostalgic dream Clearing tonight 10 sunny tomorrow 27 May 1989 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 3w Gumto Home ton wry 957o550 a Tammy 9562330 heqb1hm1cn number 02w Saveth base delegates get Short shrift in Ottawa by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa a Winnipeg tory my told a Manitoba delegation Here last night it had no Hope of persuading the Federal government to reverse a decision to close one military base and scale Down it even met defence minister Bill Gorbachev urges to order of soviets to recall troops from the news services Beijing in a continuing Mas Sive act of hundreds of thou Sands of intellectuals and a growing number of workers paralysed the Central City for a third Day even As soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said today he will reduce soviet troops in the far and he urged that the chinese soviet Frontier be turned into a Border of in a speech to chinese academics in the great Hall of the he also called for a collective Security network in saying an Allasia process is needed for solving regional stressed detente Tjie soviet Leader is in China for chinese soviet Summit in 30 he stressed the importance of detente Between the soviet Union and China and said Moscow is taking unilateral actions to reduce tensions on the Bor he said soviet troops deployed in Asia will be reduced by in 1989 and figures he announced last december As part of Moscow Overall troop Cut he also specified that the troop reductions will include in the soviet far East bordering China and that ground forces Are to be Cut by 12 he said 11 air Force regiments will be disbanded and 16 battleships will be removed from the Pacific the leaders of the worlds biggest communist countries agreed to resume Friendly ties after three decades of and they indicated they would see leaders Page 4 Dorothy Dobbie Winnipeg South Deli Vered a 15minute patronizing lecture prior to the meeting last night with a Portage la Prairie Delegate she told the delegation to Cut a Deal with the government or risk leaving the meeting according to the she was really Winnipeg City Harold Macdonald she stood up and said you have nothing new to say and youd better be ready to Cut a Deal because youre not going to get anywhere with the take what you can the group went to Ottawa to hear first hand Why the Mulroney government decided to close cab Portage la Prairie and move about 800 troops from the Kapyon Barracks at cab Winnipeg to the Portage who requested Ano said the Federal government want prepared to discuss reversing the we came to give the behind Hestenes picture of what these cuts would do to our Community and we were told Mcknight that we had cooked our figures and that government experts knew More than we the Delegate the source noted the delegation expected support from the seven member Federal Manitoba tory see delegates Page 4 a photo body removed Rescue workers carry away the body of Sheik Tion in the country civil after he and 21 Hassan spiritual Leader of Lebanon other people were killed by a car bomb Deton Surini muslims and a leading voice of moderated in Beirut water bombers save Indian Reserve by Janet Mcfarland water bombing spared the Fisher River Indian Reserve yesterday after the tip of a Forest fire six times the size of Winnipeg burned into the Community Early in the it was Only the water bombers that saved the natural resources department spokesman Don Keith Cowan evacuated the fire went right in among the houses and water bombers dropped water on the grass surrounding the Twenty two elderly residents of the reserves personal care Home were brought to the Deer Lodge Centre in it was the second time in less than a week they had to come to the Centre because of the another 112 residents of the Community were standing by to leave for but in the end were sent Only to the Community Centre on the the Interlake Blaze has been burning out of control since last but its Southeastern Edge flared yesterday and turned Back on Fisher River after winds from the South gusted higher than 40 see Interlake Page 4 school statute assailed act defies teachers study says by Catherine Mitchell Manitoba Public schools act is unconstitutional and requires an overhaul to ensure children with special needs receive their guaranteed right to a proper Educa two studies a report prepared by the Manitoba teachers society in 1987 and obtained now says the act defies the charter of rights and freedoms Equality provisions and does not provide dissatisfied parents with Legal it also criticizes the province for abdicating to school boards its Legal responsibility to meet the needs of children with learning a second written last fall by a ministerial advisory committee struck in response to the teachers society says extensive legislative revision will be required to ensure All students Are guaranteed univer Sal and free Access to Public its just a matter of time before some parents group says enough is enough and were into some sort of said Glen a research analyst with the teachers individual education plans Mcruer said Only Between half and two thirds of Manitoba school boards prepare individual education considered the Cornerstone of special needs but education minister Len Derkach said updating the act will take he refused to say if will be done this legislative i think compliance with the charter is important we cant get around Derkach said his department will move eventually on two of the acts weaknesses parents rights to see their childrens school files and to be involved in a schools planning for their an advocate of special needs programming said nothing Short of a new act will fix the what there doing is said Yude past president of the learning disabilities association of its meant to ameliorate parents to make them think there going Henteleff said funding to boards is pathetic and and Manitoba lacks teachers trained adequately to help Derkach dismissed Henteleff and the society critic saying school boards Are forced to provide special see better Page 4 lottery dispersal overhauled film tin government takes More direct role in doling out lottery Revenue by Patrick Mckinley the Filmon government is taking a More direct role in the distribution of lottery Revenue in a move condemned by some Community groups and both of the Legislatures opposition culture minister Bonnie Mitchelson announced yesterday the government is ending a Fivey Earold arrangement under which the Manitoba lotteries foundation distributed lottery Revenue to 12 Community including six umbrella bodies that in turn dispensed Grants to smaller under the new the foundation will be limited to raising lottery Money and Cabinet will decide How much goes for various she adding Community groups will answer directly to Cabinet ministers for the Way they use the Mitchelson said the arising from a 21month study of the lottery Are aimed at making groups Dave free press Bonnie Mitchelson outlines new system for lottery More accountable to the Public for the million in annual lottery but Tom chairman of the Manitoba sports federation that receives lottery funds on behalf of Amateur sports charged that lottery Money May now be distributed according to the governments political priorities rather than legitimate Community he warned that having the govern ment directly control the flow of lottery funds could also be a first step in divert ing Revenue to government programs instead of Volunteer the rationale for legalizing games of Chance has always been to support Volun self help Community based Active not to produce another resource for he nip culture critic Maureen hem Phill Logan charged the government has used the study As an excuse to get its hands on lottery and Liberal lotteries critic Richard Kozak Transcona described the announcement As a crass political move that will allow Cabinet to dispense Patron age behind closed Mitchelson denied the government has any intention of diverting Money from Volunteer organizations to pay for general government but she announced three new measures to fund government activities through see lottery Page 4 killer seeks support convicted killer and former Cabinet minister Colin Thatcher appeals for support in his bid to reopen his Case Ann 36 41 comics 26 letters 6 66 38 31 of i 4tf to fifth i f 1 ;